… Global Partner Ecosystem for HDS VSP …

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced broad global partner ecosystem support for the company’s new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.

The ecosystem includes support from strategic technology and channel partners, and complements Hitachi Data Systems solutions and services organizations to help customers successfully and efficiently transform their IT environments into more dynamic and virtualized information centers.

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the industry’s first 3D scaling platform, enabling organizations to scale up, out and deep for unprecedented levels of agility and cost savings in their virtualized data centers. The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and new Hitachi Command Suite management software were unveiled at an event at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

"Hitachi Data Systems prides itself on being an open and collaborative technology partner; it’s a philosophy that is inherent in our overall business strategy," said Jim Beckman, vice president of business development, Hitachi Data Systems. "The strong industry support that has rallied around our new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is a testament to the importance of an agile, fully virtualized, cost effective platform and its ability to bring our shared vision of data center transformation to reality."

Several strategic partners of Hitachi Data Systems, including technology partners Brocade, Cisco, Intel, Oracle and VMware, and channel partners including Datalink and ViON, have provided their perspectives on the new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.

New Transformation Services Bring
Improved Efficiency and Flexibility to Customers
With the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Hitachi Data Systems Global Services has improved its proven best practices and methodologies that help rapidly and successfully transition customers to new data center architectures and environments with lower costs and reduced risk. These practices and methodologies include a new set of Transformation Services to help customers transform their IT environments into efficient, flexible data centers by accelerating their ability to plan and design an agile IT organization.