HDS and CGI in Partnership

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced a milestone in their strategic agreement to provide clients with enterprise-grade cloud services powered by HDS.

As part of its portfolio of digital transformation services, CGI Group, Inc. can now offer clients a number of secure cloud storage solutions that enable access to business critical data from mobile devices and traditional desktops. These solutions give clients peace of mind knowing that their data is safe and uncompromised.

These solutions are already in use by Foresters Ltd, an international financial services provider committed to family well-being with over one million members in Canada, US and UK. Based on HDS’ cloud technology, the solutions can be hosted within CGI’s data centers or in a customer’s data center in a private cloud model offering flexibility, security and choice to clients.

“Today’s significant advancement in our partnership with CGI stems from years of joint collaboration with a mutual focus on delivering to our customers the best possible technologies for their evolving business needs,” said Michael Cremen, EVP, global sales, HDS. “We have teamed to provide a distinctly innovative set of cloud enablement solutions that offer the best of public, hybrid and private cloud technologies for our customers.“

“Our partnership with HDS helps clients achieve their goals to transform enterprise processes by facilitating secure access to business information,” said Brian Cann, VP, global marketing, CGI.. “Leading technology from Hitachi allows us to deliver a variety of business solutions through a cloud delivery model that meets the procurement needs of our clients,”

“It’s this integrated approach that makes the CGI and Hitachi Data Systems global partnership a win-win for clients.“

Highlights and Key Facts:

• HDS will leverage CGI’s data centers to offer hosted cloud services ‘in country’, starting in Canada, US, Sweden, Norway and Portugal, with additional sites to follow.
  
• CGI is the first global systems integrator to offer consistent block, file and object solutions using the Hitachi Cloud Service Provider program throughout North America and EMEA.
• The initial technologies to be launched include:
  • Storage as a service
  • Data vaulting
  • DR as a service
  • Archiving as a service from Exchange, SharePoint, databases, NAS and other environments.
  • Bottomless edge to core storage (using Hitachi Content Platform and Hitachi Data Ingestor)
  • File sync and share as a service (using Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere)
• CGI is part of Global Systems Integrator Partner Program by HDS and also the first global cloud service provider certified by HDS.