Hitachi celebrates centenary year

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Ltd., celebrates 100 years of innovation and success.

“Celebrating 100 years is an incredible accomplishment and a true testament to the strength of Hitachi,” said Jack Domme, chief executive officer, Hitachi Data Systems. “There are very few global companies today that can claim the longevity and legacy Hitachi has built over the past century."

Founded in 1910 as an electrical equipment repair shop, Hitachi Ltd. has evolved into a $100 billion global corporation, today with the vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable.

“One of our key advantages over storage-only vendors is the simple fact that the research talent across the Hitachi Group can be leveraged for strategic benefit to our customers,” said Hu Yoshida, vice president and chief technology officer, Hitachi Data Systems. “Cross-pollination over multiple product disciplines is a strong asset that has contributed to the Hitachi Data Systems product portfolio.”

Founded in 1989, Hitachi Data Systems, laid the foundation for storage virtualization with the 7700 Architecture by separating the control information from the data cache to enable nondisruptive and dynamic changes in the storage configuration, in 1995. The next 15 years saw Hitachi evolve and enhance this architecture to meet changing business requirements, including:

· Asynchronous replication to eliminate distance restrictions between recovery sites.

· Switch architecture to  levearage the consolidation enabled by storage area networks.

· Virtual ports and host storage domains for scalable connectivity and safe multitenancy for heterogeneous host servers.

· The ability to virtualize and extend enterprise storage services to externally attached heterogeneous storage.

· The introduction of  dynamic provisioning to simplify and optimize the provisioning of storage and reduce overall storage spending.