By Chris Mellor
Publication Date: 2026-03-18 18:14:00
GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla’s offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year.
Think of all the storage companies as planets orbiting the vast Nvidia sun, with each one trying to get as close to Nvidia as possible to gain an advantage when selling its wares to customers.
Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Vantara’s Hitachi iQ is a hardware and software portfolio designed to help enterprises deploy and operate AI infrastructure, and is built on the Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) storage system. It integrates accelerated computing, networking, and storage into a validated infrastructure stack, and supports Hitachi’s HMAX suite of software that brings AI to social infrastructure. Hitachi iQ now supports:
- Nvidia Blackwell GPUs (air-cooled)
- Blackwell Ultra GPUs (air-cooled and liquid-cooled)
- Nvidia MGX-based system with up to four RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
- Hitachi iQ also plans to support the newly announced RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPU
Hitachi Vantara will support Nvidia’s STX reference architecture to develop AI-native storage systems running on Vera Rubin GPUs, BlueField-4 DPUs, and Spectrum-X networking, and its AI software.
The Hitachi iQ Studio software is built on Nvidia’s…
