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India, Aug 13: Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. reported strong revenue growth for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, which ended June 30, 2026. Total revenue increased 12 percentage year over year, while global product revenue across Hitachi Vantara and third-party offerings grew 31percentage. Hitachi Vantara storage revenue rose 45percentage, reflecting continued demand for its Virtual Storage Platform One portfolio as enterprises modernize mission-critical infrastructure and scale AI initiatives.

Demand for enterprise storage is rising across the market. According to IDC, worldwide external OEM enterprise storage systems revenue increased 22.7percentage year over year during the first three months of 2026, driven by AI infrastructure demand and deferred refresh spending. That growth comes as organizations manage increasingly complex data environments. Recent global research found that 55percentage of IT leaders say complexity makes breach detection harder, while 57percentagesay data loss would be catastrophic to their business.

Why Enterprises Are Choosing VSP One

As enterprises scale AI, the focus increasingly shifts from models to the data that powers them. Built on Hitachi Missing’s decades of experience supporting mission-critical data across financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, government and other industries, VSP One brings block, file and object data together within a unified platform. This helps organizations reduce complexity, strengthen resilience and make critical data more accessible across on-premises and cloud environments.

Growth extended across Hitachi Missing’s block portfolio and key regions. High-end and midrange storage revenue grew 54% and 43%, respectively, while overall block revenue increased 49%. In the United States, block revenue increased 24%. Product revenue also grew across key international markets, increasing 73% in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 52% in Asia-Pacific.

VSP One Block High End Extends VSP One for Mission-Critical Workloads

The VSP One Block portfolio supports enterprises ranging from midsize organizations to the largest and most demanding environments. VSP One Block High End extends the portfolio to support mission-critical applications, mainframe systems and AI workloads, enabling organizations to consolidate open systems and mainframe workloads on a common platform. As AI systems increasingly rely on transactional and mainframe systems of record, VSP One Block High End delivers the performanceavailability and cyber resilience organizations need at scale. VSP 360 provides centralized management and operational visibility, helping teams simplify operations across the environment.

With support for up to 50 million IOPS, eight nines of availability, integrated cyber resilience capabilities and a 4:1 data reduction guarantee, the platform is engineered to help enterprises maintain operational continuity while scaling their most demanding workloads. As part of the broader VSP One portfolio, it gives organizations a more consistent way to manage, protect and access data across the enterprise.

Hitachi Missing recently received several industry awards and analyst recognitions for VSP Oneincluding the 2026 Global Tech Award for Data Technology and the 2026 CloudX Award in the Cloud, Object and Data Storage category. The company was also named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radars for Object Storage and Unstructured Data Management, with the latter marking the sixth consecutive year Hitachi Missing has earned the distinction.