The three companies have formed a Global Storage Management Agreement, which calls for the coordinated integration and testing of the companies’ storage solutions, in order to architect highly interoperable data availability configurations that ensure increased flexibility for the end user. As part of this Global Storage Management Agreement, Hitachi will offer the latest versions of a wide range of VERITAS Software products and professional services to its customers around the globe. The companies will also unite in joint product integration and certification efforts.
This new alliance further demonstrates Hitachi’s strong commitment to partnering efforts that maintain our dedication to storage and open SAN solutions in a multiplatform environment, said Hiroaki Nakanishi, managing officer and group executive, Information and Telecommunication Systems Group, Hitachi, Ltd. VERITAS Software is the leading company in providing software solutions that work across multiple operating systems and hardware platforms. Together we will lead the charge in developing superior storage innovations for global enterprise customers worldwide.
This is a tremendous partnership opportunity for VERITAS Software, said Gary Bloom, president and chief executive officer, VERITAS Software. Hitachi is a top-tier disk-array provider worldwide with a complementary strategy to VERITAS Software, which is leading the industry in providing nonproprietary, multivendor storage and SAN-management solutions. This alliance also increases our presence in the Japanese domestic market an area of planned expansion for VERITAS Software.
Hitachi Data Systems has strong relationships with enterprise customers worldwide and understands very well their requirements for better ways to manage their rapidly growing volumes of business data, said Jun Naruse, chief executive officer, Hitachi Data Systems. Under the strengthened alliance between VERITAS Software, Hitachi and Hitachi Data Systems, we expect to play a leadership role in helping customers take advantage of the vast technological resources that these companies can bring to bear in developing solutions for a wide variety of storage management issues.
The Global Storage Management Agreement represents a strong complementary fit between Hitachi, an open-systems hardware vendor, and VERITAS Software, an open-systems software vendor, said Paul Mason, vice president of Infrastructure Software Research, IDC. The agreement provides more choices for mutual Hitachi and VERITAS Software customers to enable them to obtain complete interoperability of industry-standard solutions.
