Unleashing AI’s Full Potential: Hitachi Vantara to Help Solve the Data Challenge Using NVIDIA AI

Every article I read highlights the need for rapid adoption of AI, with emphasis on agentic and generative AI redefining the boundaries of data architectures. As organizations expand automation, personalization and real-time decision-making, they face a fundamental challenge: data gravity – especially to meet the demands of AI reasoning inference workloads – is pulling AI workloads toward storage, but disaggregated architectures struggle to keep pace with the need for rapid data access. To realize AI’s full potential, we must efficiently move and process data closer to storage.

Traditionally, some organizations have relied on disaggregated storage architectures for their AI workloads, where data is spread across multiple systems, leading to slow retrieval speeds and suboptimal compute utilization. While advancements in high-speed storage solutions like Hitachi Content Software for File have improved access times, data proximity to AI compute remains the core challenge. Optimizing this relationship is critical for achieving breakthrough AI performance.

Bridging Data and Compute with The NVIDIA AI Data Platform

This is why we’re excited to see the debut of the NVIDIA AI Data Platformopens in a new tab – a new reference design designed to bring storage into the AI era by bridging the gap between data and compute. Hitachi Vantara is at the forefront of this innovation, integrating its AI-ready infrastructure with NVIDIA’s latest accelerated computing technologies to redefine enterprise AI data pipelines and unlock new levels of efficiency. Beyond just Hitachi iQ, this collaboration will extend across our broader storage portfolio, enabling AI-driven advancements that optimize data movement, retrieval and compute acceleration.

A Fully AI-Optimized Platform

The NVIDIA AI Data Platform is a reference design that integrates enterprise storage with NVIDIA accelerated computing, ensuring real-time data accessibility for AI applications. Optimized for agentic AI, this platform allows AI models to efficiently retrieve and process massive amounts of structured and unstructured data.

Powering the NVIDIA AI Data Platform:

• NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs – Industry-leading AI performance for training and inference.
• NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs – Up to 1.6x higher performance, 50% lower power consumption, reduced CPU overhead.
• NVIDIA Spectrum-X Networking – Up to 50% faster data transfers, adaptive routing, congestion control.
• NVIDIA AI Software – NVIDIA NeMo Retrieveopens in a new tabr microservices – part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform: 16x faster ingestion, #1 in retrieval accuracy and a 97% reduction in vector storage volume.

These innovations empower enterprises to scale AI workloads with greater efficiency, accuracy and speed – unlocking faster insights and superior AI performance with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform.

Hitachi Vantara + NVIDIA: Overcoming AI’s Data Bottleneck

Hitachi Vantara is setting a new standard for AI-ready infrastructure by leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform. With the launch of the Hitachi iQ M Series , Hitachi Vantara is expanding our Hitachi iQ portfolio to include more of NVIDIA’s advanced accelerated computing stack combined with our high-performance storage systems to tackle the data locality challenges that AI workloads face today.

Hitachi iQ M Series AI-Ready Advantages:

• Flexible Compute Options – Supporting NVIDIA accelerated GPU and Arm offerings, giving enterprises the power to customize AI infrastructure. 
• Scalable Architecture – Compute and storage scale independently, optimizing performance and cost. 
• Real-Time AI Data Access – Hitachi iQ + NVIDIA AI Enterpriseopens in a new tab ensures seamless, high-speed AI data retrieval. 
• Ultra-Low Latency AI Workloads – NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUsopens in a new tab + NVIDIA Spectrum-Xopens in a new tab networking deliver faster, more efficient AI model execution.

The Future of AI-Driven Enterprises

The enterprise AI landscape is evolving rapidly, and organizations need infrastructure that doesn’t just “keep up,” but accelerates innovation. At Hitachi Vantara we are actively shaping this future by combining our insights and deep expertise with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform to help customers achieve transformative business outcomes. Together we are unlocking new possibilities for automation, decision-making and business intelligence – empowering organizations to lead in the AI era.

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations require infrastructure that transforms data into a catalyst for innovation. The NVIDIA AI Data Platform, accelerated by Blackwell GPUs, BlueField DPUs and Spectrum-X networking, combined with Hitachi Vantara’s award-winning storage portfolio, unleashes the full potential of agentic and generative AI – bringing data and compute together for seamless, real-time intelligence. By optimizing data locality, this platform ensures that AI agents operate at peak efficiency, enabling faster insights and smarter decision-making.

With Hitachi Vantara’s AI-ready infrastructure fully integrated into the NVIDIA AI Data Platform ecosystem, enterprises can now scale AI workloads with confidence – driving the next wave of AI-powered business transformation.

Read more:

• News Release: Hitachi Vantara Introduces Hitachi iQ M Series, a Modular Design with Hybrid Cloud Data Orchestration for GenAI and Industry-Specific Workloads 
• Blog: 5 Major Ways Agentic AI Will Change IT & Data Managementopens in a new tab
• Blog: Unleash the Power of Your AI Initiative with Hitachi iQ
• News Release: Hitachi Vantara Announces Hitachi iQ for Trusted Data Infrastructure Solutions for Modern AI Systems with NVIDIA HGX™ Platform