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Techday NZ
3 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Hitachi Vantara named leader for object storage by GigaOm Radar
Hitachi Vantara has been identified as a Leader in the latest GigaOm Radar for Object Storage, in a report that assessed 22 prominent object storage vendors in terms of innovation, scalability, and their ability to address the evolving needs of modern data environments. The company's Virtual Storage Platform One Object (VSP One Object) was highlighted for its performance and new capabilities introduced since its release in late 2024. Of particular note is its industry-first native support for Amazon S3 Tables, allowing enterprises to conduct SQL-based analytics directly on object storage, and reducing reliance on traditional and more complex data pipelines. Recognition and features The GigaOm Radar for Object Storage evaluates vendors on factors such as innovation, platform readiness, reporting, and overall contribution to enterprise IT strategy. Within this context, Hitachi Vantara was recognised for its capabilities in reporting and analytics, storage optimisation, and public cloud integration. According to the report, object storage solutions such as VSP One Object are becoming increasingly significant to organisations managing exponential growth in unstructured data, including images, videos, IoT, and AI workloads. The GigaOm analysis underscores the value of performance, security, and edge readiness as key drivers for business and IT leaders when selecting storage solutions. Whit Walters, GigaOm Analyst, said: "Hitachi Vantara is a global technology provider whose strategy centres on the VSP One common data plane, designed to unify block, file, and object storage. Within this framework, Hitachi VSP One Object serves as an enterprise-grade object storage component, providing scalable, secure, and self-healing storage for diverse workloads like backups, archives, AI, and data analytics." Recognised under the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, Hitachi Vantara was noted for delivering advanced reporting features that enable organisations to track usage patterns, monitor capacity trends, and forecast future needs. The solution also automates identifying redundant data and offers public cloud integration, including support for S3 Object Lock and S3 Tables. S3 Tables capability VSP One Object introduces the ability to perform SQL queries directly on object storage, which allows businesses to move unstructured data into structured tables and run analytics in a streamlined manner. This capability is considered a significant development for modern data lakehouse deployments, as it reduces the need for complex data movement, extraction, and loading traditionally associated with analytics on large datasets. Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer at Hitachi Vantara, said: "By enabling SQL queries directly on object storage, you eliminate the need for complex data pipelines and reduce infrastructure overhead, providing data lake simplicity with enterprise-grade power. These enhancements to the VSP One portfolio reflect our broader vision for the future of data infrastructure – one unified platform, with a single control plane of VSP 360, across a single data plane for block, file, object, SDS, and mainframe storage. By enabling a fully integrated view of data across your cloud and on-premises environments, we provide customers with the flexibility and scalability to achieve new heights for data availability in the age of AI." The architecture is built to support open data formats such as Apache Iceberg and automates complex tasks like compaction, snapshot management, and metadata cleanup, reducing operational overhead and allowing organisations to focus on data analysis rather than infrastructure management. Meeting modern data demands VSP One Object is positioned within the broader VSP One portfolio, which brings together block, file, software-defined storage, and object storage. Its purpose-built architecture is intended to support a diverse range of use cases, including data protection, long-term retention, edge computing, and real-time analytics. The upcoming release plans to enhance these capabilities further by offering support for VSP One Block NVMe-QLC and TLC flash-based storage, which is expected to deliver improved price and performance metrics for enterprises navigating increasing storage demands and cost pressures. Recent accolades The company recently received further industry acknowledgements, including the 2025 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Data Protection from Business Intelligence Group, highlighting the VSP One Object platform. Additionally, Hitachi Vantara was recognised as a Leader and Fast Mover in GigaOm's Radar for High-Performance Storage Optimised for AI Workloads, as well as a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage.
Forbes
04-08-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Why Breaking People Silos Is The Next Frontier In Leadership
Sheila Rohra, CEO of Hitachi Vantara . Companies are investing heavily in addressing the challenge of data silos. A 2023 report by IDC found that data silos cost the global economy $3.1 trillion annually. But despite the blaring costs, I've observed that many are overlooking a more subtle barrier to progress: the silos between people. These invisible boundaries—between teams, departments or entire business units—can undermine agility, slow innovation and fracture accountability. Real business change doesn't happen through improved infrastructure alone. In my experience, it occurs through the removal of obstacles that prevent people from working together. That requires both improved systems and improved leadership. In siloed cultures, accountability often means pointing fingers. According to research by the Wall Street Journal in 2020, 'one-third of leaders … ranked organizational or geographical silos among their top three challenges in setting Industry 4.0 strategy.' Each department has its own metrics, timelines and priorities, but there is usually not a lot of joint ownership of outcomes. This can lead to dysfunction: Product teams prioritize road map features based on internal vision while services teams push for client-driven enhancements. Or perhaps the product team focuses on delivering new features while those in service are left supporting legacy clients. The cycle continues, and innovation stalls. I've found that the best way to counter this is for leaders to make accountability a collective responsibility. When success is shared, groups are more likely to proactively align. However, to achieve this type of culture, it's important that the organization's leadership come together around strategic objectives, goals and a shared mission. This doesn't eliminate expectations for individual performance, but it can shift everyone's focus toward how well groups work together to support one another in accomplishing greater goals. A few ways you can support such a shift include creating cross-functional KPIs, tying incentive structures to shared achievement and publicly celebrating efforts that span teams. By rallying around the mission, you can ensure that the collective effort is always oriented toward the same objectives, preventing distractions or fragmentation. Breaking silos isn't just about structure—it's also about trust. Without trust, even well-intentioned collaboration and accountability structures can feel performative or forced. In my experience, trust is what transforms accountability into a positive cultural force. In high-trust environments, people don't fear missteps; rather, they can feel safe taking ownership, speaking up and learning from outcomes. When trust is present, accountability shifts from finger-pointing to forward momentum. I've found through working with my own teams that establishing trust across functions means being willing to recognize where misalignments have historically occurred and to make space for genuine dialogue. This could involve conducting listening sessions with traditionally disconnected groups, providing role-shadowing opportunities or establishing feedback loops to close the communication circuit. Trust is not established in policy documents. It comes when you and your leadership team make repeated demonstrations of openness, humility and follow-through. Use structure to communicate the message. Even the most cooperative cultures can't thrive if the org chart is built on hierarchy and division. Research like a recent Deloitte study indicates a trend in leaders viewing organizational design and the reinvention of leadership roles as strategic levers for improved performance, underscoring the role of structure in navigating complexity and driving outcomes. Forming cross-functional working groups—and granting them the freedom to operate outside conventional command structures—can accelerate innovation. But these teams should not only be empowered; you also need to ensure they are aligned with the company's mission and strategic objectives from the start. And high-priority projects shouldn't belong to one department. Rather, establish success offices or tiger teams with sales, product, legal, design and operations representation from the very beginning. Making these cross-functional teams official can send a clear signal that integration isn't a patch—it's the plan. This kind of clarity can give teams permission to act boldly, together. Reflect shared goals through accountability. If you want to understand what a culture truly values, look at what it rewards. When performance is measured only within departmental walls, it should come as no surprise when teams resist sharing credit or resources. Instead, define goals that cut across functions and reflect shared outcomes. Joint accountability, supported by cross-functional KPIs and aligned incentives, can shift the focus from individual wins to collective success. Similarly, you can use performance reviews to consider not only what a team member has delivered but also how they have helped others succeed. Recognition—whether public or private—should highlight the collaborators and connectors who bring teams together to move the business forward. In my experience, when goals are shared, alignment isn't just a bonus; it becomes the way your whole team works. Use transparency to prevent turf wars. Transparency and trust are not soft skills. They're important for getting the work done. When decisions are made behind closed doors, individuals often retreat into silos as a protective measure. But I've found that being transparent about decision-making, strategy and ownership can go a long way in avoiding this. Involve cross-functional stakeholders in planning early, not only in implementation. Communicate the 'why' of business decisions, not only the 'what.' When people understand the big picture, they're more likely to collaborate and less likely to revert to self-protection. This is not hypothetical. In a 2023 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on interagency collaboration, identifying leadership and sharing resources and information were identified among eight leading practices that enable successful outcomes across federal agencies. The human layer is the smartest layer. Organizations that connect data but fail to connect people are missing an important piece of true integration, which can make them less likely to move fast enough in markets that demand real-time collaboration and adaptability. As companies adopt AI and automation, it's easy to forget that progress still depends on people. Even the smartest systems need smart teams. It's time we start treating teams like intelligent systems. That means designing for connectivity, building for trust and structuring for alignment. When leaders commit to removing the human silos that limit performance, they don't just make their companies smarter. They make them stronger. Forbes Business Council is the foremost growth and networking organization for business owners and leaders. Do I qualify?
Channel Post MEA
01-08-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Hitachi Vantara VSP One Available Now On Google Cloud Marketplace
Hitachi Vantara has announced new capabilities for Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS), now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. The new capabilities bring enterprise features to the public cloud, including two-way asynchronous replication, thin provisioning and advanced data compression. These enhanced features provide enterprises with greater flexibility, data efficiencies, enhanced disaster recovery options and simplified data mobility across on-premises and cloud environments. As hybrid cloud deployment architectures grow, organizations increasingly combine public and private clouds to meet evolving business needs. According to a 2025 cloud adoption report, nearly 80% of companies now use multiple public clouds and 60% operate several private clouds, highlighting the rising need for consistency and control in complex infrastructures. As AI significantly increases the data storage requirements for businesses, recent industry research shows that 47% of IT and security leaders struggle with limited visibility across hybrid environments – making it more challenging to manage risk and maintain control. With its availability on Google Cloud Marketplace, VSP One empowers customers to deploy storage resources across cloud and on‑premises environments through a single management interface with no re-architecting required. New capabilities include thin provisioning and compression that can further reduce cloud storage costs by up to 40%, enabling customers to maximize efficiency and performance while minimizing overhead. Additionally, two-way asynchronous replication enhances disaster recovery strategies by allowing primary and secondary sites to operate as both source and target. 'Bringing VSP One to Google Cloud Marketplace will help customers quickly deploy, manage and grow the data management solution on Google Cloud's trusted, global infrastructure,' said Dai Vu, managing director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs, Google Cloud. 'Hitachi Vantara can now securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys.' VSP One offers enterprise-level availability to the public cloud, designed to support high service reliability and uptime that businesses of all sizes expect, especially when downtime or re-architecture costs are significant. VSP One is engineered for continuous availability, with a target of 99.999% uptime. This helps reduce costs while enabling native migration to and from any storage platform and cloud. It supports quicker recovery from unplanned outages and helps organizations maintain business continuity with greater confidence. 'Customers want the freedom to choose the right cloud for every workload and the assurance that their data will remain protected, available and easy to manage,' said Octavian Tanase, chief product officer, Hitachi Vantara. 'With availability on Google Cloud Marketplace and the addition of two-way asynchronous replication, VSP One empowers our customers to easily streamline hybrid cloud operations while strengthening their resiliency posture.' Opening new opportunities for Hitachi Vantara channel partners to support customers as they evolve their hybrid cloud strategies, this offering provides a more flexible, software-defined approach and deeper integration with Google Cloud. It gives partners new ways to address critical priorities like resiliency, security and sustainability, while helping customers improve operations, strengthen data protection and get more value from the infrastructure they already have. The expansion to Google Cloud reflects Hitachi Vantara's ongoing commitment to innovation across the VSP One platform. It builds on the recent launch of VSP 360, a unified data management software platform that simplifies the VSP One user experience and provides transparent insights into data and infrastructure.
Techday NZ
01-08-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Hitachi Vantara brings VSP One SDS to Google Cloud Marketplace
Hitachi Vantara has made its Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) available on Google Cloud Marketplace, aiming to support Asia Pacific organisations seeking greater flexibility in hybrid cloud data management. This development follows widespread uptake of hybrid cloud architectures, with global data indicating that almost 80% of companies use multiple public clouds and 60% utilise several private clouds. As artificial intelligence workloads intensify, many IT leaders are experiencing challenges managing and monitoring data across these environments, prompting demand for simpler and more resilient IT infrastructure. Cloud management benefits VSP One SDS is designed to enable businesses to manage data seamlessly across both cloud and on-premises platforms without requiring substantial re-architecture of their existing setups. The platform's features include thin provisioning and data compression, which the company says can help cut cloud storage costs by up to 40%. Additionally, its two-way asynchronous replication provides improved disaster recovery options, while enterprise-grade availability aims for 99.999% uptime. Hitachi Vantara's expansion to the Google Cloud Marketplace is set to benefit customers with centralised management of their hybrid environments. This makes it possible to manage deployment and migration between cloud and existing on-site storage systems via a unified interface. The platform's new capabilities, such as thin provisioning and advanced compression, aim to reduce overhead while increasing storage efficiency and robustness. Industry context The backdrop to this launch is an industry where, according to a 2025 cloud adoption report cited by Hitachi Vantara, nearly 80% of companies use several public clouds, and a majority are also managing multiple private environments. Industry research also indicates that 47% of IT and security leaders report limited visibility across these hybrid setups, which complicates risk management and control. The company states that disaster recovery strategies are enhanced by the inclusion of two-way asynchronous replication, which permits both primary and secondary storage locations to act as source and target, thereby improving resilience against data loss or service interruption. "Bringing VSP One to Google Cloud Marketplace will help customers quickly deploy, manage and grow the data management solution on Google Cloud's trusted, global infrastructure," said Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs, Google Cloud. "Hitachi Vantara can now securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys." According to Hitachi Vantara, VSP One extends public cloud users' enterprise-class availability, targeting near-continuous service with a 99.999% uptime objective. This is intended to reduce the costs and operational disruption usually associated with downtime or the need to re-architect storage systems. The system also supports migration to and from any combination of storage platforms and cloud services, maintaining business continuity and speeding up recovery from unplanned events. "Customers want the freedom to choose the right cloud for every workload and the assurance that their data will remain protected, available and easy to manage," said Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer, Hitachi Vantara. "With availability on Google Cloud Marketplace and the addition of two-way asynchronous replication, VSP One empowers our customers to easily streamline hybrid cloud operations while strengthening their resiliency posture." Partner opportunities Hitachi Vantara says the launch will allow its regional partners to support customers better upgrading to software-defined hybrid cloud strategies, offering them a deeper integration with Google Cloud and the flexibility to address priorities such as regulatory resilience, data security, and sustainability. This is intended to help customers optimise their use of current infrastructure resources while enhancing operational efficiency and data protection. The move to Google Cloud follows Hitachi Vantara's earlier introduction of VSP 360, a unified data management software platform designed to make the VSP One experience more transparent and user-friendly, providing insight into data and infrastructure usage. Follow us on: Share on:
Techday NZ
31-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Hitachi Vantara launches VSP One SDS on Google Cloud Marketplace
Hitachi Vantara has announced that its Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, expanding enterprise data management capabilities for cloud and hybrid environments. Enterprise capabilities The addition of VSP One SDS to Google Cloud Marketplace introduces cloud-native performance features for organisations utilising both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. New capabilities such as thin provisioning, advanced data compression, and two-way asynchronous replication support disaster recovery and service reliability, supporting enterprises aiming to optimise their hybrid cloud operations. VSP One's built-in efficiency tools allow users to reduce storage costs by up to 40% through the minimisation of unused storage and optimised performance. Two-way replication between cloud and on-premises sites enables more resilient disaster recovery strategies and provides greater flexibility for business continuity, allowing for primary and secondary storage sites to operate interchangeably as the source and target during replication events. Unified management One of the key features highlighted is the ability for customers to manage both cloud and on-premises storage through a single user interface. This unified management approach removes the need for re-architecting current storage setups, streamlining hybrid operations for enterprises already employing complex infrastructures. Channel partners are expected to benefit from this launch, with broader opportunities to support customers who are adapting their hybrid cloud strategies with a software-defined and more flexible approach. The integration offers partners tools to address priorities such as resilience, security, and ongoing operational efficiency improvements. Industry context Hybrid cloud adoption continues to grow among businesses. Research cited by Hitachi Vantara indicates that around 80% of companies use multiple public clouds while 60% maintain several private clouds. With the rise of artificial intelligence and data-driven processes, 47% of IT and security leaders surveyed reportedly experience challenges related to limited visibility in hybrid cloud environments, complicating risk management and oversight. VSP One's features are positioned to address this, aiming to provide consistency and enhanced control across various deployment models. As organisations manage increasingly distributed data assets, these capabilities are intended to help reduce complexity and facilitate more efficient data movement and protection. Statements from partners "Bringing VSP One to Google Cloud Marketplace will help customers quickly deploy, manage and grow the data management solution on Google Cloud's trusted, global infrastructure. Hitachi Vantara can now securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys," said Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs, Google Cloud. Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer at Hitachi Vantara, commented on the customer advantages of the expanded integration between VSP One and Google Cloud Marketplace. "Customers want the freedom to choose the right cloud for every workload and the assurance that their data will remain protected, available and easy to manage," he said. "With availability on Google Cloud Marketplace and the addition of two-way asynchronous replication, VSP One empowers our customers to easily streamline hybrid cloud operations while strengthening their resiliency posture." Continuous availability Hitachi Vantara reports that VSP One is designed for continuous availability, targeting 99.999% uptime. This level of service reliability aims to reduce the cost and disruption associated with downtime, supporting native migration of data between cloud and on-premises platforms as required. The company states that access to these capabilities via Google Cloud Marketplace reflects an ongoing commitment to increase integration offered by the VSP One portfolio, including the previous introduction of VSP 360, a unified data management software platform.
