Inside Hitachi Vantara's Very Ambitious Data Agenda

FPGAs and object storage systems. IoT edge computing and converged server infrastructure. It would be a big understatement to say that Hitachi Vantara has a lot going on, but it also might be why the company is so interesting to watch, and why you might want to keep an eye on it, too. Last week, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese industrial giant swung through San Diego, California, where it hosted its Hitachi NEXT 2018 user conference. The show served as the one-year anniversary of the creation of Hitachi Vantara, which emerged from Hitachi Data Systems in late 2017 (you'll remember that it bought big data analytics firm Pentaho in 2015).