Singapore – Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., has announced the availability in Singapore of its Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End and VSP One Object solutions, extending its storage portfolio to support organisations deploying AI across core systems and data environments.
Organisations in Singapore are moving from pilot initiatives to production-level AI deployments, increasing demands on infrastructure for performance, reliability and security. The company’s State of Data Infrastructure 2025 report indicates that 96% of respondents in Singapore are using AI, with 66% reporting successful outcomes.
The VSP One Block High End platform is designed to support AI workloads and business-critical applications that cannot tolerate downtime or performance inconsistencies. It is suited to use cases such as high-performance databases, real-time analytics and large-scale AI processing, and is positioned for large enterprises requiring scalability, availability and resilience across core operational systems.
“Once AI moves from pilots into production, reliability and security become business risks, not just technical concerns,” Joe Ong, vice president and general manager for ASEAN at Hitachi Vantara, stated.
“As AI becomes more embedded across the business, we’re seeing renewed focus on how modern AI initiatives can be introduced alongside long-standing, mission-critical environments, including core systems and mainframe platforms.”
To address the growth of unstructured data, VSP One Object has also been introduced in Singapore. The solution enables the integration of structured and unstructured data within a data lakehouse model, including compatibility with Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg, allowing SQL-based queries on object storage to support AI development. It also incorporates features for identifying sensitive data and ensuring storage immutability to support governance and security.
The broader VSP One portfolio supports both open systems and mainframe environments, enabling organisations to scale AI alongside existing infrastructure while maintaining operational stability. However, challenges remain, with only 23% of respondents indicating strong readiness to realise returns from AI, and 52% reporting that data complexity makes it harder to detect security incidents.
In parallel, developments in storage networking, such as Brocade Gen 8 Fibre Channel technology from Broadcom, are focused on enabling low-latency and consistent performance for AI and mission-critical workloads in hybrid environments.
“With AI workloads scaling, infrastructure must deliver predictable performance, low latency, and strong resilience across the data environment,” Martin Skagen, general manager of Brocade Storage Networking at Broadcom, commented.
“When Brocade Gen 8 is deployed with Hitachi enterprise storage platforms, advanced storage networking helps maintain performance consistency and strengthen cyber resilience across hybrid environments.”
The VSP One Block High End and VSP One Object solutions are now available in Singapore, providing organisations with additional infrastructure options for AI and large-scale data management.
