BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., brings Hitachi unified compute platform, an open and unified compute platform for enterprise data centres, including private and public cloud deployments.

Hitachi Data Systems also announced a worldwide original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement to distribute Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft System Center suite and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 products.

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“Together with Microsoft, we are uniquely addressing customer challenges by looking at the data centre from the business process perspective and driving innovation down to and across all components,” said John Mansfield, senior vice president, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems.

The Hitachi solution combines Hitachi Data Systems software, storage and server products, Microsoft infrastructure software, Hyper-V virtualization technology, and SQL Server data base.

The initial set of integrated components will include:
-       Storage, Server and Network: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, Hitachi blade servers, and fibre channel and Ethernet components.

-       Orchestration Software: An extensible software layer developed by Hitachi delivers automated, end-to-end management of all processes for server, storage, network and applications through a simplified, role-based management portal.

-       Microsoft Software: As an integral part of the solution, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager will be tightly integrated as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V.

-       Virtualization Technologies: Leading storage and server virtualization solutions will be provided by the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning and the Hitachi Storage Cluster for Microsoft Hyper-V. Support for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors will be provided.