Hitachi to offer Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced that it will integrate the Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director as part of its comprehensive portfolio of information solutions. Hitachi Data Systems offers best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions, which combined with the Cisco networking solutions, provide customers with streamlined operations, improved reliability and optimal investment protection.

Cisco's 16-Gigabit MDS 9710 Director delivers 24 Tbps of total switching capacity, superior reliability with a fault-tolerant architectural design and fully redundant components, providing more flexibility and reduced costs.

"Our enterprise customers want solutions that are easy to deploy and that quickly deliver value. Together, the new Cisco MDS storage switches and innovative information solutions from HDS deliver a tightly integrated solution that provides the performance and ease of deployment that is critical for today’s data center environments," said Linda Xu, Vice-President - Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems.

As a Cisco original storage manufacturer (OSM) collaborator, Hitachi Data Systems works with customers to deploy unified storage and converged data center solutions to enterprises around the globe.