Reclaim Data Sovereignty for the AI Era

For the modern IT leader, managing a hybrid cloud often feels like navigating a series of operational constraints rather than executing a strategy. You’re caught between the board’s demand for immediate AI results with disparate data silos, rising egress costs, inflexible consumption models, overworked employees, and the looming impact of hardware refresh cycles. There’s a constant friction between the agility of the cloud and the resilience of your on-premises core.

When only 1 in 3 emerging organizations ensure enhanced data quality, according to proprietary research from Hitachi Vantara, the challenge is clear: most lack a cohesive data foundation altogether.

With the release of VSP One Software Defined Storage (SDS) v1.19, Hitachi Vantara provides the tools to regain control by unifying infrastructure with strategy, making your organizations "cloud-smart" by design.

True Multicloud Mobility Opens Up a Data Ecosystem

True sovereignty is the power to choose. For too long, multicloud functioned as a misnomer; organizations were often all-in on one provider or struggled to synchronize others. Now, multicloud is a reality true to its name, with the expansion of Hitachi Vantara’s replication capabilities to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Imagine a scenario where your production data lives on-site, but your disaster recovery resides in Azure and your dev/test environment bursts into GCP. By creating a neutral data plane across the world’s major clouds, Hitachi Vantara ensures your business remains operational regardless of regional outages or provider shifts. You no longer manage a rigid vendor relationship: you manage a global data ecosystem.

Migrate at Your Own Pace with Zero Downtime

One of the most significant hurdles in IT is the "midnight migration"—the high-risk weekend spent moving legacy workloads. These transitions should be predictable, giving your IT team their weekends back.

By enabling the VSP One Block High End to replicate directly to the cloud via iSCSI and the Hitachi Vantara Universal Replicator (UR) technology, you can now modernize your infrastructure at your own pace. Whether you’re preparing for Hitachi Vantara’s June 2026 Gen3 hardware sunset or simply seeking performance headroom, workloads move non-disruptively. This is lifecycle management that respects your timeline, not a hardware vendor’s sales quota.

Unleash AI Performance by Reusing What You Already Own

AI readiness is not a race for the newest silicon — it’s about removing data bottlenecks and maximizing the value of existing infrastructure.

Many organizations face long procurement cycles, rising hardware costs, and underutilized on‑premises systems that delay AI initiatives before they begin. Performance challenges are often less about raw compute and more about how efficiently data can be accessed, moved, and trusted. With VSP One SDS v1.19, performance is decoupled from proprietary hardware constraints by extending support for modern Intel and AMD processors.

Decoupling performance from hardware allows organizations to refresh or repurpose existing on‑premises environments as high‑performance data platforms, avoiding specialized systems with longer lead times and higher costs. By modernizing incrementally and keeping AI workloads close to well‑understood infrastructure, teams can improve throughput, reduce latency at the data layer, and unlock AI value faster without forcing disruptive investments.

Automate Your Governance, Worry-Free

Manual configurations invite security risks and slow down deployment. To accelerate your time-to-value, AWS CloudFormation Templates now automates the repetitive parts of cloud governance: IAM roles and permissions.

Certification tools like Hitachi Vantara’s also eliminate switch reboots during hardware validation. It’s a small detail that reflects Hitachi Vantara’s philosophy that infrastructure should remain invisible, enabling you to focus on line of business.

The Hitachi Vantara Advantage

In a market often filled with unsubstantiated claims, Hitachi Vantara offers a proven, resilient, and scalable reality. Hitachi Vantara combines over 100 years of experience in operational technology (OT) and more than 60 years in IT to provide a lifecycle management approach that works for your business.

Are you ready to stop balancing and start building? Learn how VSP One SDS can help your organization reclaim data sovereignty.