TELUS Mobility Wins Award for Innovation and Promise
eBay Wins Award for Storage Reliability
Skywalker Sound Recognized with Honorable Mention in Innovation and Promise Category
Santa Clara, California — June 18, 2003 — Three 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 (SNW) conference held at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Winner TELUS Mobility and honorable mention Skywalker Sound dominated the Innovation and Promise category. eBay received top honors in the Storage Reliability category.
"Congratulations to TELUS Mobility, eBay and Skywalker Sound for their superior storage practices," said Scott Genereux, vice president, Global Marketing and Business Development, Hitachi Data Systems. "Storage Networking World's awards are a testament to the planning and design of the Hitachi Freedom Storage system architecture and software and validate our belief that Hitachi Data Systems customers are among the leading innovators in technology infrastructure."
"The SNW 'Best Practices in Storage' Awards Program recognizes a broad group of enterprises and the innovative applications of storage technology that have enhanced their business," said Maryfran Johnson, editor in chief at Computerworld and one of the programs' judges. "This diverse roster of winners - ranging from technology and medical companies, to financial firms and even an NFL franchise - demonstrates the prevalence of storage technology."
The "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program honors companies with unique storage solutions in five categories: Systems Implementation, Storage Reliability, Data Recovery, Financial Return, Innovation and Promise.
TELUS Mobility, a large national wireless and data provider across Canada, won the Innovation and Promise award for its SAN implementation based on Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning storage systems supported by Hitachi's storage management software. Hitachi Resource Manager software offers a centralized point of control that allows TELUS to monitor and configure the geographically dispersed Lightning systems easily and efficiently. Hitachi SANtinel™ provides an increased level of protection that gives TELUS real peace of mind. Hitachi ShadowImage™ enables them to conduct backups, data warehousing/data mining, and assist with a data migration from an HP-UX to Sun Solaris environment. Hitachi ShadowImage offers flexibility and offers an array of choice on how to perform backups and application development and testing tasks. Hitachi CruiseControl™ delivers a "no downtime" approach to migrating extremely utilized logical disks from RAID-5 groups to RAID 0+1 groups with the benefit of achieving `never-seen before performance' and is able to reduce service times to the disk by 96%.
EBay, the world's online marketplace, won the Storage Reliability award for its SAN implementation based on Hitachi Freedom Storage architecture using Lightning 9960, Thunder 9200, Sun StorEdge 9910, Sun StorEdge 9960, Sun StorEdge 9970V, and Sun StorEdge 9980V.
Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company and the premiere post-production sound facility in the world, received honorable mention in the Innovation and Promise category for their implementation of Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V™ system with 12TB of capacity to centralize all of its editorial storage. The solution successfully scales in performance to support 75 Macintoshes running real-time, highly dense audio tracks. Hitachi ShadowImage™ software creates point-in-time copies of Mac volumes that are then delivered to the recording systems. HiCommand™ Device Manager manages the whole array, saving IT staff the headaches of the previous, decentralized management system.
The complete list of "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program winners can be found online at http://www.storagenetworkingworld.com .
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 .
Computerworld is the only integrated media company focused exclusively on the information needs of IT Leaders - those who manage and implement technology in Global 2000 organizations. The company's flagship weekly newspaper - along with its Computerworld.com Web site and conference series for IT Leaders - form the U.S.-based hub of the world's largest (58-edition) worldwide IT media network. Publishing since 1967, Computerworld has been recognized numerous times by Folio: Magazine and the Computer Press Association as the best computer newspaper, is winner of the 2003 Jesse H. Neal Award for "Best News Coverage," and was named to the "Media Power 50" in 2002 by Crain Communications' BtoB Magazine. Winner of more than 70 print and online editorial awards since 1998, Computerworld has a newspaper circulation of 202,000, a total print audience of 1,846,000 (according to IntelliQuest CIMS v.9.0), and an online audience of 800,000 unique monthly visitors (according to DoubleClick). Breaking news and resources for IT Leaders are available at http://www.computerworld.com.
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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit organization, made up of over 300 companies and individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to set the pace of the industry by ensuring that storage networks become efficient, complete, and trusted solutions across the IT community. To this end the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For information visit the SNIA Web site at http://www.snia.org.
Contacts:
Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970-1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
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