Cyberstar is Hitachi's Best Server Partner
By ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, Jul 22, 2005

Bangalore-based distributor Cyberstar Infocomm won the Best Server Partner award from Hitachi GST at the Asia Pacific Distribution Conference in Beijing.

The other awards were Best Mobile Partner, Best Design-In Partner, Best CE Partner, Best Desktop Partner, apart from Valued Partner awards for several other partners.

The event was held to review achievements of the past year.

Hitachi also unveiled a new strategy for the new year: Focusing on in-country local distribution partners; Relationships with new partners in emerging countries, a target segment; Targeting new partners dedicated to the rapidly growing consumer electronics market for hard disk drives.

"This new strategy has resulted in a significant increase to Hitachi GST's share in both the traditional IT and emerging consumer electronics markets," said Hiroaki Nakanishi, CEO, Hitachi GST.

Nakanishi added, "We will continue to honor our commitments in the coming year, offering customers and partners high quality data storage solutions with more reliability and higher capacities."

Raj Rathi, MD, Cyberstar Infocom, said, "This is an important conference for us. Having the CEO of Hitachi GST attend signals that the channel is an important aspect of the business. The messages delivered by the CEO and the Business Line Managers indicate that Hitachi GST is developing a 'Channel Friendly' approach to its business."

Hitachi said that over the past 12 months it had significantly enhanced its distribution coverage in Asia Pacific with the addition of new partners and the termination of some prior partners.