That Awkward Moment…
When you realize that you need to announce a product that your biggest competitor has had for almost 8 years. That awkward moment when you realize you have been bashing controller based virtualization for the duration of that 8 years, and now you’re in the position to have to endorse it. Ouch! That’s gotta hurt [...]
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Application Integration Requires More Than JBODs
As long as I have been in storage, there have been predictions that storage will be commoditized and all you will need are JBODs.(JBOD stands for Just a Bunch Of Disks. I first heard this term when I was working for IBM over 30 years ago. I was working for the IBM storage division at [...]
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Hitachi NAS SiliconFS Object-based File System
Today, I get to introduce my first guest blogger, Matthew O’Keefe, PhD. My colleague Matt will discuss hardware accelerating the various components of NAS systems, specifically Hitachi NAS (HNAS, aka BlueArc Mercury), in a multi-part series. Matt’s expertise is in scale-out file systems and kernel development, so you might want to read this thoroughly. Since [...]
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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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