Hitachi Scanners - The Intelligent Desktop Scanner
Hitachi has a mission, "to identify the real needs of their customers and to set and achieve goals that surpass those needs. They develop and apply new technology without being bound by tradtitional thinking." This philsophy is apparent in the first scanner Hitachi has decided to introduce to the United States, the HT-4139, a 150 ppm desktop scanner that re-defines the boundries for desktop scanning.
At first glance you'll notice the dual output pockets, a feature typically found in floor standing units that cost at least three times the price of the HT-4139. Finally, a desktop scanner that can route mis-feeds, separator sheets (patch code and bar code sheets) or special documents to a special pocket to improve productivity and reduce the labor costs of other scanners by having to manually sort pages after they are scanned.
Hitachi takes dual stream output and goes one better offering Tri-stream output in the HT-4139. Most production scanners today provide dual stream output so you can capture a high resolution color image and bi-tonal in one pass from the scanner, but given its OCR origins the HT-4139 allows users to configure three different output streams from one pass. Capture two high resolution color images, and have a single or multiple colors automatically dropped out on one, and capture a bi-tonal image at the same time.
The HT-4139 is a high speed document scanner that stands apart from the competition.
Product Line Card
HT-4139S Simplex Color
150 ppm with 500 sheet ADF
USB 2.0 Interface
HT-4139D Duplex Color
150 ppm with 500 sheet ADF
USB 2.0 Interface
About Hitachi
Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has acted from a corporate philosophy of contributing to society through technology. In the intervening years, the world and society have changed greatly, but we have never lost our pioneering spirit, based on the principles of harmony and sincerity.
"Harmony" : Hitachi moves steadily forward by relying on open and exhaustive discussions, and once we have decided on a goal, move towards it as a unified whole. This keyword has a double significance in that it implies not only harmony within and among Hitachi Group companies but also between the Hitachi Group and society at-large.
"Sincerity" : As a citizen of the global community, every member of Hitachi strives to function with sincerity and integrity at all times. Momentary profit and loss do not inform our actions but rather we act by making decisions from an ethical viewpoint.
"Pioneering Spirit" : In order to address the fundamental challenges facing the world community, Hitachi is working to proactively meet the expectations of society and our customers through continuous innovation.
Hitachi in Action - Insurance
U.S. Veterens Agency Looks To Hitachi StorageWith a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.
Now the VA is taking on another challenge: Migrating from an all-EMC solution to a multi-vendor storage system that uses different devices depending on how quickly data needs to be recovered.
The VA has awarded a $10 million contract to Vion, a storage systems integrator that will provide Hitachi Data Systems products capable of storing 2 petabytes of data. Vion, a midsize reseller that is veteran-owned, beat out EMC for the one-year hardware and services contract.
The last time the VA awarded a multi-million dollar storage deal was in 2002, and the award went to EMC. Since then, EMC has dominated the storage environment in VA's main data center in Austin as well as its backup data centers in Philadelphia and Chicago.
Vion is setting up the Hitachi storage systems using a tiered approach, with less expensive, slower disk systems for applications that are less demanding and higher-performing disk for mission-critical applications. Tape will be used for data recovery.
The VA is running acceptance tests of the new Hitachi storage systems. By next spring, it hopes to have selected and installed its new storage management software package.
VA says it's less risky to deploy a multi-vendor strategy than to be an all-EMC shop, even though it's difficult to find experienced staff that is familiar with large-scale storage systems from both EMC and Hitachi.
"It's hard for me to envision an EMC or a Hitachi going out of business, but it's not as hard for me to envision that than it was a few years ago," Rucker says. "Tying yourself to one vendor can be a risky proposition."
