Company Expert Honored for Industry Education on StorageSecurity Issues, Best Practices and Current Standards as CompanyWins first Place in White Paper Awards Second YearRunning
Santa Clara, California— June 26, 2003— Hitachi DataSystems, a leader in enterprise storage and a wholly ownedsubsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), has been awarded firstplace in the Bitpipe Third Annual White Paper Awards. The whitepaper, "Towards Securing Information End-to-End: Networked StorageSecurity Update and Best Practices," by Arthur B. Edmonds, Jr. tooktop honors in the Communications category.
"This award supports Hitachi Data Systems' belief that ITleaders not only provide the best products and services, but alsocontribute to and actively participate in the discussion ofimportant industry and customer issues," said Scott Genereux, vicepresident, Global Marketing and Business Development, Hitachi DataSystems. "Congratulations to Art Edmonds, the author of the winningwhite paper."
This marks the second consecutive year that Hitachi Data Systemshas received first place in the Bitpipe White Paper Awards. Lastyear the award was given to David Merrill, Storage Architect atHitachi Data Systems for his white paper "Developing Return onInvestment and Business Case Support for Storage Area Networks."This white paper can be found at http://www.bitpipe.com
The Third Annual White Paper Awards Program is produced byBitpipe, and sponsored by: leading media organizations including:eWEEK, FCW Media Group, Forbes.com, InformationWeek, NetworkComputing, PR Newswire and Ziff Davis Media Group. Awards werepresented in four categories: Computer Hardware, Software,Communications, and Services.
Judging this year's Awards were 10 distinguished judges withexceptional expertise in the fields of IT writing, reporting andanalysis. Winning papers, chosen from hundreds of submittedentries, were judged on overall editorial quality, format,presentation, and end-user utility.
The award-winning white paper from Hitachi Data Systemsdescribes key network storage security issues, current standards,best practices, and how to gravitate towards secure end-to-endinformation access without disruption of an organization's currentenvironment.
"Towards Securing Information End-to-End: Networked StorageSecurity Update and Best Practices" can be found at: http://www.hds.com/pdf/wp_129_security.pdf.
Bitpipe, Inc. (www.bitpipe.com) is the leading syndicator ofin-depth information technology (IT) content including whitepapers, webcasts, case studies and product literature. Bitpipedistributes content from over 3,500 leading IT vendors and over 60top analyst firms including IDC, Aberdeen Group, and Yankee Groupvia the Bitpipe Network. The Bitpipe Network reaches a qualifiedaudience of technology buyers through agreements withInformationWeek, eWEEK, CIO Insight, Network Computing, PCMagazine, Forbes.com and over 75 other leading IT andbusiness-related websites. See the complete list of Bitpipe Networksites at http://www.bitpipe.com
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 enterprise and modular storage systems andsoftware, professional services, fully complemented bybest-of-breed products through industry alliances.
With 2,700 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts businessthrough direct sales and resellers in the public, government andprivate sectors in over 170 countries and regions on sixcontinents. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site atwww.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://global.hitachi.com.
Contacts:
Jodi Reinman, Hitachi Data Systems, (408) 970-1050, jodi.reinman@hds.com
TrueNorth is a trademark of Hitachi DataSystems. All other trademarks are properties of their respectiveowners.
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