Hitachi adds power-down to mid-range storage gear
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Dr. Chandra? Will I dream? Hitachi Data Systems is adding the ability to power down disk drives on demand to its mid-range product lineup. They're also rolling out support for bigger disks and some new security services.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. is leveraging Microsoft Corp. software in a new portfolio of storage products aimed at taking on EMC Corp. in the small-to-medium-sized (SMB) market. HP's StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) Storage Systems come in two models for a range of capacity needs, and can be installed in less than 10 clicks of a mouse, the company said. The systems provide storage, sharing, management, back-up and protection for SMBs' application and file data. The HP StorageWorks AiO400 has four drive bays with serial ATA (SATA) ports and capacity of 1T byte of networked storage for US$5,000. For SMBs that have bigger storage needs, the HP StorageWorks AiO600 has six drive bays in a rack or tower and can provide 1.5T bytes of SATA capacity for $6,700; 3T bytes of SATA capacity for $9,000 or 876G bytes of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) capacity for $9,250. SAS drives are typically more reliable and higher performing than SATA drives, and so storage devices with these drives cost more. The systems are based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server and are specifically designed or Microsoft environments, HP said. The new AiO systems include point-and-click tools for working with both Microsoft Exchange messaging server and the SQL Server database. HP first announced it was planning networked storages for SMBs in July, saying it wanted to take on EMC in that market as well as capitalize on what IDC predicts will be a $5.7 billion market opportunity by 2010. The company designed the new offerings to be simple so SMBs can install and maintain them without a full-time IT department, HP said. HP plans to sell the AiO systems mainly through its channel partners, which the company said number more than 145,000 worldwide. Â
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8 Sep 2004, 18:44 GMT - Hitachi this week laid a unique bet on storage virtualization with the launch of the latest version of its flagship Lightning disk array.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Hewlett Packard yesterday announced availability of what they claim are the industry&#39;s first storage and server systems offering 300GB Fibre Channel and small computer system interface (SCSI) disk drive capacity.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) this week said it will ship a line of Serial ATA hard drives designed for notebook usage in Q4.
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Hitachi Ltd. said on Tuesday it is seeking to push the limits of data storage with smaller stamp-sized disks for handheld gadgets and vastly higher-capacity drives that can store up to 100 films.
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Hitachi said it will no longer produce small-form factor drives and instead will focus on 2.5 and 3.5-inch spinning disk in light of competition from flash memory chips.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) and Intel Corp. are pushing the development of an interface technology that they hope will smooth the adoption of compact hard-disk drives (HDDs) into mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and digital music players, the companies said on Friday.
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Hewlett-Packard was the first company to offer a grid storage device, but others are moving to catch up.
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Japan's Hitachi Ltd. (6501.T) said on Tuesday it would launch notebook computers with no hard disk drives, offering corporate clients a way to protect key business information from potential leaks.
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Hitachi has released its first all Serial ATA array and has bundled it with switches and network interface cards to create a preconfigured low-to-midrange SAN that competes with products from EMC and IBM.
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Hitachi Data Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard this week are trying to leapfrog EMC for enterprise-class storage leadership using pretty much the same product -- HDS&#39;s new TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.
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A new DVD-based storage appliance is aimed at making archiving data faster and retrieving it easier.
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Wants to hang out with the cool kids HP has introduced what it has dubbed its green storage technology that can cut storage array power and cooling costs in data centers by 50 per cent.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Hitachi hopes to win market share from rival Toshiba with three new high-capacity hard drives that will reach the digital video recording and automotive navigation markets in 2007. Hitachi will announce new versions of its CinemaStar and Endurastar drives on Friday at the IFA international consumer electronics show in Berlin. The drives are designed for high-end consumer electronics platforms built by third-party vendors. The company hopes these products will be a business success, since their sales in consumer electronics devices have been growing faster than sales for the traditional IT markets of laptop and desktop PCs, said Marcia Bencala, vice president for product strategy and planning at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Hitachi claims that its CinemaStar C5K160 will be the industry's smallest size DVR (digital video recorder) disk at 2.5-inches diameter, and that its Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50 will be the largest capacity automotive disks at 50GB. Indeed, these high-capacity drives could act as halo products for Hitachi, enticing customers to buy more mid-range drives as well, said Nicole D'Onofrio, a storage analyst with Current Analysis. "Desktop drives continue to be the bread and butter for hard drive manufacturers, but we're increasingly seeing mobile devices accounting for more sales, and now consumer electronics and automotive," D'Onofrio said. HitachiÂ used perpendicular recording technologyÂ to fit dense storage on its 2.5-inch diameter CinemaStar disk, much smaller than the standard 3.5-inch size used in digital video players. That allows designers of DVRs, portable video players and DVR-enabled televisions to build slimmer products without sacrificing high capacity; 160GB are enough to store 57 movies or 40,000 four-minute songs. Hitachi supplies nearly the entire market for high-end 400GB and 500GB recording disks. The company hopes the new CinemaStar will help it increase its share of the market for smaller-capacity disks, which stands at around 20 percent for 80GB and 160GB disks. Leaders of that segment include Seagate Technology, Western Digital, Fujitsu, and Samsung Electronics. Hitachi plans to reach full volume production of its 160GB CinemaStar C5K160 disk (also available in 80GB and 40GB) by the second quarter of 2007. That means customers could be buying DVRs using Hitachi disks by Christmas 2007, said Bill Healy, senior vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Hitachi. Hitachi's other new products, the Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50, are designed to be rugged enough to withstand automotive vibration and temperature swings while offering enough capacity for applications like navigation, digital music and audio books. Hitachi did not name the vehicle manufacturers that would use the disks, but such features are commonly found in luxury cars like the Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. Hitachi hopes to improve its 20 percent market share in a huge automotive market that produced 64 million cars and light trucks in 2005. The demand for hard drives in those cars is expected to grow at 38 percent per year from 2005 to 2010, Healy said. The company will reach full production of its 50GB Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50 (also available in 40GB and 30GB) by the first quarter of 2007.
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Notebook computers can be as powerful as desktops these days, especially as hard-disk makers like Hitachi Ltd. grab industry bragging rights by unveiling a 500-gigabyte drive for laptops.
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Two new products are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.