The Hitachi TrueNorth Advisor Partner Program is a venue for partners to earn substantial consultative services income with minimum or no capital investment. Eligible partners for this program include:

• IT technology-savvy consultants
• Planners
  
• Analysts
• Experienced server application engineers
• Retired storage systems resellers
• Solution implementers

The program has benefits whether you are just entering the storage solutions market or are developing a consulting services business. It is a simple and profitable path to work with one of the industry's most strategic and innovative manufacturers of storage solutions on the market.
This unique Partner program will also help you grow and support your consulting with exclusive access to:

• Advanced training options
• State of the art solution guides
• Accessible and simple business model

A Hitachi TrueNorth Advisor Partner is an authorized Hitachi Data Systems consultancy that earns referral fees for each unique and approved opportunity it brings that later converts into a completed sale. A Hitachi TrueNorth Advisor Partner helps end user buyers make better-informed decisions for the most appropriate storage solution that best meets their needs. Advisor Partners provide consultative services and are not necessarily involved in the selling phase of the transaction.
To apply, please fill out the form in the link below:

• Under "Applying For" select "Unassigned"
  
• Under "Type" select "Partner Advisor"
  
  

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Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global IT services company. CSC’s mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

With approximately 91,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC’s own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. CSC reported revenue of $16.1 billion for the 12 months ended Dec. 28, 2007. www.csc.com.

GlassHouse Technologies is the industry’s leading independent consulting firm with proven experience transforming IT infrastructure. TransomSM, GlassHouse’s proprietary methodology, aligns business processes and information technology systems, transforming the client’s existing infrastructure into scalable, compliant, cost-efficient and tightly organized environments. GlassHouse consultants architect, implement, and operate IT environments to drive high performance and agility. GlassHouse clients include Allianz, Virgin Mobile, State Street Global Advisors, Morgan Stanley, Biogen, Aetna, and Wells Fargo. www.glasshouse.com.

Hitachi Consulting Corporation is the global business and IT consulting company of Hitachi, Ltd., and a recognized leader with deep industry, business and technology experience.

From business strategy development through application deployment, Hitachi Consulting is committed to helping clients quickly realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI. Hitachi Consulting offers the agility of a smaller firm, the stability of larger firms, and the innovation that comes with being part of Hitachi.

Hitachi Consulting provides Hitachi Data Systems with in-depth expertise at the business level, developing best business practices with industry leader SAP. Hitachi Consulting also provides robust application, platform and implementation expertise across industry leaders including Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. www.hitachiconsulting.com.

IBM® Global Services, the technology services and consulting division of International Business Machines, is the world's biggest provider of systems integration and technology consulting. It offers services in such areas as application development, data storage, infrastructure management, networking and technical support. IBM Global Services is also among the world leaders in providing business consulting and outsourcing services. The unit provides services to both public and private sector customers throughout the world. www.ibm.com.

AXS-One Inc. (AMEX: AXO) is a leading provider of high performance Records Compliance Management solutions. The AXS-One Compliance Platform enables organizations to implement secure, scalable and enforceable policies that address records management for corporate governance, legal discovery and industry regulations such as SEC17a-4, NASD 3010, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, The Patriot Act and Gramm-Leach Bliley. AXS-One's award-winning technology has been critically acclaimed as best of class and delivers digital archiving, business process management, electronic document delivery and integrated records disposition and discovery for e-mail, instant messaging, images, SAP and other corporate records. Founded in 1979, and headquartered in Rutherford, NJ, AXS-One has offices worldwide including in the United States, Australia, Singapore, United Kingdom and South Africa.

Agfa HealthCare, part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, provides advanced imaging and healthcare IT systems & services for clinical specialties and healthcare facility management. These systems and services span the entire healthcare enterprise, allowing facilities to improve efficiency and productivity while promoting advances in patient safety, medical outcomes, and quality.

Agfa HealthCare's solutions work across departmental disciplines to integrate information and to streamline the workflows and operations of hospitals, imaging centers, specialty clinics and other healthcare facilities. Imaging systems capture, process, and manage diagnostic images from a multitude of sources within and beyond the healthcare enterprise, integrating into a variety of workflows and systems. Specific Imaging & IT solutions serve several medical specialties and departments including radiology, laboratory, cardiology, orthopedics and Intensive Care Units.

Akorri cross-domain performance management software with advanced analytics provides automated visibility and analysis across IT silos to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization, and improve performance in the virtualized data center. Akorri BalancePoint virtual appliance provides visibility into the root cause of performance issues through deep drill down into server and storage resources, and the ability to understand both server and storage virtualization. BalancePoint enables IT organizations to optimize performance and capacity to meet service level objectives at the lowest possible cost.

A pioneer in the enterprise information management (EIM) arena and a global provider of software solutions. The company's Alero™ products line combines enterprise content integration, enterprise information integration, enterprise content management, and business process management technologies under a single, uniform solution. Designed to manage any information in a production-level transaction processing environment, Alero Technology’s EIM development framework can be integrated and embedded into existing business applications or deployed as complete out-of-the-box solutions, speeding deployment and reducing development costs. The solutions are developed on a J2EE, XML, Unicode and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Aptare an industry leader in data backup solutions is proud to join with Hitachi Data Systems featuring HiCommand Backup Services Manager, powered by Aptare. This software dramatically improves the reliability of enterprise-level reporting and control of back-up activities while significantly reducing operational costs with its real-time reporting and service level management capabilities.

Provides leading Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for enterprise customers, offers software for file system archiving and retention, regulatory compliance, storage consolidation, backup and recovery optimization, and capacity management across a tiered-storage infrastructure.

Leading organizations reduce costs by applying cloud computing to backup and recovery with efficient,cost-effective and transformational solutions from Asigra. Customers consistently redirect savings derived from our approach to projects of higher strategic and personal value,many of which have been on-hold for a year or more.

Atempo is a leading provider of comprehensive solutions for cross-platform data protection and archiving in the global enterprise. From large, centralized data centers and distributed enterprises to small remote offices, Atempo provides highly-scalable backup and recovery, archiving and security solutions for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, UNIX, iSeries and all major databases and applications. For real-time data protection of laptops and desktops, Atempo’s award-winning Continuous Data technology captures changes as they occur, allowing information to be recovered up to the moment of data loss or hardware failure. Atempo has more than 3,000 customers worldwide, with a sales and support network of global resellers. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., and has operations in Europe and Asia.

BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas, and life sciences. BlueArc products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. BlueArc NAS products power the Hitachi Data Systems NAS offerings. For more information, visit www.bluearc.com.

Brocade is the leading provider of data center networking solutions that help organizations connect, share and manage their information in the most efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management.

IBytes Technology Group is one of the fastest-growing premier software and service providers. We provide software services and infrastructure solutions to a large cross section of companies – from the largest listed organisations to youthful SMEs.

The Bytes Technology Group in the UK is wholly owned by Bytes Technology Group (South Africa), part of Altron, the South African computing and electronics conglomerate. In a market which is highly competitive, the company has shown impressive and consistent growth over the last few years.

One of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT in a secure way for greater business results. Our tools and expertise help customers manage risk, improve service, manage costs and align their IT investments with their business needs. This new approach, Enterprise IT Management (EITM), is our vision for the future of IT and how customers can realize the full power of their technology. Today, we serve more than 98 percent of the Global 1000® companies, as well as government organizations, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.

The COI Consulting for Office and Information Management GmbH was founded in 1988. The enterprise belongs to the technologically leading suppliers in the areas of storage, documents and workflow management. Today our numerous and well-experienced employees analyze the needs and requirements of our customers and interested parties.

Founded in 1991, CSP is a leading vendor of Database Archiving Solutions for the manufacturing industry. CSP provides tools for archiving enterprise databases from multiple vendors in an independent, open archive format, allowing customers to reduce storage requirements, improve performance and make gains in the backup and recovery processes.

A developer and manufacturer of software solutions that address the storage, management, and safeguarding of vast quantities of data generated in a wide range of businesses and applications. The company’s Information Lifecycle Management solutions for Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 and Novell NetWare environments include comprehensive administrative policies that allow organizations to reclaim storage resources, dramatically reduce backup and recovery time, control file retention, and achieve regulatory compliance. CaminoSoft has established alliances with industry-leading technology partners, and the company markets its Storage Management and High Availability solutions worldwide through commercial distributors, value-added resellers, and systems integrators.

Carestream Health, Inc., is a leading provider of medical and dental imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions; molecular imaging systems for the life science research and drug discovery/development market segments; and x-ray film and digital x-ray products for the non-destructive testing market. The company emerged in 2007 when Onex Corporation of Toronto, Canada, purchased Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group. Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., Carestream Health operates in more than 150 countries worldwide and owns more than 1,000 patents in digital imaging, film and imaging chemistry.

Ceyoniq Technology GmbH produces software for enterprise content management, document management, and archiving. Ceyoniq’s products and solutions, as integration systems, enable optimized connection to existing business applications. With 120 employees, Ceyoniq has offices in Bielefeld, Munich, Cologne, and Berlin. DEVK Rückversicherungs- und Beteiligungs-AG, VHV Beteiligungs-AG and DEVK Private Equity GmbH are partners of Ceyoniq Technology GmbH. TUI AG, the German Sparkasse [savings bank] organization, RWE AG, the police in Lower Saxony, and Deutsche Postbank AG are just some of the users of Ceyoniq technologies.

Ceyoniq’s software product, nscale, is a highly-integrated standard application platform for enterprise content management, document management, and digital archiving. The platform has a sophisticated architecture that can control and handle the most diverse storage repositories (like WORM, tape, Tivoli, hard disk, DVD/CD, and more). nscale can be easily introduced into existing infrastructures.

Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking, offers a complete data center portfolio of secure, intelligent data, storage, and server networking products. With a common set of intelligent networking services, the integration of these products and technologies into network architectures enables the consolidation of compute, storage, and network resources within and between data centers.

Clearwell delivers the industry's leading enterprise-class e-discovery management solution that enables corporations and law firms to manage all of their legal, regulatory, and investigative matters with a single, easy-to-use application. With Clearwell, attorneys, litigation support professionals, and forensics teams are streamlining collections, accelerating early case assessments, culling-down data by up to 90%, increasing review throughput , reducing movement of data across multiple tools, and improving the defensibility of their electronic discovery process

CommVault® provides Unified Data Management™ solutions for high- performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. The CommVault® QiNetix™ platform, based on CommVault's Common Technology Engine, integrates Galaxy backup and recovery, snapshot management and recovery, active data migration and archiving, e-mail compliance, enterprise service level management and reporting and storage resource management software solutions. The QiNetix unified approach is designed to allow customers to add/integrate QiNetix components, at a fraction of the time, effort and money required by separate point products.

Configuresoft, the world's leading enterprise server configuration management provider, delivers the Configuration Intelligence® that brings automation and intelligence to IT operations. Hundreds of organizations, including 13 of the world's 25 largest companies, rely on Configuresoft to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of today's physical and virtualized IT environments. Configuresoft's team of security and policy experts ensure continuous compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and industry standards such as PCI DSS and Microsoft and VMware Hardening Guides.

Continuity Software, Inc. is the leader in Data Protection Optimization. Our primary product, RecoverGuard™, enables enterprises to easily detect data protection gaps and risks, ensure protection of critical business data, manage service level agreements (SLAs), and better utilize existing data protection implementations by adopting industry best practices..

Continuity Software helps Hitachi Data Systems customers optimize their data protection investments, ensure their data is protected according to the business protection SLA, and identify any areas in their critical business infrastructure that are not properly protected.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Crossroads Systems is a global leading provider of data security, resiliency and connectivity solutions. Crossroads FileMigrator Agent (FMA) is a software file migration solution that provides systematic migration of inactive and rarely used data on Windows file servers to CIFS-connected Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) devices.

Cyberdigm is a ready-to-serve at any time e-business service firm based in Korea.

d.velop is a successful provider of innovative solutions for enterprise content management and digital business process optimization based on the integral archive-, document- and workflow-management system d.3
Since the foundation in 1992, d.velop optimizes the document-supported work-processes of their customers with branch independent products.

DecaSoft provides consulting and implementation services for enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) solutions, including FileNet®.

Digi-Data has created storage solutions for nearly 50 years and has continued to grow its offerings through Strategic Partners. As an established provider of permanent secure retention solutions for digital assets, Digi-Data has helped partners meet the digital demand on consumers. For nearly half a century Digi-Data has provided storage solutions to scientific, government, private sector, non-profit, broadcast and post production, and healthcare industries.

Diligent Technologies is a world-class innovator in enterprise-class disk-based storage solutions.

Dream Security provides various products that enhance security authentication. Our authority management systems are needed by many companies and agencies that use various applications, and our E-document related products can store and keep digital documents that are necessary for the next generation revolution of documents. Founded in 2000, Dream Security, based in Korea, supplies solutions to the Korean Ministry of Government and Home Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, mobile communication companies, many financial institutions and global enterprises like Samsung.

With more than 9,600 customer installations, EASY SOFTWARE AG of Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany is a leading developer and provider of multi-platform solutions in the electronic archiving, document management and enterprise content management sectors.

Emulex Corporation is the leading supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, with most of the world's leading suppliers of servers and storage systems selecting Emulex products. The acquisition of Giganet extends Emulex's position in storage networking host bus adapters into the IP arena.

Enigma Data Solutions provides sophisticated information management software and consultancy services that address today’s information management and storage demands. Our independent solutions enable businesses facing intensive data storage challenges to operate more effectively by preserving strategic data and reducing Total Cost of Ownership.

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data protection, delivering proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity.

FileTek, Inc. is a premier provider of data storage and access management solutions, enabling enterprises, worldwide and across multiple industry segments, to effectively manage and rapidly access ever-growing volumes of historical data.

Since 1984, FileTek has provided comprehensive data management systems to companies and government agencies worldwide. From our StorHouse high-volume data management solutions to our Trusted Edge Desktop Data Management Suite for the front-end desktop applications market, we maintain the same steady focus: Enhancing information lifecycle management processes for all categories of data.

Fujifilm brings continuous innovation and leading-edge products to a broad spectrum of industries including medical, life sciences, consumer electronic, chemical, graphic arts, information systems, photography and office products based on its vast portfolio of digital, optical, fine chemical and thin film coating technologies. The company provides products and services that contribute to the advancement of culture, science, technology and industry, as well as to improved health and environmental protection. It is the global leader in digital minilabs; Computed Radiography systems; ink dyes, pigments and UV inks for inkjet printers and materials used in the production of flat panel displays. It was ranked number 15 for U.S. patents granted in 2006, employs more than 75,000 people worldwide and in the year ended March 31, 2007, had global revenues of $23.6 billion.

GWAVA is the worldwide leader of software solutions for Novell GroupWise and Novell Teaming. GWAVA continues to lead the GroupWise partner community with email retention, anti-spam, anti-virus, and content control and email management on Linux, NetWare and Windows.

Hewlett Packard is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. Hewlett Packard is proud to work together with Hitachi Data Systems to offer HiCommand Storage Services Manager as a consolidated management platform to ease the complexities associated with managing heterogeneous storage environments. HiCommand Storage Services Manager delivers the strong foundation of heterogeneous storage infrastructure and storage resource management based on industry standards to ensure application availability and quality of service, maximize storage resource utilization, simplify operational complexities, and reduce capital costs.

Hitachi Data Systems and IBM have a relationship that dates back to the early days of Storage- many decades ago. Together we work at all levels and across many organizations to create a storage vision for all of our mutual customers. Our joint relationship focuses on such key areas as interoperability, research and product development, consulting and support.

Incipient, Inc.(Incipient) was founded on the vision of providing a scalable, network-resident software platform that offers storage services to reduce cost and simplify operational complexity in mid-sized to enterprise-sized storage environments. Its software leverages next-generation intelligent Fibre Channel (FC) switch technology as the platform where it delivers a common set of storage services throughout an enterprise storage area network (SAN) environment, independent of host systems and storage arrays.

Incipient’s product, the Incipient Network Storage Platform (Incipient NSP), is a software platform with layered add-on applications, each providing a separate storage solution such as Network Data Mobility, Network Volume Management, and Network Copy Services. Incipient NSP supports heterogeneous storage infrastructures and enables data lifecycle management strategies and heterogeneous tiered storage environments.

Incipient NSP software resides in the network, embedded in intelligent FC switches. Its management console is located on a separate host system. Incipient NSP either supports or will support intelligent FC switches manufactured by industry leading companies such as Cisco, Brocade, McDATA, and others.

Incipient, Inc., a Waltham, MA-based high-technology company, takes advantage of intelligent storage networking platforms with software that allows customers to manage, move, and protect data seamlessly, regardless of where or on what platform that data is stored...whether it’s in a homogeneous or heterogeneous storage environment.

Applimation is the leading independent provider of enterprise data management solutions for Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and custom applications. By providing a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to achieve their Information Lifecycle Management objectives, Applimation’s Informia Suite drives cost-effective management of both production and non-production databases.

INNOVATION Data Processing is the leading single source for business resiliency and privacy information protection software solutions providing nondisruptive, high-performance data protection, business continuity, and data lifecycle management for Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Netware, Linux, and IBM® z/OS® enterprise storage systems. INNOVATION is the provider of the FDR (Fast Dump Restore) Suite, the business resiliency software of choice for thousands of z/OS customer sites around the globe. Over all 5,000 users in the United States and 35 other countries look to INNOVATION for their business continuance solution.

INNOVATION maintains a co-operative technology exchange agreement on software solutions for Hitachi disk storage products. INNOVATION solutions help to eliminate business downtime for Hitachi Data Systems customers by applying FlashCopy data replication technology to the basic storage management operations of backup, restore, and disaster recovery. INNOVATION products are particularly well known for their inventiveness in supporting nondisruptive installation of Hitachi storage systems with nondisruptive migration of active system data to new equipment and support of security/privacy requirements with fast secure erasure of data from old equipment.

Headquartered in Reston, VA, Intellitactics provides a suite of complementary security incident and event management (SIEM) products for organizations of all sizes. Well-known as the provider of Intellitactics Security Manager, the optimal enterprise security management solution, to the largest organizations in the world, Intellitactics has expanded its product leadership with a line of security management appliances, Intellitactics SAFE. The combination of the appliances and software products underscores Intellitactics’ product leadership in providing solutions for log management, compliance, threat management and incident response to every organization regardless of size or purchasing power. By combining any of the products of the suite, global organizations can effectively distribute SIEM capabilities outside headquarters. Complementary to Security Manager is Intellitactics™ SAM, which features security assurance metrics™ on a configurable dashboard. Intellitactics was awarded Common Criteria Certification in December 2004, making it the first software provider to earn this certification as a SIEM solution. Founded in 1996, Intellitactics is backed by JMI Equity Fund LP and Lazard Technology Partners and is ranked by well-known industry analysts as a market leader known for product development, delivery and thought leadership.

Intense Technologies is an enterprise software products company offering a range of productized solutions across the Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Customer Communication Management domains. Intense's solutions are backed by an intricate understanding of the best practices drawn from client engagements across verticals like Telecom, Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing.

Intercom is a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of standard solutions for peripherals, storage systems and PC host connectivity. Founded in 1975, the company maintains offices in the USA and works with distributors in many countries throughout Europe and overseas.

Since it`s foundation Intercom has developed many innovative solutions in the IBM and Fujitsu Siemens Mainframe environment. Latest products are a Virtual Tape System of the second generation and a Virtual Optical Disk System. The Systems are connected between the open systems interface of the Storage System and the Channel Interface of the mainframe environment and converts the disk-based system into an IBM 3490 (VTS) compatible Virtual Tape System or IBM 3995 compatible Virtual Optical Disk System. This enables mainframe applications such as Tape Management Systems, IBM’s Content Manager, Mobius and other OAM application to access the Hitachi Disk Storage Systems directly without any additional changes on the mainframe.

Acknowledged as one of the leading IT companies in Russia, Kraftway has been successfully serving the computer market since its inception in 1993. Its comprehensive product range comprises work and graphic stations; workgroup and enterprise servers; super-reliable industrial hardware; as well as POS systems. The Company has direct agreements with the world's leading device and software manufacturers to integrate their technology breakthroughs into its own products.

Mawell is an innovative and fast growing Nordic healthcare technology company. Mawell provides solutions internationally to private and public healthcare organizations and pharmaceutical companies. Mawell relies on extensive industry knowledge, open standards and patient centric technology. Mawell provides customer centric technology bringing efficiency and effectiveness enabling more time to care. Mawell leads the market in Virtualized Patient Informatics (VPI) bringing its status as the market leader in Northern Europe to the rest of the world.

Founded in 1995, Messaging Architects specializes in email lifecycle management solutions across numerous sectors including government, education, healthcare and corporate. Our software and services provide 100% email uptime and compliance by addressing the need for policy-driven, email risk management (security, content filtering, archiving and e-discovery)

Hitachi Data Systems, in collaboration with Microsoft and other partners develop solutions for the Hitachi lines of storage and management software that help customers take full advantage of their Microsoft Windows environments. These solutions ensure seamless support of Windows, helping any organization—from the smallest to the largest enterprise—reduce the cost and complexity of running their business.

Addresses critical customer requirements around e-mail recovery, storage optimization, legal discovery and regulatory compliance. A comprehensive solution for e-mail information management, Mimosa NearPoint provides immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, e-mail archiving and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage, NearPoint also optimizes e-mail storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

ASG provides software solutions to over 85 percent of the world’s largest companies. Through its comprehensive Business Service Management (BSM) solution, Business Service Platform™, ASG is an established BSM provider with a strong heritage in Content, Metadata, Applications, Operations, Performance, Infrastructure and Identity Management technologies. ASG enables clients to reduce costs, enhance customer service, meet business objectives and truly go beyond BSM. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held company based in Naples, Florida, with more than 90 offices around the world.

Moonwalk Universal develops software for enterprise scale Information Lifecycle Management across various environments that currently include Netware, Windows and Linux. Moonwalk, a new generation Policy Based File Management System, can be applied to a variety of operations including Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), Archiving, Disaster Recovery and structured File Management.

The National Digital Medical Archive, Inc. (NDMA), headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, develops, designs and delivers a healthcare data management and communications platform that enables on-demand access, visualization and distribution of diagnostic quality images and related clinical data.

NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE Systems) is the leading provider of Insight from Interactions solutions and value-added services, powered by advanced analytics of unstructured multimedia content – from telephony, web, radio and video communications.

Founded in 1994, NTP Software is the worldwide leader in the real-time control and management of unstructured data.

Newgen Software Technologies Limited is the market leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and Document Management System (DMS), with a global footprint of over 700 installations in over 30 countries.

Headquartered in Hong Kong for over 20 years, Nikoyo (Holdings) Limited leads the operations of its four subsidiaries, Nikoyo (HK) Limited, Nikoyo (Beijing) Electronics Systems Co. Limited, Zanrong Electronics Technology Co. Limited and Nikoyo Electronics Systems (Shenzhen) Co. Limited, as a diversified computer business with 700 employees.

Nikoyo focuses on computer network storage systems integration. Relying on software development, Nikoyo conducts research and development for the replacement and deployment of disaster recovery, document imaging/acceleration, network monitoring, resources monitoring, tape backup, historical data backup and disaster recovery software modification.

North King is a software enterprise founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing, China, in 2000, whose total shares are held by both the management team and core personnel.

Ocarina Networks is a leader in online storage optimization solutions. Organizations of all sizes use Ocarina's content-aware optimization technology to reduce their storage footprint and achieve a ten-fold capacity increase on their current storage systems. The Hitachi Data Systems and Ocarina partnership offers the Hitachi NAS Platform as "Ocarina Optimized," providing a way for customers to keep pace with massive data growth and related requirements by cost-effectively increasing the capacity of new installed storage systems.

A leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations.Today,the company supports 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide.

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS (OS), founded in 1991 in Berlin, counts today with 120 employees in its four locations in Germany, as well as with a wide network of partners in Austria, Switzerland and other European countries. Daily, many users are working with the software solutions of OS, which realised about 750 installations for over 450 customers in a variety of companies and organisations. Customers of OS are both in the industry or the service sector, and in the public administration or in the health system: about 100 city councils and regional administrations, and about 100 hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centres work daily with the software of OS.

Oracle, Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Data Systems have a collaborative alliance that leverages their combined leadership in enterprise-class storage solutions and Internet-enabled databases and applications. This partnership covers a full spectrum of cooperative technology, service and support, and marketing and sales efforts.

Provides enterprise solutions which align application data management with business objectives. Our industry leading Optim™ solution enables organizations to optimize performance, mitigate risks and control costs. Partnered with the market leaders in business technology, we deliver capabilities that scale and support your enterprise - applications, databases and platforms. More than 2,200 companies worldwide - including nearly half of the Fortune 500 - rely on Princeton Softech's proven solutions to maximize the business value of their enterprise applications and databases.

Procedo is the industry’s leading provider of data archive migrations that allow organizations to free their currently archived data and move it into a new archive environment. Procedo pioneered the archive migration market enabling companies to select the archiving application and storage platform that best suits their needs. Procedo migrates archived content using a software based solution to ensure traceable and repeatable processes and maintains chain of custody for each and every message or object.

For more than 20 years QStar has delivered enterprise class archive storage, data management and disaster prevention software and solutions to customers around the world. QStar consistently meets increasingly sophisticated requirements through industry leading technology with the capability and flexibility demanded in today’s challenging business climate.

QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and server networking solutions. QLogic is a NASDAQ Global Select company and is included in the S&P 500. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.

Redwood Software Technology, Inc. is a global provider of system integration services and software components dedicated to the automation of continuous manufacturing. The company's comprehensive portfolio of product, software, analysis, services and expertise is designed to improve factories not only in managing its products but also in excessively increasing its productivity and output due to the unleashing power of real-time visibility of production.

SAP and Hitachi Data Systems share many of their largest and most high-profile customers – in every major Geography and Market around the world. The Hitachi Companies have numerous partnerships with SAP ranging from the sale, integration and implementation of SAP solutions. Hitachi Data Systems and SAP work together to certify integrated offerings that provide our mutual customers with industry-leading availability, scalability and performance for their critical corporate information. For further information about SAP and Hitachi Data Systems please click the “Read More” link below or contact us.

Enterprise Data Protection Appliances

SEPATON’s data protection appliances with integrated Hitachi Data Systems’ Adaptable Modular Storage deliver high performance backup, restore, deduplication, and replication/Disaster Recovery. All SEPATON products are built on our unique DeltaScale™ architecture for grid scalability and unparalleled performance. Our next-generation ContentAware™ approach – derived from the unique ability to collect and use metadata from the backup stream –provides advanced deduplication as well as intelligent monitoring and management of data throughout the data protection lifecycle, from backup to restore to long-term retention and deletion.

STAR STORAGE was founded in 1999, as a consequence of the need on the market of integrated, turn-key solutions in the field of storage, archiving and data and document management, becoming one of the top providers on the Romanian market.

SANpulse Technologies Inc. is the industry’s first SAN optimization initiative that delivers customized, end to end solutions for the challenges faced by CIO’s and the storage industry. By combining the capabilities of some of the Industry’s most tenured SAN Engineers, tried and proven methodologies developed from decades of hands on experience and our patent pending, revolutionary SANlogics software, SanPulse is able to create a modular and dynamic mechanism that replaces the labor-intensive and error prone delivery methodologies that exist today.

SenSage offers the only patented event data warehousing solution for log management and compliance auditing applications. Over 300 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce the risks associated with insider threats, system downtime and failed audits by providing faster, more granular analysis of privileged user behavior and analyzing anomalies across network, system and application activity. Based in San Francisco, the company markets its solutions directly and through partners, including Cerner, EMC, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Intec Billing Systems, Lockheed Martin, Network Appliance, Sendmail, Symantec and Tokyo Electron Device.

Seven Ten Storage, Inc. is changing the paradigm when it comes to enterprise data management. Relying on an experienced management team, Seven Ten uses its strengths in innovation, software design and customer relations to deliver proactive data storage solutions that are cost-effective, scalable and secure. With proven success in medical, financial and compliance-driven markets, plus a customer base that includes many of today's Fortune 500 companies, Seven Ten is fast becoming one of the most trusted names in storage.

Silver Peak develops data center class network appliances that maximize WAN performance while minimizing WAN costs. The company’s unique network approach to WAN optimization delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling enterprises to rapidly move large amounts of data across long distances. Silver Peak’s WAN optimization solution is a strategic enabler for large IT initiatives, including data center consolidation, data migration, disaster recovery, server centralization, and global application or desktop virtualization.

Softek provides Nonstop Data Mobility™ software that enables a simple and unified approach to moving live data—over any distance, regardless of server platform or storage system vendor. Our Nonstop Data Mobility™ solutions reduce the cost, complexity and risk of moving data, thereby increasing application availability and providing customers greater choice.

Since 1996, the majority of Fortune 1000 companies have turned to Softek to move petabytes of data. Softek Storage Solutions Corporation is an independent software company based in Northern Virginia.

Softnext Technologies Corp. has provided enterprise management service of IT applications and building security protection of data content since its establishment. According to the company mission, our R&D team specializes in offering service technologies of network applications. Due to market demands, we develop many service solutions of data content security and provide professional services of software or appliance products to help enterprises efficiently improve security management of data content, maintain employee productivity and increase your company’s operational efficiency.

Softnext offers many market driven application services for e-mail integration. It helps customers improve the quality of e-mail service and protect e-mail content as well as increase e-mail satisfaction. To help enterprises adapt across multiple platforms and systems within complex network environments, Softnext specializes in developing vertical and horizontal solutions of IT content security to provide deep services. Next, Softnext will offer content security management for network protocols including SMTP, IMAP, POP3, HTTP, IM, P2P and VoIP. With connection protection, policy filtering and content management, the overall protection of content security management filters the company’s abnormal information, and only valuable content will be left to create competitive capacity.

Solix Technologies, Inc., a leader in enterprise data management for database archiving, privacy and test data management solutions, helps businesses improve application performance, reduce storage costs and meet compliance requirements. Solix is considered a pioneer in providing a complete infrastructure platform to manage data across all segments (Application, Email and Documents) in an enterprise. Solix has a worldwide client base that includes many Fortune500 companies. For more information, visit the Solix Technologies Website or e-mail the company at info@solix.com.

A leading software provider of enterprise information classification and management (ICM) solutions for e-discovery, e-risk mitigation, and e-records management. Automated discovery, classification, protection, and policy actions enable organizations to meet legal requirements while reducing risk, storage and administrative costs. StoredIQ brings content and context aware intelligence and action-based policies to the information lifecycle management (ILM) process so organizations can effectively understand and manage their internal information based on value and risk. The company was founded in 2001, is privately held and is located in Austin, Texas.

Storwize is the trusted capacity optimization solution for primary storage. With hundreds of deployments worldwide, the Storwize family of online data reduction solutions eliminates businesses reliance on storage and infrastructure sprawl by optimizing the capacity and efficiency of their storage infrastructure.

Founded in 1994, by two prominent Bellcore Scientists, Surety is recognized as a premiere trusted time-stamp authority. The Company's flagship product AbsoluteProofR provides a security procedure that objectively demonstrate the time and content integrity of electronic records, and places their client organizations in the strongest possible position if and when the legal credibility of that data is challenged by an opposing party.

Symantec is the market leader in multiple segments that align with the interests of Hitachi Data Systems: Backup and Recovery Software, Storage Management Software and Security. Symantec, Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Data Systems have a rich, multilayer alliance that includes deep joint development, rich interoperation at multiple architectural touch points, robust qualifications and more. Together with Symantec, Hitachi Data Systems is building powerful and pragmatic solutions that will span the needs of Fortune 1000 enterprises as well as small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Terasystem is the largest vendor-independent data-storage services company in Italy. Our company is focused on delivering intelligent, comprehensive services for today's data-storage problems. Terasystem was founded in 1994 and has been growing strong ever since. Today, with a national sales presence and an impressive list of Fortune 2000 and Government clients, we're the leading provider of end-to-end data-storage and management strategies. Information is your company's lifeline. And safeguarding that information is critical to success. Terasystem can help you develop a customized data-storage and -management strategy that will assure fast and reliable access to all your digital assets.

TeamQuest Corporation is the global leader in IT Service Optimization (ITSO), specializing in Capacity Management software. TeamQuest helps IT organizations consistently meet service levels while minimizing costs and mitigating risks.

Tek-Tools Software, Inc. is a leading provider of IT resource management solutions serving customers from the Fortune 50 to the Fortune 5000 across every major vertical market. Its flagship Profiler Suite delivers end-to-end visibility and specific actionable insights on the entire IT infrastructure enabling proactive IT infrastructure management in support of critical business operations. The company is privately-held company with offices in the U.S., the U.K. and India.

Torpedo, based in Korea, provides open-standards based infrastructure for SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) to make enterprises collaboration easier and faster. The products and services of Torpedo, which are acknowledged internationally, make it possible for the enterprises to promote the value of the existing applications and data assets and reuse them, and ensure the interoperability for heterogeneous systems and improved business processes.

Torpedo’s products and services are based on the industrial standards such as XML, SOAP, ebXML, Web Services. Torpedo employees have been engaged in researching and developing ebXML solutions since the first standards agreement was made in 1999.

Union Information System, Inc. founded in 1999 is a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring efficient document management of your business. The company's dDIMS™ products supports EDMS System, Image System, Archives, DAM, WCM and BPM.

Hitachi Data Systems and VMware are fully engaged to deliver industry leading solutions addressing end-to-end server to storage virtualization. VMware server technologies and Hitachi Data Systems storage and software technologies are naturally and immediately complementary.

Verint Systems Inc. (VRNT.PK), headquartered in Melville, New York, is a leading provider of actionable intelligence solutions for an optimized enterprise and a safer world. Today, more than 5000 organizations in over 100 countries rely on Verint solutions to perform more effectively, build competitive advantage and enhance the security of people, facilities and infrastructure.

Verismart Software is a core technology provider dedicated to reducing the cost structure and advancing energy efficiency in information technology lab environments, data centers, service centers and business service ecosystems. To this end, Verismart delivers and maintains sophisticated software components, synthetic lab environments and mission critical service centers using behavioral discovery, storage and simulation resources.

vSim, vLAB and vBiz are the core software engines offered and utilized by Verismart and our community to discover and build these synthetic software, service and system resources and environments.

Visbion is the specialist in medical image acquisition, distribution, management and display solutions.

Visbion’s Image Archive is a flexible, innovative and vendor neutral archive integrated into the Hitachi storage solutions, to create Hitachi Clinical Repository. Optimised for healthcare enterprises, HCR collects, retrieves and distributes all digital medical images, electronic health records and associated metadata related to patient care.

Visit www.visbion.com for more details of Visbion’s extensive portfolio of solutions.

As a technology company, evolved from the University of Witten/Herdecke in 2000, we have developed comprehensive know-how in the field of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine).

Incorporating this fundamental knowledge, our JiveX product line is developed at our company headquarters in Bochum, Germany.

The JiveX product family is marketed internationally and is one of the leading systems. At VISUS, quality and service are the number one priorities. That’s why we offer our customers qualified service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Windfire System is an Enterprise content management specific company and provides state-of-the-art EDMS (Enterprise Document Management System) and EIM (Enterprise Information Management) solutions that are developed by experts in the research center of Korea.

Windfire System provides an EDMS solution for banking industry with an excellent technical product. At present, the company has several of customers such as National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, SC Korea First Bank and other Banks. The company has also expanded into non-bank financial institution, public institution, manufacturing industry, hospital, and educational institution.

ZANTAZ is a global provider of enterprise-class software and on demand solutions for content archiving and electronic discovery. ZANTAZ solutions enable organizations to cost-effectively manage electronic document and messaging resources, fully comply with industry regulations and proactively manage complex litigation and discovery requests. ZANTAZ' integrated set of archiving, compliance, discovery and litigation support solutions enable organizations to capture, preserve and access unstructured digital information-including email, IM, files, scanned documents, and other electronic records-and review and produce relevant documents for legal, regulatory and corporate policy requirements.

As a result, ZANTAZ' customers mitigate business and operational risk, accelerate response times to legal and regulatory requests and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive advantage.

With headquarters in Pleasanton, California, and offices in Boston, Chicago, New York, London and Ottawa, ZANTAZ delivers its customer-driven solutions through a worldwide network of strategic partnerships and alliances, as well as a direct sales force.

Established in 1999, ZL Technologies, Inc. (ZL) provides cutting-edge enterprise software solutions for e-mail and files archiving for regulatory compliance, litigation support, corporate governance, and storage management. ZL’s Unified Archive, offers a single unified platform to provide all the above capabilities, while maintaining a single copy and a unified policy across the enterprise.

The Zoral Group was founded in 1999 by a team of highly experienced European and American software entrepreneurs. It has offices in London, New York, France, Eastern Europe and CIS. Zoral initially specialized in advanced technology development, including high speed vector array processing, bios and compiler design and development, complex data analysis and windows kernel security. Subsequently Zoral has expanded into a wide range of development areas including application software, (telecoms, banking, hr, and utilities), data warehousing, data quality and many other disciplines.