10/30/2026
Wrapping up a milestone October at Hitachi Vantara! 🍂
From a World Economic Forum Lighthouse celebration in Norman, Oklahoma, to new proof points in cyber resilience, disaster recovery, and sustainable infrastructure, here’s what defined the month:
📍 Norman, Oklahoma, took center stage. We welcomed media for a firsthand look at what AI transformation looks like in practice at our World Economic Forum Global Lighthouse site, celebrated the achievement with employees, executives, community leaders, and WEF representatives, and planted a tree to honor the recognition. Our leadership team and staff also came together in Norman for Hitachi Vantara’s global town hall.
🔐 VSP One Block achieved Common Criteria Certification. This independent validation reinforces the security capabilities organizations rely on to protect sensitive data, strengthen cyber resilience, and support always-on operations: https://htchivantara.is/4e6IndM
🚗 We marked a new first in disaster recovery. Working with Hitachi, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Red Hat, and Oracle Japan, we verified fully automated recovery of systems, including applications, across data centers more than 600km apart, with operations resuming in approximately 10 minutes: https://htchivantara.is/4zkz2rr
⏱️ Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH & Co KG cut its estimated recovery time for a worst-case mainframe cyber disruption scenario from seven days to as little as two hours with Hitachi Vantara, a timely reminder during that resilience is about how quickly you can recover: https://htchivantara.is/4eCZGTY
🏆 We were honored with the 2026 TSIA STAR Award for Outcome-Based Offer of the Year for our Services Operations Management (SOM) offering, recognizing years of collaboration across our Global Services organization and our commitment to delivering value for customers every day.
🌱 Together with Duraflow BV, we deployed one of the world’s largest operational PCM installations at our Netherlands data center, delivering up to 90% less energy for cooling with zero water required: https://htchivantara.is/4yOg37y
🎓 We joined higher education leaders at to talk about building a more resilient, AI-ready future, starting with a trusted data foundation.
💫 These moments reflect what drives us forward: innovation, collaboration, and helping organizations build the data foundations that make AI work.