Flash Storage: Choose Wisely
Flash is undeniably a hot-topic in today’s IT landscape and flash storage deployments are growing rapidly across a number of important application environments. Flash storage is on the minds of customers, analysts, the press and vendors of all shapes and sizes, as everyone is looking for ways to capitalize on this important new storage option. [...]
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Hitachi Data Systems Introduction
This is my first blog since recently joining Hitachi Data Systems as senior product marketing manager for data protection, and I’d like to share why I decided to make this career move, and why I’m really excited to be blogging for HDS. Many technology marketers like to draw an analogy between data in the IT [...]
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Object Stores and HCP: An Interview with Bob Primmer (Part 1)
I have read a number of my colleague Bob Primmer’s publications on object storage and our Hitachi Content Platform. I thought he would be the best person to help us understand how object storage and HCP help us address the explosion of data. Can you tell us how you have come to be the expert [...]
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An Economic View for Big Data Planning
Two weeks ago I spoke at a CIO forum in Australia, sharing the stage with IDC on the topic of trends and directions with big data. Last week, same topic but in Thailand. Next week, same topic but in London. I will probably take this topic of ‘big data economics’ and break it down into [...]
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Is Storage at Fault for this Application Performance Problem?
By Richard Jew and David Foster, Hitachi Data Systems As storage infrastructures continue to grow in size and in complexity, significant challenges arise to properly monitor storage capacity growth and performance service levels delivered to critical business applications. Since storage systems are often viewed with a level of unknown within the IT environment, i.e. “black [...]
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RESTful APIs and Intelligent Platforms
We live in the age where Jennie Lamere, a 17-year-old high school student, has developed a browser plug-in that will block tweets with TV spoilers, thanks to REST APIs supported Twitter . Yet there is a significant gap between application programmability and infrastructure programmability. On May 9th 2013, I attended the Cloud2020 Summit at SuperNAP. [...]
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Software Defined Storage is not about commodity storage
Software defined storage, SDS, seems to be the marketing phrase these days. Wikipedia calls it a marketing theme for promoting storage technologies that is lacking consensus. Wikipedia does go on to list some characteristics of SDS: Automation with policy-driven storage provisioning – SLAs replace technology details Virtual volumes – allowing a more transparent mapping between [...]
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Speaking on Top of the World
I am working in ASEAN for a few weeks, and have been on a speaking circuit with our partners AC3 and Frontline. Just to prove that work can be enjoyable, I have attached a couple of pictures from a speaking event in Sydney Harbor (see the opera house in the background) and from the [...]
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