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Hitachi Data Systems' CTO to Speak on "Separation of Storage Innovation from Storage Commodity" at Citigroup 12th Annual Global Technology Conference

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Sept. 6, 2005

Who:    Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions™ solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT).
What:    Mr. Yoshida will be giving a presentation titled, "The Rationalization of Storage Growth," in which he will outline how growth in storage spending has become irrational for many enterprises, often tracking neither to business performance nor strategic IT needs. He will elaborate on how Hitachi's large-scale, controller-based storage virtualization is enabling a different way to think about storage and data management.
Venue:    The Citigroup 12th Annual Global Technology Conference, formerly the Smith Barney Global Technology Conference.
When:    Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005, 8:40 AM Eastern Time
Where:    Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
811 7th Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10019
(Advanced registration with Citigroup is required.)
Why:    Today's IT users are often forced to unnecessarily buy more storage capacity just to obtain the latest features and functionality, since many storage vendors only include the latest functionality with their newest disk arrays.Mr. Yoshida will outline how Hitachi has changed the playing field with its breakthrough large-scale, controller-based virtualization technologies, while competitors continue to focus on building monolithic disk arrays still based on 20th century designs. The Hitachi approach, introduced with the TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform one year ago and now available in the Network Storage Controller for midsized enterprises,, separates the commodity media (disks) from the innovation (intelligent control unit) required to provide storage, data and content services, provides total flexibility for IT buyers to match application requirements to storage attributes.
 
About Hitachi Data Systems

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.

About Hitachi, Ltd.

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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