“Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco are building on our decade-long partnership to deliver the first design validated by Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco,” said Rick Snyder, vice president, Global & Strategic Partner Organization, Cisco. “By bringing together two industry leaders in enterprise data center solutions, HDS and Cisco have created an agile, scalable and efficient reference architecture that provides customers and channel partners with an easy-to-deploy HDS and Cisco based unified compute solution.” The portfolio of UCP Select reference solutions that are based on Hitachi storage and servers and Brocade Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric switches support major enabling software technologies such as hypervisors, databases, analytics and application environments including Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware.