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Hitachi Data Systems offers best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact.

 About Hitachi Data Systems

• One of the top three storage vendors in the world
• More than 4,100 employees
• Sales in more than 100 countries and regions
• Customers include more than 80 percent of the Fortune Global 100
• Wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.

Our Parent Company, Hitachi, Ltd.

• Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company
• Approximately 400,000 employees worldwide, 932 subsidiaries
• US$102 billion revenues (FY08, ending March 31, 2009)

Our Vision – Where Are We Taking Our Customers?

• Data drives our world – and information is the new currency. Send it. Receive it. Store it. Manage it. Process it. Protect it. Use it. Information has become our most valuable asset. The challenge for global businesses lies in making it both available and secure. Hitachi Data Systems solutions help organizations transform raw data into valuable information by delivering on a vision that IT must be:
• Virtualized
• Automated
• Cloud-ready
• Sustainable
• We don’t just sell storage. We provide customers with solutions to make business better on every level:
• Manage data growth
• Collect and connect data to create valuable information
• Cut costs and reduce operational complexity
• Empower people to access, share and secure information
• Help organizations innovate, collaborate and grow 
• Our solutions have the power to enhance and change lives. They “Inspire the Next” — the next evolution in all of these areas and within your business.

How Are We Different?

• We offer best-in-class information technologies that reduce IT costs and increase agility. As the leader in storage virtualization, Hitachi Data Systems is the only company to offer a common virtualized platform for all data and information. As a result, customers can:
• Leverage existing investments longer for improved return on assets (ROA)
• Reduce operational costs without adding operational complexity
• Increase storage asset utilization and efficiency
• React to changing business requirements through redeployment of services
• Increase the speed and agility of IT to support and grow the business

What Solutions Do We Offer?

Hitachi Data Systems provides solutions and services that incorporate the industry’s best people, products, tools and methodologies to maximize return on IT investments and minimize total cost of ownership.

• Virtualization: Hitachi Data Systems delivers the best storage and information infrastructure to create and support virtualized IT environments.
• Automate your most labor-intensive data management and data protection operations
• Deliver capacity and compute resources as quickly as your virtual servers
• Reduce costs while increasing asset utilization at the pace of your business
• Automation: Hitachi Data Systems enables your business to deliver new applications and business systems into production faster and with less cost through automating time-consuming operations.
• Enable continuous operations while reducing CAPEX wasted on under-utilized storage capacity
• Increase IT staff productivity while maintaining or improving data access, security, and OPEX
• Align business objectives and your IT infrastructure’s ability to react to those objectives — that is IT agility
• Cloud-readiness: Hitachi Data Systems solutions are built to enable you to adopt or evolve to cloud computing models or IT-as-aservice at your own pace with minimal risk.
• Access all information and resources seamlessly
• Providing lines-of-business, customers, or partners the ability to scale and provision dynamically and cost-effectively
• Optimize operations by consolidating and aggregating storage, server, networking, and middleware assets though virtualization
• Enable multitenancy and SLA-oriented storage services while maintaining enterpriseclass security and privacy
• Sustainability: Hitachi Data Systems is a recognized innovator in building sustainable facilities and products. We can help your business to do the same.
• Achieve energy efficiency without compromising the reliability, availability or security of your IT infrastructure
• Centralize and consolidate data management and data protection to lower TCO and power consumption
• Design, develop and deliver a blueprint to enable organizations to move towards a more sustainable IT infrastructure 

Who Are Our Customers?

• Banking and finance: Fidelity National Information Services, Insight Investment, Karnataka Bank Ltd., Rothschild
• Education: Universiteit van Maastricht (Maastricht University), DeAnza College, Ohlone College, Indiana University, Yuan Ze University
• Government: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archive), National Computing and Information Agency, NASA
• Health Care: Tungs’ Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust, University HealthSystem Consortium, University of Texas: UT Medicine San Antonio
• Insurance: Maagnet, Norwich Union, The Henner Group - GMC
• manufacturing: Banco Leon, Barry Callebaut AG, Electro-Motive Diesel, InfoVision Optoelectronics, Neopost 
• Retail/wholesale: Applica, Industrial Electric Wire and Cable (IEWC), Neopost
• Services and Leisure: Accident Exchange, Atos Worldline, BEtonwerk Godelmann KG, Pixorial, TNT
• It services and service Providers: Computer Sciences Corporation, FlexITy Solutions, Netgroup, RenewData
• Telecommunications: Ziggo, Shaanxi Telecom, T-Hrvatski (Croation) Telekom
• Utilities and energy: E.ON IS, EPB Chattanooga, Pacific Hydro