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products such as hard disk drives (HDD) and SSD.
We leveraged the restructuring of the HDD industry to strengthen our business domain. In addition to
the HDD business for servers, which we acquired from Fujitsu Ltd. in 2009, we also obtained a part of the 3.5-
inch HDD business of Western Digital Co. in the U.S. in May of 2012; thus Toshiba became the only company
capable of supplying HDD, SSD and NAND flash memory solutions.
With the coming of the era of Big Data, it has become crucial to offer optimum storage system solutions
that can address diverse data processing requirements with customer-specific applications, and global
demand for integrated, highly advanced storage system solutions is rapidly expanding. As the only one
company with a full line-up of storage products, Toshiba is determined to meet these market requirements
by not only allowing customers to select storage devices in accordance with their application needs, but also
by providing storage system solutions that make full use of the varied characteristics of HDD, SDD and NAND
flash memory.
All these storage systems are core technologies to support data centers and their cloud-based services.
With regard to cloud computing, we are expanding our business range through collaboration with alliance
partners, such as with IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Through these various means, we will realize our objective
of Total Storage Innovation. Going forward, we will accelerate development of applications using the cloud
environment, such as healthcare solutions, retail solutions and digital products and contents solutions. In the
area of healthcare solutions, we are expanding diagnosis and treatment coverage through IT technology.
One example is that we are providing outside storage services for medical data using Amazon’s web services.
We strengthened our retail solutions capability by becoming the global No. 1 POS (point-of-sales) system
company when Toshiba TEC, our Group company, acquired IBM’s retail store solution (RSS) business.
An Interview with the President
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