{"id":200180,"date":"2017-09-21T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=200180"},"modified":"2017-09-21T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T10:19:43","slug":"hitachi-targets-iot-and-cloud-with-vantara-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/200180\/hitachi-targets-iot-and-cloud-with-vantara-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitachi targets IoT and cloud with Vantara launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hitachi has launched Hitachi Vantara, a new business entity 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s capability in both operational technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT).<\/p>\n<p>Hitachi has played in the OT space for industries such as finance, government, manufacturing, power\/energy and transportation for over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Hitachi said Vantara will bring new data-driven solutions and services to market. &#8221; Data has become a businesses\u2019 greatest asset\u2014if they can extract actionable insights from it. Data holds the key to new revenue streams, better customer experiences, improved market insights and lower costs of doing business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hitachi Vantara will also continue to provide infrastructure and analytics technologies that enterprises rely on for their mission-critical data in their data centres, in the cloud and at the edge of new innovations. &#8220;The new company is targeting the emerging IoT market opportunity, in which there is no clear winner yet,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The new company will also continue to develop data management and analytics technologies including Hitachi\u2019s data infrastructure, storage and compute solutions, and Pentaho software.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will also be driving the development of strategic software and services solutions, including Hitachi Smart Data Centre software and services, Lumada, Hitachi\u2019s IoT platform, now available as a standalone, commercial software offering, and Hitachi co-creation services,&#8221; Hitachi said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/198988\/oracles-push-into-cloud-gathers-momentum-on-sales-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oracle\u2019s push into cloud gathers momentum on sales growth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitachi has launched Hitachi Vantara, a new business entity 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1312],"class_list":["post-200180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-hitachi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200212,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200180\/revisions\/200212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}