INDIA, Nov. 19, 2025 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the launch of Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End, a next-generation, all-flash NVMe block storage solution designed to address the demands of most mission-critical business and growing AI workloads. Completing its VSP One data platform strategy, VSP One Block High End delivers performance, scalability, cybersecurity and data resilience, empowering organizations to confidently drive data from insight to impact. With seamless workload consolidation across open systems and mainframe, VSP One simplifies data management operations while delivering enterprise-grade security and sustainability. 

For more information about the VSP One Block High End, please visit: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage-platforms/vsp-one-block/high-end

Enterprises today face mounting pressure to modernize their digital core as they navigate the complexities of AI-driven transformation, massive data growth, and real-time analytics. Legacy infrastructure is increasingly unable to keep pace with the performance, resilience, and efficiency required to support business-critical and AI workloads. According to a recent report, over 70% of respondents reported that their current IT infrastructure was inadequately prepared to handle future ML and AI workload demands. As the challenge of managing data has been exacerbated by AI growth, a separate report found more than half (57%) of IT leaders surveyed storing data across on-premises, and private, hybrid, sovereign and public clouds.

From reducing latency in high-performance databases to ensuring uninterrupted access to patient records in healthcare, organizations need data infrastructure that they can trust to run their business. With the ability to scale intelligently, recover rapidly, and deliver insights instantly, VSP One Block High End is built to address these challenges by enabling faster transaction processing, enhanced user experiences, and accelerated data science outcomes, while maintaining security, compliance and operational continuity. As industries enter the era of powering the AI factory, it provides the unified data foundation to help organizations drive enhanced productivity and innovation.

“What we’re seeing across industries is a tipping point where data infrastructure must evolve or risk holding back innovation,” said Octavian Tanase, chief product officer, Hitachi Vantara. “VSP One Block High End goes beyond performance upgrade; it’s a strategic enabler for enterprises to rethink how they capture, manage, protect, and scale data in the AI era.” 

VSP One is designed to address the growing complexity of data-driven operations. Built on three foundational pillars, VSP One enables:

• Secure Resilience: Built-in FIPS 140-3 Level 2 certified protection, with eight nines of availability, while Hitachi’s Cyber Resilience Guarantee helps achieve near-zero data loss and rapid recovery.
• Simple Performance and Management: All-flash NVMe architecture, supporting 50 million IOPS with hardware compression acceleration and support for up to 346TB per RU. VSP 360 provides unified data management operations with centralized fleet management, guided automation workflows, and mobile-enabled observability.
• Sustainable Scalability: Future-proof data infrastructure that features a 4:1 Data Reduction Guarantee and automatically switches CPUs into eco mode during low activity periods, significantly reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint. 

“As our organization accelerates its AI initiatives, the pressure on our existing infrastructure has never been greater,” said Mauro Guzelotto, vice president of cloud services, North America, T-Systems. “The launch of VSP One High End is timely. It’s clear Hitachi Vantara understands that enterprises need more than incremental improvements. We need platforms that can handle exponential data growth, deliver real-time insights, and ensure resilience at scale. This is the kind of innovation that helps us stay competitive and future ready.” 

Enterprise-Grade Cybersecurity and Data Resiliency

VSP One Block High End is purpose-built to help enterprises modernize their digital core with a high-performance data platform that simplifies operations and strengthens resilience. VSP One delivers immutable snapshots, automated recovery and anomaly detection powered by CyberSense. With a 100% data availability guarantee and a cyber resilience guarantee that enables clean data recovery in seconds for companies victimized by a ransomware attack, this solution supports continuous operations for mission-critical workloads. VSP One has previously achieved alignment with the U.S. government’s Secure Software Development Framework, which was validated by a third-party and confirmed by CISA, meeting stringent requirements to help protect critical data from security threats.

The solution also delivers enhanced speed and adaptive data reduction that maintains performance even with uncompressible data. The platform supports consolidation of Open Systems (Block, File, Object) and mainframe workloads, scaling up to 12 controllers and 288 x 60TB SSDs, with advanced connectivity including 100G NVMe over transmission control protocol (TCP) and 64G FC.

“As partners, we’re excited about the potential this platform brings to our customers who are preparing for the next wave of AI-driven transformation,” said Bo Reggelsen, director, Enterprise and Datacenter, Codeex A/S. “The architecture, resilience, and scalability of VSP One Block High End position us to deliver future-ready solutions that meet the evolving demands of AI data-intensive workloads.”

Enhanced Data Governance and Compliance with VSP 360

Unified data management is streamlined through VSP 360, offering integrated fleet-wide management, simple installation, guided workflows, and mobile access. AIOps-powered analytics and observability enable faster decision-making and simplified administrative operations. VSP One is also a cloud-enabled storage platform, supported by leading public clouds including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.

“As enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI and real-time analytics, infrastructure must evolve to support these high-performance, data-intensive environments,” said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager, Worldwide Infrastructure Research, IDC. “Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One High End is a strategic response to this shift. Its unified architecture and guaranteed performance are designed to help organizations modernize their digital core while maintaining operational continuity, a critical capability in today’s fast-moving landscape.”

VSP One Block High End will be available globally in early 2026 through Hitachi Vantara and its network of partners. For more information, visit www.hitachivantara.com.

Additional Resources

• Blog: The End of Data Infrastructure as We Know It. And That’s a Good Thing
• Webinar: Build Modern AI-Ready Infrastructure Without Starting Over
• Product Brief: Top Ten Reasons Why VSP One Block High End
• Solution Overview: Top Reasons Why VSP One for Mainframe
• Spec Sheet: VSP One Block Storage Portfolio
• Analyst Report: 451 Research: Modernizing Mission Critical Storage
• Blog: Growing Our Platform, to Help You Grow Your Business
• Website: VSP One for Mainframe

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INDIA – October 06, 2025 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a new solution that combines Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One). The new offering enables organizations to reduce reliance on costly, proprietary hypervisors and adopt a unified, hybrid cloud platform to help modernize aging virtualization environments while delivering enterprise resilience and performance.

For more information on Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat solutions, please visit:

https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/solutions/hybrid-cloud-infrastructure/red-hat-openshift

The new offering comes as enterprises face rising virtualization licensing costs, limited flexibility, and increasing pressure to modernize. According to a recent survey, the increasing complexity of vendor licensing and rising prices has turned routine upkeep into a costly exercise, with nearly three-quarters (73%) of enterprises having been audited, and more than a third acknowledging that compliance, including managing excessive licensing, was the top issue facing their organization.

To address these challenges, the new Hitachi Vantara solution integrates Red Hat OpenShift, which includes the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization feature, and includes pre-validated reference architecture and a powerful VM migration tool that simplifies and accelerates the transition from legacy platforms. VSP One delivers multi-site resilience and seamless failover features that can support continuous operations during outages. The solution allows organizations to run virtual machines (VMs) and containers side by side on the same platform, reducing the need for separate virtualization infrastructure and avoiding duplicate environments, which reduces hardware, software licensing, and operational costs. Additionally, VSP One provides a unified data storage platform for block, file and object storage across on-premises systems and the cloud, which improves data visibility and offers a consistent experience wherever data resides.

“Organizations across industries are looking to modernize IT infrastructure while avoiding vendor lock-in and controlling costs,” said Dan McConnell, senior vice president, product management and enterprise infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara. “By combining Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Hitachi Vantara’s high-performance VSP One infrastructure, we’re enabling customers to simplify migration, reduce complexity, and accelerate application delivery on a modern hybrid cloud foundation. Customers want choice without complexity or cost or vendor lock-in.”

The solution includes a new jointly developed reference architecture built for high availability on stretched Red Hat OpenShift clusters. Leveraging Hitachi VSP One Block, Global Active Device (GAD) technology, which enables active-active data access across multiple sites, and enhanced CSI drivers, the architecture supports disaster avoidance, continuous operations, and seamless workload mobility across geographically distributed sites. An optional third-site quorum with Red Hat OpenShift master node support in public cloud or isolated sites enables maximum availability zone resiliency.

Customers like Alior Bank, a leading European financial institution, are already realizing the benefits of the new solution. Faced with rising licensing fees and limited flexibility in its legacy environment, the bank transitioned to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on VSP One.

“Our goal was to build a future-ready IT platform that supports growth while ensuring resilience and performance, which was paramount,” said Piotr Krzak, chief technology officer, Alior Bank. “By working closely with Red Hat and Hitachi Vantara, we’ve built a unified and highly-available environment that accelerates innovation, enhances scalability, and allows us to better serve our customers.”

The Hitachi Vantara solution with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers key benefits for organizations to modernize and migrate from traditional virtualization platforms, including:

• Reduced Operational Costs and Vendor Lock-In: By unifying VMs and containers on a single platform, customers may be able to achieve increased operational and cost efficiency. Furthermore, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is based on KVM and KubeVirt, offering greater choice and flexibility through open source innovation.

• Accelerated Application Delivery and Migration: Integrated, pre-validated systems and storage help accelerate deployment of VMs and containers. Hitachi Vantara’s Storage Plug-in for Containers (HSPC) enables dynamic, persistent storage scaling without overprovisioning.
• Enterprise-Grade Resilience: VSP One is designed to support continuous uptime, 100% data availability, and support for mission-critical workloads.
• End-to-End Automation and Visibility: Integrated observability and automation tools of Red Hat OpenShift, combined with Hitachi Vantara’s intelligent infrastructure management, deliver improved policy consistency, proactive issue resolution, and secure operations across hybrid environments.

“As IT leaders reevaluate traditional virtualization platforms, the ability to migrate and modernize without disruption is critical,” said Stefanie Chiras, Ph.D., senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat. “Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes and built on open standards, supporting VM and container portability across on-prem, public cloud, and edge environments. Together with Hitachi Vantara’s powerful infrastructure, we are enabling our customers to reduce costs, consolidate operations, and build more resilient, cloud-native infrastructure that is ready for what’s next.”

This announcement represents the latest development in the Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat relationship. Earlier this year, the companies announced an update to the Red Hat OpenShift migration toolkit for virtualization, which includes a storage offloading feature for cold migrations, powered by VSP One. Allowing storage offloading during a cold migration can significantly accelerate the process by moving the data-copying workload from the server and network to the storage array itself, reducing downtime and maintaining operational continuity. As a primary driver for the development of this feature, Hitachi Vantara is one of the first to have their offload driver reach technology preview.

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India – 27 January 2025 – As the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates across India, 54% of Indian IT leaders identify security gaps as significant barriers to AI success, according to the Hitachi Vantara State of Data Infrastructure Survey. 45% of respondents are concerned about a data breach from an AI-enabled attack and 35% are concerned about the inability to recover data after a ransomware or kill-ware attack.

The survey reveals that, despite the rise in AI-driven innovations, Indian enterprises are struggling to align data quality, sustainability, and resilient practices with AI’s growing demands, putting long-term success at risk. The findings highlight the urgent need for data governance practices that include robust ransomware protection services and infrastructure to ensure Indian businesses can effectively secure and recover their data in an increasingly complex data landscape.

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The survey, conducted among 1,200 IT decision-makers across 15 countries—including 100 from India—reveals the transformative potential of AI and the pressing need for robust data infrastructure. Key India-specific findings include:

• 58% report AI initiatives’ success relies on high quality data
• 43% are concerned about having sufficient data quality to train AI, compared to 37% globally.
• 37% expressed concern about ethical and legal issues related to AI, notably higher than the global average of 28%.
• 36% are concerned about hiring skilled workers for AI initiatives, compared to the global figure of 31%.
• 43% are concerned about AI’s impact on our sustainability, exceeding the global concern of 31%.
• 54% of Indian enterprises cite cybersecurity as their top priority in AI implementation,       overshadowing high implementation costs at 43%

Recognizing the importance of data quality, 58% of Indian IT leaders agree that “using high-quality data” is the most common reason AI projects succeed. However, AI has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of data storage that Indian businesses require, with the amount of data expected to increase 129% by 2026. This growth is exacerbating the challenge of integrating new AI systems with existing legacy infrastructure.

“India’s journey toward AI-driven innovation is accelerating at a remarkable pace, but the path is not without its challenges,” said Hemant Tiwari, Managing Director and Vice President of India and SAARC Region, Hitachi Vantara. “With more organizations expecting their data storage demands to grow exponentially in the coming years, the need for robust data infrastructure has never been more critical. Our survey shows that while Indian enterprises embrace AI, data security and governance, gaps persist in cyber security and sustainability, potentially impeding long-term success. Bridging these gaps requires a strategic focus on modern infrastructure solutions that prioritize data quality, energy efficiency, performance, resiliency and risk mitigation— critical enablers for sustainable growth in the AI era.”

The Disconnect Between AI Potential and Data Quality

A surprising takeaway from the research was the gap between how many IT leaders say data quality is essential for implementing new technologies like GenAI and how few actually prioritize it in practice. While 58% of Indian IT leaders identify data quality as essential for implementing technologies like GenAI, only 43% express concerns about the availability of high-quality training data. This disconnect suggests that, despite acknowledging its importance, many IT leaders are not adequately prioritizing the foundational role of data quality in AI deployment, potentially limiting AI’s effectiveness.

AI Growth Outpaces Infrastructure Readiness

As Indian organizations harness AI for competitive advantage, unstructured data—comprising nearly 70% of data in India—presents challenges in quality and accessibility. Businesses are also facing barriers due to the limited adoption of foundational practices:

• 8% of Indian respondents experiment with AI across all projects, while 5% use small sandboxes to test AI models before full implementation.
• 21% of Indian respondents cite the lack of proper data infrastructure as a barrier to ensuring AI is sustainable and responsible.

“AI adoption thrives on trust in data and outcomes. Without a solid foundation in data quality and governance, AI’s potential remains unfulfilled,” said Sanjay Agrawal, CTO and Head of Presales, India and SAARC, Hitachi Vantara. “Our survey shows that Indian organizations are embracing AI but must address gaps in infrastructure and sustainability to drive long-term value.”

The Role of Infrastructure in Bridging the Gap

Modern data infrastructure is critical to overcoming these challenges. Hitachi Vantara’s sustainable solutions empower organizations to enhance data quality, reduce energy consumption, and mitigate risks.

Key survey insights from Indian respondents include:

• 37% seek ROT (redundant, obsolete, trivial) data storage solutions to improve accessibility and cost efficiency.
• 36% identify a skills gap in AI implementation, with many relying on third-party expertise for AI model development and data processing.
• 39% need help with sustainable AI implementation, as opposed to 27% globally, highlighting a demand for infrastructure solutions that support long-term AI viability.
• 32% require assistance with strategic AI deployment and integration, which emphasizes the need for robust, scalable infrastructure to support AI at scale.

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