GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment has proposed to establish a facility near the Energy Department‘s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky to produce natural uranium that will be used as fuel for civil nuclear reactors. DOE said Thursday it agreed to sell depleted uranium to GLE over a 40-year period and the company will enrich the metal at the future Paducah Laser […] More

Hitachi America has selected ViaWest to be the exclusive colocation provider for the Hitachi Data Systems information technology infrastructure under a five-year, $6.6 million contract. ViaWest said Monday it will house the HDS IT infrastructure at a 3,600-square-foot area at the ViaWest Compark Data Center in Denver, Colorado. The 140,000-square-foot colocation and hosting center is equipped with 24/7 on-site expert […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. and Hitachi Data Systems have agreed to expand their strategic partnership in an effort to help enterprises adopt cloud-based digital platforms designed to accelerate business processes. CSC and HDS will jointly provide clients with the CSC BizCloud tool equipped with the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform, SAP‘s Hana in-memory data management platform and storage-as-a-service offerings, CSC said […] More

Horizon Nuclear Power has chosen a joint venture of Bechtel, Japan Gas Corporation and Hitachi subsidiary Hitachi Nuclear Energy Europe to build a two-reactor nuclear power plant in the U.K. Bechtel said Friday the Menter Newydd JV will perform initial front-end engineering and construction planning for the Wylfa Newydd plant in Wales before construction starts in 2020. Wylfa Newydd will work to supply low-carbon nuclear energy to as many as five million […] More

Japan-based industrial conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has established a business unit to help drive the company’s Internet of Things research-and-development and go-to-market  strategic efforts. Hitachi Insight Group, led by Keiji Kojima, will offer IoT-based technologies and services meant to help government and enterprise customers achieve smart city, energy, healthcare and industrial goals through actionable insights, Hitachi said May 10. […] More

NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration have partnered to carry out a mission that saw engineers at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center sent aviation data from the ground to an airplane over a wireless communication system for aircraft. Engineers used an Aircraft Access to System Wide Information Management prototype to convey the aviation information to an FAA […] More

Hitachi Data Systems U.S. federal subsidiary has hired Linda Jensen and Jason Hardy as federal director of service and support and cloud technologist, respectively, as part of an effort to bolster service support across the federal government. Jensen, formerly customer experience and support department lead at EMC‘s federal worldwide service, will oversee the company’s initiative to […] More

Hitachi Data Systems has introduced a new hyper scale-out platform combined with Pentaho enterprise platform in an effort to help customers meet big data requirements. The HSP 400 series incorporates compute, storage and virtualization technologies designed to support big data integration, embedded business analytics and data management tasks, Hitachi said Wednesday. Sean Moser, senior vice […] More

Hitachi‘s consulting arm and SAP have agreed to host SAP for Industrial Machinery & Components software platforms through Hitachi’s private cloud on a subscription basis. Hitachi Consulting Enterprise Cloud will work to help industrial manufacturers quickly access SAP platforms on the cloud without the need to pay for upfront licensing costs linked to on-premises software implementation, Hitachi said Monday. “Organizations […] More

Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled new offerings that work to generate actionable insights that support predictive work in law enforcement and similar fields as part of its data visualization product portfolio for social innovation. The company said Monday Hitachi Visualization Suite 4.5, which features Hitachi Visualization Predictive Crime Analytics, and Hitachi Video Management Platform 2.0 are available now to the […] More

Vion will offer Hitachi Data Systems‘ visualization products for data analytics to customers in the public sector, law enforcement and emergency management markets as both companies seek to grow their 35-year partnership. The companies plan to expand their combined services into social innovation and big data analytics in addition to joint storage offerings for U.S. federal government and public […] More

Mike Tanner serves as president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. — the U.S. government market subsidiary of HDS — and has led the organization since its launch on April 1, 2013. He originally joined HDS in 2007 as a district sales manager and also spent seven years at Hewlett-Packard, where he helped lead sales of […] More