State of New Jersey, Office of Information Technology Wins
Award for Best Storage Implementation
Norfolk Southern Recognized in Data Recovery Category
Santa Clara, California — December 13, 2002 — Two customers of Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), were honored with "Best Practices in Storage" awards at the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Fla. on October 29th. The State of New Jersey, Office of Information Technology (OIT) won the award for Best Storage Implementation, and Norfolk Southern Railway Company received an Honorable Mention in the Data Recovery category.
"We congratulate the State of New Jersey, Office of Information Technology and Norfolk Southern for their superior storage practices," said Scott Genereux, vice president, Global Marketing and Business Development, Hitachi Data Systems. "The Storage Networking World's awards are a recognition of our ability to meet demanding customer requirements with high-quality implementations using Hitachi Freedom Storage™ hardware and software products. They also validate our belief that Hitachi Data Systems' customers are among the leading innovators in the deployment of information infrastructures."
The State of New Jersey, OIT won the Best Storage Implementation award for its dual SAN implementation based on Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9960™ storage systems, supported by leading technology from McDATA. This infrastructure provides any-to-any connectivity between storage and heterogeneous production and backup servers based on IBM AIX, Windows NT and Sun Solaris located at OIT's two main IT facilities. The dual SAN infrastructure provides faster and more reliable access to data and allows easy management of storage, switches, servers and other hardware from a central location. Hitachi Data Systems helped OIT leverage the storage efficiencies of this implementation to cut the cost of government by consolidating and sharing storage resources. As a result, the office is now experiencing considerably faster data transfer as well as higher reliability and availability of their mission-critical data.
Norfolk Southern's disaster recovery solution built with Hitachi Freedom Storage systems allowed Norfolk Southern to create a flexible, adaptable, and scalable business continuity program. This solution mirrors the mainframe mission critical, real-time application data that keeps Norfolk Southern's trains moving. The system also manages the company's business applications data including personnel, payroll, and billing. In order to ensure continuous availability and immediate recovery, Norfolk Southern installed two Lightning 9960 storage systems at a remote site that mirror three Lightning 9960 systems at their corporate headquarters via Hitachi TrueCopy™ software. With Hitachi ShadowImage™ software installed at the remote site, the company also creates test data copies without disrupting access to critical production data. The total installation handles over 18 terabytes of data.
The 'Best Practices in Storage' awards program, co-produced by IDG's Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), honors exemplary deployment of storage technologies for data management, information security and business continuity.
"This program acknowledges outstanding implementations of storage technology," said Leo Leger, vice president, Strategic Initiatives, Computerworld, program organizer and a judge. "The case studies generated by this program will serve as excellent tools for the storage end-user community and will outline clear solutions and technology options to critical storage challenges faced by organizations, regardless of their size or business focus."
Award winners were selected from hundreds of nominees based on case study submissions that profiled the company, its IT department and storage challenges, as well as application deployment details and summaries of the key equipment used. A panel of distinguished judges scrutinized the submissions from the finalists to select two winners and one honorable mention in each of the five categories.
A complete profile of "Best Practices in Storage" awards winners will be included in a special custom-published supplement to appear in Computerworld in December 2002.
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.
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Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970-1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
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