Bangkok--17 Feb--Core & Peak
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced its next-generation midrange storage platform, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 Series, has been selected by TechTarget’s Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com as a ‘Storage Products of the Year’ finalist.
“Hitachi is proud to once again be among the award finalists recognized by the editors of Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com,” said Roberto Basilio, vice president, Storage Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. “This nomination validates our hard work and commitment to developing leading-edge storage systems for our customers that better address their growing storage environments and diverse application requirements. The AMS 2000 Series delivers improved performance, connectivity, scalability, reliability and easy-of-use to midrange customers.”
The Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com’s annual ‘Storage Products of the Year’ awards recognize the elite technologies that impacted the storage industry in 2008. The Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants narrowed the finalists down to a list of 45 products across five categories: backup and disaster recovery software, backup hardware, disk and disk subsystems, storage networking equipment and storage management software. Hitachi Data Systems is a finalist in the disk and disk subsystems category. Other finalists include Brocade, BlueArc, Corp., Cisco and VMware, Inc. Winners will be announced on SearchStorage.com later this month.
About the Hitachi AMS 2000 Series
In October 2008, Hitachi announced the next-generation of midrange storage platforms, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 Series. This new series delivers several times the performance compared to prior generations, and also offers storage consolidation for iSCSI, NAS and Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) connections. The AMS Series is comprised of three models: the Hitachi AMS 2100, the Hitachi AMS 2300, and the Hitachi AMS 2500. The entire portfolio of midrange storage systems meets the benchmarking standard "Five 9's" of availability.
The Hitachi AMS 2000 Series has many advanced features such as; Symmetrical Active/Active Controllers with Dynamic Load Balancing, SATA/Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Backplane for maximum configuration flexibility, “Spin down; Spin up” Power Savings Feature, and is optimized for Virtual Server Environments.
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 Fortune 100 companies. 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 website at http://www.hitachi.com.
2009, Hitachi is a registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Hitachi Data Systems is a registered trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. in the United States and other countries.
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