NetApp offers VARs Fujitsu data protection gear

Storage giant expands partnership with Japanese electronics giant

Signed and sealed: The Fujitsu deal allows NetApp partners to resell the hardware vendor's products

NetApp has signed a reseller agreement with hardware giant Fujitsu aimed at bolstering its partners’ data protection product portfolios.

Through the deal, NetApp partners will now be able to resell Fujitsu’s ETERNUS CS800 S2 data protection appliance.

The product is aimed at the mid-sized enterprise market and allows users to carry out disk-based backups.

The agreement extends the vendors' wider global alliance, which has seen them bring jointly developed products to market.

Andreas König, senior vice president for EMEA at NetApp, said: “We are excited to see our partnership evolve to the next level and are pleased to offer customers another choice for data protection in a NetApp environment.”

Jens-Peter Seick, senior vice president of datacentre systems at Fujitsu, said: “The partnership between our companies has already brought a higher level of flexibility and efficiency to our mutual customers’ IT infrastructures through our offerings.”