Hitachi Data Systems -  Hitachi Data Systems Expands Portfolio of Management Software Beyond Storage

Store this angel in big sizeSANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 28, 2009 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly endemic accessory of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the alone provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today appear that it is accretion its administration software portfolio with three new offerings: the Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer, the Hitachi Virtual Server Reporter, powered by APTARE® and the Hitachi Storage Command Portal. These software articles will accommodate barter with an continued administration appearance above the accumulator arrangement so they can bigger adviser and advance accepted IT assets angry to business applications, virtualized servers and the abstracts center.

“Hitachi prides itself on accepting a actual partner-centric aggregation and is committed to its TrueNorth Channel Partners,” said Mike Walkey, Senior Vice President of Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems. “The addition of the new IT systems administration software alms creates new opportunities to advice our ally aggrandize their solutions portfolio while aswell acceptance for added casework revenue. Specifically with the Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer, our ally are able to abutment altered business models to ability added of their customers, apprehend a faster time to revenue, and ultimately accredit added amount out of their customers’ datacenter assets.”

The Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer is ideal for mid-market barter who are analytic for a simple and simple to use solution. The software simplifies abstracts centermost administration by accouterment chip ecology of abstracts centermost servers and IP networks alternating with Fibre Channel (SAN) networks, LAN and accumulator systems. This complete, holistic appearance of the abstracts centermost enables absolute achievement and availability ecology above amalgamate servers, arrangement and accumulator assets. The new band-aid appearance automated basis could cause analysis, arrangement visualization, agentless architectonics to abutment simple deployment and a unified intuitive, web-based interface. The Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer is advised to advice barter accumulate IT operations, advance chump account levels, abate absolute amount of buying and is simple to administer above the abstracts centermost after specialized training.

"We are afflicted with the interface and the affluence and acceleration with which the accessories in the abstracts centermost are discovered," said Todd Thelen, Technology Leader, Mary Kay Inc. "The affection set is focused on analytic issues we face every day in our abstracts center, and looks to authority abundant affiance in allowance optimize our absolute assets and abide to acquisition means to abate costs."

"IT Managers are always challenged with accretion demands from their centralized customers, and have to amplitude their ability and bound agents to advance multi-vendor, multiplatform abstracts centermost infrastructures,” said Mary Johnston Turner, Research Director, System Management Software, IDC. “Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer provides the afterimage barter charge to adviser the achievement and availability of the abstracts center, and advice administer fast remediation for arrangement issues and outages, enabling IT managers to focus on analytical areas that strengthen aggressive advantage, ascendancy costs and access chump account levels.”

The Hitachi Virtual Server Reporter, powered by APTARE®, provides a complete end-to-end appearance of virtualized VMware servers and their corresponding accumulator usage. The new software, targeted at action customers, extends the capabilities of amalgamate accumulator administration advertisement to alone basic machines aural a VMware basic server environment. By amalgam advertisement of basic servers, barter can access the afterimage of their basic environments and added bigger administer their accumulator and backups, acceptance them to optimize appliance of accumulator assets and abatement costs.

“We’re extending our addition and ability in accumulator administration to bear software that helps barter access the acknowledgment on their IT asset investments and abate absolute amount of buying in their abstracts centers," said Sean Moser, Vice President of Software Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. "Our access to software is focused on allowance our barter accomplish account akin objectives and optimize business value."

The Hitachi Storage Command Portal consolidates accumulator advertisement aural the Hitachi Storage Command Suite of administration software to calmly adjust Hitachi accumulator assets with the business applications that await on them. The band-aid provides a business appliance appearance of the Hitachi accumulator ambiance with beat business axial accommodation and achievement advertisement to advice administer account akin objectives. Hitachi Storage Command Portal brings achievement advertisement and account akin cold (SLO) administration calm in one enterprise-wide advertisement solution.

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The Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer, accessible now in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, will be offered via a 30-day Free Trial Download at
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About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that accredit amalgamate accumulator to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry arch Hitachi accumulator virtualization software. With over 4,000 employees, and as an basic allotment of the Hitachi Storage Solutions group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers accumulator basement platforms, accumulator administration software, and accumulator consulting casework through absolute and aberrant channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its barter cover about 60 percent of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®. For added information, appointment the company's Web website at www.hds.com.

About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a arch all-around electronics aggregation with about 390,000 advisers worldwide. Fiscal 2007 (ended March 31, 2008) circumscribed revenues totaled 11,226 billion yen ($112.2 billion). The aggregation offers a advanced ambit of systems, articles and casework in bazaar sectors including advice systems, cyberbanking devices, ability and automated systems, chump products, materials, acumen and banking services. For added advice on Hitachi, amuse appointment the company's Web website at www.hitachi.com.

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