HDS to Showcase Integration with VMware Technologies at VMworld 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — August 21, 2012 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a new embedded OEM agreement with VMware to further scale customers’ IT infrastructures and accelerate their cloud deployments. The expanded partnership will allow Hitachi Data Systems to bundle VMware software and sell individual software licenses to provide organizations with complete converged infrastructure solutions, service and support that will help them effectively and easily build and manage their physical and virtual data center initiatives. HDS will spotlight its virtualization and cloud technologies in VMware environments, as well as demonstrations and breakout sessions, at VMworld® 2012, August 26 – 30, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
“Customers are looking for a fully virtualized IT infrastructure that helps them achieve scale and agility while lowering costs,” said Jim Beckman, vice president, Global Alliances, Hitachi Data Systems. “This agreement is significant in that it allows Hitachi Data Systems to manage support of both the HDS and VMware components and provide customers with the reliability and expertise they’ve come to know from both HDS and VMware. This integrated foundation for growing customers’ VMware environments gives them unparalleled levels of flexibility and scalability and helps them realize their data center or cloud investments.”
“VMware and Hitachi Data Systems share a vision to help customers deliver adaptive, high performing and reliable IT services,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “The combination of reliable, high-performance server and storage technologies from HDS, coupled with VMware’s extensive virtualization and cloud infrastructure will provide customers with a solution to further reduce IT costs and protect their existing investments.”
The enhanced OEM agreement includes resale of VMware cloud infrastructure technologies such as VMware vSphere®, VMware vCloud®, VMware vCenter™ Server and VMware View™ to support virtual desktop infrastructure deployments, as well as site replication manager and VMware vShield™. The agreement strengthens the long-standing HDS and VMware partnership.
Since 2002, Hitachi Data Systems and VMware have delivered innovative, end-to-end virtualization for storage consolidation, backup and archiving, business continuity and storage management. As an elite-level partner in the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program, and a VMware Ready program partner, HDS bridges the gap between server and storage infrastructures in customers' data centers and help customers optimize the operational efficiency and resiliency of their IT environments to achieve significant cost savings.
HDS Optimized Solutions for Virtualized Environments at VMworld 2012
Attendees of VMworld 2012 can experience the full technical capabilities and customer benefits of integration between HDS and VMware technologies. As a gold sponsor, HDS will demonstrate the power of its technologies for VMware environments through presentations, in-booth demonstrations and videos in booth #709. Speaking sessions include:
Session: Solutions theater presentation
Presenter: Shawn McDonald, manager, Global Alliances, Virtualization and Infrastructure Cloud
Date /Time: Monday, August 27, 3:30–4:00 p.m.
Session: “Enabling the Virtual Data Center”
Presenter: Art Cruz, director, Solutions and Cloud Engineering, and Shawn McDonald, manager, Global Alliances, Virtualization and Infrastructure Cloud
Date /Time: Wednesday, August 29, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
In-booth demonstrations, videos and presentations will highlight how customers can integrate their storage management with VMware, implement a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, create a metro storage cluster architecture for VMware vSphere 5, monitor performance and changes across the entire virtual infrastructure and implement a data protection strategy.
Demonstrations include:
Web Resources
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility. With more than 5,800 employees worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems does business in more than 100 countries and regions. Hitachi Data Systems products, services and solutions are trusted by the world’s leading enterprises, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than 80 percent of the Fortune Global 100. Hitachi Data Systems believes that data drives our world – and information is the new currency. To learn more, visit: http://www.hds.com/asean/.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 320,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2011 (ended March 31, 2012) consolidated revenues totaled 9,665 billion yen ($117.8 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems, power systems, industrial, transportation and urban development systems, as well as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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