The Industrial AI Factory: Bridging Legacy and Cloud-Native

In this deep-dive discussion, Suraj Kotipalli, APAC business leader at Hitachi Vantara, and Sivaram Shunmugam, director of tech sales for APAC Ecosystems at Red Hat, explore the friction between mission-critical legacy infrastructure and the high-octane demands of agentic AI. They reveal how the partnership between Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat, anchored by OpenShift and VSP One, enables enterprises to run VMs and containers side-by-side on a single, secure platform, effectively turning their data centers into AI Factories.

Key takeaways:

• The unified stack: Learn how Red Hat OpenShift integration with Hitachi VSP One provides a consistent environment for managing both traditional virtual machines and modern containerized workloads.
• Migration at warp speed: Discover how co-engineered storage offload tools allow for VM migrations up to 5x faster than traditional methods, drastically reducing the risk and downtime of modernization projects.
• Hitachi iQ – The AI factory: A first look at the Hitachi iQ solution, a fully integrated AI-ready infrastructure stack combining NVIDIA GPUs, Red Hat’s AI software, and Hitachi’s high-performance data platform.
• From pilot to production: Suraj discusses why 40% of AI projects are abandoned by 2027 and how a smart, secure and scalable data foundation is the only way to move from the POC phase to actual ROI.