Bangkok--9 Oct--Core & Peak
Mr. Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, visits customers, partners and members of the presses in Thailand during October 9-11, 2006.
During his visit, Mr. Yoshida will outline how growth in storage spending has become irrational for many enterprises, often tracking neither to business performance nor strategic IT needs. He will address the need to think about storage in a different way.
Mr. Yoshida was named as the Storage CTO of the Year 2005 by Data Management Institute for his clear vision of the storage marketplace and this helps Hitachi Data Systems to differentiate itself from the pack.
Hu Yoshida Profile
Hu Yoshida is responsible for defining the technical direction for Hitachi Data Systems. He was instrumental in defining the Hitachi TrueNorth? initiative, a collaborative approach to develop open standards for storage management. Today, he leads the company's effort in addressing data lifecycle requirements to meet compliance, governance, and operational risk issues.
In his previous position as vice president of Data Networks, Yoshida helped to define Hitachi Data Systems' strategy for Freedom Data Networks, which includes Storage Area Networks, Network Attached Storage, and other network-related storage and data technologies.
Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems in 1997 as the director of Product Marketing for Open Systems Storage, he held various positions in sales, performance evaluation, software development, product management, and product marketing for the IBM? Storage Division. While at IBM, Yoshida gained international experience with assignments in Japan as a development manager and in the UK as the European business manager for RS/6000 Storage. He has authored several papers on Storage Area Networks, Fibre Channel, multiprotocol SANs, and data network technologies.
Yoshida is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Mathematics. He served with the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander and was discharged with the rank of Captain. Yoshida has served on the advisory boards of several technology companies and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute of the Government of Singapore.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs.
With approximately 2,900 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at http://www.hds.com .
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