Johnson nets a Hitachi Transformation Award

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced that NASA’s Johnson Space Center would be honored with a Hitachi Transformation Award in Enterprise Transformation for revolutionizing how huge quantities of images and video—sent down to Earth from the International Space Station—are captured and stored.

The Transformation Awards recognize leading organizations that are transforming in new and innovative ways with the support of Hitachi solutions. Winners were honored during an awards ceremony at Hitachi Vantara’s second annual user conference, NEXT 2018, in San Diego.

Winners were selected based on the substantial business outcomes they have achieved through accelerating business transformation, improving user experience, innovating with data and using the internet of things.

Johnson generates significant data sets, including the imagery downlinked from the space station. Looking to evolve to a cloud-based storage architecture, Johnson partnered with Hitachi Vantara to design and implement a uniquely complex digital repository for mission imagery. The hybrid system provides a long-life repository that enables instant access from authorized users around the world—a good fit for station program and its many international partners.