This update enables businesses to manage and protect their data across Azure and on-premises systems, with integrated provisioning, compression, and replication capabilities that reduce operational complexity and help control cloud costs.
According to IDC, 82% of cloud service buyers say their environments require modernization, facing challenges such as skills shortages, staffing gaps, and the complexity of managing hybrid and multicloud environments. This inefficiency, coupled with rapid data growth and limited visibility in hybrid environments, has resulted in billions of dollars in unnecessary spending and increased the demand for automation, governance, and greater cost control.
To address these challenges, VSP One SDS now offers support for Azure, enabling provisioning, management, and security of storage through a single control interface based on VSP 360, Hitachi Vantara's unified management solution. This centralized layer simplifies operations across on-premises and cloud environments without requiring application modifications or rewrites. With integrated thin provisioning and enterprise compression, organizations can reduce cloud storage costs by up to 40%. Bidirectional asynchronous replication supports disaster recovery, improves availability, and accelerates incident recovery. These capabilities enable seamless migration, testing, and scaling of workloads, facilitating faster DevOps cycles, more agile infrastructure planning, and more resilient business continuity. The platform also ensures continuous availability and high performance at scale, backed by a strong track record of reliability.
“Businesses are under pressure to modernize their infrastructure without disrupting what already works,” said Octavian Tanase, product manager at Hitachi Vantara. “By bringing VSP One to Microsoft Azure, we’re helping customers extend the value of their existing investments while introducing new levels of resilience, efficiency, and simplicity. Our partner ecosystem plays a key role in providing that flexibility, helping organizations move at their own pace while keeping costs and complexity under control.”
The integration with Azure also gives Hitachi Vantara customers and partners greater flexibility and choice in planning and deploying hybrid environments. With Azure as their foundation, organizations can strengthen security, improve operational efficiency, and maximize the value of their Hitachi Vantara storage systems. This seamless connectivity supports a more agile and resilient approach to hybrid cloud, backed by trusted partners who bring the expertise needed to simplify deployment and scale quickly.
“Microsoft Azure Marketplace welcomes Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One, which joins an ecosystem of cloud solutions that deliver flexibility and economic value, generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue each year,” said Jake Zborowski, general manager of Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. “Thanks to Azure Marketplace and partners like Hitachi Vantara, customers can do more with less: gain efficiency, buy with confidence, and spend smarter.”
The VSP One platform serves as a unified foundation for block, file, and object storage across on-premises and cloud systems. This provides organizations with a consistent experience wherever their data resides, helping to reduce silos, improve visibility, and simplify operations in hybrid environments. VSP One is designed for continuous availability, with a target of 99.999% uptime, thereby reducing the need for redundant infrastructure. This level of reliability enables native data movement between environments and facilitates business continuity without the need to redesign architectures or duplicate infrastructure.
These advancements are part of Hitachi Vantara's strategy to unify data operations and simplify management in hybrid and distributed environments with VSP One. The expanded support for Azure complements previous support for block and object storage, as well as the launch of VSP 360, which provides centralized automation, visibility, and control for more consistent data management across on-premises and cloud systems.
