SANTA CLARA, Calif. — May 18, 2009 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced that seven Hitachi Data Systems customers have been selected as 2009 Computerworld Honors Laureate award winners by IDG's Computerworld Honors Program. These Hitachi Data Systems customers are the honorary recipients of this prestigious industry award and will be recognized during the 21st Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony and Gala Awards Evening on June 1 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
“Each year, the Computerworld Honors Program seeks to recognize organizations from a variety of sectors for their ongoing efforts to utilize technology in order to benefit society,” said Ron Milton, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation and Executive Vice President of Computerworld. “We are proud to provide a platform to publicly acknowledge these contributions.”
“We congratulate our customers on being honored for implementing innovative IT projects so they can continue to provide vital services to society,” said Eric-Jan Schmidt, Vice President of Global Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “These awards are not only a testament to our customers’ breakthrough work, but to the Hitachi Data Systems commitment to delivering innovative storage solutions that ensure our customers realize a lower total cost of ownership and a higher return on existing assets.”
Foothill-DeAnza Community College
District
The police department and administrators of Foothill-DeAnza Community College District are
constantly looking for ways to provide a safer environment for
students, faculty and staff. Upgrading Foothill-DeAnza campus
security meant altering the way security camera data was captured
and stored. Foothill-DeAnza selected a Hitachi Simple Modular
Storage 100 system with Symantec Backup Exec 12 to help manage its
video surveillance data, providing the campus with enterprise-class
storage features and RAID-6 data protection with outstanding
performance and at a reasonable cost. The Hitachi technology
platform leverages highly scalable and reliable storage hardware
and software to better campus security and the Foothill-DeAnza
community.
International School Bangkok
As a pioneer and leader of international schools in Thailand,
International School Bangkok (ISB) gives high
priority to educational technologies – a progressive vision
that incorporates new technologies and massive amounts of data. ISB
decided to switch its storage and disk backup in the format of a
SAN solution – the Hitachi Adaptable Modular 200 System
coupled with the Hitachi Data Protection Suite software (powered by
CommVault®), which can store large amounts of audio and visual
data with lower total cost of ownership while supporting the
implementation of an e-Learning system in the future. ISB selected
a platform that would deliver sophisticated virtualization, tiered
storage management and exceptional administrative tools, allowing
ISB IT to focus on improving both academic research as well as the
student experience.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
As the world's largest art and design museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum (“the V&A”)
in London takes its responsibility to share its collection with the
public very seriously, both within the UK and abroad. To enable
public internet access to as many of the 4 million objects in the
V&A collection as possible, the museum needed to upgrade its
existing storage platform, which was difficult to manage and
quickly running out of capacity. The Victoria and Albert Museum
decided to upgrade its storage system with a Hitachi Adaptable
Modular Storage 1000 system, Hitachi TrueCopy Extended Distance
software and Hitachi ShadowImage Replication software, and services
provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services and
Viglen Ltd. With this upgrade, the museum gained the security of a
mirrored site to safeguard against crashes, and a system that could
hold the bulk of its growing and in-demand online collection.
HBO+EMTB
HBO+EMTB is a design house with studios in 21 cities
across Asia Pacific, offering diverse expertise in architecture,
interior design, workplace solutions, urban design, landscape
design, heritage and planning. HBO+EMTB's 300+ specialists deliver
projects that shape the world's most dynamic cities. Advances in
digital design coupled with introduction of the digital camera have
dramatically elevated the storage requirements of the architecture
industry. HBO+EMTB decided that the system that would best suit
their growing need for capacity and interoffice collaboration would
be a modular storage solution from Hitachi Data Systems, the
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200. Because of the
implementation, HBO+EMTB designers and architects experience
greater data accessibility and increased collaboration between
offices.
University HealthSystem Consortium
Formed in 1984, University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is an alliance of
103 academic medical centers and 210 of its affiliated hospitals
representing approximately 90 percent of the nation's non-profit
academic medical centers. To keep up with an avalanche of data
growth demands, and to better safeguard the data which supports so
many UHC members, the organization implemented a highly available
virtualized storage environment with Hitachi Universal Storage
Platform™ V running Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software. In
this case, the technology was important as it provided the
functionality and scalability needed for a large and growing
healthcare consortium, while providing an easy to manage system for
IT staff.
Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust
Detailed and accessible records are essential to the proper care of
patients in medical institutions. In order to ensure hospitals,
general practices, dentists and other essential services are fully
operational and able to deliver superior patient care 24 hours a
day, the Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust (PCT) IT
department needed to maintain access to critical data for the 5000
staff across some 85 sites at all times. Blackburn with Darwen
selected two Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200 systems to build
out its new storage infrastructure, one for the primary site in
central Blackburn and the second for a disaster recovery site out
of town. Having a storage system at each site enables the PCT to
replicate data between the systems, ensuring that critical data,
like dental x-rays and patient history, is backed up and available
to medical professionals and staff regardless of any unexpected
downtime at either site. The flexibility of the Hitachi storage
solution has allowed the PCT to configure the storage system to
suit its purposes exactly, ensuring staff members are provided with
the services they need from Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution
Services and ANS Group.
National Library of Scotland
Founded in 1689 as the Faculty of Advocates, the National Library of Scotland (NLS) holds almost 400
years’ worth of the country's written history and culture.
Scotland's legal deposit library for all publications produced in
the United Kingdom needed to have the storage capacity to make all
its collection related data accessible to the public and develop a
digital repository to keep its extensive archive safe for
posterity. The solution deployed consisted of two Hitachi Adaptable
Modular Storage 1000 systems, each with 120TB of capacity and
services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
and Viglen Ltd. The advanced scalability and reliability of the
solution mean documents ranging from historical manuscripts to
online magazines are now available to users across the globe, 24
hours a day.
About Computerworld
Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and
information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's
award-winning Web site (www.computerworld.com), weekly publication,
focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the
world's largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past
six years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards,
including Folio Magazine's 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best
technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the
Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American
Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In addition, in
2007 Computerworld's then editor in chief, Don Tennant, received
the prestigious Timothy White Award from American Business Media.
Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 2
million unique, monthly visitors and a print audience of 1,222,000
readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2007).
About the Computerworld Honors Program
Founded by International Data Group (IDG) in 1988, the
Computerworld Honors Program is governed by the not-for-profit
Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation. In its 20th
year, Computerworld Honors is the longest running global program to
honor individuals and organizations that use information technology
to benefit society. Each year, the program's Chairmen's Committee,
a group of 100 Chairmen/CEOs of global technology companies,
nominates individuals and organizations around the world whose
visionary application of information technology promotes positive
social and economic progress. Nominations are evaluated by an
independent board of CIO-level judges who select Laureates,
Finalists and award recipients, in 10 industry-related categories,
to be honored at the Laureate Medal Ceremony. This year's ceremony
and accompanying Gala Awards Evening will take place on June 2,
2008 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The
technology achievements honored by this program are preserved and
protected in national archives, and in over 350 universities,
museums and research institutions throughout the world. Additional
information about the program and a Global Archive of past Laureate
case studies and oral histories can be found at the Computerworld
Honors website: http://www.cwhonors.org.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage
Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically
provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via
industry leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. With over
4,100 employees, and as an integral part of the Hitachi Storage
Solutions group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage
infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage
consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over
170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60 percent
of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®. For more
information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately
400,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009)
consolidated revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 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, logistics and financial services. For more information
on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
Hitachi Data Systems
Carli Ghelfi
(408) 327-4024
carli.ghelfi@hds.com
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ashish.patel@bitepr.com
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