HITACHI EMEA CTO TO PRESENT THE VALUE OF MOBILE DATA FOR ATTENDEES OF IDC’S MIDDLE EAST CIO SUMMIT 2015

Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO Bob Plumridge outlines the benefits and pathways to data mobility through Hybrid Cloud Solutions at IDC’s most attended Middle East CIO Summit 2015

Dubai, UAE; February 23, 2015: Attendees of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Middle East CIO Summit next week will be among the first in the region to learn how to maximize the power of their corporate data on a variety of mobile platforms.   Bob Plumridge, Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Data Systems in Europe, Middle East & Africa  is set to discuss the current transformation of the Middle East’s data mobility landscape in the region at the IDC CIO Summit,  taking place on February 25-26 at the Atlantis, The Palm.

"Customer relationships, business models, workforce dynamics, and marketing channels are all undergoing irrevocable change at the hands of digital transformation. The technologies making all this possible are revolutionizing the IT landscape to the extent that by 2020, 60% of CIOs will have been supplanted by Chief Digital Officers for the delivery of IT products and services,” states Jyoti Lalchandani, Group Vice President and regional managing director at IDC Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META).

Participating in the Cloud and Datacenter panel discussion, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO for Europe, Middle East & Africa will share insight into the challenges customers in the Middle East are facing in managing the explosive growth of unstructured content, and how HDS enables them to achieve the cost and flexibility benefits of the cloud by reducing capital and operating expenses. His participation will also reveal how new forms of end user-friendly, secure and reliable data mobility, are reducing technology ownership costs by 60% through leveraging cloud and file sharing technologies in ways that were never before possible.

Commenting on the new age of mobility, Aaron White, General Manager Hitachi Data Systems Middle East and Pakistan explains, “Businesses in this region are determined to eliminate complexity, increase security through data management, and optimize their technology spending through software or infrastructure. Secure data sharing on  mobile platforms through Hitachi’s ‘plug and play’ solutions addresses these immediate regional needs, and we are delighted that our EMEA CTO will outline the path to these benefits at the upcoming IDC CIO Summit.”

The Summit will include strong business metrics alongside the existing IT-related metrics in this year’s ‘IT meets business’ theme including industry panels touching on Security, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud and Datacenter and Digital transformation.

About the Hitachi Content Platform Portfolio

The Hitachi Content Platform portfolio is the only integrated solution that brings together object storage, file sync and share and file gateways to create truly secure, simple and smart cloud storage solution. The uniquely integrated portfolio is easy to set up, manage, maintain and adapt as business needs change and technologies evolve. With the HCP portfolio, IT organizations and cloud service providers can easily store, share, synchronize, protect, preserve, analyze and retrieve file data from a single system. By avoiding the need for separate systems for each workload, HCP can apply compression and deduplication across a consolidated environment, making it much more efficient and cost effective. It also offers a much faster time to value for customers, and time to market for service providers by eliminating the hassles of do-it-yourself integration. No other object storage solution in the industry rivals the depth of HCP integration across workforce mobility components and security features on premises and across public clouds.

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About Hitachi Data Systems  

Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., provides information technologies, services and solutions that help companies improve IT costs and agility, and innovate with information to make a difference in the world. Our products, services and solutions are trusted by the world's leading enterprises, including more than 70% of the Fortune 100 and more than 80% of the Fortune Global 100. Visit us at www.HDS.com. 

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers innovations that answer society’s challenges with our talented team and proven experience in global markets. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2013 (ended March 31, 2014) totaled 9,616 billion yen ($93.4 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional materials & components, automotive systems, health care and others. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.