New Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service Provides Seamless Data Integration for Smarter AI

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Hitachi Vantara has launched EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service, a fully managed data lakehouse solution designed to streamline AI data preparation and integration. Built on Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) and powered by Cisco hybrid cloud infrastructure, the service addresses critical challenges in AI adoption, where 98% of organizations use multiple storage platforms and 57% utilize all four types: on-premises, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and public cloud. The solution offers unified data management through VSP 360, comprehensive AI infrastructure via Hitachi iQ, and AI data integration capabilities through Zetaris. This service aims to reduce the $100 billion annual losses due to AI data preparation difficulties and combat the 80% failure rate of AI and data projects by providing real-time connectivity, federated analytics, and enhanced data governance.

Positive

• Addresses a significant market need with 98% of organizations using multiple storage platforms
• Helps reduce costs associated with AI data preparation, which currently results in $100B annual losses
• Offers pay-as-you-need infrastructure model, improving cost efficiency
• Provides unified platform for AI, BI, and data operations, streamlining workflow
• Integrates with existing infrastructure across on-premises, private, hybrid, and public cloud environments

Negative

• Enters a highly competitive market for AI infrastructure solutions
• Complex integration requirements across multiple platforms may present implementation challenges
• Dependent on partnerships with Cisco and Zetaris for full functionality

Reducing cost and complexity of distributed data landscapes, Hitachi Vantara offers a modern data lakehouse solution with AI workbench capabilities to enhance data operations and speed AI innovation

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today introduced Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service. The new AI Data Hub as a Service offering represents a fully managed, all-in-one infrastructure consumption service addressing AI data preparation challenges by providing a modern data lakehouse with integrated workbench capabilities for AI, business intelligence (BI), and data needs.

For more information on Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service, visit: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/services/infrastructure-as-a-service/service-catalog/everflex-ai-data-hub-as-a-service

Amid the boom of AI adoption, organizations are tasked with intricate data management tasks despite limited resources and increasingly complex data environments. Hitachi Vantara's recent State of Data Infrastructure Report found 98% of organizations are using more than one storage platform for their data, and over half (57%) store data on all four types of platform: on-premises, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and public cloud, creating a litany of AI data preparation challenges. Research also indicates that up to 80% of AI and data projects fail, and greater than $100 billion per year is lost due to difficulties with AI data preparation, enablement and cost of operations.  

Offering a modern data lakehouse for accessing data anywhere, the Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service helps customers better manage AI workloads by paying for only the infrastructure they need with the security, control and cost savings of hybrid cloud infrastructure. Designed to support robust data quality and governance, customers can leverage the service to enable a single view of enterprise data to feed their AI and BI initiatives with complete and timely data, unlocking faster insights and better business outcomes.

"Through this new offering, we're helping customers integrate, prepare and gain more control over relevant data despite the ensuing boom of unstructured data created by AI," said Jeb Horton, senior vice president, Global Services at Hitachi Vantara. "Ultimately, this solution empowers organizations to meet their data where it is, accelerating AI innovation and experimentation, delivering real-time insights, and significantly reducing the cost and complexity of managing today's distributed data landscape."

Hitachi VSP One Storage Innovation and Cisco-powered Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure in partnership with Zetaris

Built on Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One), Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service helps enhance data completeness, accuracy and compliance across the entire data ecosystem by integrating data in real-time without duplication, emphasizing data governance and quality at the source. The AI Data Hub also helps address cost inefficiencies and technical barriers to analytics and BI by enabling rapid AI and machine learning deployment to accelerate data pipelines and provide a unified platform for both data and AI operations.

By bringing together Hitachi EverFlex STaaS, VSP One and iQ technologies with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud IaaS solutions containing GPU Compute and Networking as a Service, customers benefit from:

• Unified Data Management: VSP 360 offers a unified data management software platform that supports block, file, object and software-defined storage infrastructures. It orchestrates and automates data services, manages data policy compliance, and provides AIOps observability for predictive data infrastructure insights. VSP 360 elevates the VSP One data services by focusing on unified control, observability and management of hybrid cloud data infrastructures.
• Comprehensive AI Data Infrastructure: Hitachi iQ provides the necessary infrastructure for AI and analytics workloads, including GPU servers, high-speed storage, and networking components to form a comprehensive AI infrastructure with integrated systems for AI and analytics workloads. It emphasizes data governance, security, and quality, and offers flexible deployment options.
• AI Data Integration and Preparation with a Modern as a service Data Lakehouse management: With Zetaris modern lakehouse for AI software, the EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service enables real-time connectivity to diverse data sources and performs federated analytics for data in place, emphasizing data governance and quality at the source, reducing cost inefficiencies and technical barriers to analytics and business intelligence. The service accelerates data pipelines, enabling rapid AI and machine learning deployment, and provides a unified platform for AI, BI, and data operations.

For more information, please visit https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/services/infrastructure-as-a-service/service-catalog/everflex-ai-data-hub-as-a-service.

Additional Resources

• Solution Profile: Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service
• Top 10 Reasons Why: Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service
• Press Release: New Hitachi EverFlex Transforms IT Operations with Scalable, Cost-Efficient Hybrid Cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solutions
• Press Release: Hitachi Vantara Launches Virtual Storage Platform 360, a New Data Management Software Solution that Delivers a Simplified, Streamlined Experience
• Press Release: Hitachi Vantara Unveils New Virtual Storage Platform One Capabilities to Enable Stronger Cyber Resilience, Performance and Sustainability
• Press Release: Hitachi Vantara Introduces Hitachi iQ M Series, a Modular Design with Hybrid Cloud Data Orchestration for GenAI and Industry-Specific Workloads
• Press Release: Hitachi Vantara Announces Hitachi iQ for Trusted Data Infrastructure Solutions for Modern AI Systems with NVIDIA HGX™ Platform
• Press Release: Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ and New AI Discovery Service to Help Businesses Become AI-Ready

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About Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Vantara is transforming the way data fuels innovation. A wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Vantara provides the data foundation the world's leading innovators rely on. Through data storage, infrastructure systems, cloud management and digital expertise, the company helps customers build the foundation for sustainable business growth. To learn more, visit www.hitachivantara.com.

About Hitachi, Ltd.
Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT(Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates globally in four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – and the Strategic SIB Business Unit for new growth businesses. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi generates value from integrating data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2024 (ended March 31, 2025) totaled 9,783.3 billion yen, with 618 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 280,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com.

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FAQ

What is Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service and what does it do?

It is a fully managed data lakehouse solution that provides seamless data integration for AI workloads, offering unified data management, comprehensive AI infrastructure, and real-time connectivity across multiple storage platforms.

How does Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub address current market challenges?

It addresses the challenge that 98% of organizations use multiple storage platforms and helps reduce the $100 billion annual losses due to AI data preparation difficulties, while combating the 80% failure rate of AI projects.

What are the key components of Hitachi's HTHIY new AI Data Hub service?

The key components include VSP One storage platform, VSP 360 unified data management software, Hitachi iQ for AI infrastructure, and Zetaris modern lakehouse software, all integrated with Cisco-powered hybrid cloud infrastructure.

What benefits does Hitachi HTHIY AI Data Hub offer to enterprises?

It offers pay-as-you-need infrastructure, unified data management, real-time data integration without duplication, enhanced data governance, and accelerated AI deployment capabilities.

How does Hitachi's AI Data Hub handle different types of storage platforms?

It supports integration across all four types of platforms: on-premises, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and public cloud, providing unified management and real-time connectivity to diverse data sources.