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Who is Developing THOR, and Why?
Who
THOR™ is being developed by Hitachi Computer Products (America),
Inc. (HICAM), part of the Hitachi family of computer and communications
companies. Other companies in the computer and communications
group include Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS),
and Hitachi Personal Computer (HiPC).
Why
Fortune 1000 customers have always looked
to Hitachi for leading edge hardware and software solutions for
other markets, such as large scale enterprise computers and data
storage. Hitachi recognized that these same customers are facing
a new kind of challenge in their data management strategies. These
customers are awash in data. They have hundreds, maybe thousands
of independent data storage locations scattered throughout enterprise
networks. What they need is help turning their raw data into useful
information.
Hitachi has chosen to participate in the VLDB market at this point
because customers are unhappy with the rate at which their database
needs are being served, and have asked for our help. Looking at
the state of the database industry and its market, we agree with
our customers that their ability to respond to their customers'
needs, to become more competitive, and thus to grow, is currently
constrained by the available technology. By drawing on its experience,
Hitachi created a next-generation, object-relational database
system that allows customers to extract information from enterprise
database systems while maintaining current investments in hardware,
software, and training.
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