Hitachi Data Systems to Resell and Support CommVault Software
Products
Tight Integration with Hitachi Freedom Storage Systems
Promises Enterprise Customers Unmatched Data Availability, Lower TCO and
Greater Return on Investment
STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD — ORLANDO, Florida — October 28, 2002 — Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), and CommVault® Systems, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions, have signed a worldwide distribution and support agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Hitachi Data Systems will resell and support CommVault data management software to Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, and UNIX® enterprise customers through direct and indirect channels.
Starting today, Hitachi Data Systems will begin reselling CommVault® Galaxy™, backup and recovery software. Through seamless integration with Hitachi Freedom Storage™ systems, enterprise customers can be armed with dynamic data and storage management solutions that deliver snapshot-assisted backup, snapshot management and rapid data movement within a SAN — key ingredients that ensure unmatched data availability, lower TCO and greater ROI.
"We look forward to the enhanced technology integration that will result from the Hitachi Data Systems and CommVault relationship," said Martin Morrison, Business Systems Manager, Practitioner Services, Common Services Agency for NHS Scotland. "We currently use the combined solution of CommVault Galaxy and the Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning 9900™ Series system for all our enterprise data protection requirements. We are most impressed by Galaxy's ability to seamlessly initiate Hitachi ShadowImage™, index the data copies and make them available for simple, transparent retrieval. This has enabled us to build a server-free backup and recovery solution for our Sun Solaris/Oracle OLTP applications, a necessity in keeping our data available in our critical operating environment."
By implementing joint Hitachi Data Systems and CommVault solutions, customers can keep critical data highly available and simply manage and protect applications and data on heterogeneous Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms from a unified browser interface. Through policy management, they can seamlessly automate backup, recovery, migration, snapshot management and media management across all topologies and operating systems — resulting in substantial productivity gains and cost savings.
Currently, CommVault Galaxy software is pre-tested and certified on Hitachi Freedom Storage systems in SAN infrastructures. This winning combination for Windows, Linux, and UNIX environments offers customers an easy-to-use, global data protection solution that scales to handle multiple terabytes of capacity. The resulting efficiency dramatically reduces storage administration cost, enhances access to application data and improves backup and recovery flexibility.
"Through this worldwide reseller and support agreement with CommVault, Hitachi Data Systems is strengthening its industry-leading position in the SAN market by providing customers with proven storage management options," said Steve East, vice president, Storage Integration, Hitachi Data Systems. "We are clearly demonstrating our commitment to the Hitachi TrueNorth™ promise — to deliver best-of-breed products with partners like CommVault, and provide customers optimal solutions to manage their storage infrastructures while leveraging our high-performance storage systems."
"Today's agreement with Hitachi Data Systems marks a major step forward in CommVault's ascendance in the enterprise storage marketplace," said Bob Hammer, CommVault's president, chairman and CEO. "Working closely with Hitachi Data Systems broadens CommVault's reach significantly to customers and thousands of resellers worldwide. We anticipate a continued relationship that can provide simplified storage management and enhanced data protection for our mutual customers implementing CommVault Galaxy on the QiNetix platform. "
Earlier this month, CommVault announced its QiNetix™ platform for unified enterprise data management, incorporating Galaxy software and engineered to extend CommVault's leadership in data protection into new solutions for UNIX and Windows-based data migration, archiving, device and resource management.
Hitachi Data Systems is committed to enabling organizations worldwide to exploit the full potential of information. By following and deploying our TrueNorth™ strategy, we provide customers with a broad range of storage solutions to simplify, protect and optimize their information infrastructures. Our offerings include enterprise and modular storage systems and software, professional services, fully complemented by best-of-breed products through industry alliances.
With 2,700 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct sales and resellers in the public, government and private sectors in over 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://global.hitachi.com.
*At an exchange rate of 133 yen to the dollar.
CommVault Systems provides unified enterprise data management solutions to ensure high performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. The company's singular focus is creating and implementing fast, reliable and easy-to-use solutions to meet customers' data management requirements. The company's software products seamlessly ensure the reliable, rapid restoration of files, business-critical applications and today's most popular databases. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at www.commvault.com or by calling (732) 870-4000. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in the U.S. in Oceanport, New Jersey.
Contacts: PR
Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970-1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
Chris Van Wagoner, CommVault Systems, Inc., (732) 870-4043, cvanwagoner@commvault.com
Hadley Weinzierl, Citigate Cunningham, (617) 374-4219, hweinzierl@cunningham.com
Freedom Storage, Lightning 9900, and Thunder 9200 are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems.
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