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Hitachi Delivers Affordable Enterprise Virtualization for any Data Center without Compromise

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 10, 2007—In the face of unprecedented infrastructure complexity, the relentless proliferation of disparate storage arrays and corporate edicts to reduce carbon output worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) today rounded out the industry's most comprehensive line of storage systems, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V series, to address these pressing issues. The all-new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM is the world's first heterogeneous storage services platform that offers customers the operational, financial and environmental benefits of enterprise-class virtualization, thin provisioning and tiered storage in a package that does not require a raised floor data center and operates on an industry standard 220-volt power supply.

The popularity and growth of storage networks combined with merger and acquisition activity has left many organizations with a sea of incompatible storage arrays distributed across multiple locations. Many customers also struggle with a complex assortment of software license schemes from different vendors, expensive capacity-based tier one licensing policies, and a server infrastructure that is both underutilized and unable to get to required data easily. The Universal Storage Platform VM joins the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V as the industry's most complete enterprise-class platforms developed explicitly to address these vital concerns.

“SAN silos have crept into the data center making storage management and provisioning onerous for many organizations,” said Dave Vellante, CEO of leading CIO consultancy ITCentrix. “Storage migrations in particular are expensive and disruptive. Our independent analysis confirms that for every dollar spent on array hardware and software, an additional fifty cents is spent on incremental migration costs over the life of an array. Approaches like Hitachi’s USP VM can dramatically reduce this cost from 50-percent down to less than 10-percent through the combination of heterogeneous tiered storage support, virtualization and thin provisioning.”

No Compromise Virtualized Tiered Storage
Building on the innovations introduced with the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, the new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM is the only virtualization platform that offers enterprises of any size the opportunity to take back control of heterogeneous storage assets without introducing the reliability and scalability drawbacks of virtualization appliances.
Customer strategies to grapple with the challenges of reigning in sprawling storage infrastructure include:
· Simplifying storage tiers to accommodate high performance tier one applications and defaulting everything else to tier two to reduce costs;
· Virtualizing both server-side and storage-side assets, providing any-to-any connectivity between servers and data, often requiring the placement of tier one storage arrays behind less reliable and lower performing virtualization appliances;
· Introducing a single management framework to support simplified management and non-disruptive migration and data movement within and between tiers one and two and to tier three archive platforms as required by retention policies.
· Providing a common storage services platform for virtual tape, high performance NAS, or active archival, eliminating the need for separate islands of storage caused by niche solutions.

“Customers are finding these strategies require tradeoffs with competitive solutions on the market today,” said John Mansfield, senior vice president, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems. “Virtualization appliances, while supporting heterogeneous storage assets, struggle to provide the scalability and reliability needed to support tier one applications. Some storage arrays sometimes provide thin-provisioning and in-box tiering; however they don’t support the cross-tier management of heterogeneous assets. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM provides the performance, reliability and architecture, with thin provisioning, to virtualize all data center storage assets cost effectively.”

Introducing the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM
As a core part of Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions, the Universal Storage Platform VM enables smaller enterprises to package and deliver common storage services such as virtualization, thin provisioning, and business continuity across heterogeneous storage assets, whether file, object or block-based. The Universal Storage Platform VM delivers all of the advanced storage services available in the Hitachi flagship storage solution, the Universal Storage Platform V.


Today, Hitachi is introducing:
• A rackmounted storage services platform with the same advanced heterogeneous storage services available in the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, including: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning™ software, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager—with support for up to 96 petabytes of virtualized storage, Large Logical Storage Pools, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager;
• A newly enhanced massively parallel crossbar switch architecture with 4Gb/s fibre channel ‘end-to-end’ and a switched fibre channel architecture on the back-end delivering up to 75-percent more peak IOPs than the previous generation rackmounted virtualization product from Hitachi
• Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software (“Thin Provisioning”) with support for both internal and externally virtualized storage (support for external storage: general availability fall 2007);
• ‘Day 1’ Support for VMware ESX Server 3.0 to facilitate the integration of server and storage virtualization strategies;
• Simplified software packaging with frame-based licensing for the Hitachi Basic Operating System (BOS) and BOS Virtualization software and a single license key for each software bundle;
• Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM configuration flexibility with a choice of either or a combination of:
– Storage controller and high performance disk storage for mixed application environments
– Storage controller only for virtualization services

The disk-less Universal Storage Platform VM for smaller enterprises completely separates the commodity media (disks) from the innovation (intelligent control unit) required to provide storage, data and content services. This enables customers to invest in the most valuable part of the storage system, an integrated, intelligent controller, and obtain all of the latest functionality for their existing storage assets without being forced to buy more capacity.

“As a core part of Hitachi, Ltd., we are proud to say that our parent company has established an environmental management system for the entire Hitachi Group based on the ISO 14001 International Standard,” said Minoru Kosuge, CEO, Hitachi Data Systems. “Hitachi has also achieved a green supplier ratio of 100-percent and established ‘Super Eco Factories,’ factories that utilize industry-leading environmental protection systems. Hitachi was the first storage vendor to be fully RoHS compliant and with the Universal Storage Platform VM, Hitachi continues to lead the charge towards a clean, green generation of computing solutions.”