Hitachi Data Systems and ViON Extend Successful 35-Year Partnership to Deliver Social Innovation and Big Data Analytics Solutions

SANTA CLARA, CA and HERNDON, VA--(Marketwired - Jul 9, 2015) - Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), and ViON Corporation, a market leader in the design, delivery and maintenance of mission-critical IT infrastructure solutions, today outlined the next phase of its successful 35-year, $1 billion partnership. Together, the companies will expand their combined efforts beyond high-end storage solutions for U.S. federal government and public sector customers to include a focus on Social Innovation and big data analytics across industry sectors. As a first step, ViON is adding the full line of Hitachi Visualization products from Hitachi Data Systems to its big data solutions portfolio.

Now more than ever, law enforcement, emergency management, and public sector personnel require an end-to-end solution that can capture, manage and enable real-time analysis of information from many disparate systems, assets and sensors. Fitting well into the ViON portfolio, Hitachi Visualization integrates data from video cameras, sensors, emergency dispatch and social media to provide situational awareness via a unified, fully integrated platform. The solution helps customers to push select data streams to operator workstations and make valuable data accessible to personnel in the field, while ensuring real-time visibility and enhanced situational awareness during high-priority events.

"Over the last 35 years, the ViON partnership has been an instrumental part of our success, particularly in the federal government and public sector markets. Now, as the industry transforms, and new trends and requirements emerge, we must transform and expand our partnership to address new avenues and new customer demands like Social Innovation and big data analytics," said Mike Walkey, senior vice president, Global Partner Organization at Hitachi Data Systems.

"ViON is proud to extend our long-standing Hitachi Data Systems partnership and to collaborate on such a powerful solution," said Tom Frana, CEO and president at ViON Corporation. "By working together, ViON and HDS are once again engineering and delivering technological capabilities that go beyond the mainstream to offer advanced insight and value to our customers, particularly in the public sector."