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Hitachi Enables Medium-Sized Companies to Better Manage Growth, Back-up andRecovery, and Compliance with Enterprise-Class Functionality at a Mid-Market Price
Bangalore, December 20th, 2006  Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, provider ofApplication Optimized Storage solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi,Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today launched a suite of new solutions designed to address thegrowing storage requirements of medium-sized companies around the world. Continuingon the companyÂ's laser focus to bring leading enterprise capabilities to a broaderset of customers, HitachiÂ's powerful suite of solutions delivers enterprise-gradedata protection, storage consolidation, and improved management of Microsoft Windowsand SQL Server environments at a mid-market price. Here are the broad range ofsolutions made available by Hitachi Data Systems today:
Microsoft-Based Solutions
Many mid-sized companies that depend on the Microsoft platform for mission-criticalapplications are faced with challenges such as managing availability, scalingquickly to keep pace with growth, meeting tight backup windows, ensuring thatMicrosoft applications co-exist reliably with other software platforms, andprotecting critical systems from attacks on privacy, security and integrity. Hitachi Solutions for Microsoft Environments provide fully integrated,high-performance methods to quickly lower the costs of managing Microsoft Exchangeand SQL Server environments.
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Solutions
Business continuity, regulatory compliance and data recovery can be expensive andresource-intensive requirements for mid-sized organizations today. HitachiSolutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery, which are easy to install andmanage on a limited budget, can simplify administration of sophisticatedcross-platform data protection strategies and significantly reduce overalladministrative time to ensure lower total cost of ownership.
Simplification and Consolidation Solutions
Exponential data growth in mid-sized organizations often leads to unwieldyproliferation of servers, operating systems, and storage solutions requiringmultiple management tools and interfaces. Storage administrators are faced withchallenges such as hard-to-manage  islands of underutilized equipment, poor backupand restore performance, excessive staffing requirements and both scheduled andunscheduled downtime. HitachiÂ's Solutions for Storage Consolidation simplify andcentralize data storage, providing easy, cost-effective ways to deploy, maintain andscale storage configurations to accommodate increasingly complex business needs.
Today, many mid-sized companies are facing the same challenges as largeenterprises complex environments, high people costs due to fragmented managementtools, valuable data that is poorly protected, growth that is difficult toaccommodate, less than optimal application performance, and solutions that areexpensive and difficult to implement. With HitachiÂ's new suite of storage solutions,mid-sized companies can eliminate the complexity in storage infrastructuredeployment; protect against and recover quickly from application data corruption;minimize application downtime; and eliminate unreliable data backup procedures.
These new solutions are targeted specifically to make it easier for our channelpartners to support the needs of our fastest growing customers in the medium-sizedenterprises.
 In the face of growing global competition and regulatory compliance, managing ITinfrastructure and protecting critical business applications has become a tremendouschallenge for most organizations, especially for resource constrained mid-sizedcompanies, said Karen Sigman, vice president, Global Channels, Hitachi DataSystems.  Hitachi s new solutions for the mid-market enable customers to deployenterprise-class capabilities to easily and cost effectively consolidate theirstorage, simplify their infrastructures and protect their data assets so they canfocus more on their core business operations and less on storage.Â
"Hitachi Data Systems' new suite of solutions provides great benefits to thepartners as well as the customers they are serving," said Janet Waxman, vicepresident, Hardware Channels Research, IDC Research. "All data is critical andcustomers are not willing to let go, or in some cases not allowed to let go of anyof it, therefore the partner opportunity to bring simplification to data managementfor customers in the mid-market is a tremendous growth opportunity for thesepartners. This allows the partner to leverage Hitachi's offering as a tool fromwhich the partner can add services for a completely integrated solution."
 Hitachi has made significant strides in simplifying IT infrastructure for themid-market, said John Costello, vice president, Segment Marketing, Gateway.  Weare excited to add HitachiÂ's new software suite into the portfolio of solutions webuild for our customers. This new technology allows us to extend the value that theHitachi-Gateway alliance delivers to the mid-market.Â
The new Hitachi Data Systems Mid-Market Solutions for Storage Consolidation, DataProtection and Disaster Recovery and Microsoft Environments are available today.
For more information on Hitachi Data Systems solutions for the mid-market, visithttp://www.hds.com/solut ions/.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutionsbuilt on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability andscalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. By focusing on thecustomer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services fromHitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs. Withapproximately 3,200 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through directand indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170countries and regions. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leadingglobal electronics company with approximately 356,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal2005 (ended March 31, 2006) consolidated sales totaled 9,464 billion yen ($80.9billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services inmarket sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power andindustrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For moreinformation on Hitachi, please visit the company's website athttp://www.hitachi.com.
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