Hitachi Data Systems - Hitachi Data Systems Unveils One of the Industry’s Most Robust and Reliable Green Data Centers

Inspire The NextStore this angel in big sizeState-of-the-art Facility Showcases the Hitachi Group Vision to Establish a Sustainable Data Storage Strategy for its Customers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — August 24, 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 the aperture of its blooming abstracts centermost in Yokohama, Japan. The Yokohama Third Center is one of the a lot of able-bodied and reliable in the industry and occupies 10,000 aboveboard meters of absolute attic space. The anew opened blooming ability incorporates power-efficient abstracts centermost technology advised to accomplish a benchmarking appraisement of 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)1, while alms a allotment of the industry’s accomplished akin of reliability, availability and abstracts security.

To advance a aggressive edge, today’s businesses appeal technology basement with a 100 percent uptime. With machines active constantly, businesses bound acquisition that such top levels of activity acceptance are not acceptable and accept a abrogating appulse on the basal line. To accommodated chump needs for security, amount administration and efficiency, the new abstracts centermost has been accustomed with the cold of allowance businesses accept a ‘greener’ and added acceptable access that enables them to accumulate operations and lower operational expenditures.

Hitachi’s Yokohama Third Center is as able-bodied and reliable as a Tier IV abstracts center2, accouterment barter a abounding ambit of adjustable operations administration services, including accumulator management, with a centrally managed and alert troubleshooting account to advice enterprises adjust the operation and administration of advice systems in a way that lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), streamlines operations and contributes to the all-embracing business strategy. Equipped with the latest accumulator technologies alignment from Hitachi Storage Virtualization to Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, the blooming abstracts centermost is able-bodied assertive to baby to the ever-changing accumulated needs.

“Hitachi Data Systems is focused and committed to carrying blooming abstracts accumulator technology that infuses eco-friendly addition above the absolute portfolio of products,” said Asim Zaheer, carnality admiral of artefact and aggressive marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “Many of our articles like the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, and today with the Yokohama Third Center, accommodate cogent improvements in accommodation utilization, while blurred customers’ ability and cooling burning rates.”

With Hitachi Data Systems, organizations crave beneath accumulator accessories and ultimately, beneath electricity and space, which after-effects in actual improvements to the all-embracing economics of managing storage. The new abstracts centermost marks addition anniversary in abutment of Hitachi’s advancing blooming projects like the IT Power-saving Plan3 and Eco-friendly Datacenter Project4 which are aimed at abbreviation 330,000 bags of carbon emissions and acid down ability burning by as abundant as 50 percent by 2012.

Key Features of Yokohama Third Center

* Environmentally Friendly Data Center: The achievements fabricated by the Eco-friendly Datacenter Project, the Hitachi Group's abstracts centermost power-saving project, and power-saving IT accessories from the IT Power-saving Plan for abbreviation IT ability consumption, calm actualize a new environmentally affable abstracts centermost that incorporates the aggregate efforts of the Hitachi Group.
* Integrated Control Center: The chip ascendancy centermost centrally monitors the operational cachet of IT equipment, server allowance environments, and architecture accessories 24 hours a day, 365 canicule a year, enabling the decision of systems and alert acknowledgment to trouble.
* Energy Efficient Facilities: The abstracts centermost uses a alternation of ability antecedent facilities, including a three-dimensional thermal hydraulic actor alleged AirAssist® to optimize the cooling and blueprint of accouterments and a new air-conditioning ascendancy technology, chain the air conditioning arrangement with the activity amount of the advice technology equipment.
* Natural Cooling Systems for Lower Environmental Building Load: A rooftop garden provides the architecture with adumbration that contributes to the blurred of summertime calm temperature by as abundant as three degrees Celsius. Nitrogen gas blaze extinguishers and cooling systems application alfresco air, both of which accept aught blast burning and all-around abating potentials, are installed as measures accidental to the advance of bounded and all-around environments.
* Robust Structural Design: A foundation advance over solid arena accumulated with a seismic isolator provides a structural architecture able of arresting a lot of earthquakes of the consequence that can analytic be accepted to action in the region. The attic amount address accommodation of the server allowance will be 1 t/m2, which is able abundant for the accession of awful chip casting servers.
* Security: High-level aegis ambiance is accomplished with a absolutely bombastic electrical ability source, feel attitude affidavit system, IC agenda acceptance ascendancy system, all-overs sensors affiliated with cameras and affair blockage system5.

Web Resources
For added advice on Hitachi Data Systems blooming initiatives, visit:
www.hds.com/solutions/storage-strategies/eco-friendly.html

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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-leading Hitachi accumulator virtualization software. With over 4,100 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 400,000 advisers worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009) circumscribed revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 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 website at www.hitachi.com.

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