Enabling scalable AI infrastructure to advance India’s global digital ambitions

DARSSHAN SOMAIYA
HEAD - STRATEGIC PARTNERS & ALLIANCES, INDIA AND SAARC, HITACHI VANTARA

“At Hitachi Vantara, we are deeply committed to building the infrastructure that enterprises need to scale AI at speed and with confidence. Our focus is on delivering integrated platforms that combine high-performance storage, accelerated compute, and unified data services so organisations can power generative AI, analytics, and mission-critical applications reliably and efficiently. Our Hitachi iQ portfolio, including the modular M Series, enables scalable AI-ready infrastructure that addresses evolving business requirements and future demands. These solutions are designed to simplify and accelerate enterprise AI adoption while ensuring data governance and compliance within existing data centre environments. Our engagement with partners and customers in India reflects our belief that modern, reliable data foundations are essential to unlocking measurable value from AI and supporting hyperscale-ready capacity as demand continues to grow.

India is rapidly emerging as a strategic hub in the global AI and digital infrastructure ecosystem. With increasing demand for low-latency services, local data residency, and hybrid cloud capabilities, the country is well positioned to support both domestic and international workloads. AI-capable data centres are becoming critical infrastructure, enabling secure, resilient, and sovereign digital services across industries. Over the next decade, India’s role will extend beyond capacity expansion to deeper participation across the AI value chain, including modernising data infrastructure, enabling industry-specific AI use cases, and strengthening ecosystem partnerships across technology providers, hyperscalers, and system integrators. By building scalable and energy-efficient environments, India can anchor regional AI growth while accelerating digital transformation across sectors, aligning with our vision of helping enterprises convert growing data complexity into measurable business value.

Strategic partnerships are foundational to building a robust, AI-ready data centre ecosystem. At Hitachi Vantara, we collaborate with technology leaders such as Supermicro and NVIDIA to integrate advanced compute, storage, and AI-oriented architectures that enhance performance, scalability, and efficiency. These alliances enable customers to adopt unified platforms that bring compute and data closer together, reducing operational complexity and accelerating innovation. Collaboration with cloud providers, system integrators, hyperscalers, and local implementation partners will remain essential to bridge capability gaps and tailor solutions to industry and regional requirements. Through these multi-layered partnerships, we are supporting India’s continued emergence as a globally competitive AI and data centre hub.”