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The Healthy Earth Ambition
News Source: Baseline
Country: USA
Energy efficient products and cutting consumption costs.
Hardware vendors are pushing the power envelope, creating data centers to showcase their products' energy efficiencies—and cutting their own consumption amps and costs.
Hitachi Data Systems Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, opened a data center designed to achieve a 1.6 power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating by the Green Grid, described as the lowest power-usage index of any high-tier data center, according to HDS. The Yokohama, Japan, data center should reduce carbon emissions by 20 percent and cut IT management costs. The center uses thermal hydraulic cooling equipment, uninterruptible power supply systems, and advanced power supply converters to decrease power, cooling and space needs.
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Better Storage Management
News Source: Processor Magazine
Country: USA
Better storage management is about better use of existing storage. With the right techniques, SMEs can reclaim or reserve existing storage, replicate and restore data fast, and run applications without disruption.
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Data Center Storage Woes
News Source: forbes.com
Country: USA
Virtualization of servers looks like child's play compared with the difficulties of improving efficiency on the storage side.
Most of the attention inside data centers has focused on improving the utilization of commodity servers, largely by adding a virtualization software layer. It's not so easy on the storage side, partly because there is no simple software fix and partly because storage has been added over decades--in many cases, with no clear planning. But while server growth is flat to down, storage continues to grow by 60% a year.
Forbes.com caught up with Hu Yoshida, chief technology officer at Hitachi Data Systems, to talk about storage virtualization.
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HDS re-brands, beefs up Storage Command
News Source: eChannel Line
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems has both changed the name of its storage resource management suite and added some new tools for replication and storage capacity.
Formerly called Hitachi HiCommand Storage Management Suite, it has since been re-branded as the Hitachi Storage Command Suite.
"HiCommand was always a storage resource management product. I just think they wanted to make sure everybody understood that is what they are up to, by the name change," stated industry analyst John Webster, principal IT advisor for Illuminata.
He noted that the product is "weighted" towards the higher end customer grappling with complex storage requirements.
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HDS unifies storage management tools
News Source: infoStor
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today made headway in its quest to unify the management of block-, file-, and content-based storage with the introduction of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite-an integrated set of heterogeneous storage management software tools that make it possible to manage all data on HDS and virtualized hardware from a single portal.
The Storage Command Suite includes tools that address data mobility, replication, and tiered storage management services across file-, object-, and block-based storage assets, and provides application-centric capacity and performance management spanning the storage infrastructure.
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Rumble of the Storage Behemoths
News Source: IT Business Edge
Country: USA
Meanwhile, firms like Hitachi are ramping up their wares to take on the expanding data market. The company recently added support for both flash technology and 1 TB SATA II hard drives on the Universal Storage Platform V and VM systems, as well as local and remote replication for thin-provisioned volumes in its Dynamic Provisioning software. The company also doubled cache capacity to 512 GB and added support for IPv6 to accommodate large-scale file transfers.
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HDS streamlines storage management tools
News Source: SearchStorage.com
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is making software and hardware upgrades, combining six storage management applications into one suite to streamline tasks while doubling the cache size of its USP-V high-end disk array. HDS has also revealed that it now supports thin provisioning on replicated volumes and will support solid-state disk drives in the array later this year.
The new Hitachi Storage Command Suite consists of Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Tiered Storage Manager and Dynamic Link Manager, plus new applications called Replication Manager and Storage Capacity Reporter. All of the applications were developed by HDS except for Storage Capacity Reporter, which is a rebranding of Aptare's StorageConsole software. And all six are based on the same back-end database.
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Hitachi tools up on storage front
News Source: The Inquirer
Country: USA
JAPANESE GIANT HITACHI reckons it's upgraded its enterprise class Universal Storage Platform V as well as its Storage Command Suite management software, according to a particularly long and waffly press release.
The company also said that management tools were now all bunged together under the umbrella of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite.
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Hitachi Intro's Tighter Storage Management Integration
News Source: ChannelWeb
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems on Monday unveiled an integrated suite of storage management software combining several existing and new applications for managing heterogeneous storage infrastructures.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based storage vendor also unveiled hardware enhancements to increase the capacity and performance of its storage hardware.
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HDS upgrades high-end storage hardware
News Source: Blocks and Files
Country: USA
Extends replication and consolidates its management
Hitachi Data Systems has added new drive support to its high-end USP-V array, added replication of thinly-provisioned volumes, and consolidated the management of replication activities and data. It is the second mainstream array vendor to add flash solid state drive (SSD) support.
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Hitachi's new Storage Command Suite
News Source: Blocks and Files
Country: USA
Data management and protection through one pane of glass
Hitachi Data Systems has updated the management of its storage products by introducing its new Storage Command Suite to centralise data management and protection on heterogeneous drive arrays linked to its controllers.
HDS' USP-V controller virtualises Hitachi and 3rd party drive arrays linked to it. Storage Command Suite supplies the means to manage and protect the data on those drives, delivering non-disruptive data mobility, advanced replication and tiered storage management services across heterogeneous file, object and block-based storage assets. It contains the following integrated components
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Hitachi Extends Its Standing in the Enterprise Storage Virtualization
News Source: Virtualization News Desk / Sys
Country: USA
Building on its standing over competitors in storage virtualization implementations worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation introduced enhancements to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM. With this announcement, Hitachi is delivering an advanced, market-proven storage services platform that enables customers to gain reductions in capital and operational expenditures, improved storage utilization and efficiency, and lower environmental footprints across their entire storage infrastructure.
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Hitachi upgrades its enterprise-class array, software
News Source: Computerworld
Country: USA
May 19, 2008 (Computerworld) Hitachi Data Systems Corp. today announced a number of upgrades to its enterprise-class Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) array and its Storage Command Suite management software.
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HDS announces industry's greenest data center
News Source: eChannel Line
Country: USA
Breaking new ground in data center design and development, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, has announced the world's most eco-friendly and power-efficient data center -- designed to achieve a 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) rating by The Green Grid -- the lowest power usage index of any data center in its class.
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Hitachi reveals greenest data center dream
News Source: The Register
Country: United Kingdom
Hitachi Data Systems is celebrating Earth Day by announcing the most eco-friendly and power-efficient enterprise-class data center ever constructed - that is, ignoring the slight complication that it hasn't actually been constructed yet.
No, this year Mother Earth receives only a well-meaning promise from HDS, which intends to attach a new green wing onto Hitachi's massive data center in Yokohama, Japan by next year. Think of it as an Earth Day equivalent of giving your partner a hand-made coupon for the "world's best back rub" on their birthday.
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Hitachi tests its own green IT theories with new data center project
News Source: ZDNet
Country: USA
Hitachi Group is celebrating Earth Day with the groundbreaking of an expansion to its data center in Yokohama, Japan.
The new wing boasts technology advances that are part of the massive technology company's CoolCenter50 project. It also plays into the company's corporatewide Harmonious Green Plan, which calls for it to reduce 330,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2012 through various green IT products.
Hitachi's green data center design plays off its own software and hardware ideas from all over the green IT spectrum, including storage virtualization and thin provisioning, data deduplication software, and its "ecology" server.
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HDS Unveils Green Data Center
News Source: Byte and Swithch
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled what it claims will be the world's greenest data center.
The storage supplier today announced its parent company Hitachi's project to add a 10,782-square-meter wing to Hitachi Ltd.'s 387,459-square-meter data center in Yokohama, Japan. The goal: to showcase Hitachi's green data center products and services, while offering visible claims to compliance with worldwide environmental efforts.
"We're putting a stake in the ground, saying this is what we're going to do," says Hu Yoshida, VP and CTO of HDS. "All equipment is from Hitachi." That includes HDS storage equipment as well as processors, blade servers, and communications gear. Hitachi Ltd. is also using a range of environmental prototypes, including specially made water-cooled racks (called thermal hydraulic cooling devices), UPS systems, and "supermorphous" power supply converters, along with RFID-based security based on Hitachi Finger Vein authentication.
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Hitachi claims greenest-ever data centre
News Source: ITPRO
Country: United Kingdom
Data storage company Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has opened a new data centre in Yokohama, Japan, that the company said is the greenest ever.
The new data centre has been designed from the ground up to be green, and achieves The Green Grid's PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) rating of 1.6. This, HDS said, makes it the most efficient data centre in its class.
The company has installed the latest, low-energy storage, networking and server equipment. The IT equipment alone should allow the Yokohama facility to use 20 per cent less power than comparable data centres, as well as making it easier and cheaper to manage.
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Storage must cut energy use
News Source: ITPro
Country: United Kingdom
Storage needs to go green - not just to benefit the earth, but to cut costs, reduce risks and stay competitive, according to speakers at Storage Networking World (SNW) in Orlando.
A straw poll - using electronic polling machines - of attendees to a keynote panel session at the conference showed 51 percent believe reducing costs is the top reason to cut and manage energy use.
"For a sustainable approach to protecting the environment, there needs to be a financial element," said Mark Showers, chief information officer at biotech firm Monsanto.
But Hu Yoshida, chief technology officer at Hitachi Data Systems, argued that there's more reason than just cash. "IT is in a position to demonstrate leadership in this area," he said. "We have the technology."
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FT.com podcasts
News Source: FT.com
Country: United Kingdom
Digital Business podcast: Is there a limit to Moore's Law in computing? Ade McCormack gives the answer. Jack Domme of Hitachi Data Systems explains how storage and energy costs fit together. And we discuss peer-to-peer file sharing with the boss of BitTorrent
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Storing for your future
News Source: COMPUTERWORLD
Country: Singapore
Technology refresh becomes more disruptive as capacity grows, said Hu Yoshida, vice president and chief technology officer of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).
Yoshida studies the storage industry and plays a key role in HDS's decisions on what kind of technologies to develop. He works with standards committees such as the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute of the government of Singapore and his blog was recently ranked among the top 10 most influential within the storage industry by Network World.
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Interview : Demands on storage to reach new heights
News Source: IT Week
Country: United Kingdom
IT Week: As Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) chief technology officer, do you think the current problems in the financial markets will affect the storage sector?
Hubert Yoshida: Last quarter we saw good demand, but in the coming quarters, the financial problems will be coming to a head and this is forcing all the industry analysts to revise their forecasts. What it means for IT users is that they'll need to consolidate more and increasingly utilize what they have more efficiently.
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New advanced NAS services offered by HDS
News Source: Zyko News
Country: United Kingdom
New and advanced network attached storage (NAS) services have been launched by Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), it has been revealed.
HDS is convinced that its Essential NAS Platform and its High-performance NAS Platform represent a significant breakthrough in terms of consolidating and managing data.
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HDS unveils new Data Discovery suite
News Source: Zycko News
Country: United Kingdom
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has introduced a new suite of Data Discovery solutions that it claims will allow users to dramatically improve the way they manage their data.
Losing data or diverting resources for lengthy periods in order to retrieve it can be costly to all kinds of business, but HDS is convinced that its latest range of solutions can prevent these circumstances from arising.
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HDS touts federated search
News Source: ZDNet Asia
Country: Singapore
SINGAPORE--Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has introduced a new software suite and storage platforms aimed at simplifying data management in large and midsize businesses.
Unveiled Tuesday were the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite (HDSS), Hitachi Essential NAS Platform, Hitachi High-Performance NAS (HNAS) Platform 3000 series and an upgraded version of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP).
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Hitachi Looks for Unstructured Solution
News Source: eWEEK
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems unveiled a trio of new products today at Cebit in Germany. The vendor launched two NAS products: the Hitachi Essential NAS platform aimed at the midmarket, and the Hitachi High Performance NAS Platform 3000 series aimed at large enterprises. Hitachi Data Systems unveiled a trio of new products today at Cebit in Germany.
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HDS fights 'rogue data' with new tool
News Source: Techworld
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems has announced tools to search unstructured data stored across a range of enterprise applications, including Microsoft SharePoint.
The software, called Data Discovery Suite (DDS), is based on technology from Norwegian search specialist FAST, to which HDS has added its own indexing capabilities. FAST is currently the subject of a take-over bid from Microsoft.
Speaking at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover, COO Jack Domme cited figures showing that unstructured or semi-structured data, such as files or email, is far more common than structured data such as databases and is growing much faster.
"80 percent of data is not in rows and columns - and that needs new ways of thinking," he said. "Not all data can go through a tagging process, yet the real value in data is the ability to search it."
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Hitachi tackles rogue corporate data
News Source: vnunet.com
Country: USA
"Organisations are spending millions a year in electronic discovery," John Mansfield Senior vice president, global solutions, strategy and development, HDS
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled a product at the CeBIT show in Hanover designed to help companies search and retrieve unmanaged data scattered throughout the enterprise.
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Hitachi offers data management solution with mid-market channel focus
News Source: CRN Australia
Country: Australia
Hitachi Data Systems claimed it has created opportunities for resellers in the mid-market space with the release of Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, featuring file and content services designed to streamline data management.
The new products include Hitachi Essential NAS Platform and Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series as well as a new version of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform.
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HDS flaunts swollen NAS and search suite
News Source: The Register
Country: United Kingdom
Hitachi Data Systems today is slathering affection on its file-level storage gear, with an overhaul of all its NAS boxes, and the introduction of a new data search suite.
Usually punting block-level storage, HDS announced two new models of high-performance NAS units for corporate consumption, and three boxes catering to smaller types.
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Hitachi turns its attention to file services, discovery
News Source: SearchStorage.com
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), known primarily for its block-storage platform, today moved to bolster its file storage with upgrades to two NAS platforms and a new software suite for indexing and searching data.
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Is the '4.0' era is upon us?
News Source: InfoWorld, IDG News Service
Country: USA
A future where "technology and human become one" is fast arriving, according to Nils Muller , CEO of TrendOne, a German microtrend analysis firm.
Passive entertainment such as standard television embodied the 1.0 era, Muller said Tuesday during a panel discussion at the Cebit show, going on this week in Hanover, Germany. Web 2.0 saw a rise in audience-generated content like blogs and podcasts. The ongoing 3.0 period represents a deeper level of engagement, where users "jump into" media such as virtual worlds, he added.
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Enterprises Moving Storage Virtualization into Production
News Source: eWeek
Country: USA
According to a new study by IT analysis firm TheInfoPro, an independent research network and supplier of market intelligence for the IT industry, about half of Fortune 1000 enterprises that have been testing storage virtualization will be switching it over to full production usage during the next 24 months.
Hitachi Data Systems is the No. 1 provider of block-level virtualization. End users may finally get closer to realizing their vision for storage virtualization and get ahead of the server virtualization adoption curve.
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Managing Growth with Storage Virtualization
News Source: InfoStor
Country: USA
Wikibon/IT Centrix showcases a user case study of large financial company (codenamed: CS3). CS3 has rolled out the Universal Storage Platform V and was impressed with the solution's advanced virtualization, virtual ports, and thin- provisioning capabilities
A significant benefit for CS3 was that thin provisioning allowed the organization to put off purchasing an entire array, estimated at more than 40TB, which translated into a net savings of several hundred thousand dollars.
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Hitachi COO: How To Beat EMC
News Source: CMP Channel
Country: USA
Jack Domme, the chief operating officer (COO) of Hitachi Data Systems, spoke with CMP Channel Editor News Steven Burke about how the enterprise storage vendor, which has won raves for its innovative product line, is beating rival EMC in the sales trenches.
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No Risks, No Worries for Data Migration
News Source: CXOtoday.com
Country: India
Hitachi's new data migration services address increasing customer demands for data migration solutions that do not suffer from severe scalability constraints or bring applications to a business-grinding halt. The Hitachi data migration services enable enterprises to easily and transparently migrate data between heterogeneous storage systems while servers and applications stay online.
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Hitachi unveils new data migration services
News Source: TradeArabia
Country: USA
Hitachi has introduced new data migration services that places the needs of the business first.
Supporting Hitachi's Services Oriented Storage Solutions strategy, which leverages Hitachi's market-leading virtualisation technology to deliver common storage services, the Hitachi Data Migration Services, enables enterprises to easily and transparently migrate data between heterogeneous storage systems while servers and applications stay online, the company said in a statement.
Hitachi Data Migration Services provide a synergistic fusion of consultative services, advanced data movement software and intelligent virtualization controllers to enable the most efficient data migration in the industry today with virtually no latency, no scalability limitations, and no excuses, it added.
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Hitachi launches VTL product suite
News Source: CRN Australia
Country: Australia
Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems has introduced three Virtual Tape Library (VTL) appliances to the channel directed at medium-sized business and enterprise.
The launch of the product portfolio comes weeks after Hitachi closed its CE division due to global restructuring.
Hitachi's VTL Appliance Model 500M, 1000L and 1000E provide disk-based data protection storage services.
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Hitachi shrinks VTL bundles for mid-size folk
News Source: @Channel Register
Country: United Kingdom
Hitachi Data Systems is introducing three pre-configured midrange Virtual Tape Library (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/11/hitachi_virtual_tape/) (VTL) packages to help coax the mainstream towards its de-duplication wares.
Like HDS's enterprise-sized VTL offerings, the new bundles consist of a server, an array, some HBAs, and software (and in the two larger flavors, a switch). The mid-sized gear is similarly heavy on the de-dupe angle, courtesy of HDS's software reselling arrangement with Isreali-based R&D firm, Diligent Technologies.
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Hitachi Data Systems Releases De-Duping VTLs
News Source: InformationWeek
Country: USA
Expanding on their existing resale arrangement with Diligent Technologies Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is now shipping preconfigured virtual tape libraries combining Diligint's ProtecTeir software and HDS AMS modular fibre channel disk array. Based on customer feedback that indicated customers would rather buy, and VARS world rather sell, preconfigured systems than server, software, disk storage and the inevitable professional services separately.
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Hitachi offers plug and play VTL appliance
News Source: Techworld
Country: USA
Hitachi is bundling Diligent de-duplication software onto three virtual tape appliances and targeting them at mid to large sized data centres.
The entry level specification of the three models is the VTL Appliance 500M which consists of an Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 (dual controller) storage system, Diligent ProtecTIER Mid-Range data de-duplication software, multicore server, Emulex and QLogic HBAs
200MB/s inline data de-duplication performance 8TB (expandable to 20TB) mixed Fibre Channel and SATA drive repository, 200TB to 500TB of nominal backup data capacity, emulation of up to: four virtual tape libraries,16 virtual tape drives, 8192 virtual tape cartridges.
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HDS ships VTL bundles with Diligent deduplication
News Source: SearchStorage.com
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is tweaking its virtual tape library (VTL) platform with three bundled configurations of servers, disk arrays and ProtecTier data deduplication software from Diligent Technologies Inc.
When HDS began shipping VTLs through an OEM deal with Diligent in 2006, customers had to choose an HDS array for storage and spec out processing power. HDS offered services to help customers with the design but now has identified common configurations to sell in bundles through channel partners. The packages are meant to simplify deployment at medium-sized businesses, but analysts say the product should go beyond VTL to find a real foothold in that market.
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HDS Pushes De-Dupe Downstream
News Source: Byte and Swithch
Country: USA
HDS has overhauled its VTL lineup with software from its de-dupe partner Diligent, adding a set of midrange appliances in an attempt to convince smaller firms of the benefits of the technology.
"Previously, we were mainly focused on the enterprise, but there [are] medium-sized businesses that need this de-duplication software as well," says Victor Nemechek, HDS's senior product marketing manager. "It's our first bundled offering for the midrange -- prior to this, we would do custom configurations for our customers."
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Hitachi Dedupes Virtual Tape
News Source: Enterprise Storage Forum
Country: USA
The three new HDS Virtual Tape Library Appliance models - the 500M, 1000L and 1000E - feature high-speed in-line de-duplication technology from Diligent Technologies, with dedupe speeds that can reach 400 MB/sec and a 25 to 1 de-duplication ratio that can turn the 8 to 50 TB appliances into 200TB to 1.25PB data stores. Pricing is expected to start at about $225,000.
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Icelandic Data Refuge
News Source: Information World Review
Country: United Kingdom
Hitachi Data Systems and Data Islandia's partnership is based on its data management services which will enable multinational organisations to address the management, compliance and environmental burden of exploding data volumes.
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First Offshore Carbon-Neutral Data Vault
News Source: TechWorld
Country: USA
Data Islandia is using Hitachi Data Systems archive products in the world's first offshore, online data vault. The facility will use the HDS' Content Archive Platform as the core digital indexing and archival platform. The software part of this is based on Archivas technology. HDS acquired Archivas earlier this year.
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HDS Goes to Iceland
News Source: Enterprise Storage Forum
Country: USA
Hitachi and Data Islandia launched the world's most environmentally friendly outsourced data archiving service. Data Islandia has built facilities in Iceland with 100 percent green energy to offer international archival services. Using technology from Hitachi, Data Islandia manages the data for compliance, risk containment, governance and operational advantage. The facilities are powered completely by geothermal and hydroelectric energy.
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HDS Pushes Iceland Archive
News Source: Byte and Switch
Country: USA
HDS signed a partnership with Icelandic firm Data Islandia to offer the world's most environmentally friendly archiving service. HDS's services wing will now start selling Iceland as an archiving destination, touting the island's "green" power infrastructure and cheap energy and telecommunications as incentives for firms to send their data to the edge of the Arctic circle.
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Hitachi Expands High-Performance NAS Platforms Portfolio
News Source: EFY News Network
Country: India
Hitachi has expanded its portfolio of High-performance NAS Platforms with two new models â Hitachi high-performance NAS Platform 2000 Nearline and Hitachi high-performance NAS Platform 2000. Hitachi is also introducing enhancements to its entire line-up of high-performance NAS Platforms. Supported by Serial ATA (SATA)-based Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage system, Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000 Nearline scales up to 2 petabytes and provides a set of storage services that can lower overall data storage costs including tiered storage and backup. Customers can use this platform to replicate data from a primary site to an offsite nearline location where they can retrieve the information rapidly if needed. While Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000 scale up to 128 TB in capacity and is integrated with all of Hitachi's storage systems.
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Hitachi, BlueArc Move Into NAS Midrange
News Source: Enterprise Storage Forum
Country: USA
BlueArc's year-old OEM relationship with HDS has been a strong one. Hitachi is positioning the 2000 Nearline as disk-to-disk storage for a secondary site or large data repository, scaling up to 2 petabytes of SATA storage.
Hitachi is also now offering greater integration with the Hitachi HiCommand storage management software suite, so users can combine the file-based virtualization framework with the block-based virtualization framework provided by the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V series. The new NAS platforms also support synchronous replication with Hitachi TrueCopy software and local clone support with Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous Replication software.
HDS is also offering a MetroCluster long-distance replication solution in partnership with Ciena, with an active-active GeoCluster up to 100 kilometers, and Hitachi also added greater security for virtual servers.
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NAS Platforms: Hitachi Aims High
News Source: CXOtoday
Country: India
In a response to the demand for enterprise-class data protection for file services, Hitachi unveiled its plan to expand its portfolio for NAS Platform in the field of clustering, data protection, virtual server, and integrated storage management services. Hitachi's NAS Platform has 2 models, High performance NAS Platform 2000 Nearline and High performance NAS Platform 2000. BlueArc powers both these models.
This expanded and enhanced portfolio brings enterprises of all sizes new advanced storage services such as data protection, replication, clustering, and virtual server capabilities -- all within an integrated storage management framework.
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HDS Adds Mass to its NAS
News Source: The Register
Country: United Kingdom
Hitachi Data Systems is aiming its high-end NAS at the mid-market, squeezing out two new offerings to appeal to little guys.
Customers will now find the NAS Platform 2000 and the NAS Platform 2000 Nearline, which (logically enough) fit underneath the existing NAS 2100 and 2200 models. HDS is pitching the NAS Platform 2000 as a file server consolidation product, while the NAS Platform 2000 Nearline covers a lower-cost disk-to-disk data protection angle
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Hitachi Expands High End NAS
News Source: eChannelLine
Country: USA
With two new high performance product models, Hitachi is seeking to help end user customers consolidate large NAS pockets of unstructured data. The NAS 2000 Nearline and the NAS Platform 2000 include advanced storage services such as data protection, replication, clustering, and virtual server capabilities within an integrated storage management framework, stated Michael Hay, director of product strategy at Hitachi.
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HDS Thin Provisioning Seen as Large Enterprise Boost
News Source: Byte & Switch
Country: USA
HDS has extended existing thin provisioning on its Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) series to encompass attached external arrays from other vendors.
What HDS is offering now is a software key-activated upgrade to the USP V and smaller, rackmount USP VM that adds thin provisioning to the mix. OEMs HP and Sun will resell the feature on their USP V-based systems.
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Hitachi Extends Thin Provisioning
News Source: eChannel Line
Country: USA
Hitachi is the only vendor to have extended thin provisioning -- for instance, the ability to more accurately plan storage capacity for applications -- to heterogeneous environments of block based storage (including items like online transactions) of Hitachi and non-Hitachi equipment.
Hitachi has beaten to the punch such "appliances" as IBM's Storage SAN Volume Controller and EMC's Invista in terms of "performance" and "reliability."
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HDS Thickens Thin Provisioning
News Source: TechWorld
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has extended its thin provisioning technology, announced last July only for internal drives in HDS USP arrays, to include third-party disk arrays attached to its USP-V storage array controller.
Thin provisioning - dynamic provisioning is the HDS term - is the technique of allocating a full logical amount of storage (LUN) to an application but only actually dedicating a fraction of that in physical storage terms. As the physical storage is used up to store data, a new set of physical disks can be connected to the virtualising array controller.
What HDS has done is to extend its thin provisioning capability to third-party arrays that can be attached to and managed by the USP-V controller. It now has a uniform, centrally-managed and heterogeneous thin provisioning function.
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Hitachi Relents and Mixes SATA Into Flagship
News Source: Computerwire
Country: USA
Hitachi has extended the use of thin provisioning function in its disk virtualization software to cover third-party external disk arrays attached to the UPS and its diskless variants. Disk arrays from all the major suppliers including EMC, HP, and IBM has been qualified.
Next month the company will begin offering 750GB SATA disk drives as an option on its flagship USP disk arrays.
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HDS Unveils Thin Provisioning for External Storage
News Source: SearchStorage.com
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems' (HDS) USP-V high-end disk array will now be able to thin provision volumes on competitors' arrays attached to its storage virtualization controller as external storage.
The new feature, which users can access by purchasing a software license key, works the same way HDS' heterogenous virtualization works with third-party systems, according to HDS chief scientist Claus Mikkelsen. To external storage systems, the HDS controller looks like a Windows host, and as such, is allowed to provision and control LUNs on the array. This also means that HDS has not had to use APIs from competitors to create the feature, and it will work with any third-party system the USP-V can already virtualize, including EMC Corp.'s entire Symmetrix and Clariion lines, IBM's Shark and DS series arrays and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP) EVAs.
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Hitachi Gains 2PPTS High-End Market Share in CQ307
News Source: Wachovia Capital Markets
Country: USA
Hitachi reported 7% yr/yr growth in its storage solution revenue during CQ3 2007. The company reported strong double-digit sequential (low-single digit yr/yr) growth in its high-end USP sales, suggesting (1-2pp) share gains versus EMC and IBM.
USP controller installed base expanded from 6,000 units exiting CQ2 2007 to ~7,300 units exiting CQ3 2007; indicative of a healthy ramp in the new USP-V. Hitachi was upbeat with regard to its backlog and industry trends looking into CQ4 2007; most notably on growth in Europe and Asia-Pac.
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Hitachi gained share during CQ3 2007; USP V Ramping Steadily
News Source: Wachovia Capital Markets
Country: USA
The company continues to see a ramp in its new USP-V platform (integrates Thin Provisioning, as well as incorporates a back-end switched architecture), and ongoing relatively healthy growth in the midrange market (we did see some refreshes during CQ3 2007). The company also noted that it currently has an installed base of approximately 7,300 USP-series controllers in the market, up from 6,000 exiting the June 2007 quarter. Additionally, the company sees more than 50% of these solutions utilizing the UVM (Universal Volume Manager; Virtualization) software, up from less than 50% a few quarters ago. In this, the company estimates that 25-30% of these solutions provide virtualization in heterogeneous environments.
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Hitachi is Key Share Gainer in CQ307
News Source: Caris & Co
Country: USA
Revenue of 91B Yen was higher than the official 79B guidance and grew 10% Q/Q (5pp greater than EMC's storage systems segment). With strong backlog entering CQ3, we believe that Hitachi's storage segment should be able to grow 10% or greater Q/Q in CQ4. Hitachi with its recent USP-V (with thin provisioning) grew 20% Q/Q in the high-end in CQ3, better than the 8% Q/Q growth that we estimate for EMC's (EMC, 1*/Buy) Symmetrix and the 5% Q/Q growth we estimate for IBM's (NR) high-end (DS8000).
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Hitachi intros Simple Modular storage system
News Source: EnGadget
Country: USA
Hitachi sure seems to be big on storage today, with the company now following up its 4TB disk announcement with its new "low-cost" Simple Modular Storage Model 100 aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. Promising enterprise-class capabilities with "consumer levels of simplicity," this one boasts a wizard-based GUI setup that Hitachi says will get things fully operational "in minutes," along with a range of backup measures and features to ensure "non-stop data availability
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SNW Preview: Data protection makes a stand
News Source: SearchStorage
Country: USA
HDS, which has concentrated primarily on high-end enterprise storage are networks (SAN), is going after the SMB market with the Hitachi Simple Modular Storage System.
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Hitachi ships entry-level iSCSI array
News Source: InfoStor
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems is drawing from its expertise in the consumer electronics market and the technologies it has developed for enterprise storage customers to come up with a new entry-level storage system that could finally give the company a foothold in the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market. Hitachi's Simple Modular Storage (SMS) Model 100 is an iSCSI array that includes auto-configuration software, wizard-based setup, and plug-and-play installation and maintenance features.
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Hitachi Introduces Consumer Levels of Simplicity to Data Storage
News Source: Computing News
Country: USA
Hitachi introduces a data storage system so simple and so intuitive to install, use and manage that anyone - with no technical training whatsoever - could master and benefit from its vast capabilities. Specifically, Hitachi introduces the Hitachi Simple Modular Storage Model 100, an entry-level storage system that serves the needs of a broad set of customers.
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Hitachi Introduces Entry-Level Simple Modular Storage Model 100
News Source: IT News Online
Country: USA
Hitachi has introduced the Hitachi Simple Modular Storage Model 100, a low-cost, entry-level storage system that addresses the need for increased consumer levels of simplicity in storage system design. The system is designed to fulfill the requirements of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with burgeoning data growth and data protection requirements and enterprises with distributed branch offices looking for simple-to-manage, "serviceless" storage offerings that are easy to integrate with the Microsoft Windows platform.
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The simplest SME storage in the world
News Source: TechWorld
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems has launched a new SMS 100 array that, the company claims, needs no on-site service. HDS also said that the product would run for up to five years with plug-in replacement disk drives for failed drives.
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Disaster Management a Priority for SMEs
News Source: OneStopClick
Country: United Kingdom
Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to make a priority of instigating a disaster recovery strategy in order to ensure they can survive such eventualities, Hitachi Data Systems have said. The firm's UK managing director Steve Murphy said: "Putting in place a tested business continuity plan is extremely important for all businesses," adding that this was especially true for SMEs, which "rarely have the reserves necessary to pick the business up after a disaster".
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HDS makes SME play
News Source: SearchCIO
Country: New Zealand
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has introduced a new range of iSCSI SANs intended for small business. The "Simple Modular Storage Model 100" (SMS 100) start at $6000 for a machine loaded with a terabyte of drives and come in eight different pre-packaged configurations that top out with a 9TB, $15,000 machine. All prices include drives.
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Simple Storage Gets Consumer Advice
News Source: Image and Data Manager
Country: Australia
Simplifying the technology with some advice from the consumer side of the business, Hitachi says the Simple Modular Storage (SMS) model 100 will provide a low-cost, entry level storage system designed specifically for the increasing capacities of SMBs or alternatively, distributed enterprises seeking solutions for their branch officers.
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