Hitachi GST claims its latest Ultrastar solid state drives are the first enterprise-class SSDs to use 25 nanometre SLC NAND flash memory technology.

The failure to properly manage and use the growing volume of digital data is costing the economy billions of dollars each year, according to new Australian research.

Networking specialist Brocade is offering its largest customer the opportunity to purchase networking capacity using a ground breaking cloud style model, where they are charged per month, per port on the network.

Hitachi Data Systems will add support for vSphere 5 to its enterprise storage products.

New Zealand's Kiwibank has selected Hitachi Data Systems as a storage supplier.

Two of the leading manufacturers of hard drives and other storage devices are teaming up. Samsung's disk drive operations will be transferred to Seagate as part of a $US1.375 billion deal.

Hitachi Data Systems and Teradata have been listed as one of the 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Several other players in the ICT industry also made the list.

NBN Co has appointed former Hitachi marketing executive, Tim Smith, to the role of general manager marketing, to promote its products and services to service providers.

Computer hardware continues to get smaller, faster and cheaper. opening up new usage scenarios as it does so. Near year’s end 2010 Hitachi unveiled their  second generation of 7mm thick single-platter 2.5-inch hard drive range, while for comparison Intel announced their SSD 310 series of solid-state drives that are only 5mm thick.

Hitachi's Virtual Storage Platform delivers "unprecedented cost savings" according to a company executive. Features include block-level tiering and '3D scaling.'