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Hitachi unveils new Ultrastar enterprise-ready HDDs

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of high-performance hard drives, today announced the extension of its range of Ultrastar drives for applications, Enterprise Storage announced. The company has only two new 15,000 RPM Ultrastar drives for Tier 0 / 1, business-critical enterprise storage applications, including C15K147, a 2.5-inch hard drive for the business market and the new Ultra Start 15K600, intended to deliver an impressive 600 GB of storage space and a choice of 6 Gb / s SAS and 4Gb / s Fiber Channel settled Loop (FCAL) interfaces.

"Data is the lifeblood of the business. It is continuously stored and served at higher speeds and an ever-growing number of customers than ever before," said Brendan Collins, Vice President of Marketing, Hitachi GST. "Both of our new company UltraStar 15K RPM drives offer our customers the ability to build dense storage systems for their clients with better performance and lower cost of funds to add more racks or data center floor space. Our proven design and UltraStar entire portfolio of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives business, our customers continue to benefit from a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enables us to deliver data center. "

According to Hitachi, the new 15K147 2.5-inch hard drive is designed for more than 70 percent efficiency compared to standard 3.5-inch hard drives. These new models are available in capacities of 73GB and 147GB, even with a 64 MB cache buffer, it boasts a 15,000 RPM speeds and is equipped with Hitachi's own Advanced Power Management technology.

Besides that, Hitachi units designed to meet the Trusted Computing Group Enterprise Security Subsystem Class A specification, the protection of data from the user. According to Hitachi, Ultra Start C15K147 and 15K600 shipping already in the channel and are accompanied by a period of five year warranty.

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Hitachi announces new green data center in Yokohama, Japan

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced today the opening of its green data center in Yokohama, Japan, the company is one of the most robust and reliable in the industry announced occupies 10,000 square meters total area. Moreover, according to Hitachi, designed the newly opened Yokohama third center with energy-saving technology that is intended to provide a benchmark of 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness), but continue their high reliability, availability and data security.

"Hitachi Data Systems is focused and dedicated to providing green technology for data such as green innovation in the product portfolio is blowing," said Asim Zaheer, Vice President of product and competitive marketing at Hitachi Data Systems. "Many of our products, such as the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM, and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning and today with Yokohama third center, providing significant improvements in capacity utilization, while lowering power and cooling rates for customers.”

Hitachi talked about some important properties of the Yokohama third center, including green data centers, Integrated Control Center, energy efficient equipment, natural cooling to a lower environmental impact building, robust construction and a high level of safety required for such facilities. The opening of the new data center is also a result of the company in its continuing support for green projects, such as IT Power-saving and planning for green Datacenter Project.

The new facility is designed to meet the demands of today's businesses, the demand for technical infrastructure with 100 percent uptime. According to Hitachi, the new facility Yokohama robust and reliable as a Tier IV data center, giving customers a complete range of flexible services operations management, including inventory management. The overall design of the facility also provides a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Hitachi GST to acquire Fabrik and expand external storage portfolio

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Factory Inc., a provider of personal and professional development. With the acquisition, Hitachi has significantly strengthened its position in the market for external storage solutions, as the leader of storage hours owns brands such as G-Tech and Simple Tech, previously owned by private held Factory, Inc.

"The acquisition Factory become the cornerstone for the next phase of our transformation. E" strategically expand our market presence, strengthen our product portfolio and increase our customer base, "said Steve Milligan, President of Hitachi GST." Factory is an important part of our strategy for growth and profit for the future and will enable us to provide a wide range of products in a wide range of end-user market segments."

Hitachi is one of the leading companies in the market for private storage may offer its users a wide range of 2.5 inches and 3.5 inch hard drive products. With the recent announcement of the Hitachi GST has strengthened its market position by exploiting the technologies and products developed by the Factory. Factory products now take advantage of Hitachi distribution channels and global reach, allowing user’s access to more high-quality storage products.

"Hitachi GST Manufacturer It provides its customers all the advantages that a vertically integrated company. We will achieve economies of scale, financial stability, along with a strong brand in the world and a space to accelerate economic growth," he said Mike Cordano, Fabrik CEO and co-founder. "We are pleased that Hitachi is based on our vision and allow end-users worldwide to enjoy the powerful storage solutions that are unsurpassed in performance, style, reliability and innovation."

Manufacturer's mark G-technology, Mac users that provides a choice for an external storage solution for the premium, and Simple Tech, a line of PC-based external storage and backup solutions have been integrated and Hitachi GST is the conclusion of its portfolio products.

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New 6Gb/s SAS interface

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and PMC-Sierra have announced jointly the full integration of PMC-Sierra-end Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6 GB / s chipsets and Hitachi SAS 6 GB / s hard drive prototype.

"PMC-Sierra is committed to the full interoperability with 6 GB / s components to the time the marketing and seamless transition to 6 GB / s SAS / SATA systems," said Travis Karr, vice president of marketing for PMC-Sierra by the department storage companies.
"PMC-Sierra was very impressed with the quality and maturity of Hitachi 6 GB / s SAS technology, which is directly linked to the success of interoperability between PMC-Sierra-end 6GB / s SAS chipset and Hitachi 6GB / s SAS hard disks" , He added.

After the two companies, the PMC-Sierra and 6 GB / s SAS include the chipsets Tachyon CPS 8x6G SAS protocol controller and the 8x6G RAID-on-chip controller. However, Hitachi is not disclosed more details about his habit construction unit SAS-2 hard drive.

The joint venture has also stated that the SAS 6 GB / s hard drives, and all hardware components of the infrastructure to maintain backward compatibility with the existing SAS 3 Gb / s storage.

"The increase in the transfer of the new 6GB / s SAS interface is the satisfaction of our client companies continue to improve the appetite for power. Hitachi is pleased with PMC-Sierra and showed interoperability with our 6 GB / s SAS products. "A praised the Currie Munce, Vice President of the company's HDD group operating systems, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

The new 6 GB / s SAS hard drives come with the increase in scalability, availability and reliability, three critical aspects in a company-level storage device. The two companies provide services server and storage device manufacturers to integrate end to the architecture of the operating with full 6 GB / s.

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Hitachi Unveils Enterprise-Class 15,000 RPM 450 GB Drive

By: Bogdan Botezatu, Hardware Editor


Hitachi has just announced its Ultrastar 15K450 hard disk drive that packages 450 GB of free space using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. It is true that such capabilities are no longer new, as other
Companies ship 1 TB drives, but Hitachi 450 GB in the offering spins at 15000 rotations per minute and is the largest disk, in the enterprise-class market.

In Ultrastar 15K450 particularly in the light of mission critical server and storage applications, including databases under intensive processing and online transactions. The drive is built on the basis of the state of the art machining technologies such as liquid with a dynamic engines, in order to keep noise levels at a minimum, as well as Hitachi's patented head load / unload ramp, which protects the integrity of the data.

Built-in security Rotational Vibration (RVS) technology tries to predict disturbances that took place during the period, usually installed in several disk installation and automatically corrects errors produced by the mini-shock vibration, in order to preserve data integrity, accuracy and security.

"With the higher capacity and performance Ultrastar 15K450, enterprises are able to meet their requirements using less bandwidth disks, which reduces the three things, and the cost of ownership, in the datacenter footprint and the total energy requirements," said Dean Amin, Director, Market and Strategy, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

According to the company, internal tests unveiled a 30 per cent improvement in sequential throughput over the company previously enterprise-class shares. Drive very quickly and sports an average seek time of about 3.3 milliseconds on average latencies of 2 milliseconds because of its increasing speed.

"This, combined with our intensive testing and quality assurance process, Ultrastar 15K450 offers the highest performance and reliability of mission-critical computing environments," Amin continued.

The company also claimed that the drive will be available in both 3Gb / s serial attached SCSI (SAS) and 4Gb / s Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces for maximum compatibility and troughput data in a server environment.

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Hitachi Buys Majority Stake in ID Management Vendor

By: Ionut Arghire, Windows Editor

On Monday, Hitachi announced he had bought a majority interest in the shares of M-Tech Information Technology, password management software vendor, the idea of expanding its own line of products for identity management. Hitachi has already played an important role in the management of ID market. The authenticity of goods sold by the company, based on the identification of patterns of veins in a user's finger.

Hitachi said in a statement issued on Monday that Japanese financial institutions are already using finger-vein authentication system aimed at the company, massive proportion. There are about 80 per cent of agencies with the use of technology "Hitachi" of the total number of institutions that use their automated teller machines biometric log-on systems. In the same statement, Hitachi also said that the company intends to use M-Tech software in a "joint proposals and other initiatives with Hitachi's biometric, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), smart cards and other security-related technologies."



M-Tech products are expected to help Hitachi in its plans to expand its own product line. The company hopes that the M-Tech will provide new software that the company can use to support management functions on the back end. Applications are created and sold M-Tech is X-Synch and ID-Synch. These statements are designed to help clients create a new user, as well as management of passwords on the network. There are more than 700 companies worldwide that use M-Tech products, including Barclays Bank, Shinsei Bank and "Sirs, Roebuck.

M-Tech Information Technology was established in 1992 and has its base in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Hitachi has made no statement to date in regard to the financial terms of the transaction. Shortly after the operation, 140 people, the company has been renamed Hitachi, now called "Hitachi ID system.

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