Company Leads Storage Industry in Product Satisfaction, Support and Partnering Activities, and Company Loyalty
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 24, 2005—Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions™ solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), announced the company received the VARBusiness Annual Report Card (ARC) award for Best Product Innovation in the Network Storage category. The company's channel executives were honored at an awards ceremony at the XChange '05 conference, one of the largest annual gatherings of channel and partner professionals, on August 23, in Orlando, Fla.
"We're committed to providing our channel partners with best-in-class Services Oriented Storage Solutions™ solutions for their customers to effectively manage storage infrastructures," said Tom Valiante, Vice President of Channels for the Americas, Hitachi Data Systems. "We are grateful for the strong vote of confidence from our partners. This award, based on survey results of industry channel partners, further validates our business strategy to spur growth and momentum in the channel by helping our network storage partners create a framework for building expertise in storage solutions."
The Hitachi TrueNorth™ Channel Partner Program is designed to enable its partners to expand their storage practice and generate additional profit and revenue opportunities by staying at the forefront of the growing needs of storage customers worldwide. Partnering with Hitachi Data Systems allows solution providers to build and sell robust and reliable storage solutions, enabling network storage customers to simplify, protect and optimize information infrastructures, reduce total cost of ownership, and realize a rapid return on investments. This year, the TrueNorth program launched a new version of PartnerXchange, its online partner resource portal, which contains a product configurator, a feature interoperability tool, tech support, training, partner and marketing resources, sales promotions and one of the most comprehensive technology and presentation libraries in the industry.
"The VARBusiness Annual Report Card is the industry standard for measuring excellence," said Robert C. DeMarzo, Publisher of VARBusiness. "It is a meaningful benchmark because the winning companies are selected by their customers."
Now in its 20th year, the VARBusiness ARC Awards program remains the premiere gauge of partner satisfaction. The ARC Awards recognize outstanding partner programs in 19 product and service categories including desktop computers, servers, storage management, Internet application server software and networking hardware. Over 5,000 channel partners—systems integrators, IT consulting organizations, value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and software developers—surveyed and rated over 80 market-leading vendors based on following criteria: product satisfaction, support and partnering activities, and company loyalty.
For the past 18 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the Solution Provider community. VARBusiness provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available at its Web site, http://www.varbusiness.com.
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 approximately 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 http://www.hds.com.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 347,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2004 (ended March 31, 2005) consolidated sales totaled 9,027.0 billion yen ($84.4 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 Website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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