Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End, a next-generation, all-flash NVMe block storage system developed to meet the needs of the majority of mission-critical business and expanding AI workloads, was introduced by Hitachi Vantara.
VSP One Block High End completes its VSP One data platform strategy by offering cybersecurity, scalability, performance, and data resilience, enabling businesses to confidently move data from insight to effect.
VSP One offers enterprise-grade security and sustainability while streamlining data management operations through smooth workload consolidation between open platforms and mainframes.
Organizations need reliable data infrastructure to conduct their operations, from lowering latency in high-performance databases to guaranteeing continuous access to patient records in healthcare.
VSP One Block High End is designed to address these issues by facilitating quicker transaction processing, improved user experiences, and accelerated data science outcomes while preserving security, compliance, and operational continuity. It can scale intelligently, recover quickly, and deliver insights instantly.
It offers the unified data foundation to support businesses in fostering increased efficiency and innovation as industries move into the era of powering the AI factory.
VSP One is designed to address the growing complexity of data-driven operations. Built on three foundational pillars, VSP One enables:
- Secure Resilience: Built-in FIPS 140-3 Level 2 certified protection, with eight nines of availability, while Hitachi’s Cyber Resilience Guarantee helps achieve near-zero data loss and rapid recovery.
- Simple Performance and Management: All-flash NVMe architecture, supporting 50 million IOPS with hardware compression acceleration and support for up to 346TB per RU. VSP 360 provides unified data management operations with centralized fleet management, guided automation workflows, and mobile-enabled observability.
- Sustainable Scalability: Future-proof data infrastructure that features a 4:1 Data Reduction Guarantee and automatically switches CPUs into eco mode during low activity periods, significantly reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint.
The solution also delivers enhanced speed and adaptive data reduction that maintains performance even with uncompressible data. The platform supports consolidation of Open Systems (Block, File, Object) and mainframe workloads, scaling up to 12 controllers and 288 x 60TB SSDs, with advanced connectivity including 100G NVMe over transmission control protocol (TCP) and 64G FC.
Enhanced Data Governance and Compliance with VSP 360
Unified data management is streamlined through VSP 360, offering integrated fleet-wide
management, simple installation, guided workflows, and mobile access. AIOps-powered analytics and observability enable faster decision-making and simplified administrative operations. VSP One is also a cloud-enabled storage platform, supported by leading public clouds including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
Enterprises today face mounting pressure to modernize their digital core as they navigate the complexities of AI-driven transformation, massive data growth, and real-time analytics. Legacy infrastructure is increasingly unable to keep pace with the performance, resilience, and efficiency required to support business-critical and AI workloads.
According to a recent report, over 70% of respondents reported that their current IT infrastructure was inadequately prepared to handle future ML and AI workload demands.
As the challenge of managing data has been exacerbated by AI growth, a separate report found more than half (57%) of IT leaders surveyed storing data across on-premises, and private, hybrid, sovereign and public clouds.
Leadership Comments
“What we’re seeing across industries is a tipping point where data infrastructure must evolve or risk holding back innovation,” said Octavian Tanase, chief product officer, Hitachi Vantara. “VSP One Block High End goes beyond performance upgrade; it’s a strategic enabler for enterprises to rethink how they capture, manage, protect, and scale data in the AI era.”
“As our organization accelerates its AI initiatives, the pressure on our existing infrastructure has never been greater,” said Mauro Guzelotto, vice president of cloud services, North America, T-Systems. “The launch of VSP One High End is timely. It’s clear Hitachi Vantara understands that enterprises need more than incremental improvements. We need platforms that can handle exponential data growth, deliver real-time insights, and ensure resilience at scale. This is the kind of innovation that helps us stay competitive and future ready.”
“As partners, we’re excited about the potential this platform brings to our customers who are preparing for the next wave of AI-driven transformation,” said Bo Reggelsen, director, Enterprise and Datacenter, Codeex A/S. “The architecture, resilience, and scalability of VSP One Block High End position us to deliver future-ready solutions that meet the evolving demands of AI data-intensive workloads.”
