Ian Clatworthy
Director, Data Platform Product Marketing
May 20, 2025
Peanut butter has jam. Wine has cheese. Great Britain has pubs. The world is filled with things that are great alone, but that together, create an even greater – dare I say, legendary – combination. Now it comes to the world of data platform management.
Sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself.
You see, a few months back I predicted 2025 was going to be a big year for data platforms. One such solution being Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One).
Now anyone who truly understands the challenges of bringing data together across all kinds of disparate or siloed sources knows the benefits can be substantial. That’s the thinking behind VSP One. Giving large, fast-moving organizations the ability to store, analyze and make their data available across the hybrid cloud data ecosystem. Regardless of location, application, system or format. On-premises or in the cloud.
But one thing was missing. To leverage the full power of the VSP One platform, users needed a single, seamless, equally powerful data management platform built from the ground up with the flexibility of cloud in mind.
Transforming the Data Platform Experience with Hitachi VSP 360
The complexity of managing, protecting and making data available across geographic, divisional and technical boundaries is an all-encompassing and never-ending task that requires an untold multitude of software.
Such was the inspiration behind Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 360 (VSP 360), a new unified management platform, designed to transform the user experience. Combined with VSP One – which enables a single common data plane – VSP 360 enables users to unleash the power of their data through the creation of a single common control plane.
With VSP 360, data leaders gain unified management and visibility across their entire data estate, encompassing IT Ops, AIOps and Data Lifecycle Management. VSP 360 empowers them to make AI-driven decisions to better control, observe and govern data throughout its complete lifecycle. This modern, centralized data infrastructure management approach delivers new operational insights to efficiently integrate and automate their data operations.
Working in concert with VSP One, VSP 360 enables IT teams to rapidly deliver powerful new hybrid cloud data solutions, manage continued data growth, improve resilience and unlock the full potential value of their data. And to accelerate insights and outcomes across demanding application and data workloads to achieve new levels of availability, performance and scalability.
The Name of the Game Is the Common Control Plane
The true advantage of VSP 360 lies in its ability to deliver unified control for VSP One data solutions, providing a modern data management approach with common data services across disparate data sources. By enabling a common control plane, VSP 360 streamlines data management, making it more efficient, secure and scalable. Empowering data teams with:
A Modern Approach to Data Platform Management
Hitachi VSP 360 stands out as a transformative enterprise data management platform, leveraging market-leading storage virtualization to consolidate data silos (from any vendor), extending the life of aging storage assets and significantly reducing costs.
Moreover, VSP 360 enhances AIOps observability with deep AI data lake analysis, providing improved analytics, available from your mobile phone of all places! This continuous optimization addresses evolving workload requirements over time, ensuring your data platform remains efficient and responsive to business needs.
With VSP 360, businesses can efficiently manage their hybrid cloud data infrastructure with integrated fleet management, intelligent protection and infrastructure as code (IaC) interoperability across multiple storage types.
Start Your VSP 360 Journey Today
Like I said at the start, the world is filled with pairings of great things that are even better, together. And that now includes the world of data platform management.
Connect with your Hitachi representative to learn more and get your VSP 360 journey started today.
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Having spent the past 24 years in the IT industry, Ian made his way to technology sales and marketing by way of Formula 1 and World Rallying where he headed up event IT, heavily involved in managing and deploying infrastructure solutions trackside. He brought firsthand knowledge of digital solutions and their benefits first to Dell and then Hitachi Vantara, where he now leads Global Product and Solutions Marketing for Data Platform technologies.
