Las Vega, Sept. 20, 2017: Hitachi, Ltd. today launched a business entity called Hitachi Vantara, to “leverage the broad portfolio of innovation, development and experience from across Hitachi Group companies to deliver data-driven solutions for commercial and industrial enterprises.” A company official said the formation of the new entity underscores Hitachi’s commitment to collaborative creation with customers and partners, and being a true innovation partner for the era of the Internet of Things (IoT).
This new company will unify the operations of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group, and Pentaho into a single integrated business as Hitachi Vantara to capitalise on Hitachi’s social innovation capability in both operational technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT), said a company release.
“Hitachi Vantara marks a monumental change for Hitachi as we continue to advance our unified corporate vision of Social Innovation,” said Hitachi, Ltd. President and Chief Executive Officer Toshiaki Higashihara.
Hitachi Vantara, said the release, was “uniquely able to help customers extract all the value their data has to offer.” By bringing new data-driven solutions and services to market, Hitachi Vantara will help its customers achieve tangible outcomes that positively drive business and society forward.
Hitachi said Hitachi Vantara would continue to provide superior infrastructure and analytics technologies that enterprises rely on for their mission-critical data in their data centers, in the cloud and at the edge of new innovations. The new company will targeting the emerging IoT market opportunity, in which there is no clear winner yet.
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