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• Hitachi starts all-in-one data center service, covers construction to IT support

  By Jay Alabaster | 07 May, 2012 20:31

  Japanese conglomerate Hitachi on Monday launched a new data center business that includes everything from planning to construction to IT support.

• Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 20:53

  Hitachi Data Systems today announced a new midrange storage line that allows access to both block and file-based data through a single management interface.

• Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 03 April, 2012 20:19

  Hitachi's former disk-drive division today announced what it said it the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive.

• Western Digital Puts 2TB of Storage in Palm of Your Hand for $250

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 21 March, 2012 06:50

  Who needs the cloud when you can have two terabytes of storage in the palm of your hand?

• Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead

  By Lucas Mearian | 01 March, 2012 12:32

  Monsoonal flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli.

• New leaders emerging in WAN optimization market

  By Colin Neagle | 28 January, 2012 05:38

  In yet another sign that growing revenues are reshaping the vendor outlook in the network management sector, Gartner recently named vendor Silver Peak one of the leaders in its magic quadrant for the WAN optimization market.

• Atlantis Computing promises diskless VDI

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 January, 2012 08:10

  Virtual Desktop storage provider Altantis Computing today announced a new product that runs non-persistent virtual desktop environments using only server memory.

• Hopefully these robotic farmers will harvest more than our organs

  By Joshua Schnell | 09 January, 2012 09:43

  The Japanese government is planning to develop a farm where all labor is carried out by robots, according to AFP. The initiative, dubbed the Dream Project, will use robotic tractors to plant and harvest the crops, and other robots for tasks such as packaging the produce for shipping.

• China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns

  By Lucas Mearian | 05 January, 2012 09:12

  After winning the approval of regulators in Europe, Australia, and Japan, Western Digital may have hit a snag in its bid to acquire Hitachi's disk drive arm. Chinese regulators are concerned that the deal could hurt hard drive competition.

• Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs plead guilty to price fixing

  By Grant Gross | 14 December, 2011 09:52

  Three executives at Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the U.S. for their participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix the prices of optical disk drives sold to large computer makers, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

• Hitachi GST unveils laptop hard drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 14 December, 2011 03:49

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) today introduced its fastest laptop hard drive, a 10,000 rpm, 900GB model said to offer up to 18% faster sequential I/O than its predecessors.

• Hitach GST begins shipments of a 4TB disk drive

  By Jay Alabaster | 12 December, 2011 19:09

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market, three months after rival Seagate launched its own version.

• Hitachi plans to sell systems that integrate data from cities in the cloud

  By Jay Alabaster | 24 November, 2011 18:16

  Hitachi plans to aggressively pursue large cloud computing projects and market software that will integrate data from infrastructure across entire cities, it said Thursday.

• Western Digital hard-disk drive takeover approved, with conditions

  By Jennifer Baker | 24 November, 2011 01:59

  Western Digital will be allowed to take over Hitachi's hard-disk drive business, but only if it sells off a 3.5-inch hard-disk drive production plant.

• Panasonic to sell TV panel factory to new Japan Display venture

  By Jay Alabaster | 15 November, 2011 19:44

  Panasonic said Tuesday it will sell one of its main domestic TV panel factories to a new joint venture focused on producing smaller screens, as Japan's big-name manufacturers continue to seek relief from deep losses in their display businesses.