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- SAN and NAS Combine to Deliver a Comprehensive Storage Solution at the GRZ IT Center
- Founded in 1971, the GRZ IT Center in Linz has grown to become one of the largest and most successful IT systems houses in Austria. In order to facilitate business expansion and support their strategic objectives, GRZ IT Center had to overcome a number of challenges and limitations within their...
- Tags: NAS, Hitachi Ltd., SAN, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
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- Voodoo Pumps Up PC Gaming Performance With Hitachi Travelstar Hard Drives
- Voodoo Technology Inc. is located at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Voodoo's products, nearly all of which use Hitachi hard disk drives, sit at the top of a total video gaming market the at had 2002 revenues of more than $28 billion. Over the next decade, analysts forecast it will surpass the...
- Tags: Voodoo, Hard Drive, PC, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
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- Hitachi Deskstar Drives Power Sauber Petronas' Formula One Competitive Edge
- Formula One is the fastest and most technically advanced sport on the planet. So when Sauber Petronas were building one of the world's most sophisticated centres for aerodynamics, they demanded state-of-the-art technology. That attitude was evident when they chose to upgrade their Computational Fluid Dynamics system. They turned to Swiss...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Deskstar, Storage, Hardware
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- Hitachi Case Study: Manila Water
- Manila Water needed a solution that centralized the management of their different application systems in order to deliver quality service to their customers. At the time, they were running a number of mission critical applications including SAP R/3 to control their customer management system. As a solution Manila Water deployed...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., SAP R/3, SAP AG, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
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- Using JP1 for Integrated Management of a Large-Scale, Mission-Critical System Completely Automated Operation and Reliability Effectively Ensured
- UFJ Bank Limited UFJ Bank uses JP1, Hitachi's integrated system operation management software, to perform the integrated management of approximately 450 servers on which about 60 systems bank branch systems and Internet banking systems run, along with approximately 450 bank branch servers and 20,000 client machines. Integrated management means coordinating...
- Tags: Bank, Hitachi Ltd., Mission-critical System, Storage, Financial Services, Hardware
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- Shiseido Singapore Greatly Improves Software and Asset Management Using Hitachi JP1
- Shiseido Singapore is a wholly owned subsidiary of cosmetics and beauty care giant Shiseido, which reported almost ¥640 billion in net sales for the year ended March 31, 2005. Earlier software distribution and IT asset management tasks were performed manually at Shiseido Singapore. The administrative and time burden on the...
- Tags: Asset, Software, Hitachi Ltd., Shiseido Singapore, Storage, Asset Management, Hardware, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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- Matsushita Electric Co., (M) BHD (MELCOM) Saves on Operational Costs With JP1
- MELCOM operates multiple Windows 2000 servers, over 500 Desktop PC clients and AS/400, running mission-critical, financial plus production applications. With its friendly GUI and rich functionality, the Hitachi JP1/Job Management Module for AS/400 eases data transfer and job scheduling across multiple platforms. Additionally, the efficient JP1/Desktop management module enables PC...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., IBM AS/400, MELCOM, Storage, Servers, Hardware
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- Full Application of Business Application Assets and Know-How, for a Smooth Downsizing
- Tomita Pharmaceutical, Ltd. herein referred to as Tomita Pharmaceutical undertook setup of a new mission-critical system that can support both Web and mobile environments, while making the most of the business application assets they have used over the years. For the rapid migration of their mission-critical system to the Web,...
- Tags: Downsizing, Business Application, Hitachi Ltd., Pharmaceutical Company, Migration, Mission-critical System, Storage, Hardware
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- Centralized Mission-Critical Data, for Close Linkage With Web Systems Realized "Click and Mortar" to Establish a Platform for Increasing Competitive Strength
- GEO Corporation continues rapid growth through the development of its "GEO Shops", a platform for renting and selling new and used software products. Its competitive strength stems from more efficient operation of direct management store, and it is aggressively pursuing better and more cost-effective services for its members, based on...
- Tags: Mortar, Web, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
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- Standard Insurance Company: Optimizes Storage Resources With HiCommand Device Manager Software and the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9960 System
- As a leading provider of group insurance and retirement plans, Standard Insurance Company The Standard advises its customers to limit their exposure to risk. Before upgrading to the Lightning 9960, The Standard was trying to support a rapidly growing business with several different systems running on a Microsoft Windows 2000...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Freedom Storage, Storage, Hardware
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- Hitachi Case Study: Commercial Bank of Zhengzhou
- Established on Feb. 27th, 2000, Commercial Bank of Zhengzhou CBZ is a local joint-stock commercial bank whose holding company is Finance bureau of Zhengzhou city, Henan Province. CBZ made a profit of 120m RMB in 2005. With serve the city; support the local; with excellence and economics of scale as...
- Tags: Bank, Hitachi Ltd., Financial Services, Storage, Hardware
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- Hitachi Credit Singapore Brings Order to Client Environment Using Hitachi JP1
- Part of Hitachi Capital Corporation, Hitachi Credit Singapore is a leader in financing for corporate and individual customers requiring assistance in purchase or lease of business equipment or consumer goods or other financial services. Before Hitachi Credit Singapore implemented Hitachi JP1, software distribution was performed manually. There was no clear...
- Tags: Environment, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
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- Capricorn Technologies - Redefining the Economics of Storage With Hitachi Hard Disk Drives
- Founded in 2004, Capricorn Technologies is a commercial outgrowth of the Internet Archive a non-profit organization founded by industry luminary Brewster Kahle with the lofty goal of universal access to all human knowledge. After building its first few terabyte systems, the Internet Archive team came to a stunning realization: Not...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
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- palmOne Turns to Hitachi Microdrive for "Spice of Life"
- With the introduction of the LifeDrive mobile manager from palmOne, Inc., there is a new choice in a mobile computing device that fulfills both the quest for success and the zest for life. The LifeDrive mobile manager satisfies the needs of a growing, mobile population that wants access to greater...
- Tags: Mobile, Hitachi Ltd., Palm Inc., Microdrive, LifeDrive Mobile Manager, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Marketing, Hardware
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- PC Gamers Know It's What Inside That Counts
- Falcon Northwest has been a leader in the PC gaming world since it opened its doors in 1992. Falcon Northwest to offer gamers more than one option when choosing components, each of the company's offerings still has to be first rate. Falcon Northwest's Talon systems have been nearly 100-percent pre-configured...
- Tags: PC, Hitachi Ltd., Falcon Northwest, Storage, Games, Hardware, Personal Technology
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- Adaptive Battery Life Extender
- When it comes to mobile computing, battery life is very important. Since a major user of battery power is the disk drive, it makes sense to ensure that the disk drive uses as little power as possible. That's why Adaptive Battery Life Extender was invented. And that's why the latest...
- Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Battery, Engineering
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- Hitachi Group Achieves an Integrated Collaboration Environment With 200,000 Users Groupmax Collaboration
- Hitachi's collaboration portal, Groupmax Collaboration, is based on the highly reliable Collaborative E-business Platform Cosminexus, and provides functionality realize the vision of a cross-functional organization built around the idea community. Even with tools intended to maximize an organization's potential, phrases like "collaboration transcending organizations" and "global information sharing" can be...
- Tags: Collaboration, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
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- Hitachi Storage at Work Case Study: Volvo IT
- Large-scale and comprehensive preparation has led to Volvo IT, together with companies such as Hitachi Data Systems, now building up one of the world's largest storage area networks. Volvo identified the need early, and the project was started in 1996 with an initial assessment. Hitachi Data Systems has supplied a...
- Tags: Volvo, Information Technology, Hitachi Ltd., SAN, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware
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- Hitachi Case Study: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
- Oji Paper is a paper manufacturer that boasts the largest production volume in Japan. Other paper companies are increasingly adopting ERPs integrated application packages to achieve a powerful management infrastructure by integrating mission critical systems based on a worldwide standard. Oji Paper decided to switch its entire accounting system to...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., ERP, Oji Paper, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- Hitachi Case Study: Pharmaceutical Industry
- Pharmaceutical Company implemented a drastic business reorganization, aiming to save 200M$ per year in order to become more competitive and develop new pharmaceuticals globally. It faced problems in system integration aspect, reports formatting and monitoring for numbers of servers. In order to operate newly developed business process efficiently after the...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Industry, Pharmaceutical Company, Storage, Hardware
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