Hitachi unveiled a piece of the object storage future

Recent Hitachi (www.hitachi.com) NEXT conference in Las Vegas offered the opportunity to understand the vision of the company about Object Storage.

In a few words, facts, reality and directions:

• Hybrid storage is a reality largely promoted by vendors that can't afford total erosion of their end-users' footprint but we know the end of the story.
• Software and Commodity Off-The-Shelf are here to stay and Software-Defined Storage is the new way to go.
• Container and micro-services provides full hardware abstraction and portability.
• Meta-data is the focal point to deliver value as end-users expects more intelligent data services from their storage platform. Today GDPR is hot with mobility, analytics and IoT.

The presentation is posted below.