Hitachi Data Systems Introduces New Replication Solution for VMware Virtual Environments

Oct. 10, 2008 - PRLog -- 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. , 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® Synchronous, and Hitachi ShadowImage® 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.

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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.