Released on: September 29, 2008, 9:59 pm

Press Release Author: webmaster

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Pioneering Storage Services Platform Delivers Record Breaking
Performance and Scalability to Boost Business Critical Applications.

Press Release Body: Further extending its lead in enterprise storage system
performance, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.
(NYSE:HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today
announced that its flagship Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V earned the highest
Benchmark 2 performance result of any storage system in its class, according to the
Storage Performance Council (SPC). Under the SPC-2 methodology, the Hitachi USP V
achieved an aggregated average of 8,724.67 SPC-2 MBPSTM with a single storage
controller, surpassing the performance levels of competitor enterprise storage
systems tested by eight-fold.

"Hitachi Data Systems’ SPC-2 benchmark results confirm our earlier published
findings for achieving the highest levels of enterprise storage performance and
scalability in real-world configurations," said Roberto Basilio, Vice President of
Storage Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. “The Hitachi USP V is a
best-in-class, cost-effective, storage platform that provides customers operational
consolidation and depth of storage-based services deliverable to a wide range of
applications and operating environments, while also lowering costs and complexity.”

The new SPC-2 benchmark results reaffirm several key benefits the Hitachi USP V
platform provides customers including:

Greater Productivity: Sustain significantly more business transactions than any
other enterprise storage system in the market, boosting sales and profitability

Increased Efficiency: Greatly improve application response time to single digit
millisecond levels and support more users and more applications, and handle more
capacity on a centrally managed platform that leverages years of mature and reliable
hardware and software development

Lower TCO: Run a multitude of heterogeneous applications, from transactional
workloads such as Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Database 11g to sequential ones such
as Video on Demand (VOD) type, concurrently on a single storage controller

Reduced Risk: If your applications don’t perform well then your business
suffers—performance definitively matters to business success

The SPC-2 benchmark consists of three distinct workloads designed to demonstrate the
performance of a storage subsystem during the execution of business critical
applications that require the large-scale, sequential movement of data. Those
applications are characterized predominately by large I/Os organized into one or
more concurrent sequential patterns. The SPC benchmark results provide a source of
comparative storage performance information that is objective, relevant, and
verifiable. These results complement the established performance achievements of the
landmark Hitachi USP V, which continues to lead the industry in maximum cached IOPS,
delivering over 4.0 million peak cached IOPS.

For more information on the SPC-2 result for the Hitachi USP V, visit:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2#b00036

About SPC
The SPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize and promote
storage system benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable performance data
to the computer industry and its customers. SPC membership is open to all companies,
academic institutions and individuals. The SPC created the first industry-standard
performance benchmark in 2001, targeted at the needs and concerns of the storage
industry and its goal is to serve as a catalyst for performance improvement in
storage. For a complete list of SPC-1 and SPC-2 Results, visit
http://www.storageperformance.org/home

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 Web site at
http://www.hitachi.com.

Web Site:
http://www.hds.com/corporate/press-analyst-center/press-releases/2008/gl080908.html


Contact Details: Hitachi Data Systems, 750 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA,
4089707097