Monday, May 07, 2012
Hitachi starts all-in-one data centre service The massive Japanese conglomerate looks to leverage its myriad businesses with the end-to-end service
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive The new Ultrastar drive has four different power settings
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Change.org invades iPad lineup VIDEO PLAYLIST Tempers flare as a group petitioning for change to Apple's production processes encounters an iPad lineup in San Francisco. Plus, HDS CTO discusses the future of storage, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will run for Australia's Senate
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The last of the spinning hard drives VIDEO PLAYLIST Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida talks about the future of storage, a Ryerson instructor on mainframe education, and rebuilding continues after last year's tsunami
Thursday, February 16, 2012
HDS claims no-downtime data migration Hitachi Data Systems says it can now provide customers with completely seamless migration to its virtualized platform
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
EC okays Western Digital hard drive acquisition The European Commission rules that some of the company's production capacity will have to be sold to ensure competition remains
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Hitachi updates cloud storage infrastructure and services Through recent acquisitions, Hitachi has rounded out its cloud storage solution with two new services and a scalable structure up to a converged infrastructure
Thursday, October 20, 2011
EC allows Seagate to buy Samsung drive business The main impact of the deal would be on the markets for 3.5-in. and 2.5-in. disk drives, where Samsung is not strong competitor, the commission said 
Monday, October 03, 2011
Gene Simmons talks translation ITWC THIS WEEK VIDEO PLAYLIST The Kiss frontman discusses real-time translation, Hitachi Data Systems execs talk big data, and Intel back Tizen as a competitor to iOS and Android
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Hitachi Data Systems takes on IT lifecycle management The company that has traditionally sold blade servers and storage is now making a foray into a market in which its parent company, Hitachi, as had success in Japan. Why it was important to integrate major IT pain points in the offering
Monday, March 07, 2011
Western Digital aims at enterprise with Hitachi GST buy The hard drive maker said Monday it will pay $US4.3 billion in cash and shares to purchase Hitachi’s hard drive manufacturing division, in a move that could boost its enterprise storage business and expand its scale. Plus, insight from several industry analysts
Monday, March 07, 2011
Storage software market grew 10 percent in Q4: IDC The industry achieved its fifth successive quarter of growth, according to estimates from the research firm. IDC said the storage software market was worth US$3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, a jump of 10.6 per cent from the same period in 2009
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Identity in the cloud Identity-as-a-service is expected to become more relevant as the popularity of software-as-a-service increases
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Hitachi unveils 500GB, razor-thin laptop hard drive The company's new Hitachi Travelstar drive squeezes almost 100Gbit per square inch more onto its drive platters. Find out more
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Q&A with Hu Yoshida: Hitachi’s new storage platform Video: Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, elaborates on key concepts behind the company’s Virtual Storage Platform and Command Suite management software, which act as a stepping stone to data centre virtualization. A series of 8 clips
Friday, October 08, 2010
Hitachi’s 3D scaling platform appeals to mid-market The Virtual Storage Platform is a good fit for the mid-sized Canadian market, according to HDS executives, because it not only scales up, out and deep – it also scales down. The price point, technology and future proofing is going to “hit home” in Canada, says one exec
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Hitachi releases two products to transform data centres Hitachi Data System’s new Virtual Storage Platform and Command Suite management software offer a non-disruptive way of virtualizing the data centre, says CTO Hu Yoshida at the Hitachi Innovation Forum
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Hitachi unit rolls out Password Manager 7 Calgary-based Hitachi ID Systems Inc. announced enterprise security software that will manage several different types of authentication systems. Password Manager 7.0 supports biometrics, smart phones and is designed for users who forget passwords easily
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Hitachi touts hard drive for ultra-light PCs The new drives will be used in PCs, laptops, video cameras and set top boxes. Hitachi said the hard drives are 26 per cent thinner than those found in most laptops and netbooks
Monday, January 25, 2010
SSD could replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says The speeds of spinning disks keeps increasing, but they're not keeping up with servers. Solid state disks are very expensive now, but if their costs drop enough they could replace hard drives
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
HDS releases two mid-range targeted NAS products The Hitachi subsidiary said the new NAS offerings will be fully integrated with the company’s data discovery and archiving products and bring intelligent tiering capabilities to IT administrators. Plus, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst weighs in on the product launch
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Computer makers agree on full-disk encryption specs Protection for data at rest gets a boost as the world's top computer makers release final specifications for full-disk encryption across all drives. Read how this development could mean total computer lock-down 
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Time to review your identity management strategy Consolidation and technology change will mark the identity management solution market in the near future, say industry analysts. Organizations that aren't already regularly looking at their IDM strategies should be to make sure their business goals and infrastructure align. Experts suggest some guidelines
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Hitachi boosts high-end storage Hitachi Data Systems last month said it has enhanced its largest storage arrays with software and hardware that gives the TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (USP) a 25 per cent performance boost.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Skinflint protection plans left in disarray Amid the devastation of Hurricane Wilma last month, IT professionals appraised their disaster recovery and data protection plans and said their strategies were in flux, regular testing was necessary and funding was still hard to get.