HDS Forms Subsidiary for US Federal Government

Hitachi Data
Systems Corporation has
established a new wholly-owned subsidiary focused on serving the IT needs of
the US federal government.

Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corporation, headquartered
in Reston, Virginia, is committed to reducing the complexity and increasing the
efficiency of US government data center initiatives including the Federal Data
Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), cloud services, big data analytics,
and others.

HDS Federal Corporation will leverage the
virtualization and cloud solutions of its parent company to help US government
agencies meet the requirements of the initiatives more quickly and with greater
use of their existing IT infrastructure. In doing so, these agencies will be
able to gain better insight from their data.

Leading the new subsidiary company is
Michael Tanner, a former VP at HDS, who will now be president
and CEO of HDS Federal Corporation.

According to Tanner: "The US
federal government continues to be one of the largest purchasers of IT
hardware, solutions and services. This is a market that HDS has been investing
in for more than 5 years, and now with the launch of HDS Federal Corporation we are even more committed and better equipped to bring the
IT industry’s most reliable, trusted and advanced virtualization solutions to
US government agencies. We recognize the challenges these agencies face as
they look for ways to continue reducing their overall IT spending amid an ever
growing mountain of data. Our storage economics model combined with our
flexible, secure, and scalable cloud platforms are proven to reduce capex and
opex, while driving increased efficiencies throughout the data center."

Established in 2011, the FDCCI is a US
federal government mandate to increase consolidation of US government data
centers.

It lists specific goals and timelines
centered
on several strategic initiatives, including:

• Reduce overall spending on data center hardware, software, and operations.
• Reduce overall IT operations spending for the government through greater
  leverage of shared services.
• Increase the overall IT security posture of the agency.
• Shift IT investments to more efficient computing platforms and technologies,
  including cloud-based solutions as well as insourcing in some cases.
• Promote the use of green IT by reducing the overall energy and real estate
  footprint of government data centers.

Among the key solutions for increasing IT efficiency that HDS Federal
Corporation will bring to US government agencies is Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform (VSP), the enterprise platform for virtualized environments.
The platform’s storage virtualization capabilities help
customers reclaim storage capacity and better utilize their existing assets to
meet their current and future data requirements. The ability of Hitachi VSP to
virtualize heterogeneous storage systems enables customers to increase
utilization rates without having to buy a lot of new capacity or rip and
replace their legacy storage. Further data center efficiency and performance
gains are achieved with Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (HDT) and Hitachi Dynamic
Provisioning (HDP), coupled with the expertise of HDS Federal Corporation in
storage economics.

HDS Federal Corporation will also help US
government agencies be able to adopt cloud-based IT delivery models in a
secure, scalable, and flexible manner. Since HDS announced its entrance into
the cloud market in October 2009, customers have used HDS cloud-enabling
technologies and features such as multi-tenancy for secure partitioning of
data, virtualization, and data mobility to optimize efficiency and operations.
Customers have also benefited from a modular architecture with potential for
massive scaling. Whether it’s private or hybrid cloud environments, HDS Federal
Corporation can help US government agencies reap the benefits of cloud without
sacrificing any of the control, protection or security they require.