Datera Data Services Platform Integrated Into Fujitsu Product Portfolio

Datera, Inc. entered into a partner agreement with Fujitsu Ltd to achieving agility and efficiency in the software-defined data center.

This agreement enables Fujitsu to integrate the Datera Data Services Platform into its product portfolio and bring it to market, beginning with availability in Japan and Europe.

Data Services Platform is an autonomous SDS platform that provides automation and enterprise-grade performance for mission-critical applications and workloads. Fujitsu will enable enterprises to more rapidly transition to the software-defined data center running on bare metal, VMs, and containers such as Kubernetes-all in a single platform. Datera’s automation and applied ML continuously optimizes data operations while reducing capital and operating costs of enterprise storage.

“Our global agreement with Datera brings together best of breed data center technologies to expand Fujitsu’s global portfolio,” said Koji Uchida, head of storage system division, Fujitsu. “We are pleased to enter this partnership with Datera to deliver leading next-gen cloud infrastructure solutions that address the scalability, manageability and performance challenges enterprises face with their data, as well as enable new technology adoption such as containers.“

The Cloud & Data Center Research Practice at Omdia (Informa PLC) marks the transition to software-defined approaches, indicating that server-based storage or server SANs are growing faster than traditional solutions. North America is the largest SDS market and will continue to represent the majority of SDS operations going forward¹. AsiaPac including Japan has shown 18% 2019 Y/Y growth, reflecting a desire to bring cloud data management practices to on-premises data. EMEA is just starting to ramp SDS use with 5% 2019 Y/Y growth expected to jump to 21% in 2020.

“Digital transformation is a primary objective of today’s CIOs including the transformation of data operations to adopt cloud data management approaches – and for many organizations the quickly changing requirements brought on addressing Covid-19 pandemic opportunities has demonstrated the value in cloud approaches,” said Dennis Hahn, principal storage analyst, cloud and data center research practice, Omdia. “Respondents in our latest Data Center Storage Strategies and Leadership Survey rated cloud data management and optimization features as their top sought-after storage purchasing criteria. Harnessing next gen applied ML to provide zero touch optimization, will address these market needs head on.“

“Today’s announcement marks yet another key milestone on Datera’s journey to delivering an entirely new approach to automating data operations for the software-defined data center,” said Guy Churchward, CEO, Datera. “This agreement with Fujitsu further highlights the market’s drive toward software-defined architectures core to cloud operations at scale and opens an additional pathway to take our leading platform to new markets.“

¹ Omdia: Data Center SDS Market Tracker, February 10, 2020