Santa Clara, Calif. January 11, 2005
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced that
the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform
is Storage magazine and its online edition, SearchStorage.com's
"Product of the Year 2004," winning Gold
in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category. Judges selected
the "Products of the Year" from among storage
products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between
Oct. 24, 2003 and Oct. 25, 2004. The Universal Storage
Platform won on the basis of innovation, performance,
ease-of -integration into existing environments, ease-of-use
and manageability, functionality, and value.
The Universal Storage Platform was announced on September
7, 2004 and met with praise from the editorial team
at Storage magazine, who said that the new solution
"blazes a trail for where enterprise-class storage
systems are headed." Regarding the award win,
the Storage magazine editorial team reiterated its
positive take: "Our judges gave TagmaStore very
high marks for its innovation…in other words, it's
possible to access TagmaStore's internal storage as
well as externally hosted storage through a single
interface."
"Since the announcement of the Universal Storage
Platform, we have received a rolling thunder of positive
responses from the press and analyst communities alike,
recognition of the new category created by this revolutionary
product, and, most important, significant customer
wins," said Scott Genereux, senior vice president,
Global Marketing and Global Channels, Hitachi Data
Systems. "We are honored to receive this award
from one of the leading publications in the storage
industry."
Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com selected three
winners (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) in five categories:
Backup and disaster recovery software, Backup hardware,
Disk and disk subsystems, Networking equipment, Storage
management backup hardware. The awards are judged
by the TechTarget Storage Media Group editorial staff,
in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts,
analysts, and consultants.
