The partnership gives businesses a strong platform for advancing AI infrastructure, mission-critical applications, and data-intensive workloads by fusing the performance and scale of Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) with Supermicro’s GPU and AI computing capabilities.
To expand availability through existing channels, the parties are finalizing the parameters of an agreement that would allow Supermicro to sell VSP One to its clients and Hitachi Vantara to sell Supermicro servers, storage, GPUs, and hardware solutions.
Rapid data expansion and growing demands for AI-driven insights are putting strain on businesses. According to a recent poll, 85% of businesses are now using data lakehouses to build AI models, and 67% of them anticipate doing most of their analytics on lakehouses in the next three years, up from 55% at the moment. However, many still encounter obstacles that make scaling AI challenging, such as disjointed systems, sluggish data transfer, and growing expenses. Hitachi Vantara and Supermicro are helping customers optimize their infrastructure and maximize their AI investments by combining computation and data with enterprise-class support.
VSP One, Hitachi Vantara’s unified data platform, which unifies block, file, object, and software-defined storage into a single architecture, lies at the heart of the partnership. Benefits are available to partners and customers for a variety of data storage requirements. To support mission-critical applications and AI training workloads, for instance, VSP One Block with Supermicro servers combines an all-flash architecture that enables high throughput, low latency, and high IOPS storage. With software-defined deployments across hybrid cloud environments, VSP One SDS expands such capabilities. Customers may convert unstructured data into structured tables using VSP One Object’s industry-first native support for Amazon S3 Tables and sophisticated data intelligence services. This makes it simpler to scale and adjust for contemporary data lakehouse designs by enabling businesses to do performance analytics directly on open-format data without the need for complicated data moving, loading, or extraction.
Sheila Rohra, chief executive officer of Hitachi Vantara, stated, “The combination of Supermicro’s leadership in AI computation with the scale and resilience of Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One platform represents a significant step in laying the groundwork that will direct the future of enterprise AI. Bringing computing and data closer together will allow for uninterrupted scalable workload support as data volumes soar. In addition to providing enterprise-class service and support, we are assisting businesses in taking greater control of their data so they can lead in the AI-driven business era and discover new sources of value.”
In order to optimize data workflows for advanced AI, Hitachi iQ, the company’s AI and data orchestration portfolio, is built on top of VSP One. Businesses may handle various data management needs for improved data processing, governance, and protection by combining Supermicro’s high-performance computation and GPU acceleration in Hitachi iQ with VSP One’s unified data services. This gives businesses a more comprehensive approach to infrastructure to assist AI ambitions by ensuring that compute and data stay closely integrated and improving visibility across workloads for quicker insights. As a result, Hitachi iQ offers a comprehensive infrastructure solution for analytics, data lake environments, and AI and GenAI across a variety of use cases unique to different industries.
“Supermicro and Hitachi are working together to help businesses adopt and use AI more quickly,” stated Vik Malyala, senior vice president of Technology and AI at Supermicro and president and managing director of EMEA. “We use cutting-edge GPUs, CPUs, and NVMEs in our AI-optimized compute and storage servers. will enable compute-intensive workloads for dynamic vertical applications in conjunction with Hitachi Vantara’s enterprise data management platform and Hitachi iQ portfolio options, improving client performance and efficiency.”
The firms plan to release these technologies via VSP One Block, VSP One SDS, and VSP One Object, among other international channels. The VSP 360 unified control plane, which combines data management capabilities throughout a storage environment to track important performance metrics like storage capacity utilization and overall system health, can also be used to administer VSP One. Channel partners will also profit; Hitachi Vantara partners will have access to prompt GPU server delivery in Hitachi iQ, while Supermicro partners will have access to an extended array of corporate block storage and support.
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