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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 as a
result of the strategic combination of Hitachi's and IBM's storage technology
businesses. By the end of 2003, Hitachi GST became the industry's second largest
hard disk drive
manufacturer with $4.2 billion in revenue. The company's goal is to enable
users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing access to large
amounts of storage capacity in formats suitable for the office, on the road and
in the home. The company offers customers worldwide a comprehensive range of
storage products for desktop computers, high-performance servers and mobile
devices. For more information on Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, please
visit the company's Web site at www.hitachigst.com.
See also:-
Hitachi
links & mentions on STORAGEsearch.com,
Hitachi's
SSD page |
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- editor's comments:- December 2010 -
Hitachi was a laggard
in the SSD market until recently. Its main
SSD
product page in early June 2010 didn't include any product info - but did
include a note to the effect that products would be launched soon.
In
2009 we reported that SSDs used in arrays from
Hitachi Data Systems
actually came from STEC.
A
news
report in June 2010 said that
Indilinx is supplying
SSD controllers for
use in a hybrid storage module to be marketed by Hitachi-LG Data Storage - which
includes a 32GB flash SSD integrated with a Blu-ray optical drive.
In
November 2010 - Hitachi
said it
was sampling 3.5"
FC SSDs and
2.5"
SAS SSDs with upto
400GB SLC capacity and 535MB/s read and 500MB/s write throughput (6Gb/s SAS)
46,000 / 13,000 R/W
IOPS. | |
| WD acquires
Hitachi GST |
Editor:- March 7, 2011 - Western Digital today
announced it will acquire Hitachi GST in a cash
and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion.
The
resulting company will retain the Western Digital name and remain headquartered
in Irvine, California. John Coyne will remain CEO of WD, Tim Leyden chief
operating officer and Wolfgang Nickl CFO. Steve Milligan, president and chief
executive officer of Hitachi GST, will join WD at closing as president,
reporting to John Coyne.
Editor's comments:- This will confirm WD as the world's
largest manufacturer of hard
drives (a position it has been inching towards anyway) and could have a
significant impact on the company's SSD market presence too. | |
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| this way to the Petabyte
SSD |
In 2016 there will be
just 3 types of
SSD in the datacenter.
One
of them doesn't exist yet - the bulk storage SSD.
It will replace the
last remaining strongholds of
hard drives in the
datacenter due to its unique combination of characteristics, low running costs
and operational advantages. |
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The new model of the
datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical problems which
will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this
visionary article. | | | |
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