Auspex NSc3000 NAS Gateway Combined with Hitachi Freedom Storage to Provide Customers with Broad Range of Storage Topology Options
SANTA CLARA, California — Sept 25, 2002 — Auspex Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASPX) and Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) today announced the successful completion of interoperability tests of Auspex's NSc3000 Network Storage Controller, a high-performance file serving platform for Network Attached Storage (NAS) with Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning 9900™ Series and Thunder 9200™ systems. This will provide heterogeneous connectivity when sharing a common storage array pool between Direct Attached Storage (DAS), SAN, and NAS, giving customers the flexibility and freedom to choose the storage topologies that meet their specific business and IT requirements.
Customers can now consolidate their existing storage into a single, easy-to-manage SAN-class storage pool in both the mid-tier and enterprise environments. Auspex's NSc3000 provides enterprise-level, high availability NAS functionality for mission critical environments when attached to the Lightning 9900 Series systems and for mid-tier implementations with the SAN-ready Thunder 9200 storage platform. Customers can now manage both NAS file-based information and SAN block data on the same highly scalable storage platform connected directly or through SAN switches. The combined offering changes the paradigm of storage by eliminating the need for stand-alone NAS systems.
"Together, Auspex and Hitachi Data Systems are providing a solution that meets the diverse needs of enterprise customers, offering the simplicity and heterogeneous data sharing capabilities of a NAS, combined with the high availability, scalability, capacity and consolidation of a SAN," said Mike Worhach, President of Auspex Systems. "We are excited about the opportunity to work with Hitachi Data Systems and the significant impact this combined offering has in the storage marketplace."
"Promoting open, interoperable storage solutions is a key principle of our TrueNorth™ strategy," said Scott Genereux, vice president, Global Marketing and Business Development. "By verifying interoperability with Auspex we give our customers the ability to choose the best products to fit their storage needs. The combination of enterprise NAS functionality from the Auspex NSc3000 with the Lightning 9900 Series and Thunder 9200 storage systems enables our customers to more quickly adopt new storage solutions and get the most out of their SAN infrastructures."
The Auspex NSc3000 offers the highest performance and capacity of any gateway of its kind. It also offers the full NAS feature set expected by IT administrators, including support of bilingual (NFS and CIFS) UNIX and Windows environments, support for NDMP-based data backup, and creation of point-in-time copies for fast user retrieval of backup data. It provides internal auto Failover in a single node system and a system Failover capability in a clustered HA configuration.
The Lightning 9900 Series, Lightning 9900 V Series and Thunder 9200 storage systems form the foundation of an intelligent information infrastructure, enabling enterprise customers to simplify and consolidate storage management while reducing total cost of ownership and maximizing return on investment. Combined with sophisticated software to copy, safeguard, move, and manage data, Hitachi Freedom Data Networks™ solutions deliver set-and-forget management as well as flexible capacity, performance and connectivity.
Auspex introduced the world's first Network Attached Storage (NAS) server shortly after its founding in 1987, creating a new breed of storage appliance offering significant performance and administrative benefits over general-purpose file servers. Auspex's enterprise-class network servers are used worldwide for consolidated information storage and delivery. Auspex also is leading the convergence of NAS with Storage Area Networks (SANs) with the NSc3000 Network Storage Controller, the first multi-vendor SAN-to-NAS gateway. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with sales offices and channel partners throughout the U.S. and around the globe. Its shares are traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol ASPX. For more information, call 800-4AUSPEX (800-428-7739) or 408-566-2000, or visit www.auspex.com.
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 http://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 Thunder 9200 are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems.
© Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd.
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