Shinichi Ata JAPAN
An aggressive approach to deploying new technologies yields impressive results.
Great I T performance can make people happy,” says Shinichi Ata, execu- tive vice president, director, and
chief information security officer of Japan’s
SoftBank Mobile Corporation. Ata ought to
know: performance is especially important
for an organization such as SoftBank, which
handles more than 1 billion call records and
4 billion data records each day. And, through
the use of Oracle technologies, Ata has
found a way to meet the company’s goal of
IT-inspired happiness.
Over the years, Ata, winner of the Oracle
Excellence Award for CIO of the Year, Japan,
has been aggressive in deploying new tech-
nologies at SoftBank, including managing
the company’s replacement of its Teradata
data warehouse with an Oracle Exadata
system. He’s also been instrumental in the
deployment of an Oracle Exadata–based
private cloud solution for SoftBank and in
the development of future public cloud ser-
vices in Japan, based on Oracle Exadata and
Oracle Exalogic.
PE TER S TEMBER
WINNER SPECS
Name: Shinichi Ata
Job title: Executive vice president, director,
and chief information security officer
Company: SoftBank Mobile Corporation
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Award: Oracle Excellence Award for CIO of
the Year, Japan, 2011
