Hitachi Vantara announces new Virtual Storage Platform One capabilities

Hitachi Vantara has announced new capabilities for Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One), introducing three guarantees for performance, cyber resilience and sustainability. These service level agreement-driven commitments are designed to give enterprises the confidence to streamline operations, recover quickly from cyber threats and reduce environmental impact.

The benefits of the new VSP One capabilities announced today directly tackle what customers are struggling with—overcomplicated IT, unreliable outcomes and pressure to do more with less. The new enhancements are designed to resonate with midsized enterprise IT managers who need practical solutions, existing customers looking for an upgrade and partners who want something easy to position.

"IT complexity, cyber threats and sustainability challenges continue to put enterprises under extreme pressure,” said Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer, Hitachi Vantara. “With VSP One’s latest enhancements, we are eliminating those roadblocks by delivering a unified, automation-friendly platform with guaranteed performance, resilience and efficiency built in. This is more than just data storage—it’s a smarter, more sustainable way to manage enterprise data at scale."

With these latest updates, VSP One is designed to provide a cloud-like operational experience, making enterprise storage easier to manage and more resilient than ever before. Key components of the new capabilities include -

·  Performance Guarantee – Applications run at predictable, high-performance levels with minimal intervention by meeting workload demands with confidence through guaranteed minimum performance levels across all VSP One Block platforms, backed by EverFlex from Hitachi. Service credits apply if performance targets aren't met.

·  Cyber Resilience Guarantee – Organizations can mitigate downtime and data loss after cyberattacks with protections enabled by immutable snapshots and AI-driven Ransomware Detection powered by CyberSense. If data can't be restored, Hitachi Vantara provides expert Incident response and up to 100% credit of the impacted storage volume.

·  Sustainability Guarantee – Helps businesses track and optimize energy consumption and contributes to a lower CO₂ footprint by up to 40% with VSP One’s energy-efficient architecture and reporting. A power efficiency service level agreement (SLA) ensures improved cost efficiency and environmental responsibility.

These new capabilities complement Hitachi Vantara’s existing guarantees, which include a 100% data availability guarantee providing uninterrupted access to critical business data. The Hitachi Vantara Effective Capacity Guarantee provides 4:1 data reduction and maximizes storage efficiency by reducing the size of datasets while preserving the most important information, which limits redundancy and makes efficient storage possible. The Modern Storage Assurance Guarantee delivers continuous innovation with perpetual, non-disruptive upgrades, providing non-disruptive data access during the upgrade process to new controllers, ensuring a path to the future of storage without needing to repurchase capacity.

Unlike fragmented or software-layered approaches that require juggling multiple APIs and disparate management tools, VSP One delivers a seamless, fully integrated platform that consolidates data management into a single, easy-to-use ecosystem.