Hitachi Data Systems is pleased to be newly selected in 2011 to participate in the MHEC Technology Contract. We are proud to be designated as a Bronze sponsor to your activities and look forward to working with MHEC members in meeting your requirements. We recognize that technology plays a major role in higher education not only in meeting administrative and business requirements, but also ensuring a pleasurable student experience. Hitachi Data Systems strategically leverages “Storage Economics”, our unique methodology that assesses the true costs of your storage infrastructure and identifies opportunities to reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO).

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We present a return on investment that not only incorporates the latest in storage technology but defines cost savings and cost take out over the full life cycle of the storage your institution acquires. Our Storage Virtualization offering, the Hitachi VSP, has won industry awards and recognition for enabling our clients to apply storage virtualization technology to their existing storage assets thus creating a scenario of “storage modernization” vs. “rip and replace”. We also recognize that the protection of your data is critical and through our OEM partnership with CommVault, we provide the number one Gartner rated Enterprise Disk Backup and Protection solution, the Hitachi Data Protection Suite. Hitachi also continues to innovate technology in the server space with our Compute Blade Servers which provide value added “LPAR” capabilities to drive lower cost enablement while complementing your server virtualization strategy with VMware or Hyper-V.

We are very proud of our community of HDS clients, and equally as proud that over 200 new global clients, who had previously never done business with HDS, have joined this community each and every quarter for 12 consecutive quarters. .In fact, during our previous fiscal year alone, over 1500 new clients decided to partner with Hitachi. We hope that this tremendous growth rate during what have been difficult economic times is a testament to the value Hitachi Data Systems offers our clients.

We invite you to view the video Customer Testimonial for Higher Education, describing how The University of Utah Health Sciences Center responded to alarming storage growth rates by partnering with Hitachi to implement a virtualized SAN infrastructure. Watch as director of IT and operations, Jim Livingston, discusses the financial benefits delivered by the new environment, including an amazing 127% ROI within 14 months. We hope you will consider Hitachi Data Systems in the future and look forward to working with you.

1. For product and pricing information, visit the Hitachi Data Systems MHEC contract pricing web page, click on "Contract Pricing" on this website, or contact Denise Youngberg at 508-481-1717. Hitachi Reseller Vendors are also available through the MHEC Contract. Select from any Reseller Vendor contact listed on this page under "Hitachi Resellers on MHEC Contract" to also obtain product and pricing information.
   
2. Generate a purchase order, made payable to Hitachi Data Systems or any Reseller Vendor listed in the "Resellers on MHEC Contract" section of this website. You must reference the MHEC Contract Number MC11-F05 on your purchase order.
3. E-mail your purchase order and quote form to HDS at denise.youngberg@hds.com or directly to your reseller sales representative.