Hitachi Announces New OEM Agreement with Microsoft to Deliver an Open, Unified Compute Platform and Solutions for On-Premise and Cloud Deployments
Hong Kong — May 12, 2010 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced a more efficient way for organizations to deploy and manage applications in virtual environments. As part of a continued commitment to deliver reliable, robust data center solutions, Hitachi Data Systems announced the Hitachi unified compute platform, the industry’s first open and unified compute platform for enterprise data centers,including private and public cloud deployments. Delivering an intelligent orchestration layer for automated dynamic management of servers, storage,network and applications as a collective unit, the Hitachi unified compute platform will offer large scale compute environments the advantages of IT agility aligned to business goals, the reduction of cost and risk, and the use of Hitachi and Microsoft industry-leading technologies. Hitachi Data Systems also announced a worldwide original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement to distribute Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft System Center suite and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 products.
Together with Microsoft, we are uniquely addressing customer challenges by looking at the data center from the business process perspective and driving innovation down to and across all components,” said Andrew Sampson, General Manager for Hong Kong and Macau, Hitachi Data Systems. “The Hitachi unified compute platform will give customers an automated, virtualized, cloud-ready and sustainable data center infrastructure and provide the unique advantage of a flexible foundation for long-term growth and sustainability.”
“Microsoft is committed to delivering comprehensive, efficient and automated IT solutions with partners like Hitachi Data Systems that help customers be more agile and reduce IT costs,” said Ken Wong, Server Business Group Lead, Microsoft Hong Kong Limited. “The new Hitachi computing platform integrates with Microsoft System Center to enable organizations to have highly virtualized, automated and optimized environments, with a software infrastructure that’s designed to meet customers’ mission-critical computing needs.”
The Hitachi solution combines Hitachi Data Systems software, storage and server products, and Microsoft infrastructure software, Hyper-V virtualization technology, and SQL Server data base as well as networking products to provide a unified compute platform for enterprise organizations with highly virtualized environments. Companies that will benefit are those with massive scalability requirements, or looking to transition to a private cloud within their data centers.
Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft have a long-standing relationship that has delivered mission-critical solutions to customers around the world. Current solutions include Hitachi Storage Cluster for Hyper-V, an end-to-end server-to-storage virtualization solution that provides high availability and site recovery for virtualized environments.
In Hong Kong, Hitachi Data Systems will start offering Cloud services for customers. It will be a utility-based offering, based on a simple monthly subscription fee. The abovementioned Hitachi unified compute platform will form the technology foundation for this offering. It aims at increasing return-on-assets, improve return-on-investments and better business-IT alignment, so customers worry less about computing needs and focus more on their business success.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform: Simpler Deployment and Management
The Hitachi unified compute platform will help customers centrally manage and coordinate the end-to-end processes for collective data center resources as a single unit, aligned with business processes. Its orchestrated provisioning and efficient process execution along with deep SAN integration will deliver extreme scalability and reliability for robust disaster recovery and high availability systems. This intelligent management, tightly integrated with reliable hardware, will enable unprecedented “worry free scaling” of large numbers of virtual machines. The initial set of integrated components will include:
With automated, comprehensive and simplified management, the Hitachi unified compute platform will reduce time to market and operational costs. It will also improve agility and predictability, enabling truly dynamic and cost-effective data centers that can quickly respond to business needs. The Hitachi unified compute platform will provide superior flexibility and investment protection with a more open and extensible framework that supports multiple hypervisors and servers. Businesses can easily integrate this platform into their real world environments and automate at their own pace.
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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 4,100 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: www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 400,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009) consolidated revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems,consumer products, materials, logistics and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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