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Buildings need periodic checkups to make sure they aren't about to collapse on top of us, especially the big blocks and skyscrapers.
Normally, to check a building's foundation, a worker had to crawl underneath said building, regardless of how tight the space and how poor the air quality were. Then they wou... |
1 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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There are many means of storing data nowadays, but few of them can claim to have almost unlimited staying power, and the ones that do aren't commercially available anyway.
What Hitachi has to show isn't commercially available either, but it is a concept that has very high odds of catching on.
After all, ... |
26 September 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Many of your readers remember our criticism targeting the authorities that allowed Western Digital and Seagate to buy their competition and become a worldwide HDD duopoly that is now burning our pockets.
We explained many times before that Toshiba got some IP and equipment from Western Digital so that the Japanese c... |
2 August 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Hitachi, a newly-acquired HDD division of storage giant Western Digital is presenting today the new 7mm slim HDD called CinemaStar Z5K500, on its official website. The new line of drives is obviously targeted for ultralight and ultrathin notebooks that, today, are the most marketed mobile devices by both, AMD and Int... |
16 May 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Back when we wrote the first articles regarding the fake HDD crisis and the current HDD market status, there were many readers that correctly pointed out the fact that Toshiba is still manufacturing hard disk drives. Although all the competition in the HDD domain was almost eradicated or bought off by Seagate and We... |
15 May 2012
05:58 GMT |
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During its quarterly fiscal results conference on Thursday, Western Digital reportedly admitted that it managed to significantly restore production capacities after the October 2011 flooding in Thailand. "I am pleased to announce today that the recovery activities related to both WD operations and those of our suppl... |
27 April 2012
12:43 GMT |
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Hard drive manufacturers Seagate Technology and Western Digital have reported great financial results after such a prolonged hard disk drive “crisis.” There was always talk about the fact that hard disk drives are so cheap, that the profitability of the manufacturers is getting low enough to limit t... |
26 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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After many months of wrangling with the various authorities that need to approve business deals, Western Digital has finally finished the process of acquiring Hitachi GST.
That means that WD is now officially the largest supplier of hard disk drive units in the world, even if it had to give up some manufacturing fa... |
9 March 2012
05:11 GMT |
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There aren't many 2.5-inch hard drives, compared to 3.5-inch ones and SSDs, but Hitachi has just unveiled a new one, the Travelstar Z7K500.
If one were to learn only of the storage capacity and speed of this newcomer, they would not be overly impressed.
After all, there are many 500 GB hard disk drive units w... |
22 February 2012
05:23 GMT |
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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 collect... |
13 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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During the last couple of years, the popularity of Single-level Cell NAND Flash has declined to the point that this sort of memory is pretty much confined to rugged small-capacity SSDs, but Hitachi GST is set to revive SLC NAND with its recently announced Ultrastar SSD400S.B enterprise solid state drives.
Initially... |
8 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is still in the game, as evident from a certain new hard drive unit that has shown its face on the Japanese market.
The new Hitachi HDD, dubbed Deskstar 7K4000 HDS724040ALE640, is a rather curious piece of work, though clearly intended for enthusiasts.
Rather than relying on th... |
31 January 2012
03:27 GMT |
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The latest episode of the flooded HDD market saga is now in play, Hitachi being the main character this time.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) estimates that normal HDD supply will take a long time in coming.
Even though all those involved are doing their best to deal with the consequences of the Thai floo... |
14 January 2012
06:53 GMT |
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Hitachi seems to be bringing out all the big guns in order to tackle Christmas and CES challenges as well as possible, so it just launched the Ultrastar C10K900 HDD series.
This line of hard disk drive units is not at all what one may dub a conventional set of storage devices, and this is because of more than the p... |
13 December 2011
04:29 GMT |
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After being spotted in Japanese retail stores at the end of last week, Hitachi GST’s 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 HDD was now officially announced by the company together with the Touro Desk External Hard Drive that makes use of this high capacity storage solution.The new Hitachi HDD uses the industry’s standard 3... |
12 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Japanese buyers always seem to get cool hardware and gadgets to play around with way before those of us living in other parts of the world have a chance to, and these 4TB hard drives from Hitachi are no different.Codenamed HDS5C4040ALE630, the HDDs haven’t yet been announced by the company, yet these have someh... |
9 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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In a time when displays don't seem to be doing too well as far as sales are concerned, three companies native of Japan decided to pool their resources and start a joint venture.
Then again, it would be more accurate to say that four companies contributed to the venture, especially since government-funded firm ... |
15 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Hitachi decided this was an opportune moment for its cloud tactics to be laid out on the table, so it provided an extensive press release to this effect.
What Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., will provide for companies are Hitachi Cloud Services and Cloud Solution ... |
25 October 2011
21:01 GMT |
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Investigators at the Clemson University, in the United States, and Hitachi announce the development of an extremely advanced electron microscope, which has already been installed in one of the university's laboratories. The instrument will boost Clemson's ability to conduct high-sensitivity research.
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4 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Hitachi announced a new 3D technology, one that involves a projector generating a 3D image overlayed on top of a real world object, to enable perspective.
Granted, the company did not use the most fortuitous of images in its demonstration, since one can easily consider an unhatched baby chick to be a somewhat dist... |
1 October 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Hitachi may have been bought by Western Digital, but this only means it is every bit as active as ever, its most recent move consisting of getting its latest SSD series not just launched, but also adopted by HP enterprise systems.
The HP 3PAR systems are efficient and versatile virtual and cloud data centers that... |
19 September 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Hitachi made the news for a variety of things recently, and it looks like it is doing so once more, or it would be more precise to say that one of its subsidiaries has made a fairly bold move, namely enacting the acquisition of BlueArc. When speaking of Hitachi, one might think about the new 4 TB hard dis... |
8 September 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Just two days after it unveiled its first 4TB hard drives with 1TB platters, Hitachi has put these solutions to work into a new series of external storage products dedicated to video productions professionals.The new drives are built by Hitachi's G-Technology subsidiary and are known as the G-DRIVE and the G-RAI... |
8 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The IFA 2011 show had drawn to a lose, but product announcements are, as usual, going strong, with Hitachi being, this once, the one to enter the spotlight and release new inventions, HDDs to be more exact.
Some people may remember that, back in May, Seagate became the first company to offer hard disk drive stora... |
6 September 2011
04:03 GMT |
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It appears that a certain, major acquisition is not proceeding as smoothly as some may like, now that the European Commission has become involved in a less than favorable fashion.Some time ago, Western Digital announced that it had reached an agreement with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies that enabled the former... |
30 August 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Eager to offer something for the enterprise market, Hitachi Global Storage Technology has issued a press release in which it describes a newly completed line of SAS 6.0 Gbps enterprise SSDs.The SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface is one that has been used by enterprise applications for years.As such, it is not all ... |
9 August 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Focused on delivering external storage solutions engineered to meet the needs of the Apple community, G-Technology (a subsidiary of Hitachi) has introduced the G-CONNECT, a wireless storage solution for iOS device owners. The hardware allows Apple device owners to access vast libraries of content that are too l... |
22 June 2011
12:41 GMT |
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It looks like all those smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices out there, particularly Apple-made, can now enjoy a solid amount of storage wirelessly, thanks to G-Technology.Mobile devices have definitely been getting even more popular than ever, and this is not just because the tablet market came to make thi... |
22 June 2011
08:16 GMT |
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Hitachi may have been bought off by Western Digital, but its brand has by no means disappeared, as the company is still very much alive and kicking, as made obvious by the new lines of external hard disk drives.New hard drives, both internal and external, are getting released regularly, even though platter-based sol... |
19 April 2011
10:26 GMT |
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It appears that Acer and Hitachi joined hands and created storage systems intended to help enterprise customers optimize data security and availability for various data bases even as escalating storage is more properly managed.Storage device on the consumer front may be small and varied, even 3.5-inch ones for deskt... |
18 April 2011
09:34 GMT |
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As one would have expected, G-Technology, a Hitachi subsidiary, most certainly did not stop by the NAB 2011 event in las Vegas with just one portable HDD, having also delivered several HDDs, among other things.The NAB event in Las Vegas each acts as the gathering place for many IT companies around the world.While no... |
12 April 2011
09:57 GMT |
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It would appear that the 2011 NAB event in Las Vegas has turned into the proving ground for many sorts of devices, some of which have been brought there by G-Technology, a Hitachi subsidiary.The thing about international IT trade shows is that they act as a gathering place for companies from around the world.Once th... |
12 April 2011
09:03 GMT |
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Western Digital may have managed to overcome Seagate and become leading HDD maker in the entire world, but it only managed to oust it my a couple of percentage points, something that will change once the Hitachi acquisition is completed.Some end-users may have heard of the recent bomb dropped by Western Digital, the... |
8 March 2011
07:53 GMT |
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In a surprising and unforeseen turn of events, Western Digital has just announced that it has purchased Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Western Digital will acquire Hitachi GST for $3.5 billion in cash and ... |
7 March 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Given the fact that interactive projectors are really starting to pop up on the market, Hitachi has decided that rolling out such a product of their own is certainly a must, and that's exactly the reason why they've developed and released the iPJ-AW250N, the company's first product able to deliver an i... |
4 February 2011
03:34 GMT |
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Hitachi's been on quite a roll lately, and now, the company's back with yet another very interesting offering in the field of storage targeting enterprise customers, namely the new Ultrastar 7K3000 drive family, that's touted as being the first 7,200 RPM enterprise-class HDD to deliver 2.0 million hour... |
25 January 2011
03:45 GMT |
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In November of last year, Intel and Hitachi announced that they had teamed up in an effort to battle SandForce and Toshiba in the SSD enterprise market, the first solid state disk to result from this collaboration just being showcased during CES 2011.
The resulting drive is called the Hitachi UltraStar SSD400S and... |
11 January 2011
03:47 GMT |
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When it comes to platter density, Hitachi is one manufacturer that is at least a step above all others, the company's sixth generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology enabling it to produce HDD platters with up to 1GB of storage capacity, making possible the development of 4TB and 5TB hard disks.
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20 December 2010
09:27 GMT |
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Traditionally, HDDs are considered the bulkier storage solution, at least when compared to SSDs, but that's not really the case with Hitachi's new Travelstar Z5K500 drive, that, at 7mm thickness, is just about the slimmest 500GB HDD out there.With its slim profile and high capacities, the Hitachi Travelstar... |
16 December 2010
04:24 GMT |
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The 3TB storage threshold is one that Western Digital and Seagate have already reached, and Hitachi figured it would be best to catch up quick, so it unveiled a trio of 3TB units of its own, in addition to lower-capacity siblings.What Hitachi did was unveil the new members of the Deskstar series of hard disk drive u... |
14 December 2010
04:38 GMT |
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One may have thoughts that hard disk drives were nearing the climax of their existence when the first 3 TB models came out, but those that think SSDs will soon replace them may be in for a surprise now that a certain milestone has been reached by a certain consortium.When hard disk drives first came out, they had st... |
26 November 2010
03:07 GMT |
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Lately, Hitachi seems to make great strides when it comes down to touch screens and FPD International 2010 seems to be just the right place to display all of its latest prototypes, right after we had the chance of reporting on its stylus and glove compatible capacitive touchscreen panel, the Japanese company is set t... |
16 November 2010
08:45 GMT |
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As social networks, mobile applications, web TV and online video services become far more important in our day to day life, the storage solutions used by large content providers and cloud-computing services need to move to faster performing drives such as SSDs, Hitachi just announcing the Ultrastar SSD400S family bui... |
16 November 2010
04:20 GMT |
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Even though it has yet to issue the official announcement, Hitachi appears to have finished developing its own hard disk drive with a capacity of 3 TB, the so-called Deskstar 7K3000.With Seagate and Western Digital having already revealed and/or launched their highest-capacity hard drives, Hitachi appears to have al... |
15 November 2010
02:56 GMT |
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There's no denying the fact that capacitive touchscreens offer far improved functionality when compared to their resistive counterparts but this technology doesn't come without its downsides as gloves and normal styluses are not supported, but Hitachi managed to overcome this issues in their latest projecti... |
10 November 2010
04:06 GMT |
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As you might have found out from the report provided by Softpedia News' very own Editor-in-Chief, Marius Oiaga, who's attending Microsoft's TechEd 2010 event, in Berlin, the software giant from Redmond has just kick-started a private cloud reference architecture program called Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track,... |
9 November 2010
04:10 GMT |
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Apparently, Hitachi has decided that it is in its best interest to spin off its storage business unit, known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, or Hitachi GST for short.In the history of the IT industry, like in that of any other market, there came times when an IT player or another went through a more or less ... |
8 November 2010
08:17 GMT |
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Seeking to propagate the appeal of portable hard disk drives, G-Technology, one of Hitachi's business units, has unveiled its newest G-Drive, based on the technology used in the Travelstar Z5K320. The Travelstar Z5K320 is a hard drive developed by Hitachi which has now been turned into a unit with a casing that... |
2 November 2010
06:04 GMT |
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When it comes to enterprise hard disk drives, makers of such devices have to put special emphasis on not just performance, but power consumption as well, and Hitachi claims to have done both with the Ultrastar C10K600.The name Ultrastar C10K600 can be seen as more or less self-explanatory, since the rotary speed of ... |
11 October 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Though liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are one of, if not the most popular presence on the consumer display market right now, makers of all sorts of displays are already looking for alternatives, such as the promising MEMS technology, which Hitachi has just shown off at CEATEC.MEMS stands for microelectromechanical s... |
8 October 2010
10:36 GMT |
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