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  • Virtual NAS server adds security to Amazon cloud

    Target customers are mid-sized companies who are interested in cloud storage, but are concerned about exposing sensitive data or suffering from high latency.We connect our customers to partners, people like Iron Mountain and Amazon that provide…
    09 February 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Platforms • Latency • Founded • Cloud • Amazon

  • SSD could replace hard disk drives, says Hitachi CTO

    With server speeds increasing faster than storage performance, Hitachi says hard drives may someday be replaced by solid-state disks. Flash-based memory is still too expensive to be a data centre's primary storage technology, but solid-state disks…
    25 January 2010
    Tags: Cache • Fibre Channel • Disk Drives • Cto • Network World • Disks

  • Virtual Instruments offers SAN emergency service

    We're able to sort out where the real problem is.The service will work with equipment from all SAN vendors including EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, HP, 3PAR, Dell, Sun, Brocade, Cisco, Qlogic, and Emulex, and is available now.
    14 December 2009
    Tags: Spec • Sort • Sans • Monitoring • Emergency • Analysis

  • Wireless HD video streaming standard agreed

    The new standard will give consumers the ability to transmit high definition (HD) content around their homes wirelessly.The WHDI, which is a formed alliance between Amimon, Hitachi, Motorola, Sharp, Samsung and Sony, was first revealed in the…
    09 December 2009
    Tags: Hd • Consumers • Definition • Revealed • Reached • Homes

  • Symantec updates virtual management suite

    Storage Foundation for Windows extends those capabilities to Hyper-V environments for virtual storage environments.We can provide visibility to administrators managing to identify if this volume is thick, or that volume is thin, and this is what…
    08 December 2009
    Tags: Committee • Administrators • Cluster • Api • Array • Recognise

  • Japan cuts funding for world's most powerful computer

    Riken had originally given a contract for the computer to a consortium of NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu, which are Japan's three top supercomputer makers, however the former two companies pulled out of the project leaving it in the hands of Fujitsu.The…
    17 November 2009
    Tags: Panel • Japan • Instructions • Fujitsu • Budget • Funding

Latest Features

  • Guide to SAN and NAS virtualisation

    The primary example of this new style of controller-based virtualisation is Hitachi Universal Storage Platform.File virtualisationJust as block virtualisation simplifies SAN management, file virtualisation eliminates much of the complexity and…
    26 November 2009
    Tags: Requests • Split • Provisioning • Storage Systems • Agents • Hosts

  • Oracle-Sun set to resell Pillar after merger

    Ellison positioned Pillar as a legally separate business to Oracle aimed at competing with storage heavyweights such as IBM, EMC and Hewlett-Packard.With the proposed Sun takeover, Oracle gains the hardware side of the data centre that it has…
    17 September 2009
    Tags: Hitachi • Microsystems • Array • Founded • Mention • Hds

  • Vendors look to tap into new storage trends

    In July, NetApp enhanced its V-Series storage virtualisation products so they can perform de-duplication on primary storage systems from third parties such as EMC, Hitachi and HP.In late February, enterprise storage giant EMC bought Pi, a provider…
    22 December 2008
    Tags: Stephen Lawson • Brocade • Storage Systems • Acquisitions • Duplication • Centers

  • Utility storage: Ready for a long haul?

    Companies can virtualise their storage environments using an approach like that taken by Hitachi Data Systems, where controllers assign metadata to traffic as it flows from the switch into pools.A final method involves the use of arrays.
    21 May 2008
    Tags: Flow • Utilisation • Disaster Recovery • Split • Gains • Architect

  • Brocade's very big switch

    It supports migration Brocade's Data Migration Manager (DMM), virtualisation via EMC's Invista, and also Fujitsu ETERNUS, continuous replication with EMC's RecoverPoint, and encryption.However there is little active support from EMC in one of the…
    21 January 2008
    Tags: Fabric • Brocade • Datacentres • Blades • Hub • Accessing

  • EMC has changed enterprise disk storage for ever

    Expect Hitachi Data Systems and IBM to very quickly bring flash hard drive technology to their high-end arrays so as not to be left behind by EMC. The news of Hitachi, Fujitsu and Toshiba talking about a possible HDD joint venture is emblematic of…
    14 January 2008
    Tags: Cache • Inch • Siemens • Cell • Toshiba • Solid State

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How-Tos

  • Which laptop extras should you go for?

    This design improves performance and provides fewer points of entry for unauthorised access.Some analysts expect drive makers other than Seagate and Hitachi to get into the business, and hardware drive encryption will likely become a dominant…
    08 April 2008
    Tags: Adapter • Heads • Reader • Motion • Firmware • Solidstate

  • Case Study: Hitachi Consulting learns the lessons of VoIP

    When the services arm of electronics giant Hitachi first implemented ShoreTel's VoIP technology in 2000, Hitachi Consulting had just 14 offices, all in the United States, and 500 employees, all linked by a WAN with Ethernet links to each building.
    08 November 2007
    Tags: Conferencing • House • Distance • Calling • Person • Limit

  • How to reduce your boxes

    Suppliers such as 3PAR, HP and Hitachi Data systems have this feature. There is less scope in the networking area, apart from port consolidation. Any strategy needs to take a long-term view of information processing and storage growth, otherwise…
    04 September 2007
    Tags: Admin • Consolidation • Rack • Accessed • Skills • Provisioning

  • Case Study: United Airlines works storage smarter, not harder

    Eventually, it decided to go with Hitachi as its main vendor, primarily due to the high-level features inherent in Hitachi's TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform and its new Tiered Storage Manager (TSM) software.
    25 June 2007
    Tags: Admin • Virtualised • Utility • Volumes • Tier • Packages

  • How to kill data centre costs while saving your sanity (part 2)

    The principle of adaptability in Darwinism works.IBM bought Softek to do things like this -- or at least some of the things like this (see "IBM, Hitachi buyouts could destroy good products"). Simple process improvement can yield big results even in…
    14 June 2007
    Tags: Copies • Dollars • Tier • Article • Attributes • Attribute

  • Case Study: UK Bank gets SAN eye-opener

    We needed more detail," Richard Briggs, the bank's senior storage technical infrastructure developer, said at the Storage Networking World conference in San Diego.The bank's infrastructure consists of 3,000 Fibre Channel ports split across two…
    19 April 2007
    Tags: Fabric • Brocade • Upgrades • Monitoring • Production • Arrays

Reviews

  • G-Technology G-Drive 2TB review

    External storage may have become commoditised to the point where you can buy hard drives in the supermarket, but higher quality and performance solutions are still available for discerning users.From G-Technology, now part of Hitachi, we have a…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Metal • Hard Drive • Firewire • Cooling • Chassis • Bus

  • Rocstor Rocpro 850 review

    The 3.5in SATA drive is manufactured by Hitachi. The Rocstor Rocpro 850 may look rather generic, but it leaves rival external hard drives in the dust You'd struggle to find a more generic-looking desktop hard drive than the Rocstor Rocpro 850.
    21 September 2009
    Tags: Hard Drives • Warranty • Generic • Photoshop • Firewire • Dust

  • PC Specialist Vortex Xtreme desktop review

    When strong stable support is needed, these DDR3 chips perform brilliantly.Not only does a 1TB Hitachi drive take copious care of your storage needs, the PC Specialist Vortex Xtreme also accommodates a fast 120GB OCZ solid-state drive as boot…
    28 July 2009
    Tags: Audio • Specialist • Dvd • Cpu • Xtreme • Test Centre

  • Lenovo IdeaPad S10e review

    It's the same CPU as the IdeaPad S10, and the rest of the specifications are the same, too: 1GB of RAM, Intel GMA 950 graphics, a 160GB hard drive (Hitachi Travelstar 5K320, model number HTS543216L9SA00), Bluetooth, 802.11b/g wireless networking…
    15 July 2009
    Tags: Cell • Lenovo • Viewing • Education • Netbook • Netbooks

  • Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B review

    Laptop computers needn't have any less storage than desktops, and the Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B 500GB hard drive from Hitachi proves it. Laptop computers needn't have any less storage than desktops, and the Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B 500GB hard…
    13 July 2009
    Tags: Hard Drive • Hitachi • Desktops • Consume • Hdd • Proves

  • Dell OptiPlex 760 desktop

    This means you won't have to worry about uninstalling a large number of applications before deploying this PC.Our review unit was configured with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 CPU running at 2.53GHz, a 250GB, 7200rpm Hitachi hard drive and 4GB of…
    06 July 2009
    Tags: Chassis • Hd • Hard Drive • Ratio • Connections • Reveal

White Papers

  • Operations analyser

    Operations analyser Hitachi Root cause analysis for supporting fault identification whitepaper Learn more about how you can get to the root of the problem quickly and accurately No data centre can afford downtime with the manic pace of today's…
    05 October 2009
    Tags: Downtime • Hitachi • Root • Analysis • Fault • Failures

  • Tiered Storage Economics Defining and Calculating the Economic Benefit of Tiered Storage Solutions

    Tiered Storage Economics Defining and Calculating the Economic Benefit of Tiered Storage Solutions Hitachi Learn how your organization can cut storage-related operating costs (OPEX) and capital expense (CAPEX), while providing the levels of…
    10 October 2006
    Tags: Expense • Benefit • Levels • Economic • Organization • Business Applications

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