HDS Supports New IBM z10 zSeries

Addressing customer demands for storage services in mission-critical
environments, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the provider of
Services Oriented Storage Solutions,announced that the company
will support the IBM z10 zSeries, IBM’s next generation mainframe
announced this week, for the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM. Specifically, Hitachi will
certify Enterprise System Connection (ESCON), Fiber Connection
(FICON) and Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) connectivity for the new
zSeries servers. Hitachi will also continue to support z/OS, z/VSE and
z/VM operating systems.

Many of the world’s largest organizations in the financial services,
telecommunications and other key industries rely on IBM mainframe
systems to run mission-critical applications. Hitachi has a long
history in supporting mainframe environments. In addition, Hitachi
continues to be the only company to deliver storage virtualization solutions for mainframe storage environments,
enabling clients to simplify their infrastructure, reduce cost and
risk. Hitachi’s approach enables customers to deliver centrally managed
storage services such as tiered storage, data migration and
replication, as opposed to utilizing multiple isolated islands of
storage to perform similar functions. The ability to deploy zOS
attached volumes using Hitachi’s tiered storage services saves
customers considerable time and money without compromising even the
strictest service level agreement.

"Many businesses today rely on mainframe systems for their
mission-critical applications," said John Mansfield, senior vice
president, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data
Systems. "Hitachi is fully committed to providing these customers with
the highest availability and performance to meet their business needs
and our announcement to reinforce that message. Furthermore, with our
Services Oriented Storage strategy Hitachi is uniquely positioned to
enable organizations to reduce cost, complexity, and risk by leveraging
a common virtualized storage platform for open and mainframe storage
requirements."

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