Hitachi Vantara has introduced Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End, a new generation of all-flash NVMe storage arrays designed to address the dual challenge challenging CIOs today: the data explosion driven by artificial intelligence and the need for absolute resilience in critical business applications.
With this launch, the company completes its VSP One strategy as a unified data platform, combining extreme performance, advanced cyber-resilience, and sustainability within a single system capable of consolidating both open workloads and mainframes under the same infrastructure.
Storage designed for the “AI factory”
According to Hitachi Vantara itself, over 70% of organizations recognize that their current infrastructure is not prepared to support future AI and machine learning demands, while data is spread across on-premises data centers, private clouds, hybrid, sovereign, and public clouds. In this context, VSP One Block High End positions itself as a “digital core” to:
- Reduce latency in high-performance databases.
- Ensure uninterrupted access to sensitive information, such as medical records.
- Accelerate data science and real-time analytics projects.
The proposal is to offer a platform that can scale, recover quickly, and serve data with predictable response times, while maintaining the highest levels of security and regulatory compliance.
“VSP One Block High End goes beyond a simple performance upgrade; it is a strategic enabler for companies to rethink how they capture, manage, protect, and scale their data in the age of AI,” summarizes Octavian Tanase, Hitachi Vantara’s product director.
Extreme Performance and Unified Management
The new system relies on an all-flash NVMe architecture designed to consolidate a wide range of workloads:
- Up to 50 million IOPS, with hardware acceleration for compression.
- densities of up to 346 TB per rack unit (RU).
- Scalability up to 12 controllers and 288 SSDs of 60 TB.
- Advanced connectivity, including 100G NVMe/TCP and 64G Fibre Channel.
Management is centralized through VSP 360, Hitachi Vantara’s fleet management layer, which offers:
- Unified operations across multiple arrays.
- Guided workflows for deployment and operation.
- Observability and AIOps analytics to anticipate problems and optimize resources.
- Mobile access to monitor the environment in real-time.
Additionally, VSP One is ready to integrate into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, supporting major public cloud providers, facilitating strategies where some data resides locally and some in the cloud, without losing control or visibility.
Cyber-resilience with Guarantees Aligned with NIST
One of the key strengths of VSP One Block High End is its focus on security and business continuity. The platform incorporates:
- FIPS 140-3 Level 2 certified protection for encryption and authentication.
- Availability of “eight nines” (99.999999%), aimed at environments where downtime is not an option.
- Immutable snapshots, anomaly detection, and automated recovery using technologies like CyberSense.
Hitachi Vantara complements these capabilities with a 100% availability guarantee and a cyber-resilience guarantee that promises quick recovery of “clean” data in seconds in case of ransomware attack, minimizing operational impact.
The company also recalls that VSP One software has already aligned with the Secure Software Development Framework of the U.S. government, validated by third parties and recognized by CISA, reinforcing its position in regulated environments and critical sectors.
Sustainable Scalability: More Capacity with Less Power
Beyond performance, Hitachi Vantara emphasizes environmental aspects. VSP One Block High End incorporates several specific features to reduce energy costs and carbon footprint:
- Data reduction guarantee of 4:1, allowing more information to be stored on less hardware.
- Auto eco modes that adjust CPU usage during low activity periods.
- High-density rack configurations, reducing data center footprint and cooling costs.
The result is an infrastructure prepared to grow at the pace demanded by AI and advanced analytics projects, but with optimized energy consumption and better TCO.
Ready for Mainframe, Open Systems, and Mixed Workloads
The new platform is not limited to x86 or cloud-native environments. VSP One Block High End is designed to consolidate open systems (block, file, and object) and mainframe workloads into a single environment, simplifying operations for organizations still relying on legacy systems but aiming to modernize their storage without disruptions.
This “single platform” vision aims to reduce the complexity of multiple storage silos, facilitate data migration between environments, and provide a common foundation for traditional applications and new AI-driven workloads.
Availability and Channel Focus
VSP One Block High End will be globally available in early 2026 through Hitachi Vantara and its partner network. The company expects system integrators and managed service providers (MSPs) to leverage this platform as a foundation for new offerings in AI-ready infrastructure, business continuity, and digital core modernization.
As many companies question whether their current storage can keep pace with generative AI, foundational models, and mass data analysis, Hitachi Vantara joins the race with a clear proposition: a high-end array designed from day one for the “AI factory,” where performance, cyber-resilience, and sustainability are core requirements, not afterthoughts.
via: hitachi vantara