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Remote Reporting Promotion for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

n Make informed decisions based on intelligent reports and best practice recommendations.

n Maximize the value of this new technology.

n You own it. Let us help you mange it.

The PromoTion

When you purchase or upgrade to a Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, you will receive a full quarter (three months) of intelligent Hitachi remote reporting capabilities.

The first 100 customers will get this promotion without signing a contract.

All other customers will benefit from three free months when signing a one year contract. The offer is valid until March 31, 2011.

Accelerate the Benefits of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform The new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all types of data. Its unique storage architec-ture flexibly scales for performance, capacity and the virtualization of multivendor storage to optimize your return on storage assets.

The highly efficient design supports unsur-passed performance and capacity, and the lowest power and cooling requirements.

Improve Storage Performance with the Remote Reporting Promotion Hitachi Data Systems remote reporting exper-tise and best practices have helped hundreds of organizations lower operational costs and optimize operations (see Figure 1). To demonstrate the many benefits of the Virtual Storage Platform and give you a jump start on realizing its clear advantages, we are pleased to offer the Remote Reporting Promotion for the Virtual Storage Platform.

Superior Data Center Efficiency, Manageability and Cost Savings

Remote Reporting Benefits to Your OperationsImproves Business Agility

■■ Identifies performance bottlenecks

■■ Accelerates issue resolution

■■ Expedites application deployment

Enables Operational Excellence

■■ Provides recommendations

■■ Improves IT processes

■■ Provides insight on resources from the application to the storage system

Mitigates Risk

■■ Helps you meet service level agreements (SLAs)

■■ Eliminates storage capacity overruns

■■ Prevents outages

Reduces Costs

■■ Enhances forecasting

■■ Increases efficiency of IT staff

■■ Improves planning processes and the allocation of storage resources

D A T A S H E E T

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Remote Reporting Features■■ Trending monitors your Hitachi environ-ment, from host storage utilization to front- and back-end port contention, traf-fic analysis and simple load balancing.

■■ Performance Reporting supplies customized reports, which advise you on specific aspects of your environment, such as performance bottlenecks.

■■ Capacity Reporting allows you to under-stand your capacity utilization and/or future storage capacity and management requirements.

Boost Decision-making Power and Optimize Your Environment■■ Improve response time and throughput confidence when allocating new or additional storage. Understand where to allocate the storage.

■■ Know if your storage is being used efficiently. Have visibility into unused or wasted storage.

■■ Understand capacity and performance across storage platforms or vendors.

■■ Gain visibility of the big performance picture for root cause problem solving.

PromoTion DeTAiLS

■■ The Remote Reporting Promotion for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is valid globally from October 1, 2010, through March 2011.

■■ The first 100 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform customers are eligible for three months of remote reporting at no cost. All other Virtual Storage Platform customers will benefit from this promotion when signing a one year contract.

■■ This promotion is valid under condition that customers purchase at least one service delivered by Hitachi Data Systems onsite ser-vices. Existing Remote Operational Services customers are not eligible for this promotion.

You Own It. Let Us Help You Manage It.Hitachi Data Systems has a worldwide network of experts available to help you manage your information infrastructure for cost-effective remote management and fully managed support. Our goal is to help maximize your technology investment and ensure results for your continued success.

Take the next step. Visit www.hds.com to see how this promotion and our Remote Operational Services can accelerate your success.

Figure 1. The Remote Reporting Promotion Helps to Maximize Your Technology Investment.