Join Us at the HDS Information Forums
In June, we will begin our Hitachi Data Systems Information Forums around the globe and you are invited to join us for one of our most popular events. This year the forums begin with our largest venues in Mainz, Germany on June 5th and London, UK on June 13th. As part of the Information Forums [...]
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A CIO’s Perspective on Embracing BYOD and Enterprise Mobility
I recently interviewed my colleague Rex Carter, CIO of Hitachi Data Systems. He joined HDS in 2006 and has played a major role in the transformation of our company through the innovative use of IT technology. He is well known to many of our customers and partners as he seeks every opportunity to engage with [...]
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#CloudAnywhere is Information Everywhere
Many of our customers prefer to use HDS cloud-ready technologies, solutions and services to create “content clouds” of their own. At the core of the content cloud is the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) object store which, in addition to its metadata capabilities, provides an automated, backup-free Web 2.0 storage environment with robust security, vast scale, [...]
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#CloudAnywhere Extends IT Beyond the Datacenter
This morning, HDS announced a number of new cloud enabling technologies, delivery models and partner programs that enable our customers to extend their existing enterprise IT to embrace cloud solutions. This approach allows our customers to continue to take advantage of their existing infrastructure, consolidating and virtualizing it if need be, and then leverage one [...]
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Beyond Private Clouds: How Hosted Services Offer the Best of Both Worlds
As organizations move toward implementing more cloud solutions, they face some important decisions. Data privacy and retention, regulatory and compliance considerations, and security all need to be considered, and may drive the decision to the choice of a private cloud. But then cost, a very important factor and in many cases is the key motivator [...]
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Object Storage is a Horizontal Platform: HCP
I have had a busy week in Hong Kong, with several of our executives providing an update for some customers and partners. There was a lot of interest in a new option that we will announce for our Hitachi Content Platform that will address the challenges of BYOD. BYOD is a great enabler for user [...]
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Residual Value of Storage Systems
Most of us have bought a car before and sometimes we have an older vehicle to trade in. I have always been disappointed in the trade-in value of my older car, but realize that cars depreciate rather quickly. If the car is running and reasonably driveable, you will get something for the trade-in. I tend [...]
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The Challenge of Large Data
A few weeks ago I was in London for internal planning meetings and had the opportunity to catch up with some old friends in the industry, Chris Evans and Martin Glassborow. Chris and Martin have a way of keeping me grounded in the harsh realities of enterprise IT and this visit was no different. Martin [...]
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