Company Strongly Supports New Contribution from SNIA Members
for CIM-based SAN Management
SANTA CLARA, California, May 30, 2002 — Continuing to lead the industry for open standards-based storage management, Hitachi Data Systems, the world's fastest growing enterprise storage provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announces that it fully supports and endorses the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) acceptance of the "Bluefin" specification for evaluation. Hitachi, Ltd., is a founding supporter and technical contributor, along with 15 other SNIA members to this effort with the goal to provide customers with complete, open, interoperable storage networking solutions based on industry standards.
Leveraging the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards, the new technology provides customers with complete, open, interoperable storage networking solutions. Future management frameworks based on Bluefin will be capable of discovering and managing multi-vendor SAN resources through common interfaces.
"Hitachi Data Systems is working closely with the SNIA to identify significant milestones toward open, heterogeneous storage management that accelerate the adoption and implementation of CIM technology by the storage industry," said Marlene Woodworth, vice president and general manager, Global Marketing and Operations. "This new technology is consistent with Hitachi TrueNorth™ — our recently announced vision and strategy for open information management.
Hitachi Data Systems strongly believes that active industry participation in the development of the CIM Standard will be decisive in taking customers closer to realizing the tangible benefits of open, standards-based storage management."
Hitachi Data Systems is not only driving for support of open standards, but has revolutionized its Hitachi Freedom Storage™ systems and HiCommand™ software to provide customers with freedom of choice and enable them to take full advantage of cross-vendor, interoperable solutions.
To access the SNIA press release, please go to: http://www.snia.org/.
Hitachi Data Systems, the fastest growing enterprise storage provider, 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 storage infrastructure for the world's most information-intensive corporations. With 2,600 employees, Hitachi Data Systems does business through direct sales and resellers in the public and private sectors in 170 countries and regions on six continents. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.hds.com.
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company, with approximately 320,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2001(ended March 31, 2002) consolidated sales totaled 7,994 billion yen ($60.1 billion*). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors, including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's Web site at www.hitachi.com.
*At an exchange rate of 133 yen to the dollar.
Contacts: PR
Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970.1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
Freedom Storage, Lightning 9900, and HiCommand are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems.
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