Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd, has announced broad global partner support for the company’s new Hitachi Unified Storage family. The ecosystem includes support from strategic technology partners and the Hitachi TrueNorth Partner community, and complements Hitachi Data Systems solutions and services organisations to help customers successfully and efficiently manage their critical business applications and meet their growth requirements. The new Hitachi Unified Storage, with a single management framework, redefines unified storage by storing multiple data types with more flexibility and balanced scalability than any other midrange solution, and without compromising performance, scalability or cost efficiency.
Several strategic partners, including technology partners Brocade, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft Corp. and VMware, and Hitachi TrueNorth Partners including ASG, Datalink, HighVail Systems, Intel Corporation, Lumenate and ViON, have provided their perspectives on the new Hitachi Unified Storage.
“We are proud of the widespread praise that Hitachi Unified Storage has received from our partner community,” said Mike Walkey, senior vice president, Global Partners and Alliances, Hitachi Data Systems. “It’s clear that the role of unified storage in the data center is expanding, fueled by its ability to address key customer pain points on multiple fronts. However, until today unified products available to our partners have come with trade-offs. With Hitachi Unified Storage, our alliance partners have a solution that maximises the full value their technologies can provide, while our TrueNorth Partners can offer their customers a no-compromises approach to unified storage.”