Solutions Help Customers Economize, Virtualize and
Protect Business-Critical Applications for Greater Operational Resilience and
Resource Efficiency
VMWORLD 2009, SAN FRANCISCO — August 31, 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 new Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions
for VMware vSphere™ 4. These business critical solutions combine leading
technologies from key Hitachi partners Brocade, Cisco, CommVault and Symantec
with proven Hitachi modular and enterprise storage platforms and software,
giving organizations a quick, cost effective way of optimizing the operational
efficiency and resiliency of their IT environments.
“Operational resilience is increasingly important to
organizations today, as the risk and cost of downtime is simply too great for
most organizations to ignore," said Brian Byun, vice president of global
alliances, VMware. “By combining the powerful VMware vSphere 4 platform and the
VMware vCenter™ management product family with Hitachi's innovative modular and
enterprise storage platforms, customers can extend comprehensive and compelling
business continuity benefits to more workloads across a broader customer base
for maximum protection and cost savings.”
“Today's announcement marks another important proof point in
the evolving Hitachi Data Systems solutions portfolio,” said John Mansfield,
senior vice president of Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data
Systems. “Hitachi Data Systems is well positioned to partner with industry
leaders like VMware to enable end-to-end server to storage virtualization in
customer data centers. During a time when business continuity and disaster
recovery is a critical part of everyday operations, Hitachi virtualization
technologies can extend the economic and optimization benefits customers can
achieve, both short and long term.”
Hitachi Data Protection Solutions for VMware vSphere
4
Recognizing that organizations have different business and IT
requirements, Hitachi offers a comprehensive portfolio of Data Protection
solutions, including options for backup/restore and remote replication, for both
physical and virtual environments. The Data Protection solutions announced today
are designed for VMware environments and center around the Hitachi Data
Protection Suite powered by CommVault and Symantec NetBackup:
“Thirty-one percent of respondents to a recent ESG survey
listed leveraging virtualization for disaster recovery as a key priority for
2009,” says Mark Bowker, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Users
understand the important role virtualization plays in improving operational
efficiency and resiliency and Hitachi Data Systems is making it easier for
organizations to maximize these benefits. Hitachi's new solutions for VMware
enable an entire new wave of applications to be protected in a manner that has
historically been too complex and costly to justify. This is a huge win for
customers."
Hitachi Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware
vSphere 4
Hitachi Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware vSphere 4
are important next chapters in Hitachi's evolving relationship with VMware
(previously announced April, 2009). These solutions combine Hitachi storage,
replication software and services with VMware datacenter solutions, as well as
data networking gear from Brocade or Cisco, to enable highly resilient VMware
environments:
Availability
Hitachi Data Protection and
Disaster Recovery solutions for VMware vSphere 4 are available through Hitachi
Data Systems Global Solution Services (GSS) and Hitachi services delivery
partners. GSS helps customers accelerate deployments of disaster recovery/data
protection initiatives in a virtualized environment and assists in determining
the ideal match of business requirements to business continuity investments.
About Hitachi Data Systems Storage
Virtualization
As the undisputed storage virtualization leader with
more than 12,600 virtual controllers shipped worldwide, coupled with
market-proven system-based replication technologies including Hitachi Universal
Replicator and Hitachi TrueCopy software, Hitachi Data Systems is uniquely able
to bridge the gap between server and storage infrastructures in customers' data
centers. Hitachi Data Systems integrated end-to-end virtualization solutions
help customers achieve significant improvements in operational efficiency and
overall cost savings.
Hitachi Data Systems at VMworld 2009
As
a VMware Worldwide Gold Certified Partner, Hitachi Data Systems will jointly
demonstrate some of the most demanding workloads in a secure, scalable,
virtualized environment. VMworld 2009 attendees can see Hitachi Operational
Resilience for VMware in action in the Hitachi Data Systems Booth #1325.
Web Resources
Learn more about Hitachi
Disaster Recovery and Data Protection solutions for VMware:
http://www.hds.com/go/vmware
Watch what our partners have to say about our Operational
Resilience solutions:
http://blogs.hds.com/hdstv/
Read about our strategic partnerships:
Find out more about Hitachi Data Systems end-to-end
virtualization strategy:
See what Heidi Biggar has to say about the joint
solutions:
http://blogs.hds.com/biggarpicture
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/HDScorp
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 Fortune 100 companies. 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
Melissa Rische
(408)
970-4849
melissa.rische@hds.com
Bite Communications
Ashish Patel
(415) 365-0466
ashish.patel@bitepr.com
© 2009, Hitachi is a registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Hitachi Data Systems is a registered trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. in the United States and other countries.
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