New Services Delivery Framework Enables Customers to Speed
Benefits of TrueNorth Vision and Strategy
STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD — ORLANDO, Florida — Oct 28, 2002 — Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced the formation of its Global Solution Services organization, an expansion of the company's existing Professional Services organization and a cornerstone of its continued drive to maximize the value of the TrueNorth™ vision and strategy for customers.
Refocusing the global professional services and education teams around our TrueNorth vision will enable customers to more rapidly gain substantial benefits — simplified management, protection of valuable data, and optimized resource utilization — by leveraging Hitachi Data Systems' products and best-of-breed offerings from strategic alliances.
"As a leader in the enterprise storage market, Hitachi Data Systems is committed to providing its customers with complete solutions to address their business challenges," said Ken Beaudry, senior vice president and general manager of Global Solution Services. "The Global Solution Services organization will give Hitachi Data Systems' customers worldwide the professional services resources they need to create world-class information infrastructures, lowering their total cost of ownership and accelerating return on investment."
The first services available from the new organization focus on the key issues affecting customers today — protecting, migrating, consolidating and managing data.
SplitSecond® for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange addresses the demands of customers for rapid recovery of increasingly mission critical systems.
The new Data Migration and Storage Consolidation services use best-of-breed technology solutions from Hitachi Data Systems' partners combined with Hitachi Data Systems' unparalleled reputation for service excellence to optimize customers' storage technology and reduce total cost of ownership while minimizing the risk of disruption to production systems during infrastructure changes.
Finally, new Enablement Services for Hitachi Data Systems' open management software products maximize customers' ROI by speeding deployments and ensuring that staff have the knowledge they need to most effectively do their jobs.
Ken Beaudry was recently appointed to lead the Global Solution Services Group as senior vice president and general manager. He brings extensive industry experience to Hitachi Data Systems, including more than 20 years with StorageTek™ in various Customer Support and Professional Services management assignments. Most recently, he was vice president of Worldwide Sales and Services for Front Porch Digital, a New Jersey-based startup that develops and sells software and professional services for the digital video content management and IT data markets.
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.
Contacts: PR
Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970-1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
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