Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) recently promoted Karthik Laxman as country manager of India and the SAARC region.

With a experience of 15 years in the Indian IT sector, Laxman is ready to expand the company?s footprint in India. ?Today, the use of hard disk is going beyond IT notebooks and has entered the consumer electronics space, which is fast growing. This is where our business will come from,? says Laxman.

Talking about his strategies, he says, ?Our focus area is to make our channels aware of our various exciting products like video surveillance system, Travelstar, Cinemastar, etc, and explaining the use of them through training.?

Laxman plans to strengthen Hitachi?s position by relying on its old motto: The cost of losing valuable data from the drive is higher than the cost of the drive. Our philosophy can be summed up in ?PQRST?, which stands for performance, quality, reliability, support and technology.