Hitachi, NetApp Offer EMC Alternative
Storage administrators seeking an alternative to EMC Corp. for a high-end network-attached storage gateway to Fibre Channel disks will get a new choice next year from Hitachi Ltd. and Network Appliance Inc.
An as-yet unnamed product the two companies are developing will ship early next year and will connect Hitachi's midrange Thunder and high-end Lightning storage series behind NetApp's technology, executives from both firms said Wednesday.
"We see this as an opportunity to go after a market segment that really doesn't exist today, which is a combination of SAN [storage-area networks] and NAS on a very large scale," said Dave Roberson, president and chief operating officer of Hitachi's Santa Clara, Calif.-based Hitachi Data Systems division. Product details and pricing won't be announced until next year, he said.
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