Super Micro partering with Hitachi Vantara for AI applications

Hitachi’s (HTHIY) data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary Hitachi Vantara is working towards a strategic partnership with Supermicro (SMCI). The collaboration combines Supermicro’s GPU and AI compute capabilities with the performance and scale of Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One, aiming to give enterprises a foundation for driving AI infrastructure, mission-critical applications and data-intensive workloads. The parties are finalizing terms of an agreement that would enable Supermicro to sell VSP One to its customers, and Hitachi Vantara will be able to sell Supermicro servers, storage, GPUs and hardware systems, broadening availability through established channels. By bringing compute and data together with enterprise-class support, Hitachi Vantara and Supermicro are aiming to help customers streamline their infrastructure and get more out of their AI investments. VSP One, Hitachi Vantara’s unified data platform, brings block, file, object and software-defined storage into a single architecture. This allows enterprises to run performance analytics directly on open-format data without complex data movement, loading or extraction – making it easier to scale and adapt for modern data lakehouse architectures. VSP One also serves as the foundation for Hitachi iQ, the company’s AI and data orchestration portfolio, to optimize data workflows for advanced AI. The companies anticipate making these technologies available through global channels, including VSP One Block, VSP One SDS and VSP One Object.