Red Hat Summit 2026 and Ask Me Anything (AMA) session

Thank you for connecting with Hitachi Vantara at Red Hat Summit 2026 and learning how VSP One and Red Hat OpenShift help organizations modernize infrastructure, simplify virtualization, and accelerate cloud-native applications with automated, resilient storage! As a follow-up to our conversations at Red Hat Summit, we invite you to join an exclusive Ask Me Anything (AMA) session featuring Alior Bank's CTO, Piotr Krzak, and his IT architecture team.

June 25, 10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CEST

Don't Miss Our Follow-Up AMA Event

This interactive discussion will provide a firsthand look at how Alior Bank successfully adopted Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization with Hitachi storage solutions, completing a large-scale transformation in just nine months.

This is your opportunity to ask questions directly to the team behind the project—from implementation and modernization strategies to VM migration, Storage CSI integration, disaster recovery, and operational best practices.

Ask Me Anything (AMA): Alior Bank's 9-Month Red Hat OpenShift and Virtualization Journey

How do you migrate from a traditional virtualization platform to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization at scale—and do it in just nine months?

Join Alior Bank CTO Piotr Krzak, his lead IT architecture team, and experts from Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat for an interactive Ask Me Anything (AMA) session focused on the real-world challenges, lessons learned, and best practices behind Alior Bank's OpenShift Virtualization journey.

You'll hear firsthand how the team:

Implemented Red Hat OpenShift with minimal downtime
Executed a large-scale migration from a traditional VMware-based environment
Approached modernization and platform transformation
Leveraged storage, automation, and operational best practices to accelerate results

Event Details

Ask Me Anything Webinar: Alior Bank's OpenShift and Virtualization Journey
📅 Thursday, June 25
🕙 10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CEST

Bring Your Questions

This is your opportunity to engage directly with practitioners who have completed the journey. Ask questions about:

OpenShift implementation
Virtualization modernization
VM migration strategies
Storage and CSI integration
Disaster recovery and resiliency
Operational best practices
And more

Register here: Alior Bank’s 9 Month Red Hat OpenShift and Virtualization Journey

Requested content from the AMA session:

Technical Resources

Hitachi Vantara CSI Documentation

All Hitachi Vantara CSI documentation is at docs.hitachivantara.com

Guided Demos

Hitachi Vantara CSI Software

Hitachi Vantara CSI software package is available on Red Hat OperatorHub and GitHub. Here are the locations.

Hitachi Vantara at Red Hat Summit 2026

Booth B133 | Atlanta | May 11 to 14

Join Hitachi Vantara at Red Hat Summit 2026 to see how organizations are scaling AI responsibly, strengthening cyber resilience, modernizing virtualization, and building trusted hybrid cloud platforms with a leading Red Hat storage and virtualization partner.

Stop by booth B133 to discover how VSP One delivers a proven data foundation for Red Hat environments that demand predictable performance, built‑in resilience, and operational simplicity across core, edge, and multi‑cloud.

What You Will See at the Booth

Sustainable & Responsible AI

Scale AI Without the Carbon Footprint.

Learn how Hitachi Vantara enables AI-driven innovation at scale using Red Hat AI. See how we support high-performance, GPU-accelerated AI workloads with consistent deployment patterns across core, edge, and cloud environments. Experience faster time to production, predictable performance, and built-in data reliability that supports responsible AI for mission-critical use cases.

Cyber Resilience

100% Data Availability. Guaranteed. Get Your Resilience Roadmap.

See how Hitachi Vantara delivers resilience for both containers and virtualized workloads on OpenShift. Learn about the general availability launch of the Hitachi CSI DR Operator and how GitOps-driven disaster recovery enables automated failover, testing, and recovery. Explore architectures designed to maintain continuous operations across metro and regional sites and leave with a clear roadmap to strengthen recovery readiness.

Trusted Hybrid Cloud

The Proven Foundation for OpenShift. Bridge the Gap Between Core and Cloud.

Discover why enterprises trust VSP One as the storage foundation for Red Hat across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. See how consistent performance, seamless scalability, and multi-site resilience simplify operations while enabling flexibility across deployment models. Hear customer insights and examine proven architectures that show how organizations run OpenShift with confidence from core to cloud.

Modernized Virtualization

Exit Legacy Hypervisors 10x Faster. Start Your OpenShift Virtualization Journey.

Explore a practical and predictable path to modernizing virtualization with OpenShift. Organizations are transitioning from legacy hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization using storage-assisted migration for faster throughput and reduced risk. Learn how consolidating platforms lowers licensing costs, simplifies operations, and accelerates infrastructure modernization.

Customer Success

Nine Months on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: A Bank’s Production Experience

Hear directly from Alior Bank as they share how they are modernizing their OpenShift platform with VSP One to improve resilience, streamline operations, and confidently run business-critical workloads across a hybrid architecture.