Confusion over Consolidation of Storage and Consolidation of Data
Randy Kerns, a blogger on Storage Soup and also a Senior Strategist at Evaluator group, recently blogged about Confusion Over Storage Consolidation. Randy says that “the confusion comes about because of some vendor messaging and what IT storage professionals actually view as storage consolidation. This leads to miscommunication and different sets of expectations about storage [...]
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HCP supports Big Data at PB Scale
Last month Hitachi announced enhancements to HCP, which is a major new release of our Hitachi Content Platform. There were some major enhancements which were covered by Michael Hay in HCP and HDI, A Monster Release and by Ken Wood in HCP Announcement with an Archiving Angle on the Techno Musings blog. Here are the [...]
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Storage Virtualization to Reduce Cost of Copies
I am in the middle of a multi-part blog series on some of the secondary cost benefits of storage virtualization. I posted an entry last week on virtualization’s impact on maintenance, and now will talk about the cost of copies. Copies are an interesting topic. Copied data can be different from data that can be [...]
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HDS at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference; it’s going to be a gem!
Hitachi Data Systems is excited to sponsoring the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG 2012. The HDS team is off to sunny Orlando, Florida. The conference is being held this week from May 14th-16th at the Orange County Convention Center. HDS is an Onyx level sponsor, so we will be actively involved throughout the conference. HDS [...]
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Big Data Variety
In past posts we talked about Big Data Volume and Velocity requirements and how they could be addressed with Hitachi Data Systems block, file and content storage. Today we will be looking at big data variety. The reason that big data is getting such attention today is the greater variety of new data types that [...]
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Storage Economics for Dummies
Good news for all who have been afraid or reluctant to jump into financial or economic discussions around storage and competitive storage architectures. Thirteen years worth of experience and insight around costs and cost reduction options is now available in a simpler-to-use format. My colleague Justin Augat has abridged hundreds of documents, blogs, white papers [...]
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99 Notre Dame, San Jose
This morning I accompanied a young person to the Superior Court in San Jose. This Court is located at 99 Notre Dame in San Jose. Once we went through the metal detectors we joined a long line of people in a crowded waiting room. What surprised me was the display along the south wall, which [...]
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Digital Archiving Part 3: How would you define "Technology Longevity"?
I can’t help but enjoy reading some of the comments, debates and other various blog articles on optical storage technologies, especially on technology durability and media longevity, even more when compared to tape storage for long-term digital archiving or as a slightly active data repository. Back in November 2011, I wrote a blog on the [...]
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