Hitachi wins Japanese govt cloud contract?
Hitachi has reportedly won a contract to supply services to the Japanese government’s move to deploy cloud computing for its internal departments and agencies. As we reported last year, the Japanese government has announced a major strategy, dubbed the “Kasumigaseki cloud,” to migrate its internal ICT operations to a cloud computing platform.
Subsequently, governments in the UK, and the US, have also announced initiatives for a centralised cloud computing platform for government services. Most recently, the Australian government have also announced a centralised procurement initiative for data centre services.
According to this Reuters report citing Japanese news agency, Nikkei business daily, the electronic giant will start offering a full suite of cloud computing services for ‘local governments’ in Japan starting as early as next month.
The report suggests that Hitachi will provide three levels of service: SaaS for applications, private clouds for large municipalities, and shared clouds for smaller towns and regions. The report also notes that the adoption of cloud services will result in 30% savings verses building out the infrastructure from scratch.
Hitachi expects some 300 customers for the service with an annual revenue of up to 25 billion yen (US$270m) by 2015.
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Category: Applications, Cloud computing, Green ICT
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