14 DAY TRIAL // Western Digital will get a big load of hard drives and hard drive technologies when it finally completes the acquisition of Hitachi, but now it can add some extra data center resources to the list.
Hitachi has issued a press release in which it announces that its product portfolio, as well as overall assets collection, has expanded.
What the company did was acquire a developer of data center technologies, one based in South Africa.
Called Shoden Data Systems, the company serves customers from its home nation as well as sub-Saharan African countries.
With this company as part of its own operation, Hitachi will be able to much more easily reach its customers in Africa.
It is also a means toward a more swift expansion across the globe for Hitachi's Social Innovation Business.
“Following a successful eleven year partnership, we are excited to bring Shoden Data Systems formally into the Hitachi Data Systems business,” said Niels Svenningsen, senior vice president and general manager, Hitachi Data Systems EMEA.
“Across the globe we are helping customers transform aging data centers into information centers that closely align business objectives with infrastructure performance to optimize return on assets. We can now bring that experience and expertise to bear in a market with huge growth potential.”
Besides South Africa, Hitachi has a number of subsidiaries in countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania.
Once all Shoden's resources are integrated into the whole, the storage solutions developer can get to work on fusing information technologies and come up with better means to improve social infrastructure.
Unfortunately, the financial details of the transaction have not been made public and, from how things stand, they probably never will be.
All that is left to do is wait and see how long it takes Hitachi to build some new, green, and/or powerful data center.