Mirantis Expands into Japanese Market
Feb 3, 2015
By Sarah Bennett
Opens Subsidiary, Partners with ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation to Deliver Innovative OpenStack Solutions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – February 3, 2015 – Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack company, today announced a new subsidiary, Mirantis Japan GK, with the opening of its Japanese headquarters in Tokyo and a partnership with ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation.
Mirantis’ expansion into Japan follows rapid international growth in 2014, including new offices in China, France, and Netherlands. Japan is the leading innovator in cloud computing, topping the Asia Cloud Computing Association’s Cloud Readiness Index 2014 three years in a row. Mirantis’ Tokyo office will deliver local sales, marketing, and customer support, and serve as a nexus of local channel and technology partners.
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation is the first Strategic Partner in Japan to align with Mirantis, delivering Mirantis OpenStack to companies eager for an antidote to the lock-in of traditional IT. The company offers complex end-to-end IT solutions and services to enterprises across telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, financial services, retail, distribution, utilities, and the public sector segments.
“OpenStack is a natural extension of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation’s portfolio of compute, storage and networking partners. IT companies and service providers have shown tremendous interest in how OpenStack unlocks SDN, NFV, SDS and big data, and delivers dramatic cost savings, extensibility, and control,” said Masaaki Matsuzawa, Director & Senior Vice President, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation. “We chose to work with Mirantis because they are the dominant player in OpenStack with the most hardened distribution and the deepest technical expertise.”
Open source and cloud infrastructure veteran, Ataru Shimodaira, will lead operations in Mirantis’ Japan office as its regional director. Shimodaira brings more than 15 years of sales experience, and joins Mirantis from Limelight Networks. Prior to Limelight, Shimodaira was the director of enterprise sales for Red Hat Japan, where he closely managed the company’s direct sales presence in Japan.
“Shimodaira’s extensive experience representing international companies in Japan will enable us to build a network of partners, and to bring Mirantis’ software, services and training to the Japanese market,” said Dr. Amitabh Shah, VP, Global Business Development at Mirantis. “We are thrilled to begin that journey with ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation. They have some of the best expertise in delivering and managing complex large cloud infrastructures, and they intimately know the heartbeat of the Japanese IT market.”
Mirantis new Japan office is located in the Marounochi district of Tokyo. Contact the office at info.jp@mirantis.com.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self determination by giving them complete control over their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Mirantis lets platform teams deliver a public cloud experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive cloud experience for complete application and operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management, all based on open source using open standard APIs.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
