Storage Networks and Fujitsu sign agreement
StorageNetworks has rolled much of its storage hosting management software together to offer it as a services package for...
Fujitsu is offering data storage management services to corporate customers co-located at Fujitsu and other data centres in Japan. Fujitsu chose StorageNetworks to partner with partly because the suite is equipment-agnostic; it is not dependent on gear provided by any specific manufacturer.
"STORfusion allows our partners to enter the storage market efficiently," said Peter Bell, StorageNetworks chairman and chief executive officer. Touting the offering as a way for companies to offer services without building a service infrastructure up front, Bell said: "every company wants to do more with less. With the economy softening, they want to do more with their existing infrastructure."
The STORfusion service offering packages StorageNetworks' STORos storage operating system, Virtual Storage Portal software and STORvision command and control software, as well as continuous monitoring capabilities and live customer support.
StorageNetworks describes itself as a storage service provider analogous to a phone or electricity utility. It partners with data centre owners, managing the data for its clients. The business model allows companies to work with heavy data loads without the capital expenditure of building a storage network.
