Congratulations to Jeremiah Owyang who’s announced he’s departing Hitachi Data Systems and joining forces with Robert Scoble at Podtech. His role?

Hitachi, parent of HDS (who I love – though they have their own marketing challenges from time to time), just announced an “enterprise” caliber 500GB SATA disk drive.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) leapt into their first foray of the small-business channel business in a global distribution deal with Ingram Micro Inc. The distribution deal will cover small business units with fewer than 200 users and four to 20 servers.

Weird noises from your hard drive and you’re not sure what they mean?

A terabyte of high-definition TV can be recorded on Hitachi’s high-end dual-drive digital video recorder.

The company becomes the first foreign concern to receive certification from the Transportation Security Administration.

Earlier today, a report concerning Hitachi and the development of increased storage capacities for hard drives across the board.

Hitachi’s division of storage technologies, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, is expected to announce they will begin selling 1-terabyte desktop drives later this year.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is rallying company resources to more than double the total shipment of CE hard drives in 2005.

Escalating what some call the “mini-drive war,” competitors Seagate and Hitachi separately introduced new 1-inch drives, both of which boast higher capacities.

Hitachi and Matsushita Electric Industrial will be joining forces to develop and expand the plasma TV market.

Hitachi Data Systems is virtualizing all EMC Symmetrix systems with its TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.

Hitachi plans to pitch its Deskstar 7K500 hard drive to digital video recorder makers who crave larger amounts of video storage.

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