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Data infrastructure
for Africa’s decade of digital acceleration.
From Johannesburg’s financial powerhouse to Nairobi’s mobile money revolution and Lagos’s tech ecosystem, Hitachi Vantara helps African organisations turn data into the engine of a transformation already underway.
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.
Mature financial services and mining in South Africa. Fintech leadership in Kenya. A booming digital economy in Nigeria. Organisations across Africa are leapfrogging legacy models and shaping a continent-wide digital future, 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 infrastructure realities and the scale of opportunity across the continent, with the full weight of Hitachi behind every project.
Meet your Managing Director
Gerald Painter leads our Africa team: specialists across the continent who know your industries, your infrastructure realities and the opportunity that makes Africa one of the world’s most important growth stories.
Gerald Painter
Managing Director, Hitachi Vantara
The people behind your projects
Sales, technical and partner leads across Africa.
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Where can our Africa 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 →
Hitachi Bonsai Journey · November to March
What do a bonsai and IT infrastructure have in common?
Six five-minute episodes, two webinars, a living bonsai on your desk and trees planted in your name when you finish.
✓ A living bonsai kit, delivered to your desk
✓ Six themes, from Deep Roots to Grown to Last Generations
✓ $50 to One Tree Planted for every completed journey
Events
Meet us in person.
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
The power of partnership
Hitachi + Cisco.
20 years of hybrid cloud.
For more than twenty years, Hitachi and Cisco have delivered outcomes together: engineering that holds up long after the demo ends.
Security, scale, performance and reliability combined for today’s enterprise data centre.
Cisco compute and networking meet Hitachi storage in one platform for your most critical data and applications.
Best-in-class storage, servers and networking, consumed as a service and backed by managed services.
Let’s talk
Let’s build what’s next for Africa.
Tell us what you’re solving for. An Africa 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 an Africa specialist
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Talk to someone who knows your market