Hitachi Data Systems - Hitachi Data Systems Introduces the Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 Powered by CommVault

Store this angel in big sizeGlobal OEM Partnership Delivers Support for New Advances in Virtual Server Protection, Global Embedded De-Duplication, and Enhanced Data Protection for Enterprise and Midmarket Customers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and OCEANPORT, N.J. — May 12, 2009 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly endemic accessory of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the alone provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, and CommVault (NASD: CVLT) today appear the Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0, powered by CommVault. Available anon from Hitachi Data Systems, this software is allotment of the chip abstracts aegis solutions portfolio and includes enhancements in accretion operations, simplified authorization management, and limited appointment aegis as able-bodied as new advances in basic server protection, abstracts de-duplication, accretion administration and agreeable organization. The Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0, powered by CommVault leverages the CommVault® Simpana® 8.0 software apartment and reinforces the longstanding OEM affiliation amid Hitachi Data Systems and CommVault.

“The Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 can advice break chump abstracts aegis challenges with one platform, one accepted technology engine, one dashboard in one absolute solution," said Eric-Jan Schmidt, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “By accumulation industry arch Hitachi accumulator systems and CommVault’s adult abstracts administration software, we abide to body aloft the common success of our affiliation to bear a absolutely unified band-aid to our customers.”

Organizations of all sizes are appetite to advance their abstracts aegis operations. Rapidly growing abstracts volumes, shrinking advancement windows, and accretion demands for abstracts availability are active the appeal for added solutions. The new Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault provides organizations a holistic abstracts administration band-aid that helps them assure analytical information, abate accumulator CAPEX and OPEX, accost primary accumulator space, advance account akin agreements and accommodate a college akin of business continuity.

“Our better software absolution to date, CommVault’s Simpana 8.0 software is complete on a singular, unified platform,” said Dave West, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, CommVault. “With the new appearance and advancement and accretion achievement enhancements in CommVault Simpana 8, Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 can advice IT professionals abate the aggregate of abstracts beneath management, abode the growing amount of accumulator administration and abridge the operations of their accumulator environments.”

Key enhancements of the Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 include:

* Virtualized Environments Data Protection – With basic applicant abutment for VMware Infrastructure and Microsoft® Hyper-V, the next bearing belvedere includes assorted accretion options of virtualized environments. Auto analysis helps annihilate time arresting chiral processes while ensuring users accommodated their aegis and accretion account akin agreements.
* Global Embedded Data De-duplication – Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault expands the allowances of block akin de-duplication above an absolute organization’s advancement and annal copies from deejay to tape, consistent in amount able ascent and achievement above the absolute abstracts administration infrastructure.
* Remote Office Protection – The belvedere provides assorted options for attention business analytical abstracts at broadcast limited and annex appointment locations, facilitating WAN efficiencies, accelerated recovery, and bargain accident and amount of downtime. Centralized, automated behavior activated to abstracts residing on workstations and laptops advice facilitate acquiescence and seek for accelerated e-Discovery of orphaned, advancement and archived data.

Web Resources
For added advice on Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 visit: www.hds.com/products/storage-software/data-protection-sui...

For added advice on Simpana adaptation 8, visit: www.commvault.com/products.html

To see what Hitachi Data Systems Christophe Bertrand, Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing is adage about the new platform, appointment Christophe’s Corner: blogs.hds.com/christophe/

Read CommVault’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development David West’s blog on the continued OEM affiliation with Hitachi Data Systems, visit: news.commvault.com/DavidWest/

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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.

About CommVault
A atypical eyes – a acceptance in a bigger way to abode accepted and approaching abstracts administration needs – guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance abstracts protection, accepted availability and simplified administration of abstracts on circuitous accumulator networks. CommVault's absolute single-platform architectonics gives companies aberrant ascendancy over abstracts growth, costs and risk. CommVault's Simpana® software apartment of articles was advised to plan calm seamlessly from the arena up, administration a individual cipher and accepted action set, to bear accomplished Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. More companies every day accompany those who accept apparent the unparalleled efficiency, performance, reliability, and ascendancy alone CommVault can offer. Information about CommVault is accessible at www.commvault.com. CommVault's accumulated address is amid in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States.

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