Alior Bank Targets 60% Reduction in Virtualization Costs and Streamlined Operations with Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat OpenShift

Consolidated environment powered by Hitachi Vantara infrastructure and Red Hat OpenShift helps improve efficiency and resilience while supporting the migration of hundreds of virtual machines

WARSAW, Poland and SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that Alior Bank, one of Poland’s leading banks, is modernizing its virtualization environment with Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat to reduce costs, simplify operations and support future growth. By migrating hundreds of virtual machines supporting critical banking workloads from legacy virtualization platforms to Red Hat OpenShift on Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One), the bank expects to lower virtualization costs by 60% while improving operational efficiency and resilience through a consolidated technology platform and a multi-site active-active architecture designed for near-zero downtime to support continuous operations.

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