Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, provider of Application Optimized Storage™ solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), have launched a suite of new solutions designed to address the growing storage requirements of medium-sized companies around the world. Continuing on the company’s laser focus to bring leading enterprise capabilities to a broader set of customers, Hitachi’s powerful suite of solutions delivers enterprise-grade data protection, storage consolidation, and improved management of Microsoft Windows and SQL Server environments at a mid-market price. Here are the broad range of solutions made available by Hitachi Data Systems today:

Microsoft-Based Solutions

Many mid-sized companies that depend on the Microsoft platform for mission-critical applications are faced with challenges such as managing availability, scaling quickly to keep pace with growth, meeting tight backup windows, ensuring that Microsoft applications co-exist reliably with other software platforms, and protecting critical systems from attacks on privacy, security and integrity. Hitachi Data Systems Solutions for Microsoft Environments provide fully integrated, high-performance methods to quickly lower the costs of managing Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server environments.

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Solutions

Business continuity, regulatory compliance and data recovery can be expensive and resource-intensive requirements for mid-sized organizations today. Hitachi Data Systems Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery, which are easy to install and manage on a limited budget, can simplify administration of sophisticated cross-platform data protection strategies and significantly reduce overall administrative time to ensure lower total cost of ownership.

Simplification and Consolidation Solutions

Exponential data growth in mid-sized organizations often leads to unwieldy proliferation of servers, operating systems, and storage solutions requiring multiple management tools and interfaces. Storage administrators are faced with challenges such as hard-to-manage “islands” of underutilized equipment, poor backup and restore performance, excessive staffing requirements and both scheduled and unscheduled downtime. Hitachi Data Systems Solutions for Storage Consolidation simplify and centralize data storage, providing easy, cost-effective ways to deploy, maintain and scale storage configurations to accommodate increasingly complex business needs.

“Hitachi has made significant strides in simplifying IT infrastructure for the mid-market,” said John Costello, vice president, Segment Marketing, Gateway. “We are excited to add Hitachi’s new software suite into the portfolio of solutions we build for our customers. This new technology allows us to extend the value that the Hitachi-Gateway alliance delivers to the mid-market.”

“The year 2007 is a key milestone for Microsoft infrastructure upgrades. Customers will use this opportunity to leverage new functionality and releases, like Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Vista,” said Randy De Meno, chief Microsoft evangelist, CommVault. “CommVault is pleased to work with Hitachi Data Systems as a technology partner to deliver solutions for enterprise data protection which will truly benefit our joint customers as they upgrade their mission critical Microsoft data.”

The new Hitachi Data Systems Mid-Market Solutions for Storage Consolidation, Data Protection and Disaster Recovery and Microsoft Environments are available today.

For more information on Hitachi Data Systems solutions for the mid-market, visit http://www.hds.com/solutions/.