NEW DELHI, INDIA: Fujitsu and NetApp announced their intention to 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.

Data centres call for heterogeneous management

Tom Georgens, president and CEO, NetApp, said: “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 data centre needs. We believe this expanded relationship with Fujitsu will provide customers with more tightly integrated and automated data management solutions from an industry leading partnership.”

Kai Flore, President & CEO, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, said: “We introduced our dynamic infrastructures portfolio a year ago as the cornerstone of Fujitsu’s global IT portfolio. NetApp’s strengths in unified storage align perfectly with our high-quality, high-performance and highly reliable Eternus SAN and storage software, creating a joint comprehensive storage portfolio to meet customers’ every need.”