Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the appointment of marketing executives Eric-Jan Schmidt and Asim Zaheer and technology executives Scanlon Putegnat and Miklos Sandorfi. With these appointments, Hitachi Data Systems demonstrates its commitment to the customer as [...]

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT)(TOKYO:6501) today announced that the Company plans to record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets for fiscal 2008, year ending March 31, 2009. Additionally on an unconsolidated basis, the Company plans to recognize losses related to write-downs of subsidiaries shares.
1.Recording valuation allowance against deferred tax assets
Hitachi plans to record approximately [...]

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT)(TOKYO:6501) today announced that it would rigorously pursue the following measures designed to improve profitability and spur future growth in the face of a rapidly changing operating environment. Hitachi is determined to implement far-reaching structural reforms while at the same time using its advanced technologies to address needs related to social, industrial, life [...]

30 Year Data Storage Leader Becomes Worldwide Chief Technology Officer

New Delhi , SAN JOSE, Calif. – Jan. 20, 2009 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the appointment of Steven Campbell to the position of Chief Technology Officer. In his new role, Steven will have global responsibility for all aspects of the company’s [...]

Collaboration Opens New Era in Hard Drive Data Protection
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) and SECUDE International AG today announced plans to jointly provide commercial notebook users and storage administrators an encryption solution that helps safeguard data in the event of system theft or loss. The combined solution uses Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B hard drives [...]

Collaboration to Drive Unprecedented Levels of SSD Performance, Reliability and Data Integrity
Intel Corporation (Intel) and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced plans to jointly develop and deliver Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) enterprise class solid-state drives (SSDs) for servers, workstations and storage systems.
The combination of a leading Enterprise drive supplier [...]

RSNA 2008
At this year’s RSNA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Hitachi Medical Systems America will demonstrate advances for the HI VISION™ 900 system as well as unique probe-based solutions, which allow radiology departments to utilize the equipment in their department more efficiently.
A highlight of its exhibition is new developments in Hitachi’s Real-time Tissue Elastography (E-mode) [...]

RSNA 2008
At this year’s RSNA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Hitachi Medical Systems America will demonstrate advances for their HI VISION™ 5500 ultrasound system as well as unique probe-based solutions, which allow radiology departments to utilize the equipment in their department more efficiently.
For the HI VISION 5500, Hitachi will introduce the Version 6 software upgrade, [...]

WHO: Dennis Wenk, principal solutions architect of Hitachi Data
Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.
(NYSE: HIT), and the only provider of Services Oriented
Storage Solutions
WHAT: Wenk [...]

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501) announced today that a ranking feature to search by drawing was released for its similar image search engine GazoPa.
Search by drawing is one of the most popular features at GazoPa. Users can search for similar pictures, photos and video thumbnails by their drawings. The new ‘Ranking’ feature enables users to [...]