Fortune 1000 End Users Confirm Company's Innovative Storage Strategy Following Independent Research Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—May 30, 2006—Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions™ solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced that the revolutionary Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform has been named the most exciting storage product in use by end users, according to TheInfoPro, an independent research network created by alumni of Gartner, Giga, and Bell Labs that produces fundamental, objective, "grass roots" research on markets, vendors, issues, future adoption plans, and investor confidence.
The results were attained following structured interviews with Fortune 1000 storage professionals across a variety of vertical industries. This recognition validates Hitachi's unique approach to Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enables users to strategically align business applications with storage infrastructure, while reducing cost and boosting performance, availability, and functionality.
"End user acknowledgment for the TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform speaks to Hitachi's vision to continually push storage boundaries and develop new approaches aimed at greatly simplifying the task of managing the exploding growth of storage and data requirements," said Hu Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data Systems. "TheInfoPro research results also identify top customer concerns – including data mobility, compliance, storage management and backup administration – and the TagmaStore USP is designed to address these issues through its virtualization capabilities, thus establishing a new industry category."
"Our interview results revealed that Fortune 1000 storage professionals continue to struggle with managing storage growth and cost," said Robert L. Stevenson, managing director, Storage Practice, TheInfoPro. "The TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform's ability to virtualize legacy storage systems, assist with data migration, facilitate consolidation and extend disaster recovery functionality across all tiers of storage, provides a powerful solution for storage professionals looking to optimize business performance."
TheInfoPro Wave Research Approach
TheInfoPro is an independent research network whose approach is unparralled in the IT industry. The network uses experts to interview and engage end user practitioners in a dialogue – the result of which is a deeper insight into the real issues surrounding the storage industry versus traditional, web-based surveys. The core of the research centers on delivering transparent research results that focus on key information technology sectors and that is free from vendor and analyst opinion. TheInfoPro's methodology and research process is founded on this principle of transparency as the company conducts structured interviews in six month waves aimed at delivering "fact-based" intelligence and results that are without bias, spin or intermediation. For more information, visit TheInfoPro's Peer Network website at www.theinfopro.net/peernetwork.
About Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform
With more than 40 percent market share and an installed base of over 3,000 intelligent virtual storage controllers, Hitachi has dominated the marketplace with the unique capabilities of the TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller. The TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform enables users to externally attach heterogeneous storage systems, including those from IBM and EMC, partition storage resources to maximize application quality of service, move data across tiers of storage to match business needs, and achieve business continuity. As an integral component of Services Oriented Storage Solutions solutions from Hitachi Data Systems, the Universal Storage Platform provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. The Universal Storage Platform enables customers to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage – and add value to – current investments, and more closely align IT and business objectives.
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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© 2006, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. Services Oriented Storage Solutions is a trademark of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. All other trade names, trademarks, and service marks used herein are the rightful property of their respective owners.
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