Tony Whigham, formerly director of the federal business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary, has joined Hitachi Data Systems as director of government sales in Australia and New Zealand. He will work to develop strategies for HDS’ federal and state government portfolio and  explore new areas of collaboration with the company’s social innovation solutions unit, Hitachi said Thursday. The […] More

Hitachi Data Systems and Above Security have forged an alliance to offer information security consulting services in North America which will follow a unified governance, risk and framework. Above Security said Tuesday the partnership will look to address security issues through collaborative partnerships with customers as opposed to the use of quick-fix technologies that might confuse corporate information […] 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

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 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

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

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has introduced new services in the healthcare, information technology and data analytics areas in an effort to help those industries address IT challenges. The company added the live insight for IT operations, clinical repository for connected health and live insight center of excellence to its social innovation portfolio, Hitachi said Tuesday. Kevin Eggleston, […] More

Michael Tanner serves as president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. and has managed the organization’s operations and growth since its official launch as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Data Systems in April 2013. Tanner, a more than 30-year business management veteran, joined HDS in 2007 and held the roles of a […] More

Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Data Systems, has entered into a distribution partnership with Avnet Government Solutions, a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary of Avnet Technology Solutions.  Throught the partnership, Avnet will provide services to HDS’ partners that include capture assistance, compliance, process management and deployment of converged infrastructure, according to […] More

Over the last three decades, Gary Hix has watched government contracting evolve dramatically, while still retaining its core principles. He’s no passive observer though: he’s played an active role at companies like Sallie Mae, Novus Consulting Group and IBM. He's currently chief technology officer at the federal arm of Hitachi Vantara.

ExecutiveBiz had the chance to talk to Hix and get his perspective on the current state of federal cloud migration, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and more.

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