IIJ-Tech Rebuilds Intra-company Website of Daiwa House via Virtual Environment and Provides as a Service

Lowering costs

Daiwa House had been building its own systems in-house, including infrastructure and applications. However, the cost of replacing aging and no longer supported equipment was rising, and from a business continuation standpoint, they began to consider moving their internal infrastructure off the premises and into a data center. As a result of their search for a service provider that could meet their needs, Daiwa House enlisted the services of IIJ Technology because of its reputation for technological and administrative expertise and the ability to rationalize Daiwa's IT costs by outsourcing IT resources in the form of IIJ-Tech's IBPS and virtual software services.

Positive results

IIJ-Tech built an intra-company website for the more than 20,000 employees of the Daiwa House group using a combination of the IBPS Server Management Service (SMS), IBPS Data Management Service (DMS), and virtual software from VMware.
IBPS optimizes server resource utilization and provides a non-stop system 24 hours a day year round. Daiwa House reaped the benefits of this system immediately.

About Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.

Established in 1955, Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. is one of the largest homebuilders in Japan, with operations spanning the industry, from construction and sales of residential and commercial real estate and rental property management to urban development. Their commercial real estate division has a vast collection of real estate information and real estate consulting capabilities, and they are currently opening a number of branch offices at major commuter railway stations in suburban areas. In April 2009, they established the Environment/Energy Division and began selling white-light LED lighting systems for commercial facilities, providing customized solutions to meet customer needs.

About IBPS

The Integration & Business Platform Service delivers system optimization and resolves many problems through its integration and platform services. The servers, storage, network and other infrastructure shared by companies and divisions are provided by IIJ-Tech as a platform service that increases and decreases the level of resources available to meet current needs. The system can also be customized to meet any special need. IBPS minimizes the customer's initial investment costs and slashes the time required to get up and running. This service is ideal for customers with dramatic fluctuations in traffic and those who want to minimize equipment cost risks on systems whose traffic demands are not yet clearly known. It can also be useful for customers investigating ways to reduce the initial investment costs of system upgrades.

• * IBPS has the brand changed to IIJ GIO Cloud Service.

About IIJ

Founded in 1992, IIJ is one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions providers. IIJ and its group of companies provide total network solutions that mainly cater to high-end corporate customers. IIJ's services include high-quality systems integration and security services, Internet access, hosting/housing, and content design. Moreover, IIJ has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan, and between Japan and the United States. IIJ was listed on NASDAQ in 1999 and on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2006.

About IIJ Technology Inc.

IIJ Technology Inc. (IIJ-Tech) was established in November 1996 to spread out IIJ's superior network technology and forward vision to provide the system building and operation services to fill customers' expectation. IIJ-Tech builds Internet business systems and corporate information systems, as well as builds and operates many systems for government and financial institutions and systems for e-commerce, financial transactions, ISP/ICP, extranets, intranets, and ASPs.

• * IIJ absorbed IIJ Technology on April 2010.

The statements within this release contain forward-looking statements about our future plans that involve risk and uncertainty. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents furnished by IIJ with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the most recent reports on Forms 20-F and 6-K, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.