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Fujitsu and NetApp plan to expand global partnership
By siliconindia
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Monday, 23 November 2009, 20:14 IST
Bangalore: Fujitsu and NetApp will deepen their partnership globally and provide more tightly integrated and automated storage and data management solutions. Leveraging each other's expertise, the companies intend to jointly develop integrated products and services specifically in the areas of virtualization, storage and data management, and storage services and solutions.
"Standardization, virtualization and efficiency are driving customers to rapidly change the way their datacenters are designed and managed," said Roger Cox, Research Vice President at Gartner. "Increasingly, they are looking to best of breed vendors to supply the infrastructure and services for their datacenters."
Fujitsu and NetApp already have a proven track record of providing customers with best in class products and solutions and a shared vision of the datacenter of the future. Today's announcement serves to underline the synergies customers can expect from both in extended product development, integration and a joint go-to-market relationship.
"As IT departments look for ways to be more cost and operationally efficient, customer buying patterns are shifting toward vendors with a more holistic and collaborative approach to addressing their datacenter needs," said Tom Georgens, President and CEO of NetApp. "We believe this expanded relationship with Fujitsu will provide customers with more tightly integrated and automated data management solutions from an industry leading partnership."
The companies are currently working to integrate NetApp's storage management software into Fujitsu's comprehensive resource management framework. The framework dynamically orchestrates servers, networks, storage and software into logical system platforms to run applications on demand. It also enables easier administration of datacenter environments, allows single console management of the entire infrastructure, and increases productivity and operational efficiency through ease of use.
"We introduced our dynamic infrastructures portfolio a year ago as the cornerstone of Fujitsu's global IT portfolio," said Kai Flore, President and CEO at Fujitsu Technology Solutions. "NetApp's strengths in unified storage align perfectly with our highly reliable ETERNUS SAN and storage software, creating a joint comprehensive storage portfolio to meet customers' every need."