Hitachi announces storage command suite

Bangalore

May 22, 2008

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation introduced its unified portfolio of storage
management software solutions. The next-generation Hitachi Storage Command Suite
is architected to combine advanced data management and protection capabilities
in a simple, centralized interface, which provides the foundation for customers
to achieve significant improvements in operational efficiency and business
resilience throughout the enterprise.

Sean Moser, Senior Director-Global Software Product Management, Hitachi
Data Systems said, “The combination of the Hitachi USP V and Hitachi Storage
Command Suite provides a comprehensive services oriented approach to storage
management. The differentiated value customers can achieve by being able to
assimilate all of their heterogeneous storage assets into a unified pool, as
opposed to disparate islands of storage, is tremendous.”

The Hitachi Storage Command Suite consists of integrated software tools which
help customers manage their storage infrastructure and protect their block,
file, and content data assets. This is particularly critical as storage
environments are quickly growing more complex and robust enterprise applications
are introduced frequently across multiple business units with corresponding,
stringent service-level agreements (SLAs). As a result of the rapid growth of
data stored across multiple distributed and multi-vendor storage
infrastructures, organizations are challenged with growing risk and costs
associated with application availability, performance and data recoverability.

The Storage Command Suite provides application-centric capacity and
performance management spanning the entire storage infrastructure, as well as
fine tuned delivery of storage system performance, availability, recoverability
and functionality, in a way that seamlessly aligns to the vital business
requirements of customers.

John Webster, Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata said, “Administrators are in
a bind when they are being managed by the management applications, as can be the
case when they are complex and rely on repetitive, manual process. With the
Hitachi Storage Command Suite, much has been done to reduce the proliferation of
application host-based monitoring and reporting agents, and to replace archaic
command line interfaces with a powerful, integrated management software
platform.”