Combination of Hitachi TrueCopy and INRANGE Channel Extension
Solutions Deliver High Levels of Business Continuity to Enterprise
Customers
SANTA CLARA, California and LUMBERTON, New Jersey, April 17, 2002 — Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and INRANGE Technologies (Nasdaq: INRG), the world leader in high-end scalable storage networking solutions, today jointly announced the availability of INRANGE IN-VSN™ 9811 storage networking systems for Hitachi TrueCopy, the industry-leading software for remote replication of mission-critical information. By reselling the INRANGE 9811 with Hitachi TrueCopy, Hitachi Data Systems will enable enterprise customers to move information between data centers that are separated by a few feet or thousands of miles for data mining, content distribution, or business continuity applications.
"With increasing awareness to safeguard mission-critical operational data in enterprise environments, companies are recognizing the need to distribute centralized data not only locally, but also across greater distances for disaster recovery and business continuance," said Carl Greiner, vice president and director, Enterprise Data Center Strategies, META Group. "Such offerings provided customers integrated solutions providing reliable access to their data with maximum choice and flexibility."
"With the convergence of IT organizations across multiple data centers, customers need to centralize resources and push out information enabling instantaneous information access and business continuity capabilities," said Steve East, vice president, Storage Integration, Hitachi Data Systems. "The INRANGE-Hitachi Data Systems relationship provides value and offers customers a wide variety of choices when it comes to managing, moving, and protecting business critical data."
Working in conjunction with Hitachi Data Systems, INRANGE enables customers in heterogeneous IT environments to extend their mission-critical information over wide area networks (WANs), ensuring the safety, integrity and availability of that data across multiple systems. Used in combination with Hitachi TrueCopy and Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning 9900™ systems, INRANGE's 9811, which supports disk mirroring, allows data to be transmitted efficiently to remote locations at distances of thousands of miles.
"With the addition of the 9811, INRANGE supports Hitachi Data Systems' full line of disk mirroring applications, offering customers maximum choice and flexibility in moving data locally or remotely between geographically separated data centers," stated Dan Raup, INRANGE vice president of Product Marketing. "By implementing the 9811 as part of their storage infrastructure, customers benefit from an enterprise storage solution that reduces network costs and offers the highest levels of data integrity and availability."
Hitachi TrueCopy ensures continuous access to information by replicating data locally within the customers' data center, or to remote Hitachi Freedom Storage™ systems, with minimum impact on performance. By providing vital recovery management capabilities that minimize the impact of downtime, Hitachi TrueCopy safeguards critical data and eliminates the time and complexities of multi-step, manual tape recovery procedures. The improved risk management processes offered by Hitachi TrueCopy dramatically reduce recovery time and offer unbeatable data protection for enterprise storage customers.
Hitachi TrueCopy support is the latest milestone in INRANGE's relationship with Hitachi Data Systems, which provides enterprises with easy to manage, interoperable, scalable storage networking solutions. Hitachi Data Systems resells and supports INRANGE's Virtual Storage Networking™ (IN-VSN) family of infrastructure products, including INRANGE's flagship product the IN-VSN FC/9000™ Fibre Channel Director. The 9811 is an integral part of the IN-VSN strategy to provide heterogeneous storage networking solutions to extend data across the enterprise. By delivering advanced data compression and superior bandwidth utilization, the 9811 enables customers to significantly reduce network costs, meet high availability demands, and lower total cost of ownership.
Hitachi Data Systems is a leading supplier of storage hardware, software, solutions and services. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), Japan's largest electronics company, HDS is committed to providing the technological infrastructure for the world's most information-intensive corporations. With 2,600 employees, Hitachi Data Systems does business in the public and private sectors in 170 countries and regions on six continents, including the rapidly emerging economies in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies, and all of the major Storage Service Providers (SSPs). For more information, please visit the HDS Web site at 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 www.hitachi.com .
INRANGE Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: INRG), a subsidiary of SPX Corporation, is the world leader in high-end scalable storage networking solutions and provides users with the building blocks to manage and expand large, complex storage networks simply, without geographic limitations. INRANGE's core-to-edge-to-anywhere solutions solve the growing storage challenges facing today's IT organizations, while providing investment protection and a proven foundation for future growth. INRANGE has a 33-year history of providing mission-critical networking technologies, servicing over 2,200 customers in 90 countries. For more information, visit the INRANGE website at http://www.inrange.com/ or call 1-800-222-0187.
Contacts: PR
Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970.1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
Nichole Yochus, INRANGE Technologies, (609) 518.4357, nichole.yochus@INRANGE.com
At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar.
Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. Freedom Storage, Lightning 9900, Thunder 9200, and HiCommand are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems. INRANGE and the INRANGE logo are registered trademarks of INRANGE Technologies Corporation. IN-VSN and FC/9000 are trademarks of INRANGE Technologies Corporation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.
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