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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Intelligent Platforms: The Cornerstone of Next Generation IT Innovation
As we listen to our customers who live and breathe in the data center, there is a growing need for intelligent platforms, a platform that: can expand or shrink with the demand fluctuation, can heal on its own, can be programmed, is available 24/7 anywhere, any device You’re probably seeing an overarching theme across HDS around [...]
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Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere – Extending Customer’s Value in Converged Infrastructure
With the release of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Pro for VMware vSphere, we introduced a number of firsts for converged infrastructure solutions The industry’s first converged platform offering 100% parity across RESTful API, CLI and GUI A truly unified, “single pane of glass” end-to-end infrastructure orchestration solution with a low learning curve, due to our unique [...]
#CloudAnywhere Changes the Equation
In my recent posts, I’ve mentioned the vast amount of unnecessarily redundant content in today’s IT environments. This time, I’d like to dig a little deeper on this aspect by considering what can happen with just one file in a typical IT environment and contrast that with #CloudAnywhere. Let’s start simply with a document saved [...]
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Threat Probabilities
A few months ago I wrote a 4-part blog series on the cost of data protection. One of those entries discussed an approach to calculate the annual loss expectancy (ALE) related to risk, and the cost of risks. I had a program several years ago that helps calculate the probability of 19 of the most [...]
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