Hitachi Vantara is making its first serious play for the midrange storage business with the introduction Tuesday of its high-performance, all-flash NVMe storage arrays. Hitachi Vantara also introduced Virtual Storage as a Service, its first enterprise-class cloud service specifically targeted at midrange customers, with the service being available exclusively through its channel partners, said Kimberly King, global vice president of strategic partners and alliances. “We’re looking at taking our enterprise-class storage and making it flexible and cost-effective for the midrange,” King told CRN. “Hitachi Vantara has always been known for its enterprise storage capabilities. But partners have been looking at how to take enterprise-class storage to the midrange.”