Bus-Tech Partners with Hitachi Data Systems for a High-Performance Virtual Tape Solution for TPF Mainframe Environments

BEDFORD, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Bus-Tech, Inc., a leading provider of modular, scalable Virtual Tape Library
(VTL) controllers for IBM and compatible mainframes, today announced it has
partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to provide support for IBM`s Transaction
Processing Facility (TPF). When coupled with Bus-Tech`s Mainframe Data Library
(MDL), the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family and Hitachi
High-Performance Network Attached Storage (NAS) Platform, powered by BlueArc,
will provide high-capacity storage systems for the virtual tape volumes.

This mainframe VTL solution provides TPF data centers with lower tape processing
costs by eliminating the need to monitor tape drives and introduces innovative
disaster recovery alternatives for mainframe environments. The combined offering
stores and retrieves virtual tape cartridges and incorporates the advantages of
open system networked storage into the mainframe data center environment.
Significant performance improvements are realized by accelerating system
utilities, data capture and restore processes to meet shrinking data processing
windows and growing service level requirements. Customers gain measurable
benefits, including storage consolidation, improved asset utilization, reduced
TCO and a lower enterprise tape footprint.

The unique partnership between Bus-Tech and Hitachi Data Systems provides TPF
customers with a single source to deploy an end-to-end VTL solution. The
combined solution set will provide enterprise data centers with faster backups
and restores, improved business continuity and elimination of tape processing
bottlenecks. It allows customers to replace their aging mainframe tape
subsystems with state-of-the-art tape-on-disk solutions for significant savings
in operating costs and major reductions in data center floor space.

"Organizations are looking at mainframe VTLs to improve their tape processing
efficiencies, achieve higher performance and lower tape processing costs,"
stated Brian Householder, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing and
Business Development, Hitachi Data Systems. "Our partnership with Bus-Tech
enables us to give mainframe customers more options and to provide them
streamlined backup and recovery operations, increased levels of data protection
for absolute data integrity and significantly reduced TCO."

"Hitachi Data Systems is well respected in the enterprise data center for its
exceptional engineering, customer service and end-user reputation," stated Al
Brandt, Bus-Tech`s President. "Combining Bus-Tech`s solution with Hitachi Data
Systems addresses the growing demand for mainframe Virtual Tape Libraries in the
high-performance world of transaction processing."

About Bus-Tech, Inc.

Bus-Tech, Inc. was founded in 1987 as a leading provider of highly available
mainframe data center solutions. In 2002, Bus-Tech introduced its Virtual Tape
solutions for the mainframe, which have been deployed by over 250 customers in
17 countries around the world. Bus-Tech, Inc. is privately held with
headquarters in Bedford, Mass. For more information about Bus-Tech and its
products, please visit the Bus-Tech web site at www.bustech.com, e-mail
info@bustech.com, or call 800-284-3172.

PAN Communications,
Dan Thompson, 978-474-1900
bustech@pancomm.com
@dthompson06

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