Company Joins Brocade, Emulex and Quantum in BrightStor
Offering
STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD — ORLANDO, Florida — Oct 29, 2002 — Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced that it has joined Computer Associates (CA) and Microsoft Corp. in the formation of the BrightStor Offering for Enterprise Data Centers, to attain the fastest database backup and restore performance ever recorded on any platform.
The BrightStor Offering, built by CA, Microsoft, Hitachi Data Systems and other storage industry leaders, shattered previous performance benchmarks to achieve a record-setting 2.6TB/hour backup of a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database running on Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. The BrightStor Offering's Enterprise Backup restore performance also achieved a sustained rate of 2.2TB/hour using 32 drives.
Faster backup and recovery has become a key issue in the rapid data growth of today's storage environments. To ensure business continuity and reliability for an enterprise's mission-critical information, Hitachi Data Systems is teaming with leading companies to provide best-in-class, highest-performance storage solutions like the BrightStor Offering.
"Hitachi Data Systems has made a significant contribution to the BrightStor Offering through both state-of-the-art storage infrastructure solutions and valuable technical expertise," said Nigel Turner, CA senior vice president of BrightStor solutions. "The world-class performance of the Lightning 9980V has been especially important as, together with the other BrightStor partners, we achieve record-breaking backup speeds."
To accomplish this record-breaking feat, Hitachi Data Systems joined BrightStor Offering industry partners to build a high performance storage area network (SAN) featuring the Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning 9980V™ system with high performance Fibre Channel disk drives. Connected to a Unisys Orion server running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition database, the SAN also included hardware from BrightStor Offering industry partners Brocade, Emulex and Quantum.
"The BrightStor Offering for Enterprise Data Centers shares similar goals with Hitachi TrueNorth™ strategy — to simplify, protect and optimize customers' information infrastructures," said Steve East, vice president of Storage Integration. "By providing customers with highly scalable and fast backup and recovery solutions, they can protect one of their most valuable assets — information. Hitachi Data Systems is proud to have contributed to this outstanding benchmark achievement."
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://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
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