Hitachi Data Systems Introduces New Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly endemic accessory of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the alone provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today appear new Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions for VMware vSphere™ 4. These business analytical solutions amalgamate arch technologies from key Hitachi ally Brocade, Cisco, CommVault and Symantec with accurate Hitachi modular and action accumulator platforms and software, giving organizations a quick, amount able way of optimizing the operational ability and resiliency of their IT environments.

“Operational animation is added important to organizations today, as the accident and amount of blow is artlessly too abundant for a lot of organizations to ignore," said Brian Byun, carnality admiral of all-around alliances, VMware. “By accumulation the able VMware vSphere 4 belvedere and the VMware vCenter™ administration artefact ancestors with Hitachi's avant-garde modular and action accumulator platforms, barter can extend absolute and acute business chain allowances to added workloads above a broader chump abject for best aegis and amount savings.”

“Today’s advertisement marks addition important affidavit point in the evolving Hitachi Data Systems solutions portfolio,” said John Mansfield, chief carnality admiral of Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems. “Hitachi Data Systems is able-bodied positioned to accomplice with industry leaders like VMware to accredit end-to-end server to accumulator virtualization in chump abstracts centers. During a time if business chain and adversity accretion is a analytical allotment of accustomed operations, Hitachi virtualization technologies can extend the bread-and-butter and enhancement allowances barter can achieve, both abbreviate and continued term.”

Hitachi Data Protection Solutions for VMware vSphere 4
Recognizing that organizations accept altered business and IT requirements, Hitachi offers a absolute portfolio of Data Protection solutions, including options for backup/restore and limited replication, for both concrete and basic environments. The Data Protection solutions appear today are advised for VMware environments and centermost about the Hitachi Data Protection Suite powered by CommVault and Symantec NetBackup:

* Hitachi Storage, Software and Services: The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 ancestors and/or the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V, Universal Storage Platform VM, Hitachi ShadowImage®, in-system archetype snapshot software, and abstracts aegis planning and deployment casework (available through partners).
* VMware Software: VMware vSphere 4, VMware’s virtualization belvedere including VMware ESX and the VMware vStorage technologies and interfaces that accredit block-level incremental image-, volume-, or file-level backups.
* Backup and Recovery Software: Hitachi Data Protection Suite or Symantec NetBackup.

“Thirty-one percent of respondents to a contempo ESG analysis listed leveraging virtualization for adversity accretion as a key antecedence for 2009,” says Mark Bowker, chief analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Users accept the important role virtualization plays in convalescent operational ability and resiliency and Hitachi Data Systems is authoritative it easier for organizations to aerate these benefits. Hitachi's new solutions for VMware accredit an absolute new beachcomber of applications to be adequate in a address that has historically been too circuitous and cher to justify. This is a huge win for customers."

Hitachi Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware vSphere 4
Hitachi Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware vSphere 4 are important next capacity in Hitachi’s evolving accord with VMware (previously appear April, 2009). These solutions amalgamate Hitachi storage, archetype software and casework with VMware datacenter solutions, as able-bodied as abstracts networking accessory from Brocade or Cisco, to accredit awful airy VMware environments:

For added information, appointment the company's Web website at http://www.hds.com.

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