Every category where a model named Hitachi Vantara for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Enterprise storage systems	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	36 of 167	15%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Hitachi Vantara yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Hitachi Vantara across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	1	3
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“### 4. Hitachi Vantara (DCIG Top 5 rated) - Best for: Comprehensive hybrid portfolio and enterprise-grade reliability” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Their midrange hybrid cloud storage solutions are designed to store data on-premises, in the cloud, or both” Mistral Small · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Hitachi Vantara is famous for its 100% data availability guarantee.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Enterprise storage · comparative prompt · alternative

“Dominates in the Financial Services and Healthcare sectors.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“fell from leader status due to gaps in features like ransomware protection or multicloud integration” Grok 4.1 Fast · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“Legacy/Hybrid Arrays (IBM, HPE Nimble/DH, Hitachi Vantara) ... Slower Modernization” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hitachi Vantara, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hitachi Vantara was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NetApp AFF18 of 221Not among the top eight

Pure Storage FlashArray17 of 223Not among the top eight

HPE16 of 220Not among the top eight

IBM15 of 220Not among the top eight

Dell Technologies13 of 221Not among the top eight

Huawei OceanStor7 of 220Not among the top eight

Infinidat InfiniBox6 of 221Not among the top eight

Dell EMC5 of 220Not among the top eight

Nutanix4 of 220Not among the top eight

Everpure3 of 223Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Hitachi Vantara. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 21 of the 22 answers that named Hitachi Vantara and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techtarget.com14

dell.com9

enterprisestorageforum.com9

storagenewsletter.com9

netapp.com8

storagereview.com7

hpe.com6

purestorage.com6

scribd.com6

everpuredata.com5

Seventy-nine of the seventy-nine domain citations in answers naming Hitachi Vantara came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/feature/The-best-enterprise-data-storage-products-of-20248

techtarget.com/searchstorage/feature/The-best-enterprise-data-storage-products-of-20247

enterprisestorageforum.com/software/san-storage-arrays6

scribd.com/presentation/894423945/CL-Block-Storage-20240530-16

storagereview.com/best/storage-arrays6

dell.com/en-us/shop/scc/sc/storage-products5

speclens.ai/solutions/storage-procurement5

storagenewsletter.com/2024/02/05/gigaom-radar-for-primary-storage-for-large-enterprises-25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

hitachivantara.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Hitachi Vantara takes 0% of first choices and Dell PowerStore takes 16%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “enterprise storage array”

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not in the top ten

Position for “enterprise storage systems”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 3,600 a month (“hitachi vantara”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 173 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 48,657 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,399 · 116 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 9,540
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

90 ads · 64 text, 25 image, 1 video · 40 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2024, as Hitachi Vantara LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 57 in the year, 33 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 36 of 167 in enterprise storage

Segment leader

16%

Dell PowerStore

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 22 answers
Its own site cited: in 21 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on hitachivantara.com

8,793

subdomains included

Content

3,008

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,963

Product · Integration

149 · 37

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	1,127	undated		Object storage, Infra monitoring
Webinar or virtual event	829	0	2020-11-01	Object storage, Data catalogs
Podcast or video	354	0	2020-03-01	Object storage, PAM
Case study	291	0	2022-03-01
News or press	251	undated
Report or ebook	71	undated		Object storage
Glossary or explainer	67	0	2023-04-01	Data virtualization, Object storage
Comparison	10	0	2026-07-01	Object storage
Conference or event	6	0	2026-05-01
Template or tool	2	undated

Most recent

2026-07-01Vmware vsphere vs suse kvm for sap hana hitachi comparison
2026-05-01What were bringing to red hat summit 2026 and why conference or event
2026-01-01Qlc vs tlc flash for sap hana when to choose capac comparison
2026-01-01Gad performance comparison 64g fibre channel vs 25 comparison
2026-01-01Hur performance comparison 64g fibre channel vs 25 comparison
2025-05-19RedHatSummit2025 conference or event

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Every page hitachivantara.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name object storage (36); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Hitachi Vantara

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Hitachi Vantara; a claim can dispute any of them.

Hitachi Vantara (HUS VM) 1Hitachi Vantara (Virtual Storage Platform) 1

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The company

Hitachi Vantara is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Green IT for Data Infrastructure and Hybrid Cloud Solutions
hitachivantara.com
For: organizations
hitachivantara.com
Certifications: Common Criteria CertificationISO 27001 CertificateISO 22301 CertificateISO/IEC 20000-1 CertificateTISAX AssessmentISO 9001 Certificate: Product DevelopmentISO 9001 Certificate: Global DeliveryISO 9001 Certificate: Japan
Customers named: T-SystemsGuizhou Radio & TV UniversityCBTSIsle of Wight NHS TrustRWTH Aachen University1LINKMinistry of the Economy and Finance of the Republic of PanamaSt. Galler Stadtwerke
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Hitachi Vantara's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: hitachivantara.com, hitachivantara.com/en-us/security, hitachivantara.com/en-us/solutions/industry, hitachivantara.com/en-us/company/customer-stories, hitachivantara.com/en-us/megamenu-root/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Hitachi Vantara's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Hitachi Vantara, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Hitachi Vantara by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Hitachi Vantara is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Hitachi Vantara, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.