New Customer for Hitachi Content Platform

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced that service providers
and enterprise IT organizations such as Otto Fischer (Switzerland), Peak
Hosting (U.S.), St Teresa’s Hospital (China), and Zhongda Hospital (China) have
achieved ROI by building private cloud
infrastructures to store, search, preserve and protect data using
Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).

The data protection, disaster recovery, intelligent utilization and
chargeback capabilities offered by HCP are high in demand and are  factors
driving the platform’s fiscal second quarter 2011 revenue growth
percentage in the mid fifties compared to the second quarter of fiscal year
2010.

"Today’s rampant growth of unstructured
content requires organizations to adopt solutions that help reduce associated
costs, complexities and risks," said Miklos Sandorfi, chief
strategist, Hitachi Data Systems. "HCP
is unique in that it evolves with the scale and scope of IT technologies over
time – an invaluable capability for organizations looking to stay agile and
meet business, economic and regulatory demands in cloud and distributed
environments. Customers implementing HCP benefit from the ability to move data
and applications into the cloud at their own pace through an integrated
edge-to-core infrastructure that enables greater control over content, making
it easier and faster to deploy cloud solutions."

In a recent
survey conducted by third-party research organization, TechValidate, users
highlighted the HCP ability to work at a variety of scales, with more than 40%
reporting 100 or more terabytes of data stored. Additionally, 77% of IT
organizations experienced less than an hour of unplanned downtime with HCP in
the previous year, resulting in enhanced business resiliency and lowered
operational costs.

Max Bürgi,
CIO, Otto Fischer, said: "Otto
Fischer leverages HCP as a distributed object store for archiving purposes and
to store documents such as vendor and customer invoices and other accounting
documents that we are legally required to archive and protect from manipulation
and data loss. In the future, we plan to use HCP to manage many additional
documents including digitized contracts, customer and supplier documents,
planning and project records and emails. We greatly value the high performance,
stability and scalability of HCP, and the trust we have in Hitachi as a reliable and long standing
partner. The outstanding service delivered by the HDS team we work with is very
important for us.”

Jeffrey
Papen, CEO, Peak Hosting, said: "Peak
Hosting’s commitment to provide our customers with always-on deterministic
performance compute platforms, built to scale and support all levels of
production, deliver the reliability and peace of mind required for any
enterprise’s critical infrastructure. Deploying HCP in our cloud
infrastructure, Peak Hosting leveraged a storage environment that is highly
available, offers 100% up-time, is trivial to manage and delivers on Peak’s
commitment to seamless scalability. These benefits represent a vital component
to Peak’s business, reinforcing our core customer commitment to What’s the most
I can do for our customers."

Pascal
Tse, chief information technology officer, St Teresa’s Hospital, said: "In line with our strategy of providing
lifelong data preservation of electronic healthcare records, HCP delivers a
high level of compliance, security and the capability of continual checking on
the record archive content’s integrity throughout its retention period. Our
health system streamlines all provisioning of medical record and images into
one single HCP that helps to automate our entire storage management and allows
an extraordinary breadth and depth of scalability to meet our future health
records proliferation."

Beihua Wu, director, Hospital Information Center,
Zhongda Hospital,
Southeast University, said: "The advanced system consolidation offered by
HCP has helped us address the problems of heterogeneous storage automation and
enables high optimization for data configuration. With this content platform,
high volumes of data storage, retrieval and archiving are easily handled and
all our health records and diagnostic imaging content are properly documented.
This greatly enhances the security of the whole central system and lays a solid
foundation for our vision of digitalization."