Hitachi Vantara Named a Leader and Fast Mover in 2026 GigaOm Radar for Unstructured Data Management for Sixth Consecutive Year

• Hitachi Vantara recognized for automated policy enforcement, including policy automation and classification capabilities, immutable object lock, retention and tiering policies, and enterprise workflow integration, helping enterprises control unstructured data at scale
• As unstructured data volumes grow, the recognition highlights Hitachi Vantara's role in helping organizations strengthen visibility, control and policy enforcement to reduce risk and prepare trusted data for AI and analytics
• Recent VSP One enhancements extend VSP 360 capabilities to VSP One Object and introduce support for the next-generation VSP One Object O14 platform, along with more granular scaling options and metadata optimizations that improve small object IOPS by up to 4x

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced it has been named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Unstructured Data Management for the sixth consecutive year. The recognition underscores Hitachi Vantara's strength in enterprise unstructured data management, including governance, automation and control across hybrid environments, and comes as the company continues to advance its Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) data platform as a more accessible, protected and AI-ready foundation for analytics, modern applications and business innovation.

For more information about the GigaOm Radar for Unstructured Data Management, please visit: 
https://www.hitachivantara.com/gigaom-unstructured-data-management-2026

The GigaOm Radar for Unstructured Data Management evaluates leading enterprise solutions based on technical capabilities, innovation and business impact. As organizations generate massive volumes of documents, images, videos, logs, sensor data and other unstructured content, managing that data effectively has become a growing challenge. Without the right foundation, unstructured data can become a source of security exposure, compliance liability and escalating costs that undermine its value for AI and analytics. Modern data platforms must do more than store data; they need to improve visibility, strengthen governance and make unstructured data trustworthy to access, manage and use.

GigaOm highlighted Hitachi Vantara's approach to delivering enterprise-grade unstructured data management through VSP One Object and VSP One File, supported by VSP 360 for centralized management and operational visibility and Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) for data discovery and classification. Hitachi Vantara earned high marks in several areas, including:

• Automated policy enforcement, combining policy automation and classification capabilities with immutable object lock, retention and tiering policies across VSP One Object and VSP One File services
• Enterprise workflow integration, enabling automated workflows that move, index and transform data across diverse sources with minimal manual intervention
• Unified data fabric extension, enabling structured and unstructured data to be managed across internal and external sources, with VSP One providing governed file and object services where data is stored, protected and policy-enforced

"Unstructured data management has become a strategic priority as organizations look to improve governance, reduce complexity and prepare more of their data for AI and analytics," said Whit Walters, field CTO at GigaOm. "Hitachi Vantara's position as a Leader and Fast Mover reflects its platform-oriented approach to modern storage, helping enterprises improve visibility across distributed data, apply policies more consistently, reduce unnecessary data movement and make trusted data easier to access, protect and use."

VSP One is designed to help organizations build a unified data foundation for AI and analytics by bringing greater consistency and control to data across block, file and object environments. Recent enhancements to VSP One Object build on this strategy by improving deployment flexibility, visibility and performance for selected workloads, while reinforcing the platform's role as an active, analytics-ready foundation for AI, analytics and lakehouse environments. These updates include VSP 360 support for VSP One Object, bringing Hitachi Vantara's unified management platform to object environments with centralized monitoring, policy management and operational insights. They also add the next-generation VSP One Object O14 platform, more granular scaling options and metadata optimizations that improve small object IOPS by up to 4x.

"Enterprises cannot unlock the full value of AI if they lack control over the data that fuels it," said Sunitha Rao, senior vice president and general manager, hybrid cloud and AI infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara. "This recognition from GigaOm reinforces our focus on helping customers reduce risk, simplify unstructured data management and build a trusted foundation for AI, analytics and mission-critical operations. By continuing to advance VSP One across block, file and object storage, we are giving customers greater confidence in their data while reducing the operational complexity that slows innovation."

This recognition adds to Hitachi Vantara's recent industry validation for VSP One and its broader storage portfolio. The company was recently named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Object Storage, while CRN named VSP One a 2025 Product of the Year winner for hybrid cloud storage. Together, these recognitions reinforce Hitachi Vantara's momentum in helping organizations simplify data management, strengthen resilience and support more efficient, AI-ready infrastructure.

VSP One Object is part of the broader VSP One data platform, which provides a unified foundation for block, file and object storage across on-premises and cloud environments. VSP One Object helps reduce unnecessary data movement for data lakehouse, AI and analytics pipelines, while VSP One Block supports mission-critical applications and AI inference workloads with predictable, low-latency performance, VSP One File delivers enterprise file services, and VSP 360 provides centralized management and operational visibility. Built for mission-critical reliability and backed by Hitachi Vantara's 100% data availability guarantee, VSP One helps organizations reduce downtime, maintain control and operate with confidence.

For more information about VSP One, please visit: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage-platforms.

Additional Resources

• Report: GigaOm Radar for Unstructured Data Management
• Blog: Building a Data Foundation for AI Is a Rewarding Experience
• Press Release: Hitachi Vantara Named a Leader in 2026 GigaOm Radar for Object Storage for Strength in Storage Optimization and Enterprise Scalability
• Analyst Report: Cohasset Validates VSP One File for Regulatory Compliance
• Analyst Report: 451 Research: Boost Resiliency and Performance for Modern Data Infrastructures
• Press Release: Hitachi Vantara Launches Virtual Storage Platform One Block High End Storage to Power the Next Era of AI and Mission-Critical Workloads
• Blog: Growing Our Platform, to Help You Grow Your Business

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