HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS EXPANDS FREEDOM STORAGE LIGHTNING 9900 SERIES WITH INTRODUCTION OF MODEL 9910.Continuing to set the standard for the world's most advanced enterprise storage systems, Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT), has announced Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series, Model 9910, which joins the Model 9960 introduced this past June. Both are part of a new generation of intelligent storage systems based on Hi-Star, a revolutionary internal switched-network architecture. Building on the powerful hardware platform and software suite of the Lightning 9900 Series, the new model 9910 is designed to meet the information storage needs of mid-sized businesses, or divisions of large enterprises that require the highest availability and reliability of a storage system without the cost or floor space of larger systems. While the 9960 provides virtually unlimited scaling capacity to support business information of the enterprise's largest applications, the 9910's smaller capacity and footprint provides the ideal storage solution for single-application environments such as data marts -- as well as support distributed strategies for remote data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , application testing application testing - system testing , data replication, and disaster recovery. "With millions of dollars at risk in this era of around-the-clock, eBusiness, companies of all sizes require high performance storage solutions," said Dave Roberson, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Hitachi Data Systems. "We are the company that other companies can bank on -- whether a large enterprise or small to medium-size business, we have the most reliable, powerful solutions in the industry. IT managers can rest easy, knowing their business-critical data is safe, even through a wide variety of disruptive events." The 9910 offers a maximum raw capacity of 3.5 terabytes (TB) housed in a single cabinet. This contrasts with the previously announced 9960's maximum raw capacity of 37 TB housed in six cabinets. Hitachi's 73 gigabyte (GB) disk drives are available for use with both models. "The new 9910 storage system extends the Lightning product line by offering a more compact package for customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the reliability and performance of an enterprise system, but not needing the massive capacity of the largest systems," said Steve Howe Steve Howe may refer to:
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