Implicit Advantages Accrue to Integrated Storage Management Suites With the Hitachi Storage Command Suite, HDS takes a visionary step forward with a strong attempt to create a best-in-class storage management suite. In IDC’s opinion, the Hitachi Storage Command Suite addresses most, if not all, of the concerns of 21st century storage management: tiered storage; scalability; storage as a service; compliance, regulatory, and oversight requirements; and integrated, unified storage management across platforms, networks, and devices, whether local or remote. (June 2008)
Gain Business Value from the Disparate Landscape of Corporate Content with Content Archiving Corporate content is vital to a firm’s long-term viability. Corporate content needs to be managed to avoid risk, but it is also being mined and analyzed to derive business advantage for a firm. Content archiving is at once a business and technology approach to meet these reactive and proactive objectives. Applying structured data management principles to a firm’s content is a means to derive business advantage from unstructured corporate content. (February 2008)
HDS Makes Its Next Market Move with Content Archiving This IDC Flash discusses Hitachi Data Systems' recent announcement of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform 2.0 product, including benefits of its innovative features to end users. (June 2007)
Hitachi Data Systems: Thinner, Greener and at Your Service This IDC Flash discusses Hitachi Data Systems' recent announcements, including details on the company's
latest product, the Universal Storage Platform V. The Flash also addresses Hitachi's new "thin provisioning"
feature as well as other advancements in storage virtualization, increased performance, and scalability. (June 2007)
Responsiveness, Performance, and Cost: Finding the Right Storage Solution for Business and IT Alignment In May 2007, Hitachi introduced a new generation of storage virtualization solutions that enables the company to maintain its position as a leading innovator in the storage industry, delivering a number of new capabilities such as "thin provisioning" that are not yet widely available to enterprises. These innovations are designed to boost the value of an enterprise’s existing storage assets while providing investment protection in the face of continued rapid information growth. They also allow companies to align IT storage resources with constantly changing business requirements. (May 2007)
Striving for Innovation and Efficiency in Information Management with Services Oriented Storage Solutions
"IT infrastructure is the critical facilitator of the modern extended enterprise, enabling business processes and decision making and fueling organizational growth with new markets and products. IT continues to fuel an explosion of collaboration, communication, and new business models in what may come to be viewed as a golden age of global innovation." (April 2007)
Storage Profile: Hitachi Data Systems
"HDS has been broadening its portfolio of storage hardware offerings and supplementing this with an enhanced and more integrated set of storage management software. This is a sound diversification strategy as the profit margins
for storage hardware comes under competitive pressure. From its initial comfort zone of the midrange disk market, HDS has established its position in the enterprise
environment, and is now actively pursuing the NAS and IP SAN (iSCSI) markets.
HDS has also started to broaden its revenue and profit base by adding software value
to its hardware solutions." (31-Aug-2005)
Hitachi, HP, and Sun Introduce Storage Systems Targeting Midsize Organizations (by IDC)
"Storage systems suppliers such as Hitachi, HP, and Sun recognize that midsize organizations' storage requirements are evolving in response to changing business conditions. For HDS, the WMS and AMS models refresh its midrange portfolio at a time when it has begun to register growing traction in the market." (22-Jul-2005)
Hitachi Data Systems Introduces the Universal Storage Platform: Sets Sights on Leadership in Tiered Storage
"HDS's positioning of the Universal Storage Platform as a scalable and reliable front-end for interconnecting SAN-attached servers and multiple tiers of storage systems and its introduction of complementary new software products supporting virtualization, logical partitioning, and universal replication, are clear efforts to aggressively pursue the tiered storage and data life cycle management opportunities in large enterprises.
In this emerging market, owning one or more tiers of an enterprise's storage systems business will be less important than being the provider of the "networked" storage controllers and complementary software that interconnect and manage all the data flows into and between these systems. Over the next three years, this will be the true large enterprise battleground for leading storage systems and storage software suppliers." (08-Sep-2004)
