SC3: Alliance Between Hitachi Vantara and Quobyte

At the Supercomputing Conference, SC23, Hitachi Vantara LLC, subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.., and Quobyte, Inc. announced a partnership.

This partnership has been established to address the sophisticated data management challenges encountered by the HPC sector. It aims to make an enterprise validate solution that meets market needs for performance and reliability.

The collaboration between Hitachi Vantara’s VSP data platforms and Quobyte’s storage software will usher in a new era of data management, aligning with the evolving needs of modern enterprises and HPC environments.

Ilan Shmargad, SVP business development and alliances, Quobyte, commented: “Our partnership with Hitachi Vantara further enhances our superior filesystem offerings by providing customers with a turnkey, fully integrated solution of superior hardware, software, and support from a trusted global leader. This partnership enables enterprises to run HPCs scale-out and ML/AI workloads effectively and economically. Together, Quobyte provides a high-performance file system with enterprise-grade reliability and features, combined with Hitachi Vantara’s excellent hardware, premium support and related services.“

Core offerings of the partnership include:

• Reliability: Experience 100% non-disruptive operations even while delivering massive scale-out performance with Quobyte’s advanced filesystem. The ability to add and remove hardware without as a standard feature ensures an operational flow, making data management a hassle-free task.
• Enterprise-Grade Features: A suite of features such as an intuitive policy engine, robust security features, easy management, snapshots, quotas, and multi-cluster and multi-tenancy, all tailored to meet the rigorous demands of HPC and enterprise filesystem environments.
• Scalable Performance: The partnership is engineered to offer a validated architecture that scales to accommodate petabytes of data and thousands of nodes. With the capability to amplify throughput with the addition of additional hardware, this partnership is poised to meet the growing demands for data management solutions in HPC environments and enterprise environments.
• Accessible HPC: Bridging the gap between HPC parallel filesystem needs and user-friendly solutions, that makes HPC storage easy, reliable, and accessible with enterprise features.
• Integrated Solutions: A commitment to delivering integrated solutions that address both present and future data management challenges ensuring a future-proof data strategy.
• Cost-Efficiency: Cost efficiency is achieved through Quobyte’s software-centric approach, leveraging enterprise hardware from Hitachi Vantara, offers a reduction in TCO without compromising on performance or ease of management.
• Customer-Centric Approach: A commitment to delivering customer-centric solutions that drive business success by enhancing operational efficiency and enabling swift data-driven decision-making.

The partnership is focused on creation of a validated reference architecture and also on collaboration in marketing and customer engagement. By joining forces in these areas, it intend tobcommunicate the superior value proposition of the solution to potential customers, thereby driving growth and increasing market penetration.

As exponential data growth fuels a surge in demand for high-quality, enterprise-grade scale-out filesystems, the 2 partners stand are at the forefront of addressing this need, especially in critical sectors like M&E, financial services, life sciences, retail, and others dealing with extensive or sensitive data management.