Modernize the Federal Data Center for Mission-Critical Performance
Federal agencies face increasing mission demands, aging infrastructure, and rising operational risk. Hitachi helps modernize data centers with a unified, resilient, and future-ready platform designed for today’s hybrid, AI-driven, and security-conscious federal environments.
When Federal Data Centers Can’t Keep Up with the Mission
Federal data centers are under unprecedented pressure. Agencies must support expanding digital missions, accelerating data growth, AI and analytics initiatives, and zero-trust security mandates, often on infrastructure nearing end of life or misaligned with long-term vendor roadmaps. Fragmented platforms, rising operational complexity, and increasing power and cooling demands are driving higher costs, greater risk, and slower mission response.
For agencies running both open systems and mainframe workloads, the challenge is even greater. Uncertainty around storage vendor investment, future connectivity, and certified mainframe support creates real modernization risk. Federal organizations need a trusted, mission-grade platform that can modernize open systems and mainframe environments together, reducing silos, improving efficiency, and delivering long-term roadmap certainty without disrupting critical operations.
Our Approach
Hitachi’s Differentiated Data Center Modernization Strategy
Hitachi takes a fundamentally different approach to data center modernization, one designed specifically for the scale, security, and longevity required by federal missions.
Instead of stitching together multiple products or forcing tradeoffs between platforms, Hitachi delivers a true unified architecture that modernizes block, file, object, and mainframe storage within a single, enterprise-class ecosystem. This approach simplifies operations, improves resilience, and lowers total cost of ownership across the federal data center.
Why Hitachi for Data Center Modernization
True Unified Platform
Block, file, and object services operate on one architecture, not bolted-on systems, reducing tool sprawl and operational complexity.
Mission-Grade Reliability
Industry-leading availability and extremely low failure rates ensure uninterrupted operations for the most critical federal workloads.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
High storage density, advanced data reduction, and superior power and cooling efficiency support federal sustainability and cost-containment mandates.
AI-Driven Operations (AIOps)
VSP 360 goes beyond monitoring, using closed-loop intelligence to predict, prevent, and automatically resolve infrastructure issues.
Mainframe + Open Systems on One Platform
Hitachi uniquely supports modern mainframe and open systems storage together, eliminating silos while preserving certified connectivity, replication, and long-term roadmap confidence.
Built for What’s Next
VSP One Block High End is designed to consolidate mission-critical workloads, including mainframe, open systems, and emerging AI use cases, on a single, cloud-enabled platform.
Data Center Modernization Solutions
Explore the modular solutions that make up Hitachi’s Data Center Modernization portfolio:
Unified Storage Solutions
Modern block, file, and object storage delivered on a single, enterprise-class platform to simplify operations and scale with mission demand.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Consumption-based infrastructure that brings cloud-like agility and financial flexibility to federal data centers.
Converged Infrastructure
Pre-integrated compute, storage, and networking stacks that accelerate deployment and reduce integration risk.
AIOps Enablement
AI-driven observability, automation, and predictive analytics that reduce downtime and operational overhead.
Edge Computing
Enable secure file services, analytics, and data management at the edge so federal teams can operate effectively anywhere, even in disconnected and bandwidth-constrained environments.
IoT & Sensors
Turn massive volumes of sensor, video, and telemetry data into trusted, actionable intelligence securely, in real time, and across the federal enterprise.
Sustainable Data Center Power Grids
Energy-efficient, resilient power solutions that support modernization while meeting federal sustainability mandates.
Mainframe Storage
IBM-certified, mission-grade storage that supports both z-Systems and open systems on a single platform—delivering unmatched reliability, secure connectivity, and long-term roadmap certainty.
Product Mapping
Hitachi Federal’s Data Center Modernization solutions are powered by a tightly integrated product portfolio:
Defense & National Security – Enterprise Storage Modernization
A U.S. defense organization responsible for operating and defending critical cyber terrain modernized its enterprise storage services with Hitachi Federal.
The Challenge
Support mission-critical open systems and mainframe workloads across multiple sites and security enclaves—without disruption or data risk.
The Solution
A unified Hitachi storage architecture delivering block, file, and object services with synchronous and asynchronous replication across four sites and four security enclaves.
Outcomes
-Non-disruptive migration to modern storage infrastructure
-Improved performance using all-flash NVMe
-Increased resiliency for mission-critical workloads
-75% reduction in future storage refresh timelines
-Elimination of stranded capacity
-25% reduction in overall data center footprint
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