CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

1 December 2004

Product News

Hitachi Data Systems and Open Text Extend Partnership to Provide Combined ECM, Storage Solutions

Open TextT Corporation and Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd announced they will extend their partnership to provide combined ECM and storage solutions to large organizations. The partnership will provide solutions that integrate Hitachi Data Systems' advanced storage infrastructure technology with Open Text's ECM software to meet customers' complete range of information management requirements.

A key area of focus for the two companies continues to be helping customers manage and store the enormous volume of e-mail they must maintain, while meeting corporate governance and regulatory compliance mandates. Hitachi Data Systems' storage solutions will support the new e-mail management offerings Open Text announced November 17th, including new solutions that integrate e-mail archiving capabilities with records management software, so customers can apply legal and regulatory policies to e-mail ( http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1555 ). The companies' solutions will offer customers a virtually limitless mailbox archive, while improving e-mail performance and reducing the pressure on e-mail servers.

The two companies are also working together to provide a comprehensive set of archival and compliance solutions for enterprise applications, combining the advanced data lifecycle management capabilities of Hitachi Data Systems' storage platforms with Open Text's ECM software. These solutions let customers store, manage, retrieve and archive documents from SAP® systems.

All of these solutions are supported on the breadth of Hitachi Data Systems' family of storage platforms, from the Hitachi Thunder 9500T V Series modular storage to the new Hitachi TagmaStoreT Universal Storage Platform. The combination of the information management capabilities of the Open Text ECM offerings with the advanced virtualization and consolidation capabilities of the Universal Storage Platform, or the 'tiered-storage-in-a-box' capabilities of the Thunder 9500 V Series with the SATA Intermix Option provides customers with an unmatched infrastructure for managing business critical data through its lifecycle.

 

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