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HDS Adds Clustering Technology for High Availability: Page 2 of 3

-- Coupled with advanced failover capabilities, customers gain the highest industry standard of availability to protect data assets during both planned and unplanned outages, and eliminate the potential risk of data inaccessibility from the host to primary storage.

-- In conjunction with market-proven array-based replication technologies, Hitachi Universal Replicator and Hitachi TrueCopy software, the Hitachi High Availability Manager can be used to failover storage pools non-disruptively across storage systems, enabling instant data access recovery at the primary site or at a remote site, due to unexpected downtime.

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Christopher Crowhurst, Vice President of Strategic Technology for the Professional Division of Thomson Reuters said: "As an early evaluator of the Hitachi High Availability Manager, we have experienced first-hand the potential operational resilience and efficiency benefits of this clustering technology built on the foundation of the Hitachi USP V platform. This robust solution combines continuous high-availability and disaster recovery protection in virtualized SAN environments and the ability to seamlessly migrate data between arrays, and to refresh the SAN non-disruptively. This design helps remove the impact of potential failures, reduce management costs, and simplify business operations, and was a major reason behind our adoption of the Hitachi USP V platform as our preferred SAN virtualization solution going forward."

Claus Mikkelsen, CTO of Storage Architectures, Hitachi Data Systems said: "Application downtime, for any reason, is one of the highest priority concerns of customers that can cause billions of dollars in lost business opportunity. Clustering is a critical feature of an integrated virtualized storage strategy and Hitachi is the only storage company that is delivering this type of innovation in the market today. Hitachi is extending its leadership in providing innovative capabilities for customers, which translates into storage investment protection and the assurance that critical data assets are optimized and protected."

Hitachi Data Systems also announced today enhanced support for IBM FlashCopy technology. When leveraged in conjunction with Hitachi Universal Replicator software, this new functionality provides customers improved business continuity and disaster recovery strategies in both two data center point to point operation and three data center multi-target configurations.