This recognition underscores how Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One Object empowers enterprises with faster insights, streamlined architecture, and future-ready data lakehouse deployments built for long-term agility.
India – August 13, 2025 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), has been recognized as a Leader in the latest GigaOm Radar for Object Storage. The recognition underscores Hitachi Vantara’s rapid pace of innovation—highlighted by the industry’s first native support for Amazon S3 Tables in its Virtual Storage Platform One Object (VSP One Object) and advanced data intelligence capabilities that simplify data lakehouse deployments and accelerate analytics.
With native S3 Tables, VSP One Object enables enterprises to transform unstructured data into structured, query-ready formats—allowing high-performance, SQL-based analytics directly on open-format datasets without complex data movement or reprocessing. The result is a simplified, flexible, and AI-ready architecture that supports analytics and machine learning at enterprise scale, while maintaining long-term data portability and cost efficiency.
Why This Matters
According to the GigaOm Radar for Object Storage, object storage is now the backbone of modern data architectures, driven by explosive growth in unstructured data from AI, IoT, media, and edge workloads. The 2025 report placed Hitachi Vantara in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, citing its ability to unify block, file, and object storage through a common data plane for performance, security, scalability, and manageability.
Key Differentiators in VSP One Object
- Advanced Reporting & Analytics – Detailed insights into usage, capacity growth, and performance trends, enabling precise forecasting.
- Storage Optimization – Automated data classification to identify cold or redundant data for tiering or deletion, reducing costs.
- Public Cloud Integration – Extended AWS S3 API compatibility, including S3 Object Lock and native S3 Tables, for stronger governance and hybrid cloud data management.
Expert Endorsement
“Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One Object is a true enterprise-grade solution—secure, scalable, and engineered for AI and analytics. By embedding native S3 Tables, they are setting a new standard for how enterprises extract value from unstructured data.”
Whit Walters, Analyst, GigaOm
Built for the Modern Data Lakehouse
VSP One Object integrates seamlessly into data lakehouse architectures, supporting open table formats like Apache Iceberg. S3 Tables automate tasks such as compaction, snapshot/version control, and metadata cleanup—reducing operational overhead and freeing teams to focus on insights.
“By enabling SQL queries directly on object storage, we’re removing complexity from data pipelines and delivering enterprise-grade simplicity for analytics and AI,” said Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer, Hitachi Vantara. “This is part of our vision for a unified data platform powered by a single control plane, VSP 360, that spans all storage types across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.”
Roadmap: Performance Meets Cost Efficiency
The next VSP One Object release will integrate with VSP One Block NVMe-QLC and TLC flash storage, delivering higher throughput and reduced cost for performance-sensitive analytics and AI workloads.
Recognition and Industry Momentum
This GigaOm leadership ranking adds to Hitachi Vantara’s recent accolades, including:
- 2025 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Data Protection (Business Intelligence Group)
- Leader in GigaOm Radar for High-Performance Storage Optimized for AI Workloads
- Leader and Outperformer in GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage
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