Hitachi Vantara Collaborates with Red Hat to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Transformation and Modernize ..

• 06 Oct 2025
• TM Team
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Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. 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 their reliance on costly, proprietary hypervisors and adopt a unified, hybrid cloud platform to help modernize aging virtualization environments while delivering enterprise resilience and performance.

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 have 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, is 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, a 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 lowers 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, improving data visibility and providing 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, and we're delivering."

The solution employs 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 such as 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."

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