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Hitachi Data Systems at a Glance

DATA DRIVES OUR WORLD And Information Is The New Currency Data Systems offers best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that give you compelling customer return on investment (ROI), unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact.

About Hitachi Data Systems ■■ We don’t sell just storage. We give you solutions ■■ React to changing business requirements to make business better on every level: through redeployment of services ■■ One of the top 3 storage vendors in the world ■■ Manage data growth ■■ Increase the speed and agility of IT to support ■■ More than 5,700 employees ■■ Collect and connect data to create valuable and grow the business ■■ Business in more than 100 countries and regions information ■■ Customers include more than 80% of the Fortune What Solutions Do We Offer? ■■ Cut costs and reduce operational complexity Global 100 Hitachi Data Systems provides solutions and ■■ Empower people to access, share and secure ■■ Wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. services that incorporate the industry’s best people, information products, tools and methodologies to maximize ■■ Our Parent Company, Hitachi, Ltd. Help your organization innovate, collaborate return on IT investments and minimize total cost of and grow ■■ Hitachi, Ltd., (TSE: 6501), headquartered in ownership (TCO). Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics How Are We Different? ■■ : Hitachi Data Systems delivers the company. ■■ As the world leader in storage virtualization, best storage and information infrastructure to ■■ Approximately 320,000 employees worldwide Hitachi Data Systems is the only company to create and support virtualized IT environments. ■■ US$117.8 billion revenues (FY11, ended March offer a common virtualized platform for all data ■■ Automate your most labor-intensive data 31, 2012) and information. management and data protection operations ■■ ■■ Deliver capacity and compute resources as Our Vision: Where Are We Taking Our unique 3-D scaling architecture and man- agement framework can: quickly as your virtual servers Our Customers? ■■ Scale up to meet increasing performance de- ■■ Reduce costs while increasing asset utilization ■■ Data drives our world — and information is mands for open and mainframe environments at the pace of your business the new currency. Send it. Receive it. Store ■■ Scale out to adapt to evolving server and ■■ Automation: Hitachi Data Systems enables it. Manage it. Process it. Protect it. Use it. capacity needs your business to deliver new applications and Information has become our most valuable as- ■■ Scale deep to extend value to multivendor business systems into production faster and set. The challenge for global businesses lies in storage — optimizing returns across all stor- with less cost by automating time consuming making it both available and secure. Hitachi Data age assets operations. Systems solutions help organizations transform ■■ Enable continuous operations while reducing raw data into valuable information by delivering ■■ As a result, you can: capital expenditure (CAPEX) wasted on unde- on a vision that IT must be: ■■ Leverage existing investments longer for rutilized storage capacity ■■ Virtualized improved ROA ■■ Increase IT staff productivity while maintain- ■■ Automated ■■ Reduce operational costs without adding ing or improving data access, security and operational complexity ■■ Cloud-ready operating expense (OPEX) ■■ ■■ Sustainable Increase storage asset utilization and efficiency FAST FACTS

■■ Align business objectives and your IT infra- ■■ Insurance: Maagnet, Norwich Union, The ■■ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City structure’s ability to react to those objectives Henner Group - GMC Archive): “We were looking for an IT specialist — that is IT agility ■■ Manufacturing: Banco Leon, Barry Callebaut to provide us with more than just a machine with ■■ Cloud-readiness: Hitachi Data Systems solu- AG, Electro-Motive Diesel, InfoVision . A flexible attitude and thinking along with tions are built to enable you to adopt or evolve Optoelectronics, Neopost us from our situation were the main conditions for cooperation. Hitachi Data Systems appeared to models or IT as a service at ■■ Retail and Wholesale: Applica, Industrial to be the only supplier that really understood our your own pace, with minimal risk. Electric Wire and Cable (IEWC), Neopost ■■ problems.” Bert Nijhoff, ICT Team Leader Access all information and resources ■■ Services and Leisure: Accident Exchange, ■■ Ziggo: “The storage platform from Hitachi Data seamlessly Atos Worldline, Betonwerk Godelmann KG, Systems offers us maximum flexibility in sup- ■■ Provide lines of business, customers or Pixorial, TNT porting the organization, which is essential in partners the ability to scale and provision ■■ IT Services and Service Providers: dynamically and cost-effectively the dynamic telecom market.” Peter de Boer, Sciences Corporation, FlexITy Solutions, Manager of Core Systems ■■ Optimize operations by consolidating and Netgroup, RenewData ■■ Pixorial: “While a couple of vendor products aggregating storage, server, networking and ■■ Ziggo, Shaanxi Telecom, Telecommunications: had the performance and scalability we liked, middleware assets though virtualization T-Hrvatski (Croation) Telekom only Hitachi Data Systems proved to have the ■■ Enable multitenancy and storage services ■■ Utilities and Energy: E.ON IS, EPB densest shelves on the market plus value added geared to your service level agreements while Chattanooga, Pacific Hydro benefits that no other vendor could provide at maintaining enterprise-class security and the time.” Joshua Terry, Director of Systems privacy Who Are Our Partners? Engineering ■■ Sustainability: Hitachi Data Systems is a recog- ■■ Alliances: , Oracle, SAP, Symantec, ■■ RenewData: “Our first job across the infra- nized innovator in building sustainable facilities VMware structure was 17 times larger than any job we’d and products. We can help your business to do ■■ Strategic partners: APTARE, Brocade, Cisco, designed the system to handle. The Hitachi ar- the same. CommVault, Emulex, IBM, InMage, QLogic chitecture performed and scaled very well under ■■ Achieve energy efficiency without compromis- ■■ Healthcare: Carestream Health, Epic Systems, pressure.” Doyal Alexander, Chief Technology ing the reliability, availability or security of your Fuji Medical Systems, GE Healthcare, Visbion Officer IT infrastructure. ■■ Technology Alliances Partners: ■■ NASA: “The Hitachi archival software makes our ■■ Centralize and consolidate data management ■■ Hitachi Content Platform: NICE Systems, hardware clusters appear as a single archive. and data protection to lower TCO and power Open Text, Symantec That means we don’t have to manage different consumption. applications with separate interfaces, which ■■ Data Protection: -Tech, Digi-Data, ■■ Design, develop and deliver a blueprint to greatly expedites the way we’re able to monitor FalconStor, IBM enable organizations to move towards a more and access content.” Curt Tilmes, Computer sustainable IT infrastructure. ■■ Networking: ADVA, Ciena, Riverbed Scientist Technology, Silver Peak, SmartOptics, Virtual Who Are Our Customers? Instruments What Do the Analysts Say? ■■ Banking and Finance: Fidelity National ■■ Hitachi NAS Platform: Arkivio, CA, Ocarina, ■■ “Hitachi’s Q1FY11 results show that EMC is still Information Services, Insight Investment, Storwize, Symantec facing a very strong competitor in the high-end.” Karnataka Bank Ltd., Rothschild Shebly Seyrafi, CFA, Managing Director, What Do Our Customers Say? ■■ Education: Universiteit van Maastricht IT Hardware, FBN Securities (Maastricht University), DeAnza College, Ohlone ■■ Tungs’ Taichung Metroharbor Hospital: “We ■■ HDS Vision: “Hitachi Data Systems expansion College, Indiana University, Yuan Ze University have felt the benefits of centralized management of its business vision beyond technology and of storage equipment, as well as the stabil- ■■ Government: Stadsarchief Amsterdam storage products to delivering efficient, scalable ity of Hitachi products." Bill Wang, Director of (Amsterdam City Archive), National Computing and information enabling IT solutions, will allow it Information Technology Department and Information Agency, NASA to better serve its customers in their IT transforma- ■■ MAAGNET: “Hitachi Data Systems has demon- tion efforts.” International Data Corporation ■■ Healthcare: Tungs’ Taichung Metroharbor strated its willingness to do more for us as a cus- Hospital, Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary For more information on Hitachi Data Systems, tomer. Rather than merely selling the product, they Care Trust, University HealthSystem Consortium, please visit our website at www.HDS.com. have provided value added services that users University of Texas: UT Medicine San Antonio appreciate.” Jimmy Yeoh, Chief Executive Officer

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