Hitachi Vantara outlines DataOps vision

At NEXT 2019, Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, outlined its innovation vision for the emerging practice of DataOps and what it means for customers and partners.

According to the company, DataOps is not a product, service or solution. DataOps is a methodology for enterprise data management in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. It seamlessly connects data consumers with data creators to rapidly find and use all the value in an organisation’s data. Hitachi Vantara believes DataOps will have significant impact on the future of IT as it would unlock previously-unused data.

Last week Hitachi Vantara announced major updates to its portfolio of products, solutions and services that deliver a broad foundation for DataOps initiatives at organisations of any size and in any industry.

In Singapore, KC Phua, Director, Technical Experts, APAC,
Data Management and Protection, Global Field and
Industry Solutions, Hitachi Vantara, explained more
about the new VSP 5000 and Hitachi Ops Center ssoftware.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 series and Hitachi Ops Center software form the company’s next-generation storage and infrastructure foundation with a new scaleout, scale-up architecture for any workload at any scale.

These technologies can accelerate data centre workloads and deliver future-proof IT with a new, innovative architecture that is the ideal foundation for modernising data centre, cloud and DataOps environments. The platform also features the world’s fastest NVMe flash array*.


Hitachi Vantara has also expanded and enhanced its capabilities for cloud services in the first major announcement of the company’s newly-formed cloud services portfolio. Critical capabilities and expertise from the company’s acquisition of REAN Cloud in 2018 have contributed significantly to this development. The new portfolio includes cloud migration services, application modernisation services, operations managed services, consulting services and Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC).

Hitachi Vantara further expanded the Lumada platform services and solutions portfolio to help customers break down data silos and drive more innovation through DataOps. Hitachi is now extending Lumada’s capabilities beyond the Internet of things (IoT).  

Joe Ong, VP/GM ASEAN, Hitachi Vantara, called the quarter "one of the most exciting" in 109 years.

"We're creating a data economy right now," he said.

While the company has a very strong base in storage, it is moving up the stairway to value with data enrichment, activation and monetisation.

"We want to be a one-stop shop for data. We can help customers accelerate their business outcomes even faster."

*Based on internal testing using industry-standard benchmarks against published claims of competitive products.