Hitachi Vantara Unveils New Capabilities For VSP One
Hitachi Vantara has announced new capabilities for Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One), introducing three guarantees for performance, cyber resilience and sustainability. These service level agreement-driven commitments are designed to give enterprises the confidence to streamline operations, recover quickly from cyber threats and reduce environmental impact.
Managing IT infrastructure has become increasingly challenging as many IT teams struggle with manual processes, siloed data environments and unpredictable performance, leading to inefficiencies and higher operational costs. Cyber resilience is also a top concern, with ransomware attacks and data breaches posing serious risks. According to The Hidden Cost of Downtime report by Oxford Economics, downtime from cyber incidents like ransomware costs Global 2000 companies an estimated $400 billion annually—roughly 9% of annual profits—highlighting the staggering financial impact of operational disruption. Additionally, as businesses aim to reduce their environmental impact, there is an urgent need for solutions that optimize power consumption, track carbon footprint tracking and reduce cost.
The benefits of the new VSP One capabilities announced today directly tackle what customers are struggling with—overcomplicated IT, unreliable outcomes and pressure to do more with less. The new enhancements are designed to resonate with midsized enterprise IT managers who need practical solutions, existing customers looking for an upgrade and partners who want something easy to position.
'IT complexity, cyber threats and sustainability challenges continue to put enterprises under extreme pressure,' said Octavian Tanase, chief product officer, Hitachi Vantara. 'With VSP One's latest enhancements, we are eliminating those roadblocks by delivering a unified, automation-friendly platform with guaranteed performance, resilience and efficiency built in. This is more than just data storage—it's a smarter, more sustainable way to manage enterprise data at scale.'
Empowering IT with Automation and Service Guarantees
With these latest updates, VSP One is designed to provide a cloud-like operational experience, making enterprise storage easier to manage and more resilient than ever before. Key components of the new capabilities include: Performance Guarantee – Applications run at predictable, high-performance levels with minimal intervention by meeting workload demands with confidence through guaranteed minimum performance levels across all VSP One Block platforms, backed by EverFlex from Hitachi. Service credits apply if performance targets aren't met.
– Applications run at predictable, high-performance levels with minimal intervention by meeting workload demands with confidence through guaranteed minimum performance levels across all VSP One Block platforms, backed by EverFlex from Hitachi. Service credits apply if performance targets aren't met. Cyber Resilience Guarantee – Organizations can mitigate downtime and data loss after cyberattacks with protections enabled by immutable snapshots and AI-driven Ransomware Detection powered by CyberSense. If data can't be restored, Hitachi Vantara provides expert Incident response and up to 100% credit of the impacted storage volume. Sustainability Guarantee – Helps businesses track and optimize energy consumption and contributes to a lower CO₂ footprint by up to 40% with VSP One's energy-efficient architecture and reporting. A power efficiency service level agreement (SLA) ensures improved cost efficiency and environmental responsibility.
These new capabilities complement Hitachi Vantara's existing guarantees, which include a 100% data availability guarantee providing uninterrupted access to critical business data. The Hitachi Vantara Effective Capacity Guarantee provides 4:1 data reduction and maximizes storage efficiency by reducing the size of datasets while preserving the most important information, which limits redundancy and makes efficient storage possible. The Modern Storage Assurance Guarantee delivers continuous innovation with perpetual, non-disruptive upgrades, providing non-disruptive data access during the upgrade process to new controllers, ensuring a path to the future of storage without needing to repurchase capacity.
Unlike fragmented or software-layered approaches that require juggling multiple APIs and disparate management tools, VSP One delivers a seamless, fully integrated platform that consolidates data management into a single, easy-to-use ecosystem.
'Ransomware continues to threaten the viability of today's enterprises,' said Jim McGann, vice president of strategic partnerships, Index Engines 'The addition of VSP One's Cyber Resilience Guarantee, including Ransomware Detection powered by CyberSense, equips organizations with the intelligence and automation needed to strengthen their cyber resilience. By integrating advanced tools like VSP One and CyberSense, IT teams can streamline recovery workflows, minimize downtime and validate the integrity of critical data with greater confidence to minimize the impact of an attack.' 0 0
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