Hitachi Strengthens its SRM Portfolio
Hitachi has done much to reduce the proliferation of application host-based monitoring and reporting agents, and to replace CLIs with state-of-the-art GUIs.Storage Command Suite can be seen as both a response to customer demand, and a statement of direction. We expect further integration, simplification, and automation enhancements to follow. (May 2008)
Enterprise Functions Meet Customer Simplicity
HDS, Known for data-center class storage systems sold to large enterprises, is charting new territory with its new Simple Module Storage (SMS) model 100, which is aimed at the mass market of small to medium-sized businesses and remote office users. (October 2007)
Hitachi is Executing on Its Strategy with USP VM
Hitachi continues to execute on its strategy of scaling down enterprise-class storage technology and making it available in smaller, modular, more affordable form factors, thereby expanding its addressable markets. (September 2007)
Hitachi Sets High Water Mark for Consolidated Storage
Since the inception of networked storage in the late 1980s, the storage domain hasproduced amazing diversity. Storage alternatives for fundamental IT problemsolving now abound, driven by combinations and permutations of hardware,software, and networking protocols. Virtualization has long existed as a way tomake growth-oriented, diverse, and complex IT environments manageable. Sincegrowth, diversity, and complexity also abound within the storage domain, storagevirtualization enters as the fundamental consolidator, manager and simplifier. (14-May-2007)
Hitachi Shows Services Oriented Storage in the Real World
To date, storage virtualization has yet to truly capture the hearts and minds of enterprise IT administrators. It certainly has not done so in the same way that server virtualization has captured the imagination - and purchase orders - of datacenter operators. We believe this will continue to be the case as long as vendors of virtualized storage fail to present a compelling value proposition. (27-Mar-2007)
HDS to the Power of Blue
Hitachi Data Systems has announced a unique OEM relationship with BlueArc that unites file virtualization and block storage virtualization. Under the global, mutual OEM agreement, HDS will integrate the BlueArc Titan high-performance NAS gateway with HDS' Universal Storage Platform, Network Storage Controller, and other members of the Hitachi storage family and bring the solution to market as the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform. BlueArc will add the HDS' entire disk array products to its portfolio. In addition, Hitachi Data System will acquire an undisclosed percentage of BlueArc's shares. (12-Jan-2007)
