Case Study: Akquinet AG achieves GDPR-compliant hybrid cloud and stronger customer relationships with Hitachi Vantara

Partnership Approach Boosts Customer Relationships to Deliver Compliant Cloud

Akquinet AG, an IT services provider, needed to help customers leverage cloud storage while addressing data sovereignty and GDPR concerns, plus offer predictable, cost‑effective solutions. To meet that challenge they partnered with Hitachi Vantara and based their offering on Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) to create a locally hosted hybrid cloud.

Hitachi Vantara helped Akquinet AG build FlexAS — a Germany‑hosted hybrid cloud using HCP that supports RESTful/S3 APIs, public‑cloud bursting, and metadata tagging for easy PII search. The solution strengthened customer relationships, boosted competitive advantage and profitability, simplified GDPR compliance by keeping data in Germany, and provided a transparent, volume‑based pricing model for predictable budgeting.

Akquinet AG

Holger Böhn

Data Center Manager