MERLION to reinforce cooperation with Hitachi Data Systems

6 october 2017

The distributor’s portfolio includes solutions offered by a new business structure Hitachi - Hitachi Vantara aimed at the most challenging tasks for businesses and society.


Hitachi Vantara

In mid-September 2017, Hitachi (MERLION is the official Hitachi distributor in Russia) announced the foundation of Hitachi Vantara, a new commercial company aimed at development of innovative solutions for data processing. Vantara brand is designed to incorporate Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho.

To develop in-house IT solutions, Hitachi Vantara will utilize the expertise offered by all companies incorporated in Hitachi Group, plus the best practices available in high-tech industry. All three companies incorporated in Vantara will operate as the unified integrated business. With developments at the intersection of operating technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT), a new company is expected to develop unique solutions that will be able to dig out precious knowledge for social innovation development out of multiple data, including raw data.

Due to the foundation of Vantara, the partners of MERLION, the leading VAD distributor, will get access to new solutions developed by Hitachi Data Systems, including the first commercial platform Lumada for IoT released by a new business structure of Hitachi.

MERLION will remain the strategic partner of Hitachi Data Systems and continue to develop its supply channel and competencies through the vendor’s business innovations, i.e. data-oriented technologies aimed at the application of smart analytics.

We shall note that over 100 years Hitachi has been holding the leading positions in OT for financial institutions, government agencies, production, energy and transport companies: The corporation is developing technologies, which help improve urban life, operations of industrial production facilities and business in whole.

In 2012, MERLION signed a contract with Hitachi Data Systems and became the official distributor in the territory of Russia. The contact covers all lines of products, including data storage systems, Rack and Blade servers, etc.

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