Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT) a worldwide provider of information processing solutions that
enhance customer computing and solutional capabilities in various business environments, and
BMC Software, Inc., the leader in providing solutions that improve the availability, performance
and recovery of business-critical applications and solutions that provide application service
assurance, today announced an alliance to jointly develop and market storage solutions providing
enterprise customers with fast back-up and high-level data sharing solutions in heterogeneous
environments. Products will be released throughout the year and will be marketed by each
partners' current channels.
Enterprise customers continue to consistently back up critical data without confidence
that data can be quickly restored and applications successfully restarted. To provide instant
recovery, it is essential that storage devices have the intelligence to minimize backup requirements
and off-load backup and recovery processes from the server. This partnership will result in
revolutionary technology to address these customer issues.
"Hitachi is a leading supplier of storage products in the mainframe market and is now
focusing on the open systems arena, while BMC Software offers strengths in database recovery,
application management, and storage resource management technologies," said Dr. Jun Naruse,
division president of Data Storage and Retrieval Systems Division/ Information and
Telecommunications Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. "Together, Hitachi and BMC will offer multi-
platform storage solutions, combining both Hitachi's strength in hardware and BMC Software's
strength in software, which will enable enterprise customers to achieve the full potential of their
information systems. Hitachi's Freedom Storage is the industry's most powerful storage
subsystem featuring the world's fastest disk drive speed of 12,030 rpm and a maximum subsystem
storage capacity of several terabytes, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at enterprise data
centers, which provide multi-platform connectivity and data sharing support across S/390, Unix
and Windows NT environments."
"As revealed in recent announcements, BMC Software has formed a business unit
focused on enterprise storage management and application recovery with a mission of dominating
the enterprise storage management market," said Mr. Vic Mahadevan, vice president and general
manager for BMC Software's Application Recovery and Enterprise Storage Management
Business Unit. "This kind of partnership between vendors such as Hitachi and BMC is essential to
respond to the industry's movement toward Storage Area Networks (SANs) and the demand for
server-less backups and restores. BMC is committed to integrating current network management,
storage management, and backup and recovery solutions along with technology provided by
partners and acquisitions to provide the only end-to-end storage management tool for the
enterprise that can associate storage events with application management."
About Hitachi Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics
companies, with fiscal 1997 (ended March 31, 1998) consolidated sales of 8,417 billion yen ($63.8
billion*). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers,
semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on
Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://www.hitachi.co.jp. * At an exchange rate of
132 yen to the dollar.
About BMC Software
BMC Software is the world's leading provider of management solutions that ensure the availability,
performance, and recovery of companies' business-critical applications. They call this application
service assurance, and it means that the applications companies and their customers rely on most
stay up and running, around the clock. For more than 18 years, the world's leading companies have
relied on BMC Software.
BMC Software is among the world's largest independent software vendors, a Forbes 500
company and is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 1999 revenues exceeding $1.3 billion.
The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices worldwide. For more information,
visit BMC Software's Web site at www.bmc.com, or please call 800-841-2031 or 713-918-8800
Trademarks
Hitachi Freedom Storage is a trademark of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. S/390 is a
registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. UNIX is a registered
trademark licensed exclusively by X/Open Company Ltd. in the U.S. and other countries.
Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
Other name of companies, organizations and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective owners.
To the extent there are any forward-looking statements in this release, they are necessarily
subject to uncertainties based on various factors, including business conditions in BMC Software's
markets, product release cycles, and competitive conditions. Further information on potential
factors which could affect the Company's financial results are included in their current Forms 6-
K and 20-F reports, which are on file with the SEC.
BMC Software, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BMC Software and the BMC
Software logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc.
Contact:
Terry Kubo Heather Real
Hitachi America, Ltd. BMC Software, Inc.
+1-650-244-7902 +1-713- 918-1649
tatsuya.kubo@hal.hitachi.com heather_real@bmc.com
Masanao Sato
Hitachi, Ltd. Japan
+81-3-3258-2057
syoujiki@cm.head.hitachi.co.jp
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