Nissho Electronics and Arkivio Partner to Bring File System ILM Solutions to the Japanese Market
Tokyo, Japan and Mountain View, CA, July 20, 2006 – Nissho Electronics, bringing advanced technologies from the United States to Japan, and Arkivio Inc., providing leading Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for enterprise companies, announced today that ARKIVIO® AUTO-STOR ILM software for file systems will be resold and supported by Nissho Electronics in Japan. Arkivio has provided ILM solutions to some of the largest companies in Japan for the past two years.
The three year agreement establishes Nissho Electronics as a Tier 1 reseller of ARKIVIO software in Japan. Nissho has assigned and trained technical resources to demonstrate, implement, and support ARKIVIO AUTO-STOR.
The ARKIVIO AUTO-STOR classification system is unique in the industry and helps customers create processes and policies around different data types, user groups, and storage types. With its ability to support heterogeneous storage platforms including EMC, HP, Hitachi, NetApp, and SUN, the ARKIVIO software efficiently moves data to the right storage tier based on the data’s value to the business as captured in the ARKIVIO classification system. This interoperability with leading vendors provides end users with transparent access to archived data when the data’s business value increases.
"Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd will also offer storage solutions based on ARKIVIO AUTO-STOR to the Japanese market as a partner of Nissho," said Masaki Nomoto, Department Manager Sales Department 3 of Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. “By using ARKIVIO AUTO-STOR to discover and classify data, Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd will be able to offer a more effective ILM solution by properly migrating data across heterogeneous storage including Hitachi, NetApp and others with the ARKIVIO software.” "ARKIVIO AUTO-STOR has become the essential application for file system based storage environments and now we have expanded our capabilities in Japan with this agreement with Nissho," said Bob Grewal, vice president of worldwide sales at Arkivio. "Today's announcement provides Nissho’s customers with the highest quality ILM solution to help lower cost of storage management operations while providing access to archived data for regulatory, legal, and governance purposes.”
“ARKIVIO AUTO-STOR software’s ability to move data across UNIX, Windows, and Linux files for any type of storage and support for the Japanese language match well with Nissho’s business objective to bring leading technology to Japan,” noted Norio Nakai, Managing Executive Officer of Nissho Electronics. “We have successfully implemented this solution with Japanese companies and look forward to growing our ILM business through this relationship.”
About Nissho Electronics
Nissho Electronics’ mission is based on incorporating various leading edge technologies and products to provide customers with practical solutions and services. Using the world's leading edge technologies, Nissho Electronics is dedicated to providing services and solutions that are tailored to meet unique Japanese requirements.
About Arkivio
Arkivio, Inc., providing leading Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for enterprise customers, offers software for data archiving and retention, regulatory compliance, storage consolidation, backup and recovery optimization, and capacity management across a tiered-storage infrastructure. The company’s ARKIVIO® AUTO-STOR software redefines storage management by enabling customers to profile the criticality of their data within its lifecycle in order to automate its discovery, classification and placement on the most appropriate storage resource across heterogeneous DAS/NAS/SAN environments without deploying agents - driving the cost per managed terabyte of storage to its lowest possible level, while providing significant ROI.
For more information on ARKIVIO® AUTO-STOR and its customer solutions, visit http://www.arkivio.com or contact Arkivio at: 2700 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043; Phone (877) 275-0100 or +1 (650) 237-6100; Fax +1 (650) 237-9183.