Hitachi Data Systems Corporation(TSE: 6501) has announced expansion of their worldwide strategic alliance by signing a global original equipment manufacturer (global OEM) agreement that introduces plans to include SAP HANA(NYSE:SAP) delivered by Hitachi Data Systems. This agreement will focus on providing future technology innovation and combined sales and marketing activities to customers worldwide.
The companies plan to extend further integration in areas such as cloud computing, the SAP Real-Time Data Platform and high-performance enterprise computing. Hitachi and SAP plan to co-innovate around Hitachi’s vision for social innovation, industries, and big data expertise with SAP HANA.
“Today’s announcement represents a new level of collaboration with Hitachi and HDS, underscoring our commitment to ongoing innovation with our partners for the benefit of our customers. Through our expanded collaboration, customers will more easily be able to gain significant advantage with SAP HANA, which will provide them tightly integrated, innovative solutions and reduced time to market, while minimizing migration costs,” said Steve Lucas, President, SAP Platform Solutions.
"While we are most certainly thrilled with today's announcement, it is our joint customers who have the most to gain as a result. HDS is now able to offer a tightly integrated Enterprise Data Center solution that delivers a 5X performance increase for SAP HANA over competitive offerings. This increased collaboration with SAP also results in greater OPEX and CAPEX efficiencies for customers, and sets the stage for future joint innovation between our two companies," said Brian Householder, Chief Operating Officer, Hitachi Data Systems.
The global collaboration is designed to bring customers from SAP, Hitachi and HDS, a more cohesive solution with a focus on SAP HANA, storage virtualization, cloud computing, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and information life-cycle management (ILM) solutions. It is expected that customers should achieve maximum value from SAP and Hitachi solutions, including lower implementation and operational costs, high availability and enterprise-class disaster tolerance.
