Pacific Capital Bancorp recognized for the successful design, implementation, and management of an interoperable environment using the unique capabilities of Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform
Consulting services play major role in needs assessment and design for an Services Oriented Storage Solutions solution
STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, PHOENIX, AZ. April 13, 2005 - Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced that its customer, Pacific Capital Bancorp, was selected as the winner of Storage Networking World's (SNW) "Best Practices in Storage Systems Implementation" Award for its successful design, implementation and management of an interoperable environment using Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform. Pacific Capital Bancorp will be honored at the SNW Spring 2005 conference being held April 12-15 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix. SNW is the world's largest storage networking event and the industry's leading educational forum for IT managers, storage architects and infrastructure professionals.
The SNW "Best Practices in Storage" category recognizes end-users for their accomplishments and demonstrates the impact storage has across all industries - ranging from a state university deployment to those of large financial corporations. A panel consisting of Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) experts, IDG's Computerworld editors and staff, and IT business analysts representing firms such as IDC, selected Pacific Capital Bancorp out of over 150 case studies based on the company's successful implementation of Hitachi Data Systems cutting-edge storage solution.
"We're extremely pleased with Pacific Capital Bancorp's selection as the winner of SNW's Best Practices in Storage Systems Implementation Award," said Jim Davidson, executive vice president of Global Marketing and Sales Enablement, Hitachi Data Systems. "The award reflects a collaborative effort by Pacific Capital Bancorp, Hitachi Data Systems, and Consiliant Technologies LLC to successfully implement an unmatched set of comprehensive storage solutions to simplify the management of a heterogeneous environment. This is a perfect example of an Services Oriented Storage Solutions solution, combining hardware, software, and services to match application requirements to storage infrastructure and align business and IT."
"Pacific Capital Bancorp's selection as the winner of the SNW Best Practice Award reinforces the company's commitment to leveraging cutting edge technologies to meet business critical requirements," said Joe Kadlec, vice president and partner of Consiliant Technologies LLC. "We're honored to be part of this winning team and look forward to our continued work with Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services organization to help customers successfully design and implement storage solutions that ensure cost and technical efficiencies."
Hitachi Data Systems and Consiliant Technologies LLC, a leading reseller services company specializing in the design and implementation of leading edge storage and security solutions, architected a customized solution for Pacific Capital Bancorp, based on the Universal Storage Platform, that provides the necessary data management infrastructure to enhance its customer offerings and meet compliance standards as the bank continues to grow. For more information about Consiliant Technologies LLC, please visit www.consiliant.com.
By implementing the TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, Pacific Capital Bancorp can now virtualize multiple tiers of storage and multiple storage products (even competitors) into one storage pool, and extend the advanced solution capabilities of the virtualization platform, such as universal replication, to all the storage products included in this virtualized storage pool. Pacific Capital Bancorp can also use Universal Storage Platform to logically partition the storage pool into virtual segments that can be dedicated to specific applications and independently managed to solve a variety of business problems. In addition, the company's storage administrators can manage the entire storage pool from a single console using a single set of software management tools.
Launched in September 2004 and widely recognized as a new category of storage, the Universal Storage Platform is the foundation of the company's Services Oriented Storage Solutions™ solutions. It provides a comprehensive set of storage and data services including large-scale virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage for application-centric storage area management and simplified and unified data replication. The product was recently named Storage Magazine's "Product of the Year 2004," winning Gold in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category.
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.
Computerworld, the "Voice of IT Management," is the most trusted source for the critical information needs of senior IT management. Computerworld's integrated offerings form the U.S.-based hub of the world's largest (58-edition) global IT media network through its weekly publication, Computerworld.com Web site, focused conference series and custom research. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 print and online awards for editorial and design excellence, surpassing its direct competition by an order of magnitude. Recognition includes the 2004 Magazine of the Year Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and a Jesse H. Neal Award for "Best News Coverage." In print since 1967, Computerworld is the source for information technology management, with a guaranteed rate base of 180,050, a total print audience of 1,138,000 (IntelliQuest CIMS 2004 Business Influencer Study) and an online audience of over 1.5 million unique monthly visitors (DoubleClick).
Computerworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, research and events company. A privately held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers, including Bio-IT World, CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World and PC World. The company features the largest network of technology-specific Web sites, with more than 400 around the world. IDG is also a leading producer of more than 170 computer-related events worldwide, including LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, Macworld Conference & Expo®, DEMO® and IDC Directions. IDC provides global market research and advice through offices in 50 countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit organization made up of more than 300 companies and individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to set the pace of the industry by advancing the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. 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 further information, visit http://www.snia.org.
Hitachi Data Systems
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