HDS recently announced that it has partnered with Brocade Communications Systems to distribute its new SilkWorm 3250 and SilkWorm 3850 switches, Brocade's new entry-level products for the Small to Medium-sized Enterprise (SME), and the SilkWorm 24000 Director, the newest high-capacity switch designed for large enterprises.
Fanie van Rensburg, MD of local HDS distributor, Shoden Data Systems, comments, "By offering these three new products, HDS continues to expand customer options on both ends of the spectrum - from small business or departmental solutions to the needs of Fortune 100 enterprises."
Aimed at SME customers, the SilkWorm 3250 and 3850 switches offer broad configuration options that can be tailored to meet individual customer needs, and are ideal for growing organisations that want to take advantage of SAN technology. These switches complement the Hitachi Thunder 9500 V Series modular storage systems, also targeted at the growing SME market as well as departments in large organisations.
Coupled with the Hitachi Lightning 9900 V series enterprise storage system, the SilkWorm 24000 Director is aimed at large-scale SAN requirements and is designed to support future networked storage applications for larger enterprises.
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With offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, Shoden Data Systems (Pty) Ltd is the sole distributor for Hitachi Data Systems in South Africa. Shoden Data Systems also has strategic agreements with CNT - a provider of storage networking solutions, products & services- and is a reseller of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. In addition, the company is a Veritas Premier Partner, providing integrated, managed, best-of-breed Storage Area Network solutions to the marketplace, and also distributes VMware, virtual machine software for Intel-based systems.
Based on more than 200 collective years of experience in the service, support and marketing of Hitachi products, Shoden Data Systems uses its intellectual capital and industry leading products to provide customers with total solutions in the storage, enterprise servers and connectivity arenas. The following offerings are available:
1. Storage - HDS Freedom storage range, including the enterprise-level Lightning 9900 series & the modular Thunder 9500 series
2. Connectivity - CNT and Brocade
3. Servers - Fujitsu Siemens PrimePower range of servers
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs.
With 2,700 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170 countries. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.eu.hds.com.
Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company, with approximately 340,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2002 (ended March 31, 2003) consolidated sales totalled 8,191.7 billion yen ($68.3 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, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.hitachi.com.
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. The world's leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions. The Brocade SilkWormR family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimise data availability and storage and server resources in the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of storage area networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency. For more information, visit the Brocade website at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
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