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Hitachi Data Systems Helps Organizations Worldwide Accelerate Access to Information and Cost Savings With Hitachi Virtualized Tiered Storage Solutions

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Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced continued worldwide customer momentum across several industries with Hitachi virtualized tiered storage solutions. Customers report greater efficiencies throughout their data centers by using industry-leading HDS storage virtualization offerings. These customers include 2013 IDG Computerworld Honors Program Laureate award winners HBF (Australia) and Institute of Information Science (Slovenia), as well as Die Mobiliar (Switzerland), Infosys (India), and Revenu Quebec (Canada).

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Today's rapid information growth combined with shrinking IT budgets requires organizations to make information both available and secure, but with fewer resources and without sacrificing performance or capacity efficiency. With Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and Hitachi Com mand Sui te management software, HDS customers benefit from increased performance, flexibility and simplified management to address complex data center environments - all while reducing power consumption and total cost of ownership (TCO).

"Organizations are seeing immediate performance and cost reduction advantages in storage virtualization technologies. They are also noticing the long-term benefits of more manageable and scalable solutions", said Bob Madaio, senior director, infrastructure platforms marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. "We find increasingly that customers across all industries want to move their private cloud initiatives forward by virtualizing compute and stor age resources. Their goal is to become as agile as possible and to innovate with their information. Unique, built-in and trusted storage virtualization capabilities in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform help customers reclaim storage capacity, automate storage tiering, and reduce disk drive costs by as much as 70%."

Supporting Quotes by Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Customers

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· Die Mobiliar, Switzerland insurance company: "The scalability and performance of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform fully lives up to our expectations and still helps to save energy costs. In addition to this, manageability has improved and new storage concepts have been released, resulting in TCO savings of 25%." - Renato Grendelmeier, head of storage, Schweizerische Mobiliar, Versicherungsgesellschaft

· HBF, Western Australia private health insurer: "We needed a mechanism that allowed us to be more efficient when provisioning storage and to consolidate our existing storage assets. We now have a storage environment that is more than 50% virtualized, and with the vast scalability of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform we can quickly meet project requirements, no matter how big or small." - Dragan Malesic, manager of Infrastructure

· Infosys, global business consulting and technology solutions: "Hitachi Data Systems products combine best-in-class architecture, reliability, and excellent technical support. Its products have helped us attain 100% availability on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. Hitachi NAS Platform has helped us consolidate our file serving environment with zero data loss across the data center, and the integrat ion with Hitachi Content Platform has allowed us to reduce the backup window." - Jitendra Sangharajka, associate vice president and head, enterprise platform management, information systems

· IZUM, Republic of Slovenia public, not-for-profit organization library information services provider: "Slovenia's libraries and their users depend on IZUM for critical services and applications. Hitachi Data Systems lets us give all of our users constant access to the database, 24 hours a day, without failures." - Domen Setar, systems administrator, OpenVMS server and SAN environments

· Revenu Quebec, Canada tax collections: "We wanted to have integrated control of our virtual storage environment, without increasing the number of employees managing our data and maintaining the architecture. Hitachi Data Systems understood our needs very well and its solution has proved to be very high quality. Hitachi Data Systems recommended consolidating the management of data rather than devices. While our storage capacity was increased by a factor of 12, the same 2-person team still manages it." - Alain Brochu, IT director

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