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To: J Fieb who wrote (4001)	9/10/2001 5:40:21 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

HDS will talk more soon ADVISORY/Hitachi Data Systems Will Announce Its New Platform for Present and Future Storage Management Solutions Mark Your Calendars (BUSINESS WIRE)-- What - Hitachi Data Systems Press Conference/ Luncheon Please join Hitachi Data Systems as it unveils its new platform for present and future storage management solutions. Get the details of the announcement -- See a demonstration -- Have a great lunch -- And meet one-on-one with executives from leading players in the industry. When - Tuesday, September 18th Time - 11:30 a.m. PDT Where - San Francisco More Details to Follow To register for the press conference, call or email Jodi Reinman. If you can't attend the event in person, please register for the teleconference/webcast. Telephone - 408.970.1050 Email - jodi.reinman@hds.com HDS said this today... Hitachi Data Systems Extends Lead in Enterprise Storage Performance Lightning 9900 is First to Integrate 2 Gigabit Per Second Fibre Channel Connectivity in High-End Storage Company Emphasizes Continuing Support for S/390 Environments; Intends to Deliver FICON Connectivity in First Quarter 2002 SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001-- After an earlier twenty percent performance enhancement, Hitachi Data Systems today took another step forward, solidifying its position as the performance leader in enterprise data storage systems. It announced a number of performance enhancements to the Hitachi Freedom Storage(TM) Lightning 9900(TM) system, highlighted by the availability of 2-Gigabit per second Fibre Channel connectivity. The Lightning 9900 is the industry's first high-end storage system to deploy 2 Gbps technology, increasing performance by as much as 40 percent over the earlier 1 Gbps technology. Shipping of the advanced capability will begin in October. ``With today's announcement Hitachi Data Systems becomes the first company to offer 2 Gbps capability across our entire product line,'' said Ron Gervenack, Hitachi Data Systems executive vice president and general manager, Storage Solutions. ``Leveraging its internal switched architecture, the industry-leading throughput of the Lighting 9900 will be greatly improved with this new high-speed Fibre Channel adapter. Customers will benefit from faster access to their information and quicker decision making.'' ``HDS was the first enterprise storage vendor to market with 2-gigabit Fibre Channel connectivity on its midrange Thunder 9200 platform, and continues to lead the industry by launching 2-gigabit high-speed Fibre Channel connectivity on its Lightning 9900 Series platform,'' said Robert M. Montague, managing director of System Area Networks Research at securities firm Dain Rauscher Wessels. ``HDS' other system enhancements unveiled today also underscore HDS' position among the leaders in the enterprise RAID storage market.'' Lightning 9900 Launched in June 2000, the Lightning 9900 introduced the revolutionary Hi-Star(TM) ``internal switch'' architecture that made it the highest performing storage system in the industry with an effective internal bandwidth of 6.4 Gigabytes per second. The performance gain was obtained by eliminating the inherent bottlenecks experienced by widely used systems based on the long-established ``shared bus'' architecture. The performance increases achieved with 2 Gbps connections are in addition to a substantial improvement to the Lightning 9900 made earlier this year. In February, Hitachi Data Systems made available advanced technology that boosts the Lightning's performance by as much as 20 percent when used in configurations where a large number of servers feed data in parallel into the storage system. Users of large databases are among those who can accomplish substantially more work by taking advantage of this capability. High-Speed Remote Copy The introduction of 2Gbps Fibre Channel adapters will enable high-speed remote copy using Hitachi TrueCopy, initially for open systems and shortly thereafter for S/390® users. With this new capability, customers will be able to improve disaster recovery and backup/restore operations. FICON Support In a statement of intent, Hitachi Data Systems also highlighted its continuing support for customers operating S/390-based data centers by announcing that it intends to support IBM's high-speed FICON®-connectivity. General availability is planned for First Quarter 2002. This capability will be beneficial in substantially decreasing data recovery time for customers implementing disaster recovery solutions at distant sites. On we go. Bring on more components, bring on more 2G. The rhetoric is getting hot, there must be serious money at stake. Bring; on SUNW, IBM, Dell. Lets get the war started.