In Blount Terms: The IT Hardware Industry Weekly
"Hitachi Data Systems introduced its new SMB product, the 9520V Workgroup Modular Storage System. Further, HDS discussed its strategy of leveraging SMB growth through key partnerships with Acer and Lenovo. As part of its SMB product rollout, HDS said that it will leverage component offerings from Brocade and McDATA on the switch side, and Emulex and QLogic on HBA side. The company highlighted that a common set of software can be leveraged from the company’s high end TagmaStore product down to the SMB product. Further, the company indicated that it is seeing increased traction with its TagmaStore product." (10-Dec-2004)
Roadshow Roundup: Hitachi Data Systems
"HDS is one of the world’s largest high-end SAN (Storage Area Network) solution providers, and Asia’s most dominant provider." (21-Oct-2004)
HDS' Next Generation Platform
"With its new hardware product launches, HDS has upped the ante in the high-end storage market…" (08-Sep-2004)
HDS Reports FY1Q04 Results
"In the June 2004 quarter, HDS (ex-Japanese market) experienced year-over-year growth in software, services, and SAN components, while storage hardware was flat. Significantly, with regard to software, we believe that HDS experienced approximately 30% sequential growth and more than 30% year-over-year growth." (18-Aug-2004)
Hitachi Data Systems to Extend SATA Offerings
"The new Thunder SATA Intermix Option, offering up to 107 TB in a single storage system, is targeted at the increasing number of fixed content applications, where
the need for data integrity and availability is high but access requirements are much less frequent than with operational data." (21-Jun-2004)
Storage Networking & Services Industry Update: Hitachi Storage March '04 Qtr Results
"In the March 2004 quarter, HDS experienced year-over-year growth across all of its major product categories including storage hardware, software, services, and SAN components. More specifically, HDS continues to see progress with its global solutions services division, which grew more than 30% year over year, and we estimate approximately 10% sequentially. With regard to software, we believe that HDS experienced approximately 10% sequential growth and more than 10% year over year growth...Notably, HDS is seeing strong market acceptance for its HSSM storage area management offerings. Though off of a small base, HSSM grew more than 200% sequentially." (05-May-2004)
Hitachi Storage December Qtr. Results
"In terms of demand trends, we believe HDS saw strength in December, with January seasonally slower but solid. The company continues to see customer interest in compliance solutions. Further, sales cycles are slightly shorter, and the company is seeing more big deals. The company is building a pipeline of midrange 9500 V orders through Gateway, a recently added reseller." (10-Feb-2004)
Storage Networking & Services Industry Update—HDS: Recent Product Introductions
"We believe that Hitachi Data Systems' new midrange product introductions, software announcements, and services initiatives are significant as it has become increasingly imperative for the company to integrate hardware, software, and services in its offerings to blunt EMC, IBM, and HP's competitive moves." (07-Nov-2003)
In Blount Terms—The Storage Industry Weekly
"In our opinion, HDS has been taking the right steps to leverage its already strong technology position in the high-end of the storage systems market. The first major step was the introduction of the modular Thunder 9500 V Series early this year. The introduction now of the Thunder 9580V model is an important extension of that line. The 9580V is a robust system and is clearly a step up from the 9570V, with significantly more capacity and higher bandwidth and more cache." (13-Oct-2003)
HDS Posted Solid CY4Q02 Results
This report analyzes Hitachi Data Systems' recent financial results and quarterly trends. (17-Mar-2003)
EMC: New Products Solid, Market Uncertain
The analysts at Lehman Brothers are intrigued by EMC's new matrix architecture, but not convinced that it leapfrogs Hitachi Data Systems' switch-based architecture, as EMC claims. (04-Feb-2003)
HDS: The Next Generation
According to the analysts at Lehman Brothers, HDS is prudently advancing an open, standards-based platform with its Hitachi TrueNorth strategy. TrueNorth enables customers to leverage HDS' high-end hardware offerings and best-of breed software solutions. (09-May-2002)
HDS: Introduces Next Gen Products
Read why these analysts "believe that HDS' product announcements provide meaningful improvements to the company's hardware line, and the software initiatives address important issues relating to the interoperability of heterogeneous storage resources." (08-May-2002)
Hitachi Data Systems: Focus on Software
This research report focuses solely on Hitachi Data Systems' software strategy, capabilities and direction, and includes many graphs, comparison charts, and diagrams. (10-Apr-2002)
Taking a Byte Out of Storage
Read why Lehman Brothers analysts believe HDS offers a technologically superior product. This comprehensive, 359-page report prominently highlights HDS and covers nearly every aspect of the storage industry. (22-Feb-2002)
