SINGAPORE [TAC] – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), on Thursday announced Hitachi iQ Studio, the latest addition to the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI solutions.
Hitachi iQ Studio is designed to help enterprises build, deploy and manage AI agents and applications at scale, acting as a turnkey integration hub with a no-code and low-code agent builder. This helps enterprises operate their AI solutions faster while maintaining full control over their data and models.
Although AI adoption is growing rapidly, many organizations still face barriers in moving from experimentation to scaled deployment. A recent industry report by Boston Consulting Group found that 74 percent of companies struggle to operationalize AI and achieve lasting business impact.
The study also found that the majority of struggles stemmed from people and process-related issues, including a lack of AI talent on staff, while a separate study found that 62 percent of organizations believe a lack of data governance is the primary data challenge inhibiting AI initiatives.
Hitachi iQ Studio was developed to close these gaps by giving enterprises a simpler way to design and deploy AI solutions that are secure, compliant and cost-effective. Unlike fragmented point tools or cloud-only offerings, Hitachi iQ Studio provides a fully governed, on-premises and sovereign AI environment.
This means that information can be easily kept within existing infrastructure, helping businesses, particularly those in regulated industries, work toward meeting strict compliance requirements while protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access.
At its core, the solution builds on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design to provide pre-integrated retrieval-augmented generation pipelines to deliver AI-ready data. Hitachi iQ Studio combines RAG pipelines with Model Context Protocol to support fast data access, automation and pre-built templates, to make it easier for companies without in-house technical expertise to create and deploy AI solutions.
Hitachi iQ Studio also includes a built-in model management system that allows enterprises to deploy and serve large language and machine learning models locally within their own infrastructure.
“AI has evolved beyond experimentation, but many organizations still need the right foundation to scale it effectively,” said Jason Hardy, chief technology officer for AI at Hitachi Vantara. “With Hitachi iQ Studio, we are making AI more user-friendly and manageable by combining accessible tools with enterprise-grade performance and governance. The result is faster innovation, stronger oversight and a path to scalable, responsible AI.”
“As organizations bring AI into production, the ability to keep data secure, scalable and close to compute is essential for AI agents and other reasoning applications,” said Jacob Liberman, director of enterprise product at NVIDIA. “By combining Hitachi Vantara’s enterprise data expertise with NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, Hitachi iQ Studio gives customers the performance, scalability and efficiency they need to build and deploy advanced AI systems at enterprise scale.”
Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager, worldwide infrastructure research at IDC, said that the rapid growth and advancement in AI have “left many enterprises struggling with scale, data governance and cost management – challenges that are compounded by a lack of in-house talent”.
“Scaling AI depends as much on having the right data and infrastructure readiness as it does on models or compute,” said Nadkarni. “Solutions like Hitachi iQ Studio, which can provide built-in templates and enhanced data visibility, represent an important step toward creating unified AI environments that help organizations overcome data silos, strengthen governance and turn AI experimentation into measurable business outcomes.”
Hitachi Vantara will showcase Hitachi iQ Studio at Supercomputing 2025, taking place November 16-21 in St. Louis, Missouri. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore Hitachi iQ Studio firsthand and learn how it simplifies and advances agentic AI development across industries.
