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NIWS and DataCore Target Financial Sector
Partnership Extends SANsymphony Software Traction in Japanese Market
SANsymphony Lowers Cost of Disaster Recovery, Leverages Underutilized Assets
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (September 4, 2003) DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open-storage networking software, today announced a joint sales and marketing agreement with NIWS Co. Ltd. in Japan. NIWS is a world-class business server solution provider formed as a joint venture between IBM Japan, Ltd. and Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. As a DataCore SANvantageSM partner, NIWS will deliver consulting, implementation and support services for SANsymphony installations in the Japanese financial sector.
"The partnership with NIWS expands DataCore's presence in Japan's financial industry," said Peter Thompson, managing director, Asia Pacific for DataCore. "NIWS can now help IT organizations in banking, for example, gather multi-vendor storage into a centrally managed pool to lower their total cost of ownership."
As is common with enterprises across the globe, NIWS has seen a shift among customers in the financial market toward the consolidation of numerous smaller systems into a few large-scale servers. Such server consolidation naturally drives storage consolidation, while generating enormous transaction processing and throughput demands on the more concentrated infrastructure. To adequately address the performance and availability challenge, NIWS is partnering with vendors, like DataCore, who cost-effectively aggregate the power of distributed heterogeneous resources.
SANsymphony software greatly reduces manual storage tasks through automation and eliminates costly storage utilities licensed on tens or hundreds of servers, switches and disk arrays by consolidating them onto Microsoft Windows Powered network nodes. Services such as physical to logical disk virtualization, volume management, storage resource management, and I/O path visualization that have been associated with host-intensive administration or vendor-specific hardware are offloaded to network-resident storage domain servers. The comprehensive fabric-based platform substantially reduces operational complexity and cost.
About NIWS Co., LTD.
NIWS Co., Ltd. (NIWS) was established on July 17, 1992 as a joint venture between IBM Japan, Ltd. (IBM) and Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI). Combining IBM's leading edge hardware and NRI's application experience, NIWS provides advanced solutions, primarily for financial institutions, as a Business Server System Solution Provider. On April 10, 2002, NIWS was listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also, in December, NIWS acquired the ISO9001 certification (international standard for quality management system) for all the system divisions. For information on NIWS in English, visit http://www.niws.co.jp/english.
About DataCore Software
DataCore Software is an independent software vendor specializing in consolidating, controlling and automating storage for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. The company's award-winning SANsymphony software uses Intel-based servers running Windows to pool, cache, and replicate data from all the major disk and disk array suppliers. Its innovative technology centralizes storage management for Global 2000 enterprise data centers and powers OEM storage subsystems with advanced features, non-stop availability and unmatched performance. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.
DataCore, the DataCore logo, Powered by DataCore, ROI Street Smarts, SANsymphony, SANcentral, and SANvantage are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Corporate Contacts:
DataCore Software Corporation
(954) 377-6000
pr@datacore.com
NIWS Company, Ltd.
Maekawa
Kayabacho-First Bldg., Shinkawa
1-17-21, Chuo-Ku
Tokyo. Japan 104-0033
03 5117 7117 (+81 3 5117 7100)
press@niews.co.jp
Media Contact:
(954) 377-6000
pr@corporateink.com
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