HDS Diamond Level Partner in Oracle PartnerNetwork

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has been named a Diamond level partner, the highest ranking available in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) program.

For over two decades, HDS has been delivering mission-critical data center solutions for Oracle environments, providing customers with performance, scalable and reliable infrastructure platforms. Many of these solutions were showcased at Oracle OpenWorld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

"We are deeply committed to enabling our customers to run mission-critical applications, consolidate Oracle environments and protect their data, all while improving operational efficiencies in the data center by leveraging HDS and Oracle technologies and tools," said Mike Walkey, SVP, Global Partners and Alliances, HDS. "HDS has over two decades of experience delivering highly reliable solutions for Oracle Applications, and we look forward to continuing to work with Oracle to address the storage and application needs of our shared enterprise customers."

"Oracle and HDS have a long history of collaboration to solve our joint customers’ technology needs," said Michelle Montalvo Hallett, Oracle VP, Global System Integrator Alliances. "By achieving Diamond level status, HDS has reconfirmed its ability to deliver customer value and expertise across Oracle’s extensive product portfolio."

HDS and Oracle Partner Alliance
The two companies have a collaborative alliance that leverages their combined enterprise storage solutions and Internet-enabled databases and applications. This partnership covers a spectrum of cooperative technology, service and support, and marketing and sales efforts.

HDS provides storage solutions that offer availability,
performance and scalability
for mission-critical Oracle databases and applications,
including:

• Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM): an unified storage product that provides enterprise virtualization for all data types (block, file and object). Designed for SMBs, HUS VM simplifies operations and enables more efficient storage management across all virtualized storage assets, including multivendor storage. It enables Oracle deployments and application services delivery on a resilient, scalable and performing platform, and features administrative tools and support to deploy, monitor, and manage Oracle environments.
• Hitachi Converged Platform for Oracle Database: eliminates systems integration effort for servers, storage and networking with management software through configured, ready-to-deploy Oracle Database platforms on which to quickly enable application services.
• HDS Software and Administrative Tools for Oracle: HDS offers tools to manage, monitor and protect data for Oracle environments. These tools are integrated into Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Recovery Manager as well as the entire HDS portfolio for storage products and Oracle converged platform, including Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi Converged Platform for Oracle Database. In addition, Storage Evaluator for Database tool from HHDS is a tool for database performance analysis and sizing.