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 [...]
How Much Does it Cost to Spend Money?
One of the expenses included in storage and IT economics is the cost of procurement. I discovered and documented this cost element about a year ago while working in Australia. Anyway, I believe that traditional capitalization for IT will diminish over [...]
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Looking Back on the Future: Top 10 Storage Trends for 2012
As we close out 2011, the storage industry has seen significant growth based on budgets, which were established in the beginning of the year. However, over the course of 2011, we saw natural disasters, political upheaval, and heightened economic turmoil. [...]
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2012 Trend: Energy Efficiency
In 2012, power, cooling and carbon footprints will become even more critical as energy demand increases and countries begin to impose carbon taxes. IT will be asked to shoulder their share of the energy burden. Last week the 17th session [...]
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Storage Economics Dojo
Storage Economics at HDS is approaching its 13th year, and along with the thousands of engagements done around the world, we have prepared many people to think like an economist, talk like an accountant, and act like an architect. Hundreds of [...]
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Answering Ilja’s Request for Server Capacity – HDS Style
For everyone that celebrates the holiday, Happy [late!] Thanksgiving. The week of Thanksgiving in the US is a great time to catch-up on many of those little work chores that pile up or slip through the cracks while traveling and prioritizing big tasks [...]
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A Conversation With HDS SVP John Mansfield
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with John Mansfield, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Strategy and Development at HDS. John and I discussed a variety of topics, including Hitachi’s organization design depth and expertise, along with where we can [...]
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Measuring Up A Supersized McBlu-ray With BDXL
In March of last year, I wrote a blog about disruptive technologies, specifically how the Blu-ray technology could change the storage landscape (or not). The new Blu-ray disc format specification enhancement was defined in June 2010 for the BDXL standard. [...]
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VAAI - Driving The Need For Storage Computers
Chris Evans’ recent post raises a warning that enabling the host to issue direct commands to the storage system via interfaces like VAAI can have performance impacts which can create more work to balance environments, simply because too many VAAI [...]
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Capacity Optimization With Content Platforms
Recently a lot of attention has been given to Capacity Optimization, and there are plenty of solutions to choose from. Compression, dedupe, dynamic tiering, and thin provisioning are those most often mentioned, and each is effective in reducing capacity in [...]
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HDS @ #OOW2011
The first week of October marks the largest Oracle global event in San Francisco: Oracle Open World 2011. HDS will once again be present at the show (booth #2101) where we will be previewing several new technologies and integration around: [...]
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Kicking Off a Blog Series on Object Stores
I’ve worked on three commercial object stores: Centera, Atmos, and now HCP (Hitachi Content Platform). In that time, I’ve seen numerous misunderstandings about this particular brand of storage technology–not just in how they function, but even more fundamentally, on where, [...]
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Welcome
This is my first official blog with Hitachi Data Systems. I started with HDS on of all days, Valentines Day 2011! This reminded me of what I love: of course my wife and children, but also what I have chosen [...]
Profit Sharing
Actually the title of this blog should be “Cost Savings Sharing,” but that is not a very catchy way to draw you in. But, now that I have you… As I work with customers around the world, it is increasingly [...]
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Zen and the Art of Storage Maintenance
Most of us have a car, or once had a car, and know that an oft-overlooked function is maintenance every 5,000 miles (8,000 km) as the manufacturer recommends. Due to this omission, an automobile will deteriorate – according to the [...]
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Go Figure – This Economy…
The other day I ordered this poster to hang in my office from one of those de-motivator sites… Many people have predictions about the second coming of another recession, QE3, QE4 (what does queen Elizabeth have to do with our [...]
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Hypervisor Economics – Excerpts From An Upcoming Paper – Part 2
This post is the second of a three-part series of excerpts from an upcoming paper on Hypervisor Economics (you can find part one here). As always, I look forward to reading your comments and feedback below. New server and storage [...]
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So Let’s Do A TCO
For years I have encouraged clients to ask for TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) data when they create requests for purchases (RFP, RFI, ITT, etc). Customers need to ask vendors for more than just the price, they need to ask [...]
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EMC's solution is bigger boxes – What is the problem?
Recently, an EMC blogger admitted that, while they do not have the ability to virtualize external storage, they ship bigger boxes. He also seemed proud of the fact his top ten large capacity VMAX only used 69% of the raw [...]
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To Delete or Not Delete – Is that the question?
I came across this interesting post by Floyd Christofferson at the Active Archive blog. Floyd cites a 2008 study by the University of California, Santa Cruz, which analyzed the utilization of network file system workloads of a 22TB active storage [...]
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