Just two weeks ago, I shared the exciting news that Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting will unite in January to accelerate digital value creation for our customers and partners and unlock new synergies across the greater Hitachi Group. The news has been incredibly well received and we are excited by the positive response the announcement has generated around the world.

Over the past several weeks, the term DataOps has reverberated throughout the walls of Hitachi Vantara offices around the world and soon it will take the spotlight at NEXT 2019, the world’s first smart conference. We’ve defined DataOps and how its changing the game by putting the right data into the hands of teams, when and where they need it most. We’ve also talked about Hitachi Vantara’s DataOps journey, Project Champagne.

Next-Generation Release Provides Integration With Spark for Data and Stream Processing and Kafka for Data Ingestion in Real Time