Hitachi Vantara honoured as leader in 2024 GigaOm Radar study

Hitachi Vantara has announced it has been recognised as a leader and fast mover in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Unstructured Data Management (UDM) for the fourth consecutive year. The distinction was highlighted by the performance of the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), with GigaOm identifying Hitachi Vantara’s comprehensive UDM portfolio as a trusted one-stop shop for managing unstructured data.

The 2024 GigaOm Radar examined 24 vendor solutions, evaluating their key features, emerging functionalities, and business criteria. The analysis rated Hitachi Vantara’s HCP and UDM portfolio exceptional or superior across seven of eight vital features. These include metadata analytics, global content search, big data analytics, data governance and compliance, access control, workload orchestration, and data protection. Additionally, the portfolio demonstrated robust performance across critical business criteria, earning six exceptional five-star ratings and one superior rating. These metrics encompass architecture, scalability, flexibility, performance, manageability, ease of use, ecosystem, and cost.

Whit Walters, a GigaOm analyst, remarked, “To earn recognition as a GigaOm Radar leader, top-notch performance, scalability, and security are essential. Hitachi Vantara’s UDM solutions assist organisations in confidently managing unstructured data. With a focus on intelligent data management and adaptable cloud use, Hitachi Vantara enables businesses to thrive amid data challenges. This reflects both the quality of its solutions and its understanding of modern data needs.”

Unstructured data, encompassing documents, emails, videos, images, and log files, presents significant management challenges due to its volume and fragmentation. Hitachi Vantara’s integrated UDM solutions aim to transform this dormant data into strategic assets. The solutions help customers streamline compliance, automate data workflows, and simplify data pipelines for AI and analytics, ultimately enhancing decision-making.

The UDM portfolio includes:

• HCP for scalable, efficient, high-performance object storage with flexible deployment options and robust data management, compliance, and protection features.
• Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) for data discovery, classification, metadata enrichment, workflow automation, data transformation, and advanced data governance.
• Hitachi Content Software for File, catering to ultra-high-performance AI/ML/analytics workloads, integrates with HCP object storage for maximum scalability and efficiency.
• Hitachi Ops Center Protector for robust data protection and copy data management.

These solutions enable organisations to manage, govern, secure, and utilise their unstructured data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. Key features include intelligent data placement, automated workflows, ransomware protection, and compliance enforcement. Additionally, the UDM solutions empower organisations with data analytics and AI capabilities, facilitating the extraction of valuable insights from unstructured data through seamless integration with analytics platforms and AI frameworks.

Gary Lyng, Vice President of Product and Solutions at Hitachi Vantara, commented, “Effective unstructured data management plays a crucial role in capturing and harnessing vast amounts of data in an increasingly automated society, facilitating its use for AI and advanced analytics. Our unmatched data protection and cyber resiliency capabilities enable our customers to excel in their most crucial data initiatives, establishing our market leadership. Our UDM technologies are foundational for our strategy, serving as building blocks for advancements in AI. Businesses, regardless of size, are grappling with infrastructure and data processing needs to leverage AI effectively. Our UDM portfolio, led by HCP, addresses these challenges and serves as a pivotal starting point for AI integration.”