Enjoys Continued Success Taking Top Honors by Storage and SearchStorage.com
Santa Clara, Calif. January 11, 2005 - Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced that the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform is Storage magazine and its online edition, SearchStorage.com's "Product of the Year 2004," winning Gold in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category. Judges selected the "Products of the Year" from among storage products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between Oct. 24, 2003 and Oct. 25, 2004. The Universal Storage Platform won on the basis of innovation, performance, ease-of -integration into existing environments, ease-of-use and manageability, functionality, and value.
The Universal Storage Platform was announced on September 7, 2004 and met with praise from the editorial team at Storage magazine, who said that the new solution "blazes a trail for where enterprise-class storage systems are headed." Regarding the award win, the Storage magazine editorial team reiterated its positive take: "Our judges gave TagmaStore very high marks for its innovation…in other words, it's possible to access TagmaStore's internal storage as well as externally hosted storage through a single interface."
"Since the announcement of the Universal Storage Platform, we have received a rolling thunder of positive responses from the press and analyst communities alike, recognition of the new category created by this revolutionary product, and, most important, significant customer wins," said Scott Genereux, senior vice president, Global Marketing and Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems. "We are honored to receive this award from one of the leading publications in the storage industry."
Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com selected three winners (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) in five categories: Backup and disaster recovery software, Backup hardware, Disk and disk subsystems, Networking equipment, Storage management backup hardware. The awards are judged by the TechTarget Storage Media Group editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants.
Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs.
With 2,900 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170 countries and regions. 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. (NYSE: HIT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company, with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2003 (ended March 31, 2004) consolidated sales totaled 8,632.4 billion yen ($81.4 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 www.hitachi.com.
TechTarget's Storage is the only monthly publication that provides IT executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. TechTarget distributes the magazine to a controlled, qualified circulation of 50,000 storage-focused IT professionals . Storage has received numerous awards, including eight ASBPE Awards for Editorial Excellence and two Folio:Show "Ozzie" Awards. In addition, the editorial staff of Storage has for two consecutive years been named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards for Excellence in Business Journalism.
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 290,000 IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs, including original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers.
Hitachi Data Systems
Tony Hynes
(408) 970-4836
tony.hynes@hds.com
Blanc & Otus Public Relations
Quinn Daly
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