One could say that Fujitsu as a company is a bit cautious about change and in choosing its partners. But that would be a massive understatement.
Being cautious in international business is undoubtedly a very good thing. Note that Fujitsu is one of the world’s true IT powerhouses.
However, good quality, second-generation storage virtualization has been available and used in production by many enterprises for more than four years. Companies like Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, NetApp and a slew of others already have snapped up their own such suppliers and incorporated their wares into their catalogs.
Thus it is indeed news that Fujitsu now has a storage virtualization software partner. On Sept. 9 it was announced that Fujitsu has validated DataCore storage virtualization software to run on its storage arrays and servers.
Thus, the two will produce high-end Fujitsu Eternus and Primergy systems featuring DataCore SANsymphony and make them available immediately through local channel partners.
DataCore said the combination enables easy real-time provisioning of storage within cloud infrastructures. DataCore’s secret sauce also adds high availability, making it possible to move data and virtual machines as needed, where needed in a cloud storage architecture.
The new systems will at first become available this fall in Europe — Austria, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. They will become available in the U.S. later this year.