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Hitachi’s Consulting Arm Buys Offshore Developer Sierra Atlantic

January 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Sierra Atlantic’s offshore development locations in Hyderabad, India, and Guangzhou, China, will expand Hitachi Consulting’s presence in the data center middleware and application integration markets. – Hitachi Consulting, the global consulting division of Japan’s
Hitachi Ltd., said Jan. 4 that it has acquired Oracle and Microsoft enterprise
application developer Sierra Atlantic of Newark, Calif.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Because Sierra Atlantic has offshore development locat…

Hitachi CinemaStar HDD Unwrapped at CES 2011

January 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies joins Seagate and Western Digital with two new hard disk drive families optimized for storing audio and video content. – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies unveiled two new hard
drive families specifically optimized and fine-tuned for the audio/video
market on Jan. 4.
Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
the new CinemaStar families will be available as both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives.
The…

Hitachi Asia – Corporate moves

December 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Makoto Nagashima has been appointed MD wef Jan 1, 2011
Work experience: Chief representative, Middle East/general manager, Middle East and Riyadh Branches, Hitachi Ltd; GM, Middle East branch, corporate marketing group, Hitachi Ltd

Hitachi GST Claims Travelstar 500GB HDD Thinnest on Market

December 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies designed its latest Travelstar hard disk drive for OEMs and systems integrators that want to build trim, rugged servers and mobile devices. – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced a new
Travelstar 2.5-inch drive that it claimed was the thinnest hard drive in the
industry on Dec. 15.
The new Hitachi Travelstar Z5k500 drive family hits the quot;sweet
spot quot; for the mobile 2.5-inch market, Hitachi
said. With a thickness o…

Hitachi Adds Three 3TB HDDs to Data Storage Lineup

December 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies joined the big boys in the 3TB hard drive club with two internal and one external drives. – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies unveiled a line of
3TB internal and external hard disk storage drives for business and home
applications.
The external drive has enough storage for both Mac and PC
users to store or backup their digital photos, music libraries, and movie
collections, Hitachi…

Hitachi Introduces Its First Enterprise-Level SSDs

November 16th, 2010 | No Comments

The new drives, developed in partnership with Intel/Micron, come in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities with a choice of 2.5-inch 6Gbit/sec SAS (serial-attached SCSI) or 3.5-inch 4G bps Fibre Channel interfaces. – If it seems that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a little
behind the curve in delivering SSDs to the enterprise data center,
well, you’d be correct. Most of the other storage system makers have
had them available as options to replace hard disk drives for months
and/or even a few years.
…

Chip Shot: Hitachi GST Unveils Enterprise SSDs Co-Developed with Intel

November 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Hitachi GST, unveiled today its first enterprise-class solid-state drive family, a joint development using Intel 34nm NAND flash memory and advanced SSD technology. The Ultrastar SSD400S family of SSDs from Hitachi combines enterprise-grade NAND flash, proprietary endurance firmware and power loss management techniques from Intel to extend reliability, endurance and sustained performance.

Datasheet: Ultrastar SSD400S

Hitachi Planning IPO for Its Storage Division

November 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Hitachi said that it is preparing to list the shares of its U.S.-based hard disk-drive unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, on either the NYSE or the Nasdaq. No date yet. – Hitachi, the vast Japanese conglomerate buoyed by an improved
fiscal Q2 2010 report after several quarters of massive losses, said
this week that it wants to break out its storage division into its own
entity and set up an initial public offering.

The Japan-based multinational, ranked in the w…

Hitachi, LG, Micron Combine for New Hybrid Storage Drive

October 4th, 2010 | No Comments

The new HLDS (Hitachi LG Data Storage partnership) hybrid drive with Micon’s 25-nm NAND flash will be used in PCs, DVD players and Blu-ray products. – Hitachi, which partners with South
Korea’s LG Data Storage to make storage
devices, on Oct. 4 introduced what it called the world’s first hybrid NAND
flash optical disk drive with its own on-board storage.

Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology supplies its new 25-nanometer NAND as the
flash me…

HP, Hitachi Ship New Converged Petabyte Storage System

September 27th, 2010 | No Comments

New arrays have no trouble whatsoever scaling up to manage as many as 5 million objects and 255 petabytes of data — under one management server. – There’s a new converged enterprise storage system available in the market as
of Sept. 27, and both Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems are claiming
that it’s theirs. There’s no controversy here: They’re both right.

HP and Hitachi both announced a new
converged-type storage platform for m…

Silverlake Axis agrees collaboration deal with Hitachi Information Systems

August 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Silverlake Axis says it has entered into a business collaboration agreement with Hitachi Information Systems (HIS), for the development and outsourcing of various financial and distribution systems.

Under the agreement, Silverlake Axis and HIS will form a business collaboration relationship to provide system architecture, network services and outsourcing services through Silverlake Japan (SJL), a fully-owned subsidiary of SAL, to prospective Japanese customers.

Hitachi to launch ultra slim hard drives

June 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Hitachi GST has announced that it will shortly start sending quarter-inch thick hard drives. The hard drives are 26percent slimmer as compared to the current drives incorporated in most of todayâ€™s laptops and notebooks.
The upcoming ultra-light notebooks set for the market launch in the coming days will require new designs of hard drives. The ultra [...]

Hitachi Data Systems Upgrades Data Center Monitoring Package

May 19th, 2010 | No Comments

HDS adds support for Hyper-V and VMware vSphere to its all-in-one performance monitor that continually checks the availability of all servers, routers, switches and storage arrays in an IT system, and compiles and displays all the relevant information on a single computer screen. – Hitachi Data Systems said May 18 that it is shipping a new version of its
data center monitoring software for midsize IT environments, which thanks
largely to widespread use of virtualization are getting as complicated as large
enterprise systems.

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer 2.0 is an all-i…

Hitachi Data Systems Joins Unified Computing Crowd

April 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Partners in the system include Microsoft for its virtualization layer and infrastructure services, QLogic for network adaptors and Emulex for storage controllers. VMware’s ESX hypervisor can also be deployed within this setup, depending upon the user’s choice.
– Hitachi Data Systems has jumped aboard the unified computing system bandwagon currently occupied by Hewlett-Packard, Dell/Brocade and Cisco Systems’ UCS partnership with EMC and VMware.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. announced April 19 that it is launching its ow…

Dell Sues LCD Makers Sharp, Hitachi and Toshiba over Price Fixing

March 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Dell named Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson and HannStar Display in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco March 12, alleging that the manufacturers were fixing display prices at Dells expense.
– Computer maker Dell is suing five Asian manufacturers for allegedly plotting
to set prices and overcharge Dell for the display panels they create.

Japan-based Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba
and Seiko Epson, and Taiwan-based HannStar Display were named in the suit that
Dell filed in a U.S. District…

Hitachi Enters Cutthroat Consumer Storage Wars

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

The launch of three new storage machines marks the first products resulting from the company’s acquisition of Fabrik in February 2009. The Japanese company now jumps directly into pricing wars in a cutthroat market that already includes Iomega, Seagate, Toshiba, Synology and Cisco Systems.
– Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies, known in the past only for its enterprise
storage products, on July 13 launched three consumer products that put the
company directly into a growing market that already includes Iomega, Seagate,
Toshiba, Synology and Cisco Systems.

The launch marks the fir…