Company to Announce Major New NAS Solution— Register for Webcast at www.hds.com
Participates in SNIA CIM-SAN 2 Demonstration, theWorld's Largest Storage Management InteroperabilityDemo
CTO Hu Yoshida to Deliver Hitachi Views on EnterpriseStorage Trends, Participate in CTO Roundtable
SANTA CLARA, California— April 11, 2003— Hitachi DataSystems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT),and the leader in enterprise storage today announced keyTrueNorth™ initiatives. The company will demonstratecontinued support for industry standards, a major tenet of theTrueNorth vision, through participation in the Storage NetworkingIndustry Association's (SNIA) CIM-SAN 2 demonstration. Also, HuYoshida, vice president and chief technologist, will share thecompany's views in two forums at SNW: a presentation on EnterpriseStorage trends, and through participation in the CTORoundtable.
Separately, the company will hold a live press pressconference/webcast to announce a new SAN-NAS co-existence solution.The press conference will take place Tuesday, April 15th at 10:15a.m. PT.
To view the live webcast, please register at www.hds.com
Hitachi Data Systems is actively working with the StorageNetworking Industry Association's (SNIA) Storage ManagementInitiative (SMI) to deliver an interoperable storage managementframework based on industry standards including the CommonInformation Model (CIM).
Hitachi Data Systems will contribute a key management componentto the CIM-SAN 2 demo, showing extended support for the latest SMIspecification (SMI-S) in the HiCommand® Device Manager's CIMinterface. HiCommand Device Manager, which provides unifiedmanagement of heterogeneous storage systems, will demonstrateinteroperability with a broad array of storage management softwareand hardware.
The demonstration will take place in the SNIA InteroperabilityLab at the SNW conference from April 15-16.
Hu Yoshida, Hitachi Data Systems vice president and chieftechnologist, will participate in two speaking engagements at SNW.The first is the CTO Insights Panel, to be held on Wednesday, April16 from 11:15am-12:00pm. In the second, Mr. Yoshida will deliver apresentation entitled: "Enterprise Storage 2003: A View from theTop" on Thursday, April 17, from 9:15-10:00am.
Visit Hitachi Data Systems at booth # P3 located on the showroomfloor.
To hear more about these announcements, please join Hitachi DataSystems for a live press conference and webcast on Tuesday, April15 from 10:15 - 11:00 a.m. PT. Reserve your place at the pressconference by contacting Jodi Reinman (mailto:jodi.reinman@hds.com) orregister for the webcast at www.hds.com
Hitachi TrueNorth is Hitachi Data Systems' guiding strategy forcutting through the increasing complexity of managing storageresources and focusing them to meet the demands for dynamicbusiness growth. The TrueNorth strategy when implemented allowscustomers to simplify, protect and optimize their informationinfrastructures, reducing the total cost of ownership. Hitachi DataSystems is committed to providing its customers withhigh-performance, reliable, highly available solutions thatoptimize and simplify their storage environments and protect theirvaluable data from corruption and downtime.
Hitachi Data Systems is committed to enabling organizationsworldwide to exploit the full potential of information. Byfollowing and deploying our TrueNorth™ strategy, we providecustomers with a broad range of storage solutions to simplify,protect and optimize their information infrastructures. Ourofferings include centralized and distributed storage systems andsoftware, professional services, complemented by best-of-breedproducts through channel partners and industry alliances.
With 2,700 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts businessthrough direct and indirect channels in the public, government andprivate sectors in over 170 countries and regions. Its customersinclude more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For moreinformation, please visit our Web site at www.hds.com.
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leadingglobal electronics company, with approximately 320,000 employeesworldwide. Fiscal 2001 (ended March 31, 2002) consolidated salestotaled 7,994 billion yen ($60.1 billion). The company offers awide range of systems, products and services in market sectors,including information systems, electronic devices, power andindustrial systems, consumer products, materials and financialservices. For more information on Hitachi, please visit thecompany's Web site at http://www.hitachi.com.
Contacts:
Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970-1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
TrueNorth and HiCommand are registeredtrademarks of Hitachi Data Systems. All other trademarks areproperties of their respective owners.
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