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Monday, March 7, 2011
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies bought by Western Digital - How Does It Affect HDS?
Today I read that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was being bought by Western Digital. This new in and of itself is not huge in our current M&A landscape, however how it could affect one of the core tenants of Hitachi Limited's presence in IT, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), is interesting at the least. HDS includes hardware and software around enterprise storage. Most notably, SANs. These just aren't any SANs these are "big iron" used in applications and environments where it is not uncommon for there to be dedicated SAN engineers to do the care and feeding (think engine oiler on a WWII Navy ship). What makes the scenario interesting is the fact that HDS hangs their hat on the fact that they control quality and price by manufacturing not just the chassis, but also the drives. This technically will not be the case moving forward as HGST is not retaining any of the naming, and it will all be Western Digital branded.
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