CIO Summit and Awards Focus on Driving Business Forward and Creating New Paths to Growth and Stability
Hong Kong, November 11, 2010 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today, announced the winners of the 3rd annual IT Inspiration Awards in the fifth annual CIO Summit in Tokyo. The CIO Summit and IT Inspiration Awards ceremony was attended by over 80 individuals from the Asia Pacific region comprising CIOs and senior IT executives, partners, media and senior representatives from Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi, Ltd.
A total of 26 awards were presented this year representing a mix of technical excellence and personal achievement across 5 categories. The award categories and the nominations received reflected the value of information or data and how it could be used as a key corporate asset to guide organizations’ growth and success strategy. The CIO of Telekom Malaysia, Nizam Arshad, walked away with the prestigious CIO of the CIOs award while Telstra, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, China Post Saving Bank, Atos Origin were recipients of the top honors in the industry categories.1
"2010 has seen the continuation of economic growth across many of the Asia Pacific economies and the re-emergence of growth for many companies," noted Kevin Eggleston, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, Hitachi Data Systems. "The pace of business is clearly accelerating. To keep up with this pace, IT teams have to display unprecedented levels of flexibility, agility and innovation. This year the IT Inspiration Award nominations clearly demonstrate excellence in IT flexibility, agility and innovation."
"Today’s global economy requires businesses to react at a moment’s notice. An agile data center driven by technologies such as virtualization and cloud is instrumental in a company’s ability to quickly adapt to changes," said Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems. "Showcases like the IT Inspiration Awards acknowledge the ingenuity and innovation that makes the IT scene in the Asia Pacific so vibrant and act as an encouragement to companies across the region to use technology to meet business demands."
The winners of the IT Inspiration Awards were feted at the Hitachi Data Systems’ annual Asia Pacific CIO Summit. The Summit brings together Hitachi executives, IT leaders, global thought leaders and analysts to examine and understand the burning business needs and technological issues of today.
Data center transformation was a key topic of discussion at this year’s CIO Summit. As the volume of data continues to explode, a fundamental transformation of the data center is required to manage that data—the most valuable assets of organizations. Hu Yoshida emphasized the importance of flexibility in building a resilient data center that is highly responsive to changing business and economic conditions, a sentiment that was echoed by the other participants.
The two-day Summit themed "A New Legend of Success" focused on the increasing importance of data, stressing that information is increasingly becoming the new currency for enterprises across Asia. With over 80 IT visionaries in attendance, the fusion of ideas set new benchmarks for technical innovation in the region, inspiring industry leaders to continue to build award winning technology deployments.
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About the IT Inspiration Awards
Encouraged by the positive response of last year, the IT Inspiration Awards 2010 has set an industry standard for excellence and generated enthusiasm from blue-chip companies and the IT community in Asia Pacific. Entries meeting the eligibility criteria were judged by a panel of qualified judges from Hitachi Data Systems and IDC. The award finalists are posted on the IT Inspiration Award Website (www.hds.com/apac/itia) and public voting for the winners in each category started on August 17, 2010 and closed on October 29, 2010.
With 128 nominations from over 70 companies from across the Asia Pacific region, the awards provide a unique platform for Asia Pacific’s leading enterprises to showcase technology deployments that propel businesses towards growth and sustainability. The nominations were also published online and users were invited to vote for their most inspirational deployment – over 1800 votes were received. Based upon the results of public voting and the judging panel, the award recipients were announced on November 10, 2010 at the IT Inspiration Awards Finale Ceremony at Tokyo, Japan in conjunction with the Hitachi Data Systems APAC CIO Summit.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi
Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility. With more than 4,300 employees worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems does business in more than 100 countries and regions. Hitachi Data Systems products, services and solutions are trusted by the world’s leading enterprises,
including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than 80 percent of the Fortune Global 100. Hitachi Data Systems believes that data drives our world – and information is the new currency. To learn more, visit: 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 360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) consolidated revenues totaled 8,968 billion yen ($96.4 billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems, power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at
http://www.hitachi.com.
© 2010, 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.
List of Winners
CIO of the CIOs
Nizam Arshad, VP IT, Telekom Malaysia, Malaysia
CIO of the Year
Award: Best Cloud Infrastructure Strategy
Award: Most Innovative Use of Technology
Award: Best Cost-Efficient IT Strategy
Award: Best Virtualization Strategy
