2025: A Big Year for Data Platforms

It’s that time of year, again. Everyone’s been busy sharing their Best of 2024 for “this” or “that” list. A few weeks back it seemed the world was on Spotify Wrapped overload, taking pride in their top songs/artists. Now, I’ve got nothing against recaps, but for me, what’s more important than summing up the PAST year is what’s coming in the NEXT. Especially in the IT space.

While a number of important things will compete for our attention in 2025 – AI, cybersecurity, hybrid cloud, green IT and much more – they all have one foundational thing in common. The data that ties them together, fueling innovation and superior outcomes across the enterprise. And the most important springboard for making that happen is the data platform.

That makes 2025 a big year for data platforms. And based on what many experts, like analysts at GigaOm, have to say, the data platform you should know more about is Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One).

GigaOm Primary Storage Radar on Hitachi Vantara VSP One

Primary storage is essential for enterprise IT, supporting critical apps and workloads across an increasingly diverse business and data ecosystem. As businesses continue down their unique paths towards operational excellence and competitive advantage, the demands placed on their data infrastructure will continue to stretch the bounds of what’s possible.

To help IT leaders navigate the complexity, expert analysts at GigaOm did an assessment of the 21 top enterprise-grade primary storage vendors, including Hitachi Vantara, providing insight into technical capabilities, innovation, business value and more. Their report, GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage 2024, provides in-depth analysis of available options. And we couldn’t be more proud of the results.

According to the report, Hitachi Vantara – with a focus on Virtual Storage Platform One – stands out as both a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation/Platform Play space. Reinforcing our position as an undisputed leader in primary storage.

Like I said, it looks like 2025 is going to be a big year for data platforms.

An Innovative Platform Meets an Innovative Mindset

There’s a lot of detail to unpack about what makes VSP One so well aligned with the needs of rapidly evolving hybrid enterprise. The basics revolve around a combination of exceptional innovation and the comprehensiveness of our offering. Most notably, the report scored Hitachi Vantara 5 out of 5 for the following critical technologies and decision criteria:

• NVMe-oF (over Fabrics) support for FC (fibre channel) and TCP (transmission control protocol), catering to high-performance applications.
• Outstanding cloud integration, including replication, automated tiering, virtual appliances and support for hybrid deployments.
• Robust ransomware protection, including proactive detection, immutability and air-gap features.

Hitachi Vantara is positioned as both a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation/Platform Play space by GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage 2024

The report highlights Virtual Storage Platform One 's capabilities to scale with ease and deliver great price performance for diverse workloads. Making it a future-proof choice supporting critical innovation and emerging trends like sustainability, AI governance and traceability, and architectures that transcend the traditional data center into the world's largest cloud providers.

For any organization looking at evolving their storage infrastructure to enable their own innovation and digital transformation timelines, VSP One merits inclusion on your list.

The Beauty of VSP One Is in the Details

When it comes to data infrastructure, every organization must evaluate the options based on their own unique objectives and needs. VSP One offers something for all of them. Flexible licensing, seamless deployment and manageability, scalability for critical use cases and workloads, sophisticated data protection, energy and cost efficiency, and the list goes on.

With VSP One, we’ve delivered at every level, with a foundational approach engineered for long-term value to our customers. That’s what’s behind the strong evaluation in this report. And the corresponding vote of confidence VSP One’s received from customers across a range of industries.

It also says something important about Hitachi Vantara as an undisputed leader in primary storage. About our unwavering commitment to both delivering AND enabling innovation as evidenced by the customer centricity and resilience of our solutions. That may be the single most important takeaway of all.

We invite you to read GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage and draw your own conclusion. Even better, let’s start a dialogue about your strategic objectives for the year ahead.

Looking forward to hearing from you and to sharing more about our ongoing story. Like I said, 2025’s going to be a big year for the data platform. And a truly great one for VSP One.

Read more

• Analyst Content: GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage 2024 
• News Release: Hitachi Vantara Expands Hybrid Cloud Storage Platform with Object Storage, All-QLC Flash and Advancing Cloud Integration
• On-Demand Webinar: Simplicity of One: A World Without Data Complexity
• Research: Hitachi Vantara State of Data Infrastructure Global Report 2924