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| HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS LAUNCHES FIRST ENTERPRISE SERVER DESIGNED FOR THE CRITICAL BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS CREATED BY THE E-COMMERCE EXPLOSION Hitachi Skyline Trinium™ offers unparalleled scalability and availability for use in the most sophisticated large businesses as well as for mega users who demand peak performance Hitachi Data Systems and Computer Associates agree on flexible offering to provide value for common customer set |
 Expanding its vision to remain the leader in business-enabling technologies in the high-end OS/390® computing environment, on February 22, 1999, Hitachi Data Systems (http://www.hds.com) announced the world's first generation of copper-based ACE/2 enterprise servers, the Hitachi Skyline Trinium. Fulfilling Hitachi's statement of intent issued last September, the Skyline Trinium will be available in Q3 1999, offering technology designed to provide extreme availability and flexibility for today's rapidly changing business environment. Long-time customer Total System Services, Inc. (TSYS) requires the business advantages of the new Skyline Trinium. "TSYS has to have a dedicated IT backbone with virtually unlimited scalability and continuous availability. Based on its powerful business-enabling technologies, Hitachi's new Trinium looks like a worthy addition to the Skyline family, and will bring advanced computing solutions to the corporate datahouse," said Matt Jacobs, senior vice president and CIO, Total System Services. "As one of the world's leading information technology processors of credit, debit, commercial, and private-label cards, TSYS is excited about this opportunity to continue its mutually beneficial partnership with Hitachi Data Systems." "Skyline Trinium underscores Hitachi's vision of business-enabling technology, designed to empower users to benefit from the e-commerce explosion and increased system throughput requirements in the workplace," said Yoshihiro Koshimizu, chairman and CEO, Hitachi Data Systems. "Trinium further demonstrates Hitachi's commitment to being the innovation leader for the most sophisticated of environments by providing the single most effective means of reducing complexity in mission-critical operations." Trinium's right to call itself the pinnacle of enterprise servers comes not only from its industry-leading performance and balanced system design, but also from its extreme availability - designed to exceed all competitive single-image availability claims - offering superior scalability and manageability to the most demanding business user. In fact, using a modeled environment, Hitachi's calculations indicate that Skyline Trinium has the capacity to support over 22,000 simultaneous ERP users, and twice the number of Web transactions than its closest competitors. According to a recent article in Information Week, Charles Schwab & Co., which receives 61% of its trades electronically, will consolidate online trade transactions on a dedicated Hitachi mainframe, a strategy that will move Schwab closer to its capacity goal. CA Connection Another key element of Hitachi's business-enabling strategy involves a new sweeping initiative with Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the world leader in mission-critical enterprise-management solutions. CA is initiating a flexible offering based on Hitachi's newest feature, Virtual Server Facility (VSF), where each Virtual Server (VS) can have its own separate serial number and model identifier, a standard feature on every Trinium. This offering will be available exclusively with the Skyline Trinium, extending an integrated business solution to customers. In addition, CA will have software access to select information available only on Hitachi processors, a capability that will be included in CA's Unicenter TNG® Framework™ for OS/390 software offering. Every Skyline Trinium will ship with Unicenter TNG Framework for OS/390. Further details of the initiative will be announced in April. "This initiative combines the strengths of CA and Hitachi" said Siki Giunka, senior vice president, CA Marketing for OS/390 Solutions. "Together, we can provide IT-intensive organizations with a globally-supported mission-critical computing platform that offers both maximum cost-effectiveness and minimum risk." "CA has consistently demonstrated world-class leadership in delivering solutions that enable customers to maximize the availability of mission-critical services while reducing overall technology ownership costs," said Karen Frana, vice president and general manager, Hitachi Enterprise Servers business unit. "With the Unicenter TNG Framework for OS/390, users can effectively manage our data center systems and any surrounding network and systems resources on which the delivery of end-to-end services depends." Trinium Technology A broad array of new features will be introduced with the Skyline Trinium as part of a package titled Trinium Technology - technology designed to provide extreme availability and flexibility for today's rapidly changing business environment. The new Trinium product family will also offer a single-processor performance level nearly twice that of all current products, with complete 16-way systems nearly three times the scalability of any current system. Trinium performs at more than 1,000 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) when configured with four instruction processors, and can exceed 3,000 MIPS when configured with 16 instruction processors. Four- to 12-way Skyline Trinium servers will be available in Q3 1999, with 13- to 16-engine models available by Q1 2000. As a result of Trinium's high availability characteristics, the long sought-after vision of Parallel Sysplex® in a box, or IntraPlex, has become a reality. IntraPlex is designed to reduce complexity and provide architectural cost savings, while ensuring leading-edge application availability and processing power beyond any single server. With the assistance of Hitachi Professional Services, clients will be able to exploit the full potential of Trinium's unique IntraPlex capabilities and maintain a cost-effective business environment. Extreme Availability Since complexity is the primary contributor to cost and risk, Hitachi is working toward the vision of a minimal-image per data center. By nearly tripling the scalability of any currently available OS/390 server and by leveraging the capabilities of Trinium Technology, the Skyline Trinium offers a level of flexibility to customers that has never before been available. The Skyline Trinium fully supports concurrent maintenance of all critical components and dynamic upgrades of instruction processors and channels, a capability specifically designed to help customers upgrade their systems at any time without interfering with their business. Future enhancements will include new features designed to improve the granularity of the Skyline Trinium environment, dynamic remote reconfiguration capabilities, and system-wide performance enhancements. "As the fastest, most fault-tolerant commercial processing platform available, the Skyline Trinium is positioned to emerge as the ultimate IT solution," said Chris Worrall, vice president, Hitachi Enterprise Servers product management. "The Skyline Trinium allows for enterprises to take advantage of existing applications, while expanding into new business opportunities such as information intelligence, ERP, e-commerce, and consolidations caused by mergers and acquisitions." The International Technology Group (ITG) noted that the global population of enterprises that use their mainframes to support the Internet more than doubled from about 1,000 in 1997 to 2,300 in 1998 and will quadruple to 10,000-plus between now and the decade's close. According to META Group, Inc., more than 70 percent of corporate data in the world is still on mainframe systems. Cliff Stratton, executive vice president, Operations for Hitachi Data Systems, said "Aside from being able to exploit established resources, the Skyline Trinium offers three major advantages as a Web server. It has the ability to deliver crucial operational strengths such as extreme availability, scalability, and industry-standard encryption capabilities; it can simplify and expedite the deployment of Internet-enabled applications; and it can deliver comparatively lower cost per user." Business Solutions David Carlson, senior vice president and chief technology officer for Ingram Micro, Inc., said, "As the largest worldwide distributor of computer technology products and services, with more than 115,000 resellers in 120 countries, Ingram Micro needs a computing infrastructure that can deliver steady growth in CPU/MIPS capacity, as well as very attractive economies of scale. That's why we're so satisfied with our Skylines and why we are excited about the Skyline Trinium announcement. These next generation machines from Hitachi appear to be well-positioned to take over where Skyline leaves off." "Enterprises continue to rely heavily on the wealth of information and applications that reside on mainframe computers," said Selby Wellman, senior vice president of Cisco Systems Inc.'s Interworks business unit. "As businesses re-engineer their business processes around Internet technologies, they can turn to Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco for industry-leading technology in mainframe systems and channel connectivity. The new Skyline Trinium, coupled with Cisco's channel connectivity solutions, provides a winning solution that meets today's networking challenges." "The Skyline systems have allowed the Halifax to provide outstanding service to our customers at a time of considerable growth. We have achieved this as a result of the superior performance and availability which the Skyline offers and look forward to Trinium building on these qualities," said Andrew Dickson, assistant general manager, Halifax Bank, West Yorkshire, England. About Hitachi Data Systems Committed to providing advanced enterprise computing solutions, Hitachi Data Systems markets high-performance enterprise servers, storage systems, and professional services worldwide. Hitachi meets its customers' computing needs with the broadest line of the highest performance enterprise servers in the world, including the Hitachi Skyline Trinium™, the Hitachi Data Systems Skyline Series™, and the Hitachi Data Systems Pilot Series™, as well as the Hitachi Freedom Storage™ subsystems which provide multiplatform support across S/390®, UNIX®, and NT environments. Owned by Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT)*, Hitachi Data Systems has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company employs approximately 2,300 people and operates in 30 countries worldwide. For further information on the Hitachi Skyline Trinium
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