Hitachi and VMware announce strategic partnership to empower their end user communities

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-hitachi-060911.html

Hitachi to Deliver Cloud Solutions Based on VMware vSphere and the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform to Financial Institutions in Asia

TOKYO and PALO ALTO, Calif. — June 9, 2011 — Hitachi Ltd. and VMware today announced a strategic partnership enabling Hitachi to deliver new cloud services to financial institutions in Asia. The new solution, Private Cloud for Finance Institutes, is based on VMware vSphere® and the VMware vFabric™ cloud application platform and will help Hitachi deliver IT as a Service to customers.

Japanese financial institutions are moving away from tightly coupled IT architectures in favor of virtualized infrastructures containing loosely coupled applications that can access a flexible pool of IT resources. This new model of delivering IT is designed to help customers simplify infrastructure management and improve business agility in a secure and flexible manner.

It’s interesting to see Hitachi delivering cloud services to financial institutions based on VMware’s virtualization and cloud technology, this creates further opportunities for their customers to be able to consume their requirements for capacity be it on all the time or on demand infrastructure using industry standard platforms that can be easily managed and integrated with their existing infrastructure with more flexibility in mind. Anything we can do to help end user requirements for services, for capacity or business empowerment on demand has to be a good thing for the end user communities and vendors alike.

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