Hicham Abdessamad, HDS executive vice president, Global Services

Hitachi Data Systems has acquired oXya to extend its portfolio of services for private and hybrid clouds.

The acquisition will help customers achieve cloud flexibility, control and improved economics for SAP environments.

oXya’s value offering

It will continue to execute its current business model under oXya VP and chairman, Frederic de Belloy, reporting to Hicham Abdessamad, HDS executive vice president, Global Services.

oXya’s 500 employees joined the team at Hitachi Data Systems at the end of March, continuing to help IT organisations manage private and hybrid cloud environments.

oXya also helps to design the infrastructure for more effective and efficient implementations of SAP solutions, including the SAP HANA platform.

“oXya offers an expanded set of application-as-a-service offerings, both in private cloud and hybrid cloud,” said Hicham Abdessamad, executive vice president, Global Services, Hitachi Data Systems.

“They have vast experience with managing large SAP solution-based environments and a history of excellent customer satisfaction.”

What customers will experience

As oXya enhances the growing portfolio of HDS cloud and managed services, enterprise customers and partners will experience:

An extended portfolio of HDS cloud and managed services for implementation of mission-critical solutions from SAP, including SAP HANA.
Broad experience and expertise among the growing network of Hitachi Data Systems partners who have capabilities with SAP solutions.
Additional options to fully realize Hitachi Unified Compute Platform solution capabilities for environments that are based on solutions from SAP, including SAP HANA.

“When completed, the acquisition of oXya will enable HDS and our partners to extend our portfolio of managed cloud services and provide additional skills and expertise to enable Hitachi Unified Compute Platform solutions in SAP and SAP HANA environments,” said Abdessamad.

“With its SAP-as-a-service offerings, oXya brings applications as a service, which is a frequent customer request and a bridge into solutions for analytics and Social Innovation.”