Hitachi Information Forum in Mainz, Germany – Big Data Panel
Earlier this month, the 5th annual Germany Hitachi Information Forum was held in Mainz. With over 300 attendees, 20 presentations, hands-on breakout sessions and a panel discussion on big data, the event was an overwhelming success. As a pretext to the panel discussion on big data I moderated, I referenced The Economist’s Kenneth Cukier’s example [...]
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Here’s Your “Get Out of Mail Jail” Card
As IT departments struggle with growing the volumes and velocity of data, and especially the many copies of data that they generate, one of the biggest headaches is email. Mailboxes get crammed with copies of messages and attachments, not to mention all the trivial and junk email that we receive. The “fix” in most organizations [...]
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Big Data Economics, Putting New Wine in Old Bottles
In the past 2 months, I have been involved with several big data conferences and speaking opportunities with customers and analysts from all over the world. I see some clear and actionable economic conditions around big data projects that are consistent with actual customer work that I have been involved with over the last 2-3 [...]
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Hitachi Data Systems Celebrates Growth in Colorado
The server and storage markets are going through a major transition through virtualization, which increases the efficiency of existing infrastructure while reducing the need for new footprint. IDC and other industry trackers are noting the decline in revenues for infrastructure vendors, where the vendors who sell both servers and storage seem to be the hardest [...]
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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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