Hitachi America partners with E-Z-SAN to provide the most cost effective SAN solution.

As a leader in the hard disk drive industry, Hitachi understands the critical need for vendor collaboration to ensure customer satisfaction. With it's participation with JMR and the other Open Storage Management Resources (OSMR) partners in the E-Z-SAN solution, Hitachi is helping to fill a void in the storage market by providing a comprehensive and simplified Storage Area Network (SAN) solution.

Hitachi and the E-Z-SAN partners are among the few that offer true product-to-product compatibility and multi-vendor support. Since SANs represent the future of enterprise storage, Hitachi strengthens its leadership by helping provide its customers a multitude of flexible, pre-certified, and comprehensive hardware and software offerings through the E-Z-SAN solution.

As an integral component of the E-Z-SAN solution, Hitachi's 73.9GB 3.5-inch hard disk drive otters top-of-the-line reliability and performance. With more than 1,100 HDD patents and its announcement of the 147.8 GB, low profile, 10,025 RPM 3.5-inch hard drive, Hitachi continues to stay on the leading edge of the HDD market.