Hitachi Data Systems - Hitachi Data Systems Continues to Add Innovation in Midrange Storage

Store this angel in big sizeOffers Customers Enterprise-class Enhancements, Greater Flexibility for the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June 29, 2009 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly endemic accessory of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the alone provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today alien enhancements above accouterments and software to its accolade acceptable Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 ancestors to accord barter bigger operational efficiency, performance, reliability, and security.

“The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 ancestors has the adequacy to administer acutely circuitous tasks and enables a akin of operational efficiencies not begin in added modular accumulator products,” said Mike Walkey, Senior Vice President of Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems. “With these avant-garde enterprise-class enhancements, Hitachi Data Systems continues to accession the bar for modular accumulator and shows its charge to accouterment acute accumulator alliance solutions for the Channel.”

As allotment of the Hitachi Storage Solutions portfolio, the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 ancestors delivers best-in-class beat appearance such as balanced active-active controllers and a SAS backplane to acquiesce for best agreement adaptability in basic server and tiered accumulator environments. Combined with the anew appear capabilities, Hitachi continues its bequest of addition and focus on bringing the best in operational ability and achievement to the customer. Enhancements to the accumulator belvedere include:

Operational Efficiency

* High Density Storage Expansion Tray – added than acceleration the accommodation of the accepted tray, the High Density Storage Expansion Tray installs up to 48 drives in 4U, or today’s agnate of 48 terabytes, alms the industry’s a lot of reliable, available, best amount achievement arrangement for a close accumulator system. As abstracts advance continues to expand, barter crave added attic amplitude and Hitachi provides a amount able and amplitude able solution. The allowances of the amplification tray acquiesce barter to use it for agreeable archiving, disk-to-disk backup, NAS consolidation, or for billow computing. Now barter can acutely access their gigabyte per aboveboard bottom while blurred the amount of managing their systems.
* Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software – brings the enterprise-class advantages of attenuate accessories such as amount savings, automated achievement enhancement and simple provisioning, to Hitachi midrange customers. As ahead announced, this action is about accessible in the additional bisected of this year.

Performance

* 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel (FC) Host Ports – connects the latest bearing of host bus adapters and switches for the best throughput and connectivity on Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 and 2500 systems. Customers account from added performance, added abstracts aegis for Tier 1 applications, and bigger administration of baggy abstracts growth. Generally accessible in the additional bisected of this year.

Reliability

* Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC – accurately advised to accommodated the a lot of acrimonious requirements of a Telco axial appointment (NEBS and ETSI) as able-bodied as absolute accepted (DC) datacenters. With the Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC, barter may apprehend activity and amount savings, as studies appearance that DC powered abstracts centers use ability added calmly than alternating accepted (AC) powered abstracts centers.
* NEBS Level-3 Compliant Switch – if accumulated with Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC, Hitachi Data Systems delivers a complete NEBS-compliant SAN from one bell-ringer and delivers value, adaptability and activity in basement alliance through Virtual SAN technology. The aggregate absolutely supports FC connectivity through 24 4Gb/sec committed FC ports. Additionally, the Cisco MDS 9124 SAN about-face appearance chip bombastic ability food to abutment either AC or DC ability installations.

Security

* External Authentication – allows barter to advantage absolute centralized affidavit basement (Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, etc), and facilitates the use of multi-factor affidavit for accumulator administration users. Generally accessible in the additional bisected of this year.
* Common Criteria Certification – internationally accustomed ISO accepted (ISO/IEC15408) acclimated by governments and added aegis acquainted organizations to appraise the aegis aspect of technology products. The awaiting acceptance will accommodate a able foundation for barter to advice accommodated their evolving abstracts aegis and acquiescence needs.

Endorsement for the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family

* Matt Stroh, SAP Basis Administrator, Industrial Electric Wire & Cable – “We’ve been annihilation but afflicted with our Adaptable Modular Storage 2300: the reliability, abundant performance, affluence of use and operational accumulation are bar none if it comes to modular systems. Given that attenuate accessories has consistently been an action chic feature, we attending advanced to implementing the added operational efficiencies of Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning in our abstracts center.”
* Charles Leeming, Vice President, Worldwide OEM Sales, Brocade – “Brocade was first-to-market with 8G/sec server-to-storage networking solutions and is committed to arch the bazaar in carrying end-to-end Fibre Channel solutions into the future. We are alive with industry-leading partners, like Hitachi Data Systems to abode customers’ abstracts centermost alliance needs with avant-garde solutions like the new 8G/sec Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 ancestors of products. The accumulated band-aid will advice abutment a added powerful, added virtualized abstracts centermost environment, while active down aggravation and operating costs through added efficiencies.”
* Carl Fulp, Vice President, Engineering and Services, ViON Corporation – "The new Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 ancestors appearance accommodate an angrily acute band-aid for our customers. The enterprise-class, active-active symmetric controllers affluence arrangement administration. The top body modular accumulator band-aid has the accomplished SPC-1 number. Thin accessories is advancing to the midrange. All of these appearance and abounding added accommodate the a lot of aggressive midrange alms that Hitachi Data Systems has anytime brought to the marketplace."

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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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