Comarch has signed a partnership agreement with Hitachi Data Systems. The agreement is a confirmation of cooperation between the companies that has taken place over the past few years.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) provides Service Oriented Storage Solutions. The main clients of HDS include banks, insurance and telecommunication companies, enterprises from various sectors and public institutions. Comarch offers their clients solutions based on the HDS hardware platform, providing productivity and security.

- We are pleased to begin cooperation with Comarch in Poland. We would like to join together to provide our customers with integrated solutions for data management. HDS solutions make it possible to reduce the total costs of ownership - say John Ryden, managing director, Hitachi Data Systems (Poland) Sp. z o. o. - Comarch is a company with long standing market experience and brings to the partnership a high degree of knowledge regarding the integration of applications, optimization of business solutions and the automation of management processes.

- The recently signed agreement allows our companies to expand on our previous, close-knit partnership. For our clients it is an official confirmation of the high level of our service as well as our competence - said Marek Krupiński, Director of Cooperation with the Technology Partners Unit, Comarch SA. - We look forward to further cooperation between Comarch and HDS in future projects for the benefit of our clients and our mutual interests.

HDS employs more than 4,100 employees and delivers through direct and indirect channels in more than 170 countries and regions. Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software and storage consulting services. Our customers include nearly 60 percent of companies in the Fortune 100. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.hds.com/.