This agreement will enable Hitachi to leverage Green Data Systems extensive relationships to deliver its BladeSymphony solutions to a highly skilled reseller network and end users.

Green Data Systems partners will receive dedicated, personalized services including pre-sales technical support; order fulfillment management for multi- and single-platform solutions; business planning and marketing services; demo facilities, vertical market services; flexible financing; customized configurations; and engineering support.

"Green Data Systems will now have the capability to provide enterprise computing solutions with the Hitachi portfolio of storage and server products in Europe", stated Wessel Graatsma, CEO of Green Data Systems.

"Green Data Systems is already an established storage partner through the Hitachi Data Systems division of Hitachi. This combined with the Hitachi BladeSymphony and the other complementary products from Green Data Systems means customers can benefit from a one stop purchasing point for performance computing solutions", stated Ravi Ahluwalia, Head of Business Development of Hitachi Systems Solutions Division in Europe.

BladeSymphony builds on Hitachi's market leading position established in Japan with Hitachi's high quality mainframe heritage. Hitachi BladeSymphony offers automated failover capability to achieve high system availability in critical environments.

BladeSymphony "HSVF" or "Hitachi Server Virtualisation Feature" provides firmware level virtualisation technology which enables substantial performance advantages over market competitors.

These features along with mainframe class reliability provide unrivalled computing technology to Green Data Systems customers.