Hitachi Vantara
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Sweden · Finland · Norway

Data infrastructure
as resilient as the North.

From Stockholm’s fintech leaders to Oslo’s energy innovators and Helsinki’s deep tech scene, Hitachi Vantara helps Nordic organisations turn data into a long-term competitive edge.

1910

Hitachi founded. More than a century of engineering trust.

80%+

of the Fortune 100 trust Hitachi Vantara with their data.

100%

data availability guarantee on Virtual Storage Platform One.

4:1

data reduction guarantee: more capacity, less power and space.

Your local team

Global strength.
Local expertise.

Industrial giants and fintech pioneers in Sweden. The energy transition in Norway. Deep tech and telecom innovation in Finland. Organisations across the Nordics are setting the pace for sustainable, digital-first business, and they face data challenges that standard answers don’t solve.

That’s why our team works close to you: close to your industry, your sustainability commitments and the engineering rigour that defines how the Nordics build for the long term, with the full weight of Hitachi behind every project.

Kjell Ahlzen

Meet your General Manager

Kjell Ahlzen leads our team for Sweden, Finland and Norway: specialists who know your industries, your regulators and the long-term thinking behind how Nordic organisations invest.

Kjell Ahlzen

General Manager - SEFINO Region, Hitachi Vantara

The people behind your projects

Leadership and technical experts for Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Kjell Ahlzen

Kjell Ahlzen

General Manager - SEFINO Region

Carsten Braagaard

Carsten Braagaard

Senior Pre-Sales Solution Architect

in LinkedIn →
Jason Beckett

Jason Beckett

Solution Director

in LinkedIn →

Not sure who to ask?

We’ll connect you with the right expert.

Tell us what you’re working on and we’ll match you with a Nordic specialist.

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Quick check

Where can our Nordic team help you?

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What we hear here

Four conversations we have every week.

What we hear

“Our regulator wants proof that we stay up through a severe disruption, not a slide that says we will.”

How we respond

Immutable copies, verified clean recovery and a 100% data availability guarantee. Resilience you can test, document and show to the regulator.

Explore cyber resilience →

Events

Meet us in person.

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Cyber resilience and recovery: the expert interview

Why backup and resilience are not the same thing, how ransomware evolves with AI, and what clean, tested recovery really looks like.

Includes · A real recovery story: under an hour, at scale

Cyber resilience and recovery: the expert interview

On demand

Online · Watch anytime

Hitachi Vantara Forums, executive roundtables and partner days in Stockholm, Helsinki and Oslo. Register your interest and be the first to hear.

More Nordic events coming soon

2027

Sweden · Finland · Norway

Watch on demand

Cyber resilience and recovery.
The expert conversation.

Time to rethink recovery. In this Data Modernization Conversations interview, Jason Beckett and Chris Gee show what separates real cyber resilience from a backup plan, and what it takes to recover cleanly when it counts.

What we cover

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Why backup isn’t resilience

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How ransomware is arming itself with AI

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What a truly clean, tested recovery looks like

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Recovery times matched to what your business can tolerate

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From the field: recovery in under an hour, at scale

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The guarantee behind resilient recovery

Watch the series →

The power of partnership

Hitachi + Cisco.
20 years of hybrid cloud.

Two decades, one track record

For more than twenty years, Hitachi and Cisco have delivered outcomes together: engineering that holds up long after the demo ends.

Hybrid cloud that holds under pressure

Security, scale, performance and reliability combined for today’s enterprise data centre.

Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure

Cisco compute and networking meet Hitachi storage in one platform for your most critical data and applications.

EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud

Best-in-class storage, servers and networking, consumed as a service and backed by managed services.

Explore the partnership →

Let’s talk

Let’s build what’s next for the Nordics.

Tell us what you’re solving for. A Nordic specialist will get back to you, not a call centre.

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Tell us what you’re solving for

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We match you with a Nordic specialist

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Talk to someone who knows your market

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