Data Protection Technology Integrated into Hitachi Freedom Storage with DB Validator.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2002 Now Available for Lightning 9900 V Systems, Hitachi DB Validator Provides a Higher Level of Security to Customers Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , the world's fastest growing enterprise storage provider and a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT), today announced that new data integrity technology for Oracle database systems is available for Hitachi Freedom Storage(TM) Lightning 9900(TM) V Series systems. Dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. Hitachi DB Validator, the technology was developed to prevent corrupted data from reaching the networked storage disk system. "Hitachi Data Systems is committed to providing solutions that ensure the highest level of data integrity," said Philip Townsend, senior director, Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. "Preventing corrupted data from reaching the storage systems is far better than managing the problems it can create. DB Validator provides end-to-end data integrity for Hitachi Freedom Storage systems, eliminating downtime that corrupted data can cause and ultimately saving customers time and money. For additional protection, customers can rely on Hitachi TrueCopy Hitachi TrueCopy, formerly known as Hitachi Open Remote Copy (HORC) or Hitachi Remote Copy (HRC) or Hitachi Asynchronous Remote Copy (HARC), is a remote mirroring feature from Hitachi storage arrays available for both open systems and IBM z/OS. (TM) and ShadowImage(TM) for backup and recovery applications." The Importance of DB Validator for Customers On the way from the application to the disk storage system, customer data flows through many software and hardware layers. Even with exhaustive testing (programming) exhaustive testing - Executing a program with all possible combinations of inputs or values for program variables. -- and extensive production use -- obscure and "rare case" bugs can sometimes occur in these intermediate software and hardware layers. Such "rare case" bugs have in some cases caused corrupted data to be written to disk. When this happens, the application can be severely damaged leading to possibly lengthy downtime to recover and re-start the application. DB Validator detects such corrupted data as it arrives and rejects the operation. This prevents the application's Oracle database transaction from appearing to complete successfully, stopping corrupt data from ever being written to the disk in the first place. Without DB Validator, corrupt data would be discovered only when data is read back at a later date. This makes it very difficult or even impossible to reconstruct the original data. Availability Provided as an optional feature, DB Validator is implemented at the microchip and microcode A set of elementary instructions in a complex instruction set computer (CISC). The microcode resides in a separate high-speed memory and functions as a translation layer between the machine instructions and the circuit level of the computer. level within Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series systems. Combined with the latest version of the Oracle 9i Database, Lightning 9900 V Series systems with Hitachi DB Validator provides a resilient system that ensures 24x7uptime. About Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Data Systems, the fastest growing enterprise storage provider, is a leading supplier of storage hardware, software, solutions and services. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), Japan's largest electronics company, HDS (Hitachi Data Systems, Santa Clara, CA, www.hds.com) A leading provider of high-end storage hardware, software and services. Part of the Information Systems & Telecommunications Division of Hitachi Ltd. is committed to providing the storage infrastructure for the world's most information-intensive corporations. With 2,600 employees, Hitachi Data Systems does business through direct sales and resellers in the public and private sectors in 170 countries on six continents Six Continents is a large retail PLC in UK which split into Six Continents Retail known as Mitchells and Butlers plc. The hotels and soft drinks business of Six Continents PLC is now known as InterContinental Hotels Group PLC. . Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.hds.com. About Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company, with approximately 320,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2001(ended March 31, 2002) consolidated sales totaled 7,994 billion yen ($60.1 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors, including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's Web site at http://global.hitachi.com. Note to Editors: Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. Freedom Storage and Lightning 9900 are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems. |
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