Hitachi Data Systems has been honored with the Green Comm Award Mexico 2008 in the category of companies that develop devices, products or systems with environmentally friendly elements and parts. Hitachi Data Systems won the award over 10 organizations which competed with its Environmental Vision 2025 initiative, designed by its parent company, Hitachi Ltd. The goal of this initiative is to curb CO2 emissions associated with its products by 100 million tons by 2025. "The Green Comm Award Mexico 2008 represents a real challenge to the competitiveness and sustainability of the IT industry in Mexico. This award intends to communicate to the public opinion that these initiatives do exist within this important sector in Mexico and they should be made known", said José Navarro, General Director of EJ Krause Mexico, the founder of the Green Comm award. "The Green Comm Award Committee determined that Hitachi Data Systems equipments sold in Mexico meet the environmental criteria." Learn more about the Hitachi Data Systems Green Initiative

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ (USP) V was selected by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com as a finalist in its annual "Storage Products of the Year" awards program. The USP V was selected as a finalist in the disk and disk subsystems category. The SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine Product of the Year awards recognize the elite technologies that impacted the storage industry in 2007. Over 200 storage-related products were submitted for consideration - a record number of entries. The Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants narrowed the finalists down to a list of 45 products across 5 different categories: backup and disaster recovery software, backup hardware, disk and disk subsystems, storage networking equipment and storage management software. Read more about Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V

The Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 won the SMB TRUST Storage Product of the Year 2007 for its ultimate simplicity and storage economics brought to SMB customers. The publication noted that Simple Modular Storage 100 draws upon the decades of Hitachi experience in both consumer electronics and data storage by converging all of this expertise into a singular product vision. As a low cost, entry level storage system that serves the needs of a broad set of customers, it is designed to fulfill the requirements of small and medium-sized businesses with burgeoning data growth and data protection requirements. Visit the CCW Site

With the Universal Storage Platform (USP) V, an all-new intelligent storage services platform with the ability to significantly outperform any storage system on the planet with a blistering 3.5 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) of maximum performance, Hitachi has achieved what other storage companies have yet to envision and has clearly extended its leadership position in high-end, enterprise storage solutions. Read more about Hitachi USP V

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced that the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ won Diogenes Labs-Storage® magazine Quality Award for Enterprise Storage Arrays for the third consecutive year, underscoring Hitachi’s legendary reliability and unparalleled commitment to enterprise storage excellence. Read more

Hitachi Data Systems Vice President of Global Channels Karen Sigman has been named among VARBusiness' 50 Most Powerful Women of the Channel. The "Power 50" was chosen by the editors of the magazine based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel. "We congratulate Hitachi Data Systems for its dedicated focus and commitment to its channel partners under Karen Sigman's leadership," said Lawrence M. Walsh, editor, VARBusiness. "We are delighted to recognize executives like Karen who have earned a deep respect within the channel community and are shining examples of women in technology integration who have made a global impact on their company's business." Read more

For the second year in a row, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform has been named the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Award for best Disk Subsystem by The Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) and InfoStor Magazine. The MVP Awards program recognizes the "best of the best" of storage networking products in the industry, as determined exclusively by storage end-users. Read more

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform has been named the most exciting storage product in use by end users, according to TheInfoPro, an independent research network created by alumni of Gartner, Giga, and Bell Labs that produces fundamental, objective, "grass roots" research on markets, vendors, issues, future adoption plans, and investor confidence. "The TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform's ability to virtualize legacy storage systems, assist with data migration, facilitate consolidation and extend disaster recovery functionality across all tiers of storage, provides a powerful solution for storage professionals looking to optimize business performance," said Robert L. Stevenson, managing director, Storage Practice, TheInfoPro. Read more

Jon Toigo, Data Management Institute Chairman and Enterprise System Journal Contributing Editor, personally evaluated dozens of storage products. His pick? The TagmaStore™ Network Storage Controller Model NSC55. "This product is simply a smart packaging of an elegant storage approach for the larger middle tier or smaller enterprise tier that simplifies the complexity of FC fabric design, management, and virtualization," said Toigo. He also selected Hu Yoshida as Storage CTO of the Year. Read more

Hitachi Data Systems was voted one of the top 50 tech vendors for our proven track record, innovation, industry standing and firm commitment to the Asian market. ZDnet Asia created this annual ranking to help businesses make well-informed buying decisions. Hundreds of nominees were judged on key performance indicators such as revenue, income, growth and market coverage in 10 Asian countries. Read more

Voted No. 1 by hundreds of users, Hitachi Data Systems won the first Quality Awards program, developed to measure the levels of satisfaction experienced by users who work with diverse storage products. The program's producers, Storage magazine and Diogenes Analytical Laboratories Inc., kept the focus on quality, not on market share. Read more

The Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) and InfoStor Magazine awarded the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform the 2005 Most Valuable Product (MVP) Award for Best Disk Subsystem. Hitachi Data Systems surpassed all other leading storage providers in this category, determined by the votes of end-user readers and members of ASNP. Read more

Hitachi Data Systems earned top grades on CMP's Annual Report Card as the ARC Winner - Best Product Innovation in the Network Storage Category. CMP's VARBusiness magazine selects the winners based on its survey results of more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting organizations, value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers, and software developers. Says Publisher Robert C. DeMarzo, "It is a meaningful benchmark because the winning companies are selected by their customers." Read more

Open Systems Advisors' "Crossroads A-List Awards" identify companies that focus on an important problem or opportunity, provide a viable solution or service offering, and deliver consistent business results for early reference accounts. Result? Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform-one of the "best new technology solutions proven to deliver business results." Read more

Last year, Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com named the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform "Product of the Year 2004," awarding the platform a Gold in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category from among storage products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between October 24, 2003 and October 25, 2004. The award is based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments and value. Read more

Pacific Capital Bancorp was recognized by SNIA experts, IDG's Computerworld editors and staff, and IT business analysts for the successful design, implementation, and management of an interoperable environment using the unique capabilities of Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform, supported by consulting services for a Services Oriented Storage Solutions™ solution from Hitachi Data Systems. Read more