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Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the second generation of Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager. Today’s announcement adds support for the midrange Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage family, providing customers continuous, real time local and remote replication and automatic failover capabilities to ensure resilient data protection, high availability and disaster recovery for VMware environments.
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VMWARE PARTNER EXCHANGE, ORLANDO —April 14, 2009 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the second generation of Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager. Today’s announcement adds support for the midrange Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage family, providing customers continuous, real time local and remote replication and automatic failover capabilities to ensure resilient data protection, high availability and disaster recovery for VMware environments.
As more businesses implement VMware virtualization, they need to ensure that the data generated in this virtual environment is properly protected. At the same time, businesses are discovering that traditional approaches to disaster recovery and business continuity are not as cost-effective in virtual environments. To address these pressing customer challenges to ensure greater uptime at lower operational costs, the Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter facilitates the linkage between Hitachi market leading system-based replication technologies, including Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous, Hitachi TrueCopy Extended Distance and Hitachi ShadowImage® in-system replication software, and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Coupled together, these software solutions provide operational resilience, robust data protection, recovery management and replication capabilities optimized for VMware Infrastructure.
“Hitachi Data Systems’ customers are reaping significant business benefits by leveraging our integration with VMware’s disaster recovery solution,” said Asim Zaheer, vice president of product and competitive marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “Customers immediately benefit from a strong relationship with VMware and our joint disaster recovery solution to improve both the utilization and business continuity of critical business applications, reduce business risks and improve the resilience of both servers and storage assets.”
“VMware welcomes the investment that Hitachi Data Systems is making to address joint VMware and Hitachi customers’ needs,” said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. “The combination of VMware vStorage technologies and interfaces with Hitachi’s Storage Replication Adapter enables our customers to lower infrastructure costs without compromising on disaster recovery in a time when they need to stretch their budgets as far as possible.”
“As a long-time Hitachi Data Systems and VMware partner, Datalink is excited to integrate innovations from both companies to deliver outstanding resiliency across data centers,” said Kent Christensen, practice manager, Datalink. “Our clients have realized outstanding reductions in down time and operational savings by leveraging this joint solution around VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and Hitachi enterprise and modular storage platforms.”
The Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter links Hitachi replication software and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to provide tremendous operational resilience, robust data protection, and recovery management and replication capabilities that complement VMware Infrastructure.
The second generation of Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter is immediately available to Hitachi Data Systems and VMware customers. For more information, please visit http://www.vmware.com/products/srm/.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry-leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. With over 4,000 employees, and as an integral part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions Group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60 percent of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 390,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2007 (ended March 31, 2008) consolidated revenues totaled 11,226 billion yen ($112.2 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, logistics and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.hitachi.com.
Press Contacts:
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