JVC Kenwood Signs Outsourcing Contract with IBM

IBM announced that JVC Kenwood Holdings, Inc., a joint holding company of Victor Company of Japan, Limited, and Kenwood, has signed a 2.6 billion yen, six-year strategic outsourcing contract with IBM Japan for the management of its information technology systems and shared hosting services.

JVC Kenwood Holdings noted it will leverage cloud computing to create an infrastructure that acts more like the Internet to allow access to vast pools of technology resources during periods of high volume.

The new system will IBM's Shared Hosting Services for IBM System z mainframes (zSHS) and will be hosted out of IBM's data center in Makuhari, Chiba, Japan. The zSHS model will provide IT assets and resources according to system demands and needs. IBM noted it will also centralize IT resources by relocating JVC Kenwood Holdings' existing data centers in Saitama and Tokyo to IBM's Makuhari Data Center, which has a seismic- isolated structure and fully redundant electrical system for increased resiliency and security.

The companies said the contract was signed in April 2009.

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