Hitachi Data Systems Unveils Strong New Suite of Storage Solutions for Customers in Medium-Sized Enterprises.Hitachi Enables Medium-Sized Companies to Better Manage Growth, Back-up and Recovery, and Compliance With Enterprise-Class Functionality at a Mid-Market Price 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. -- Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. Corporation, provider of Application Optimized Storage[TM] solutions 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 launched a suite of new solutions designed to address the growing storage requirements of medium-sized companies around the world. Continuing on the company's laser focus to bring leading enterprise capabilities to a broader set of customers, Hitachi's powerful suite of solutions delivers enterprise-grade data protection, storage consolidation, and improved management of Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. environments at a mid-market price. Here are the broad range of solutions made available by Hitachi Data Systems today: Microsoft-Based Solutions Many mid-sized companies that depend on the Microsoft platform for mission-critical applications are faced with challenges such as managing availability, scaling quickly to keep pace with growth, meeting tight backup windows, ensuring that Microsoft applications co-exist reliably with other software platforms, and protecting critical systems from attacks on privacy, security and integrity. Hitachi Data Systems Solutions for Microsoft Environments provide fully integrated, high-performance methods to quickly lower the costs of managing Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. and SQL Server environments. Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Solutions Business continuity, regulatory compliance and data recovery can be expensive and resource-intensive requirements for mid-sized organizations today. Hitachi Data Systems Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery, which are easy to install and manage on a limited budget, can simplify administration of sophisticated cross-platform data protection strategies and significantly reduce overall administrative time to ensure lower total cost of ownership. Simplification and Consolidation Solutions Exponential data growth in mid-sized organizations often leads to unwieldy proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of servers, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and storage solutions requiring multiple management tools and interfaces. Storage administrators are faced with challenges such as hard-to-manage "islands" of underutilized equipment, poor backup and restore performance, excessive staffing requirements and both scheduled and unscheduled unscheduled Adjective not planned or intended Adj. 1. unscheduled - not scheduled or not on a regular schedule; "an unscheduled meeting"; "the plane made an unscheduled stop at Gander for refueling" downtime. Hitachi Data Systems Solutions for Storage Consolidation simplify and centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. data storage, providing easy, cost-effective ways to deploy, maintain and scale storage configurations to accommodate increasingly complex business needs. Today, many mid-sized companies are facing the same challenges as large enterprises -- complex environments, high people costs due to fragmented management tools, valuable data that is poorly protected, growth that is difficult to accommodate, less than optimal application performance, and solutions that are expensive and difficult to implement. With Hitachi's new suite of storage solutions, mid-sized companies can eliminate the complexity in storage infrastructure deployment; protect against and recover quickly from application data corruption Data corruption refers to errors in computer data that occur during transmission or retrieval, introducing unintended changes to the original data. Computer storage and transmission systems use a number of measures to provide data integrity, the lack of errors. ; minimize application downtime; and eliminate unreliable data backup procedures. These new solutions are targeted specifically to make it easier for our channel partners to support the needs of our fastest growing customers in the medium-sized enterprises. "In the face of growing global competition and regulatory compliance, managing IT infrastructure and protecting critical business applications has become a tremendous challenge for most organizations, especially for resource constrained mid-sized companies," said Karen Sigman, vice president, Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems. "Hitachi's new solutions for the mid-market enable customers to deploy enterprise-class capabilities to easily and cost effectively consolidate their storage, simplify their infrastructures and protect their data assets -- so they can focus more on their core business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets and less on storage." "Hitachi Data Systems' new suite of solutions provides great benefits to the partners as well as the customers they are serving," said Janet Waxman, vice president, Hardware Channels Research, IDC Research. "All data is critical and customers are not willing to let go, or in some cases not allowed to let go of any of it, therefore the partner opportunity to bring simplification to data management for customers in the mid-market is a tremendous growth opportunity for these partners. This allows the partner to leverage Hitachi's offering as a tool from which the partner can add services for a completely integrated solution." "Hitachi has made significant strides in simplifying IT infrastructure for the mid-market," said John Costello John Costello can refer to:
"The year 2007 is a key milestone for Microsoft infrastructure upgrades. Customers will use this opportunity to leverage new functionality and releases, like Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Vista The current version of Windows for the desktop. It was released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers. Vista adds numerous features, including improved security and advanced multimedia capabilities. ," said Randy De Meno, chief Microsoft evangelist evangelist (ĭvăn`jəlĭst) [Gr.,=Gospel], title given to saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The four evangelists are often symbolized respectively by a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle, on the basis of Rev. 4.6–10. , CommVault. "CommVault is pleased to work with Hitachi Data Systems as a technology partner to deliver solutions for enterprise data protection which will truly benefit our joint customers as they upgrade their mission critical Microsoft data." The new Hitachi Data Systems Mid-Market Solutions for Storage Consolidation, Data Protection and Disaster Recovery and Microsoft Environments are available today. For more information on Hitachi Data Systems solutions for the mid-market, visit http://www.hds.com/solutions/. About Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and minimize their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs. With approximately 3,200 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at http://www.hds.com. About Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 356,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2005 (ended March 31, 2006) consolidated sales totaled 9,464 billion yen ($80.9 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 website at http://www.hitachi.com. [c] 2006, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. TagmaStore is a trademark of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. All other trade names, trademarks, and service marks used herein are the rightful property of their respective owners. |
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