Aarhus United

"We are measured primarily on one thing: stable operation. Hitachi Data Systems' SAN solution is extremely stable and gives us security functions that are not available in distributed environments." — Esben Viskum, Systems Manager, Aarhus United

"We want to have the freedom to be able to change to the best technology available at any given time, which is why we only work with suppliers that subscribe to open standards." - Henrik Amsinck, IT Director, Aarhus United

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Advanced Information Systems

Thailand telecommunications service provider Advanced Info Service rings in more than half the nation's wireless business and shows no signs of losing market share. With its continual expansion of services and customers, Advanced Info Service needed to amplify its data storage performance, capacity, and stability. The company called Hitachi Data Systems and DataOne Asia, a Hitachi TrueNorth™ Channel Partner, for an Application Optimized Storage™ solution.

"Our continued success in a very competitive industry relies on the technology and services that support our business. The products, price, and performance provided by Hitachi Data Systems and DataOne Asia are remarkable." — Suphot Punnachaiya, Assistant Vice President of Technical Operations, Advanced Info Service

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AOK

"Together with Hitachi Data Systems' Global Solution Services (GSS) we were able to break the project down into various steps, despite its high complexity, and implement it within the set time." — Wolfgang Krause, Head of Production Systems, AOK-ISC Teltow

"We regarded Hitachi Data Systems as the solution supplier rather than as a mere component supplier. They assumed overall responsibility and helped us to implement a stable and productive solution." — Renee Torn, Head of AOK-ISC Teltow

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ATOS Origin

As a leading international IT services company, Atos Origin takes seriously its responsibility to deliver continuously improved offerings for both new and existing clients in order to stay at the head of the market. As part of supplying consulting, system integration, and managed operations to a major UK health care provider over an initial seven year period, Atos Origin sought Hitachi Data Systems’ support in implementing an innovative IT storage architecture to meet its customer’s changing demands and industry challenges.

“We’re very impressed by the pay-as-you-use utility storage service provided by Hitachi Data Systems. It means we can meet our customers’ needs quickly.” Peter Bready, Capacity Planning Manager, Atos Origin

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Austrian Federal Computing Centre

As it works to provide customized and innovative public administration solutions—supporting administrative organizations, automating processes of public administration, and ensuring problemfree application operation—the Austrian Federal Computing Centre (Bundesrechenzentrum GmbH or BRZ) requires a highly effective and reliable storage infrastructure. By choosing sophisticated storage solutions from Hitachi Data Systems, the Federal Computing Centre has centralized storage, increased reliability and availability, and more than halved its storage costs.

"Together with Hitachi Data Systems, we have managed to migrate all data from different locations in record time." — Wolfgang Danzinger, Director of IT Operations, Austrian Federal Computing Centre

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Banco Leon

Located in the Dominican Republic, Banco Leon, S. A., is a financial institution that has been present in the commercial and retail banking segment for two years. At present, it has over 230,000 customers and 54 branches spread throughout the country. To support these branches and customers, Banco Leon turned to Hitachi Data Systems for reliable data storage and proper support at the right cost.

"We are already enjoying the benefits of Hitachi Data Systems solutions. We have been able to increase the speed of data access and data availability by 40 percent. We cut our infrastructure management costs by 50 percent and we grew out productivity by 100 percent." — Wilfredo Soto, Vice President of IT, Banco Leon

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Basler Kantonalbank

"The environment's transparency and optimum use of resources are also major benefits that have led to significant cuts in administrative expenditure and much greater clarity. All in all,we now have a solid storage base that we can rely on 100%, even in catastrophic situations." — Stefan Tschumi, Project Manager, Basler Kantonalbank

"We needed a partner who could meet our deadline and budget requirements without compromising.The partnership of Hitachi Data Systems and LC Systems was able to deliver exactly this and more. The project benefited significantly from their many years of experience and specialist know-how." — Stefan Tschumi, Project Manager, Basler Kantonalbank

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BAWAG P.S.K.

After the merger of BAWAG and P. S. K., a landmark decision was made in 2001 in the company's IT division—to acquire a shared and practical IT storage solution. Until then, the company had an "enterprise solution." for its backups, including several automated solutions, but no storage area network (SAN). Four years later, BAWAG P. S. K. has optimally secured their banking and transaction data. To do this, the company tested and invested in the data storage infrastructure offered by Hitachi Data Systems over the past several years and regularly adapted the infrastructure to their increasing needs. Thanks to this, the company is now optimally prepared for the future growth of their data.

"Hitachi Data Systems gives us the best solutions and optimal service." — Herbert Bürger, Acting Head of the IT Division, BAWAG P.S.K.

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Bishop Burton College

Campus expansion and the ever-increasing generation of electronic data led Bishop Burton College, an education institute in the North of England, to invest, re-design, and centralize management of its data storage network. With the Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore Modular Storage, Hitachi Data Systems provided a scalable and robust solution, supporting future growth and making it possible for Bishop Burton College to reduce IT costs and efficiently allocate storage resources.

"We needed an economical and reliable solution to address current and future needs. C>Ways seamlessly implemented the Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore Modular Storage, which has improved our ability to manage storage capacity to meet individual user needs." — Alan Anderson, IT Manager, Bishop Burton College

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Bitburger Group

The goal of the Bitburger Brauerei (Group) was a high-availability storage solution without a single point of failure. At the same time, the new implementation of the storage solution was expected to be faster and more flexible, in order to better support

"Thanks to our mirrored hard-disk systems combined with regular backups,we are no longer faced with failures of business-critical applications in the event of a fault." — Uwe Siller, IT Manager, Bitburger Group

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BRE Bank SA

"Thanks to this implementation, it was possible to consolidate disk space within a single solution for open systems used in BRE Bank." — Tomasz Kowalczyk, Vice President of Information Technology, BRE Bank SA

"Besides price and the costs of future expansion as well as the cost of warranty service,we also took into consideration the conditions of service and quality, highly effective collaboration in the area of technical support." — Tomasz Kowalczyk, Vice President of Information Technology, BRE Bank SA

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B-Source

Increased demands in the most diverse business fields and the need for uncompromising fail-safe reliability have caused the Swiss financial service provider B-Source SA to reengineer the heterogeneous storage architecture of its two computing centers in Lugano-Pregassona and Adliswil from the ground up. A new storage area network (SAN) concept based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform and other high-end technologies from Hitachi Data Systems made it possible to easily fulfill the ambitious objectives.

"In particular, as far as the individual consultation, planning, and implementation are concerned, Hitachi Data Systems is a partner we can trust. They keep their promises." — Paolo Corecco, IT Architect, B-Source

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CASDEN Banque Populaire

CASDEN Banque Populaire is the cooperative banking organization for teachers and other personnel of France's Ministries of National Education, Research, and Culture. When the bank needed to implement a unified business continuity plan to ensure the protection and accessibility of services for its members, Hitachi Data Systems recommended a high-performance, cost-effective Fibre Channel/SATA mix solution based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS500.

"With little effort and many benefits, CASDEN overhauled the productivity and reliability of the bank's vital data without the expense or headache of overhauling the entire IT infrastructure. This would not have been possible without Hitachi Data Systems." — Jean-Claude Bouvry, IT Manager, Distributed Systems and Networks, CASDEN Banque Populaire

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Daegu Bank

"With this new backup system, we have not only established security but also high availability, while reducing the amount of work. This means we can provide better services to customers and bank employees, and secure an IT foundation for emerging as one of the best local banks." — Chae Seong-gyu, General Manager of the system operation team at the Daegu Bank Information System Headquarters.

"We were very cautious because the solution had yet to prove its performance. In the financial sector, backup is not a major task, but considering the possibility that a glitch might occur, we have to be extremely careful." — Jung Young Man, Manager of IT, Daegu Bank

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De Montfort University

With the University degree program moving towards a modular-based structure and students working across different faculties or schools, De Montfort University needed a single view of its disorganized and dispersed data. A storage area network built on Hitachi high-end modular storage and the advanced management capabilities of Hitachi HiCommand Suite software enabled De Montfort University to consolidate, access, and back up all of its information in one complete system.

"Hitachi Data Systems together with Viglen Storage Group provided us with a complete solution—they did not just sell us "a box" but actually sat down with us and went through the whole project, from concept and design all the way through installation." — Chris Semmens, Services Support Leader, De Montfort University

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Delta NV

"In the event of the failure of one of the sites, we can ensure that business-critical systems are up and running again within just four hours. This illustrates the enormous success that we've achieved at the storage level with our new Hitachi Data Systems infrastructure." — Hans de Moor, Head of IT Services, Delta NV

"In short, with Hitachi Data Systems, storage capacity has more than doubled without a proportionate increase in the total cost of ownership." — Hans de Moor, Head of IT Services, Delta NV

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Easynet Spain

"We found the Hitachi Data Systems solution to be very superior technically, and the reliability and monitoring characteristics of the modular storage give us confidence in the SAN." — Anthony Stanton, Technical Director, Easynet Spain

"Hitachi Data Systems was the winner, hands down. We liked Hitachi's modular storage design and Hitachi's quality/price ratio for services. It was clear that we could easily and endlessly scale our operations along Hitachi's comprehensive technology road map." — Anthony Stanton, Technical Director, Easynet Spain

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eBay

"Hitachi Data Systems has absolutely been the easiest vendor to work with. We've looked at the other vendors, but were concerned about potential restrictions or too much of a focus on other products besides storage. The Hitachi Data Systems team was very flexible and wanted to understand our needs." — Heather Peck, Senior Manager Site Infrastructure, eBay

"We saw results immediately when we went live with Hitachi Data Systems. The storage went live in our environment seamlessly, with little impact on our databases." — Heather Peck, Senior Manager Site Infrastructure, eBay

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Eesti Ühispank

"With HiCommand Device Manager, our operators can map, monitor and analyse the level of utilisation, allocate storage resources and identify and remedy any bottlenecks in the system. HiCommand Device Manager provides us with the information we need to plan our future storage requirements." — Ants Leitmäe, IT Director, Eesti Ühispank

"You should always go for the latest version if you want the best performance. Thunder 9570V is a module-based system offering solutions with the same superb technology, functionality and availability as Hitachi's enterprise systems." — Ants Leitmäe, IT Director, Eesti Ãœhispank

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Euronext.liffe

"The performance and functionality of the LIFFE CONNECT electronic trading platform, and the reliability of the underlying technology provided by Hitachi Data Systems,Cisco and BT, has enabled Market Solutions to expand both its business and worldwide reputation. The CBOT migration has further strengthened our position as the leading supplier and implementer of electronic trading solutions for exchanges." — Peter Shepherd, Director Sales & Marketing, Euronext.liffe Market Solutions

"Euronext.liffe entrusts over m1,000 billion of business a day to the electronic trading system, LIFFE CONNECT. Underpinning this is the storage solution provided by Hitachi, Cisco and BT." — Allan Mycroft Director Account Management Euronext.liffe Market Solutions

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Folksam

Folksam insures a large number of Sweden's homes, people, and vehicles. To keep pace with fast-growing data volumes and new business applications, Folksam wanted to double storage capacity, guarantee availability, simplify administration, install platforms, and migrate data—without disturbing business operations or increasing IT head count—in 120 days. Hitachi Data Systems provided a highly cost-effective and scalable solution based on Hitachi TagmaStore enterprise and modular storage.

"Hitachi Data Systems has proven to be a strong supplier with many good characteristics. They are not limited to products and competence, but also have customer care and service-mindedness beyond the usual." — Stefan Strömberg, Technical Storage Architect, Folksam

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Gmarket

When Gmarket, a burgeoning Internet retail company, began experiencing errors and interruptions in its database systems, it sought out a premier business continuity plan. An Application Optimized Storage solution from Hitachi Data Systems, based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, became the framework for a three data center disaster recovery architecture. Gmarket now has a resilient, high-performance platform to support its exponential growth.

"The three data center disaster recovery solution [from Hitachi Data Systems] is designed to meet global standards and to support content and services so that we can continue to compete effectively in the global Internet shopping mall market." — Mok Ju-young, Technology Team Manager, Gmarket

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Group Health Cooperative

To prevent costly downtime and gain scalability and flexibility for the long-term care of its storage environment—and the 550,000 members who depend on the availability of mission-critical data—the Group Health Cooperative implemented an Application Optimized Storage solution from Hitachi Data Systems.

"Hitachi Data Systems has been great to work with—from the account manager to the engineers and professional services—everyone pitched in to make our migration to the Universal Storage Platform a smooth one." — Chet Sulgrove, SAN Administrator, Group Health Cooperative

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GRZ IT Center

"We reduced back-up time from an hour to just minutes each day and enabled substantial expansion within the client workstation area to be achieved quickly, easily and economically." — Ernst Nimmervoll, Manager of Decentralised Systems, GRZ IT Center

"At the GRZ IT Center we are constantly on the lookout for possibilities to make our storage infrastructure simpler, faster and easier to manage.With the help of Hitachi Data Systems, we have achieved exactly that." — Dr Hermann Sikora, Managing Director, GRZ IT Center

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Hattrick

Players in Hattrick's internet football game were reaching 15,000 at a time. Their existing storage capacity had been reached and the site was slowing down. Players very soon lose interest if the site is slow to respond or is temporarily unavailable. Hattrick chose a new storage infrastructure that failed to deliver the capacity required and they began to suffer random failures. The supplier was alerted but no solution was forthcoming, so they turned to Hitachi Data Systems. Hattrick were loaned a data storage system which was installed, tested, and up and running in just two days. They then asked Hitachi Data Systems to design a robust, scalable, and lasting solution.

"When it comes to delivering worldclass information solutions, Hitachi Data Systems is not playing games." The reason why we chose Hitachi Data Systems was, to a great extent, the result of the superb assistance the gave us at Christmas. But, what we really appreciate most is the close dialogue we have with Hitachi Data Systems. This was something we really lacked with our previous supplier." — Johan Gustafson, Managing Director, Hattrick

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HDFC Bank

The bottom line for HDFC Bank, Ltd., a world-class financial institution in India with more than 500 branches offering online customer services, is real-time connectivity. This requirement demands a highly scalable and available SAN environment—the kind that can be created within a tiered storage solution based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.

"Learning about the role performed by Hitachi enterprise-class storage for our business has been thrilling." — Harish Shetty, Vice President of IT, HDFC Bank

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Holmesglen Institute of Technical and Further Education

"By leveraging high-performance Fibre Channel for our mission-critical application servers and iSCSI for all our peripheral servers,we have been able to maximize the value we receive from our SAN whilst reducing our connectivity costs by 60 percent." — Ron Gascoigne, Manager of Information Technology at Holmesglen.

"We've relied on and worked closely with Hitachi Data Systems, and as they have continued demonstrating their market leadership,we've been happy to continue upgrading with Hitachi products as needed." — Ron Gascoigne, Manager of Information Technology, Holmesglen Institute of Technical and Further Education

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Ilsan Hospital

"We selected the Universal Storage Platform to support relevant solutions in the future and effectively utilize heterogeneous storage now through virtualization." — Chung Sung-jik, Head of the Medical Information Team, Ilsan Hospital

"Stability, scalability, manageability, and economy are the utmost important factors for an IT infrastructure model. Hitachi products were chosen because of these advantages in the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform…[and] Hitachi Data Systems' high reliability as a storage solutions provider." — Chung Sung-jik, Head of the Medical Information Team, Ilsan Hospital

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Impsat Fiber Networks

"Impsat is clearly an early-adopter of communications and IT technologies. In the Data Center area, the new technologies we are adopting will help us converge in the middle term in the Utility Computing model.", pointed out Roberto Vigo. And he added that "since our customers are corporations, having state of the art technology is not enough. We have to make sure that our services meet their required quality standards. And in order to ensure this, we need the new technologies not only to be robust but also to have the right support. Hitachi Data System was also selected because of its storage product road map for the next years and their support structure in the region. We feel very comfortable with both of them". — Roberto E. Vigo, VP, Technology and Operations, Impsat Fiber Networks

"All throughout the solutions´ deployment process, our relationship with Hitachi Data Systems has been excellent, both from the technical point of view –solution design, technical resources training, equipment installation and after sale support- and the business point of view that includes the advantages of a single framework agreement for the region and a highly convenient leasing model". — Roberto E. Vigo, VP, Technology and Operations, Impsat Fiber Networks

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Intellidyn Corporation

Intellidyn Corporation processes, analyzes, and compiles millions of intricate information records in order to deliver customized consumer data, faster and more comprehensively than the competition, with zero-defect. Challenged with an avalanche of industry regulations, expanded services, and 24/7 availability demands, Intellidyn turned to Hitachi Data Systems for a very nimble, responsive, and ultra-scalable storage design. The solution was based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS500.

"Out of the box, without tuning, the Hitachi solution gave us an immediate 300 percent improvement of application performance." — Rajeev Kumar Gagneja, Chief Technology Officer, Intellidyn Corporation

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iplan networks

"This case reinforces our commitment to provide solutions designed to help our customers optimize the performance of their applications. Our storage systems Thunder 9570V are able to precisely fit the application needs of each company, featuring high connectivity, capacity and performance, ideal functions for companies that make an intensive use of information, such as iplan networks." — Enrique Mosiejko, Regional Director of Hitachi Data Systems for Latin America South.

"The main problem we had in our company was scalability. We supported the disk space required by applications with the internal disks of the servers, but this made space management highly complex. Hitachi Data Systems' technology offering allowed us to break away with the paradigm of server-supported growth. - Gerardo Rodríguez, Operations and Technology Manager, iplan networks

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Jefferson Union High School District

Jefferson Union High School District needed to expand the amount of data storage allocated to close to 5,500 students and more than 300 faculty to accommodate ever-increasing volumes of homework assignments, student records, and lesson plans that are retained electronically. The Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore Modular Storage helped the school district graduate to an ultra-scalable, easy-to-manage networked solution.

"The transparency of the [Plug-and-play] SAN Kit from Hitachi Data Systems is amazing…. It's extremely fast, simple to use, and reduces the need for another skill set we thought we had to acquire." — Lou Silberman, Director of IT, Jefferson Union High School District

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Korea Telecom Freetel

"The future of an information technology company depends on cutting-edge technologies and customer services. Since we haven't had any Hitachi storage systems before, it was a real challenge to save crucial customer data in new equipment. It turned out that the Hitachi Lightning 9980V system offered a high level of reliability, and the new system is now managing information for 11. 8 million customers in a fast and safe way." — Kang Ji-Kwang, Senior Manager, IT Infra Team, Information Technology Group, KTF

"The Hitachi Lightning 9980V system is showing excellent performance and is also expected to offer lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and higher return on investment (ROI). We expect to cut costs by as much as US$4.5 million per year with deployment of the Lightning 9980V system. This savings will also help KTF to reach its goal of increasing profits by US$53 million over the next three years." — Lee Tae-Jae, Team Manager, IT Infra Team, Information Technology Group, KTF

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Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives

"In the past, system disks were managed separately in order to secure tape-based backup or adjust storage volume. The new system, however, allows for managing most disks through storage management software, improving not only efficiency but also system operations." — Kim Jong-pil, IT Manager for Open Systems, KFCC

"With transaction volume surging year after year, we identified a strong need for an enterprise-class integrated storage system and a need for efficient back-up of data. Therefore, we decided to promote integrated disk management and introduction of internal data replication function." — Park Kyeong-jeon, IT Manager, Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC)

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A Large Financial Institution

As a provider of U. S. real estate and financial services, a Large Financial Institution wanted to centralize and streamline transactional processes to better service customers and grow revenue. The institution called for a solution that would transcend their existing EMC infrastructure to achieve these goals as well as meet new storage and disaster recovery requirements. Hitachi Data Systems answered the challenge with a highly available, virtualized tiered-storage solution.

"Our institution needed an extraordinary level of stretch—the flexibility to morph and maneuver alongside our hallmark production system. We selected Hitachi Data Systems, which exceeded our expectations with next-generation ardware and software, plus a strategic partnership." — Assistant Vice President of Performance Management, a Large Financial Institution

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LG Electronics Inc

"We used to run 19 storage management points, all of which were very complicated. But Hitachi Data Systems and LG Hitachi offered professional consulting, solutions and technologies, helping us to finish this project perfectly. Compared with the past, we are now running a far simpler and more powerful storage management infrastructure. That's why we have been using Hitachi technologies and products for more than 10 years." — Munseob Song, Assistant Manager of the Process Innovation Team at LG Electronics Inc.

"Cutting-edge SAN and NAS convergence technology based on the Hitachi Lightning 9980V has provided fast speed and reliability to our company, especially when we do business for the global market. In particular, migration work has been completed seamlessly, without any inconvenience to LG Electronics employees around the world." — KangSeok Chung, Process Innovation Team Leader, LG Electronics Inc.

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LG Electonics Changwon Factory

"The Universal Storage Platform 'recycles' outdated storage systems and minimizes problems by reducing the time needed for backup and data management." — Ahn Tae-Kyu, Assistant Manager of Information System Center Production Information Administration, LG Electronics Changwon Factor

"Hitachi virtualization technology has largely contributed to our process innovation and our business objectives." — Choi Duk-Ryeol, Team Leader of Process Innovation, LG Electonics Changwon Factory

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MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG

"The Hitachi Data Systems solution more or less convinced me right away. Of all the products we had looked at, HiCommand Storage Services Manager software immediately impressed me as being the most modern and most suitable for our environment." — Roman Graminger, Project Manager, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG

"We now have total visibility and control of our SAN resources. Complexity is no longer an issue and we are able to take advantage of emerging tools and techniques quickly, easily, and without disruption." — Roman Graminger, Project Manager, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG

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NACA Logistics

"This technology came the closest in helping us achieve our technical requirements and goals in terms of customer service." — Michael Gomez, NACA Senior System and Network Engineer

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National Healthcare Group

National Healthcare Group, one of Singapore's largest health care organizations, needed to consolidate disparate systems and improve business continuity to remove barriers to better patient services and lower operation costs. The solution? Hitachi Data Systems' tiered storage virtualization and advanced replication using a dual Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller design and support from Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services.

"Thanks to Hitachi Data Systems, our storage is no longer the limiting factor in terms of reliability and availability. This is one important step toward ensuring that our applications are always on and ready to meet the needs of our patients. — Linus Tham, CIO, National Healthcare Group

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Nielsen//NetRatings

Internet ratings giant Nielsen/NetRatings needed to propel its consumer-driven data onto a higher-performing, always-on storage platform to ensure continuous delivery of client data analytics. With a new solution, comprising Hitachi TagmaStore® Network Storage Controller for storage virtualization and Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage for unification of network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs), Nielson//NetRatings now measures high ratings in storage performance and security.

"Finally, our storage architecture now delivers a significant gain in performance. The flexibility and velocity of the NSC55, in particular, helps us to manage all the servers, the connections, and the failover in a completely transparent manner." — Eric Celeyrette, Director of Technical Operations, Nielsen//NetRatings

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NoWon District Office

"It is remarkable that all the disparate storage systems are now integrated into a single system. Especially satisfying is the fact that outmoded equipment is being reused after value adjustment. As the midrange product families are utilized for sstorage-to-storage mirroring, we do not worry about saving important data or backup because we have enough capacity," said the IT Manager of NoWon District. "The HDS system has proven its reliability in the finance and securities sectors, and we are deeply interested in the disaster recovery system which will be linked to Hitachi Lightning 9980V enterprise storage system."

"The budget was set up in December 2003 and the storage integration plan started from May 2004 and completed by October 2004. As the project took as long as one year, the district office had high expectations on the new system. In fact, electronic signing process is now significantly faster, resulting in improved overall performance." — Lee Ki-jae, Administrator of NoWon District Office

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Pacific Capital Bancorp

Pacific Capital Bancorp, a fast-growing California based financial institution, needed to reconcile disparate systems and address data retention and shrinking backup window issues to meet requirements for compliance, storage, and future growth. Solution? Create a data lifecycle management strategy based on a tiered storage infrastructure with Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services and the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.

"Because Pacific Capital Bancorp's data needs continue to change and grow with its business needs, we went looking for a vendor to provide a complete storage infrastructure, technical guidance, and ongoing support. Hitachi [Data Systems] had it all." — Al Todd, Senior Vice President of IT, Pacific Capital Bancorp

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Pacific Hydro

When Pacific Hydro, a fast-growing Australian renewable energy company, faced rapid growth with an inflexible storage infrastructure, it sought out a centralized, cost-efficient tiered storage solution. Hitachi Data Systems answered the challenge with a solution based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200, which would serve as the framework for an easy-to-manage storage area network (SAN).

"The implementation was as smooth as silk. Hitachi Data Systems and Global Storage proposed a clear-cut solution to our storage problem, and we trusted them to deliver on it, which they did perfectly." — Daniel Hayward, Global IT Manager, Pacific Hydro

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Pieper and Associates

How does a small business obtain networked storage without having to hire a storage area network (SAN) expert or purchase expensive storage management software? Pieper and Associates, a growing design agency, faced that challenge as large design files and rapid data growth were quickly outpacing the agency's storage capacity. The Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore Modular Storage provided the answer.

"For a small business, the Plug-and-play SAN Kit [from Hitachi Data Systems] is an extraordinary advantage. The hours I save can now be used for more important things like running my business and spending additional time with my family." — Jeff Pieper, Owner, Pieper and Associates

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Port of Brisbane Corporation

The Port of Brisbane, Australia, expects to double ship-freight tonnage on its docks by the year 2025 and is building new wharves to accommodate the growth in shipping traffic. To shore up existing data storage, Port technology officials engaged Hitachi Data Systems and its Technology Partner ordyss to build a highly available and scalable network environment and one of the world's first Microsoft stretch clusters using Hitachi storage.

"Today, we're confident that our data is safe. The Hitachi storage cluster solution allows the Port to provide the greater security and expanded services that simply were not possible before this implementation." — Tony Marles, IT Manager, Port of Brisbane Corporation

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Postal Remittance and Savings Bank

"This mixed-protocol solution allowed PRSB to leverage existingassets with iSCSI for high availability, high scalability, and high performance—all while maintaining the reasonable budget the bank had established for the project." - Y.C.Yu, Account Manager, Postal Remittance and Savings Bank

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PT Indosat Tbk

Indosat Melds Three Storage Infrastructures into a Single Environment with Hitachi Enterprise Storage

"One of the biggest advantages of the Hitachi Data Systems virtualization strategy is that it simplifies the management and monitoring of storage. It also allows us great flexibility in terms of data migration and data replication." - Joseph Chan, Director of IT, Indosat

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Ressources Mutuelles Group

One of France's largest mutual insurance carriers was prospering with a growing customer base and expanding services, but it was also facing mounting compliance regulations and limited data storage capacity. To ensure a new business continuity policy and keep 24/7 business operations running smoothly, Ressources Mutuelles Group called on Hitachi Data Systems for a dual-site storage architecture based on Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller and Hitachi Universal Replicator software.

"Ideally, we were looking for a storage vendor to provide scalability, reliability, performance, and integration capabilities, as well as a cost-effective and growth-oriented business continuity solution. We found it all with the Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controllers." — Laurent Lucas, Head of IT Production, Ressources Mutuelles Group

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SCM Group

There are some two million of SCM Group's machines installed in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Following a number of strategic acquisitions, the SCM Group completed its automated machine and integrated systems range for the furniture manufacturing industry in the second half of the eighties. This, together with expansion into new markets and the opening of new markets led to a need for a more efficient and robust information infrastructure. The SCM Group also needed to maximise data protection and improve application and service performance. Hitachi Data Systems, together with its local solutions partner Cinetica, was chosen to deliver an open, scalable and reliable information infrastructure that would meet SCM Group's needs in full.

"We wanted to adopt open solutions that would not tie us to any proprietary technology. Hitachi Data Systems were able to offer exactly what we needed." — Pier Marino Giardi, Group system administrator, SCM Group

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

As Shanghai Jiao Tong University's data center demands grew, its diverse storage systems were unable to keep up, prompting the university to seek a better-integrated, more expandable storage system. Hitachi Data Systems provided the answer with a solution built on Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage and Hitachi software.

"The SAN system with the [Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage] model AMS500 as its core has provided high stability, reliability, scalability, and ease-of-management for our storage environment in the Network Information Center." — Mr. Huang Bao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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SingHealth