Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9200 Selected for Home
Depot's Day-to-Day Business Critical Operations
Santa Clara, California, 16 July 2001 — Hitachi Data Systems today announced that Home Depot, the nation's number one do-it-yourself retailer has agreed with Hitachi Data Systems to purchase hundreds of Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Thunder 9200™ storage systems for Home Depot's new stores now being built in 450 new locations across the US. This agreement extends Home Depot's long-term relationship with Hitachi Data Systems in which it had previously deployed Hitachi's 5700 E storage arrays in more than one thousand Home Depot stores.
"We selected Hitachi Data Systems because we were looking for a highly scalable, 24/7, reliable storage system that could scale from very small applications all the way to the data center," said Tom Larson, director, Technical Services, Home Depot. "When you're growing several hundred businesses a year it's absolutely mandatory to have a robust, RAID storage environment that provides return on investment, and Hitachi Data Systems filled those bills — and more."
The Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Thunder will now provide the foundation for Home Depot's day-to-day business operations such as email subsystems, labor scheduling and inventory management, sales information, as well as for newer applications including training programs, online videos and CPT.
Designed to meet the storage needs of companies operating heterogeneous computing environments, the Thunder 9200 supports virtually all high-end storage-management features that have become standard for users of the most powerful, centrally managed, enterprise-class storage systems. The Thunder 9200 supports these features in a very compact footprint that meets open- systems distributed and centralized computing requirements. These features include ShadowImage™ 9200, remote copy, logical unit security for Storage Area Networks (SANs), dynamic logical unit management, binding of selected user data in cache memory, near-perfect reliability with redundant, hot-swappable components, multiple RAID-level support, and 2Gb/sec-ready host interfaces. Together they give mid-range users unparalleled flexibility in protecting their data and tuning the performance of their applications.
For more information about Home Depot go to http://www.homedepot.com/home.html .
Committed to helping customers exploit the value of information technology for success in the Internet economy, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), is a leading provider of business solutions for the world's most information-intensive corporations. For further information on Hitachi Data Systems, access www.hds.com.
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 2000 (ended March 31, 2001) consolidated sales of 8,417 billion yen ($67.9 billion) The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at global.hitachi.com.
¹ At an exchange rate of 124 yen to the dollar.
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