Released on: October 10, 2008, 3:06 am

Press Release Author: webmaster

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: It Announces Immediate Availability of Hitachi Storage
Replication Adapter Integrated with VMware Site Recovery Manager. Customers Gain
Data Protection Benefits and Reduced Risk Exposure to Improve Operational
Resilience.

Press Release Body: As a cornerstone of a strategic initiative to enhance the
disaster recovery benefits VMware customers around the globe, Hitachi Data Systems,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), today announced compatibility
certification for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), with the introduction of the
Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter. Following comprehensive qualification testing
in collaboration with VMware, the software plug-in is designed to offer
organizations continuous, real-time local and remote replication and automatic
failover capabilities to ensure resilient data protection, high availability and
disaster recovery for VMware virtual environments.

As the adoption of server virtualization continues to accelerate, organizations are
looking to reduce the risk, cost and complexities associated with applying
traditional disaster recovery methods to virtualized workloads, and maximize the
safeguard of application data stored on sprawled virtual machines across the
datacenter. To address these pressing customer challenges, the Hitachi Storage
Replication Adapter facilitates the linkage between Hitachi's market-leading
array-based replication technologies, including Hitachi Universal Replicator,
Hitachi TrueCopy(r) Synchronous, and Hitachi ShadowImage(r) in-system replication
software, and VMware Site Recovery Manager. Coupled together, these software
solutions provide industry-leading operational resilience, robust data protection,
recovery management and replication capabilities optimized for VMware
infrastructure.

"We are offering a best-in-class solution for VMware SRM that will enable customers
to implement an end-to-end, robust business continuity strategy for their virtual
infrastructures and obtain improved Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery
Time Objectives (RTO)," said John Mansfield, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions
Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems. "We look forward to our continued
strategic partnership with VMware to open up new market opportunities for our
business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that benefit VMware customers."

Hitachi Data Systems has a long proven track record of providing customers a
comprehensive portfolio of business continuity products, services and solutions that
maintain required service levels for essential business functions and processes,
ensure data availability and resilience, and aid in the prevention and mitigation of
interruptions caused by planned or unplanned events. With integration support for
VMware Site Recovery Manager, customers gain the ability to automate and test
disaster recovery capabilities to ensure automated fail-over of their
infrastructure, leveraging the advanced functionality of Hitachi Data Systems'
market-leading array-based replication solutions.

"VMware Site Recovery Manager leverages Hitachi enterprise replication technologies
to deliver a robust disaster recovery solution," said Parag Patel, vice president,
alliances at VMware. "Combining VMware's host-side virtual machine intelligence and
Hitachi Data Systems' system-based replication delivers uniquely flexible and
capable offerings, ensuring that mutual customers can deploy robust disaster
recovery capabilities for VMware environments that provide a high quality of service
and support."

VMware Site Recovery Manager is complementary to Hitachi Data Systems'
services-oriented data protection and recovery solutions. Leveraging a common,
integrated storage management platform, customers can improve both the utilization
and business continuity of their most critical business applications, reduce risks,
and improve the resilience of both servers and storage assets.

The Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter is immediately available to Hitachi Data
Systems and VMware customers. For more information, please visit
http://www.vmware.com/products/srm/.

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. 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, logistics, materials and financial services.
For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at
http://www.hitachi.com.


Web Site: http://www.hds.com

Contact Details: Hitachi Data Systems, 750 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA,
4089707097