MIMOS FRONTIER TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS AWARDED TO FIVE INDIGENOUS COMPANIES

PUTRAJAYA, 22 JUNE 2009 – MIMOS frontier technology platforms today were transferred to five indigenous industries for commercialisation in line with MIMOS mission to grow globally competitive indigenous industries.

“The ultimate goal is to drive technology from a tool (maximizing the utility of the technology) to an enabler (integrating multiple technologies and domain knowledge to form one system) and subsequently as a sector (pushing for technology to be adopted as standard),” said Dato’ Abdul Wahab Abdullah, President & CEO, MIMOS.

According to Dato’ Wahab, to date MIMOS has received 76 technology transfer applications from potential technology recipients and the target is to have more than 100 by year end. MIMOS has already developed a total of 21 technology prototypes.

Technology transfer is the process by which MIMOS licenses its technology platforms to selected technology recipients, who will further develop these technology platforms into products and applications to serve each individual market vertical that they are currently serving.

The commercialization of MIMOS’ applied research output is in line with the government’s aspiration of Malaysia becoming a net exporter of ICT products by 2020.

“The transfer of MIMOS frontier technology platforms from our laboratories to the indigenous industries is a testimony of how MIMOS is building a vibrant technology eco-system, in our efforts towards commercialization of home grown technologies as a vital source of national economic development and revenue for the country,” Dato’ Wahab said.

The five technology recipients of MIMOS technology platforms are:

1. Bill Adam Associates Sdn Bhd was licensed the Personalizer Platfrom On Demand (PPOD) – PPOD is a middleware platform that enables mobile application provider to develop personalizer and context-Aware applications. The technology is useful in areas such as tracking, intelligent dynamic profiler and shopping recommender.

2. InfoValley Life Sciences Sdn Bhd was licensed the Semantic Infosteology – a platform for computer application to be meaning and knowledge-based;

3. In-Fusion Solutions Sdn Bhd was licensed the Ontology Driven Intelligent Diagnoser Advisor (ODIDA) – ODIDA is ontology knowledge-based for pediatric, cardiovascular and occupational health. Utilises high speed “Hand Free” interaction with semantic knowledge base for patient diagnosis via wearable computer (Zypad).

4. Pernec Integrated Network Systems Sdn Bhd was licensed the MIMOS WiWi Gen 1.5 (a hybrid solution that provides WiFi as a hotspot and WiMax as a backhaul), Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) and Semantic Technology;

5. CeedTec Sdn Bhd was licensed the MIMOS WiWi Gen 1.5 a hybrid solution that provides WiFi as a hotspot and WiMax as a backhaul).

The five technology recipients were identified by MOSTI, under its technology licensing programme, in line with the national mission to increase the country’s commercialization rate to at least 10% from research and development (R&D) initiatives undertaken by the public sector, as outlined in the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP).

Through MOSTI’s technology licensing programme, MIMOS is helping bolster the growth of globally competitive indigenous companies and industries, through strategic market-driven product development and advanced technology, which essentially involves the development of frontier technology platforms for commercialization by indigenous industries.

The technology transfer was officiated by Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation Datuk Maximus Ongkili at a ceremony held in Putrajaya today.

Hitachi Data Systems Introduces Breakthroughs in Storage Cost Savings and Dynamic Provisioning

New Software and Services Help Customers Leverage Current Investments to Reduce Costs, Increase Flexibility and Optimise Performance

KUALA LUMPUR, June 22, 2009 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today introduced unique capabilities across software and services to enable customers to reclaim underutilised storage capacity and increase the return on their assets. This announcement highlights the company’s strategic Global Services capabilities to further extend the economic and optimisation benefits customers can achieve leveraging Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning technology.

Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems

Coupled with the recently announced Switch IT On program, the enhancements can help customers improve the efficiency of their existing environments by reclaiming storage capacity across all storage tiers. Customers have realised up to 200 TB in reclaimed storage capacity and CAPEX savings upwards of $2M, thereby deferring future storage purchases. Specifically, Hitachi Data Systems today announced the following innovative capabilities:

· Zero Page Reclaim – examines volumes of physical capacity on or on storage connected to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform®, returns unused storage blocks back to the storage pool and reclaims storage space
· Industry First Enterprise-Class Automatic Dynamic Rebalancing – when physical volumes are added to expand a Dynamic Provisioning pool of storage, existing virtual volumes in the pool are automatically re-striped across these new physical volumes to rebalance the workload. Hitachi Data Systems is the only enterprise-class storage vendor that automatically rebalances the pages of a virtual volume so they are actively re-striped to take advantage of new disks when the pool is expanded.
· Support for the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family – brings the advantages of dynamic provisioning such as cost savings, automated performance optimisation and easy provisioning, to Hitachi midrange customers.
· Storage Reclamation Service – assesses the customer’s environment, plans the new dynamic provisioned environment, migrates the data and reclaims unused capacity with Zero Page Reclaim without disruption to the application, thereby deferring CAPEX and increasing ROA.

“Storage economics, our best practices for helping companies assess their storage requirements and investment returns through true ownership cost, has never been more critical to enterprises and thin provisioning can play an integral role in saving organisations money while improving operational efficiency,” said Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems. “Today’s software and services announcement is part of our focus to help our customers do more with less. Dynamic provisioning simplifies operations by replacing the management of hundreds of volumes with the management of one or two pools of virtual capacity. Dynamic provisioning can also reclaim capacity on existing open systems volumes without disruption for significant cost savings that go straight to customers’ bottom line.”

New Hitachi Storage Reclamation Service
Hitachi Data Systems has extensive experience helping customers take advantage of its dynamic provisioning technologies to increase utilisation, reduce the cost of storage growth and extend the life of storage assets. Through the Storage Reclamation Service, customers can gain the benefit of this experience to accelerate time to results with lower risk. Key aspects of the service include:

· End-to-end Service – includes assessment, planning, design, migration and storage reclamation
· Quick Analysis – to show the type of benefits that customers can expect, Hitachi Data Systems can perform a quick analysis of a sampling of a customer’s environment
· Shared Risk – to lower the risk to customers*, Hitachi Data Systems will perform the assessment in a shared risk model, where customers pay only if Hitachi Data Systems exceeds the pre-set customer expectations for storage to be reclaimed.

"In today’s challenging economic conditions, enterprise customers are seeking to create highly-efficient storage environments that reduce cost and extend the value of existing investments," said Brad Nisbet, Program Manager, IDC Storage Services Research. “With the Storage Reclamation Service, Hitachi Data Systems is creating a services package built on a strong technology portfolio of storage virtualisation and dynamic provisioning, affording customers the opportunity to reduce capital and operational expenses more quickly and with less risk."

Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Customers
· Carter Lee, Vice President of Technology Operations, Overstock.com: "Hitachi Data Systems has quickly simplified the process of non-disruptively provisioning storage. With Hitachi virtualisation technologies, we've seen storage capacity savings of 50 percent on some arrays, now provision storage in 25 percent of the time, and have increased utilisation rates by over 30 percent. We've reduced data migration related down-time from several hours to less than 30 minutes. Overall, by using Hitachi virtualisation, dynamic provisioning and tiered storage, we've reduced our capital and operating costs for an improved return on our storage investment."
· Steve Carlberg, Principal Network Administrator, University HealthSystem Consortium: “University HealthSystem Consortium leverages Hitachi Data Systems for the functionality and scalability needed for a large and growing healthcare consortium, while providing an easy to manage system for IT staff. Hitachi virtualisation technologies give us the flexibility and cost efficiency to run many heterogeneous applications, databases and workloads concurrently off of a single virtualised storage pool. With Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning we have reclaimed 40 percent of our storage capacity, have increased storage utilisation rates and pushed out new storage acquisitions."

Web Resources
Learn more about Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning: www.hds.com/products/storage-software/hitachi-dynamic-provisioning.html

Find out how customers can economise their storage with Hitachi’s storage efficiency solutions: www.hds.com/solutions/resource-centers/storage-economize

See how Hitachi Data Systems can help customers reclaim storage: www.hds.com/services/professional-services/optimize/storage-reclamation.html

Find out more about Switch IT On: www.hds.com/go/free-storage-virtualization

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Motorola Showcases its Next Generation Public Safety Multimedia & Wireless Solutions at GPEC Asia 2009

Where: Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
When: June 24 - 26, 2009

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia –– June 22, 2009 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a leading provider of mission-critical communications solutions across open standards such as APCO Project 25 and TETRA for public safety agencies, is showcasing its latest integrated mission critical voice, data, video and wireless broadband communications solutions at the General Police Equipment Exhibition & Conference (GPEC) Asia 2009.

Motorola’s broad portfolio of mission-critical solutions are designed with technology that is second nature, offering seamless connectivity and real-time information to users such as first responders, government and enterprise workers, enabling them to focus on their mission, and not the technology.

“We are proud to be supporting this prestigious event as part of our on-going commitment to the Malaysian public safety and emergency services agencies with whom we have shared a long standing relationship over the last 20 years,” said Mr. Balbir Singh, vice president, sales and operations, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Asia Pacific.

“Malaysia is a leading country in Asia Pacific dedicated to advancing its public safety communications system and we wish to congratulate the Ministry of Home Affairs and Royal Malaysian Police for their foresight in implementing the state-of-the-art digital communications system to enhance their crime prevention capabilities”, he added.

At GPEC, James Wong, senior manager and public safety vertical market solutions specialist, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Asia Pacific, will share insights on “Next Generation Public Safety Multimedia & Wireless Solutions” at the conference session.

In his presentation, he will show how the next generation public safety wireless broadband solutions offer real-time multimedia content including voice and video communications, helping today’s law enforcement to dramatically improve officers’ response time, enabling them to make better life saving decisions before, during and after an event, thus changing traditional policing methods.

“Video is the key application now and in the future to help improve situational awareness, acting as our virtual partner be it at the command center or on the street. Motorola has a strong mission critical portfolio offering both wireless wideband and wireless broadband solutions to meet modern public safety requirements,” Mr. Wong said.

At the exhibition, Motorola will demonstrate a Command and Control Center that is equipped with an integrated wireless solution that enables the sharing of information with an in-car rugged notebook via its Mobile Video Sharing application. It will also showcase next generation wireless video solutions, high-performance digital two-way radios for voice and data communications and advance mobile computing through handheld mobile computers for field mobility. On display will also be a broad range of wireless broadband applications and solutions that deliver high-speed data connection to support video and multimedia applications while protecting critical data with enhanced security features.

Motorola is a trusted partner for the government and public safety organizations for over 80 years and has a proven track record of leadership positions for both APCO P25 and TETRA solutions with over 500 digital mission critical voice networks deployed worldwide.

For more information about Motorola’s mission-critical communications solutions please visit www.motorola.com/my/gov and www.motorola.com/my/enterprise