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I recently took the time to chat with Mike Nalls over a Skype link . In addition to his role on the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Product Marketing team, Mike also focuses on eco-friendly data center marketing initiatives at HDS.
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Last month we announced our support for VAAI on our VSP platform. We have supported VAAI on our AMS line for a while too. It’s been interesting and very exciting to see the great feedback from industry watchers, analysts and bloggers. What’s more interesting is the fact that people are realizing the combination of Hitachi and VMware technologies is quite powerful, and how different it is from what everyone else can do. The VAAI+VSP+external storage equation is powerful and great for customers. But I can see how you may not like it if you’re playing the competitive chess game with us.
There has been a flurry of posts recently in the blogosphere comparing EMC’s VMAX and Hitachi’s VSP. Lots of details and perspectives have been provided by both camps. These loaded architectural discussions can be confusing for readers, even for those who are really savvy and know storage systems well. But there is a fundamental marketing discussion underlying these exchanges.
HDS recently released an upgrade to Hitachi Dynamic Replicator. A fairly substantial upgrade, Hitachi Dynamic Replicator 5.5 offers our customers more data protection options above and beyond an already robust feature set. I recently sat down with Adam O’Dwyer, one of our product marketing managers, to discuss some of these new features and what they mean for our customers.
By: Christophe Bertrand on December 9, 2010
After a fantastic kick off to the Hitachi Information Forums series with the Santa Clara event in September where we announced the Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and the Hitachi Command Suite 7, we initiated what looks like a rock band world tour of cities. Many HDS spokespeople covered these events with the support of the local teams.
By: Christophe Bertrand on November 30, 2010
A considerable amount of time and effort is required to correlate and measure the utilization and performance of storage resources back to the business applications that are utilizing them. Manual tracking processes are often used to determine if storage-specific service levels for critical business applications are being met. Storage service levels can be measured in various ways, but they typically include objectives such as utilized storage capacity and storage response times or latency experienced by an application. With each business application having differing service level needs, ensuring your critical business applications are meeting their storage service level objectives has never been more challenging.
I was in Orlando last week attending the Gartner ITxpo event. HDS had a booth there, and we were grateful to have a customer, Jeffrey Papen from Peak Web Hosting, join us and speak at the event.
Based upon the title, you may have been expecting this post to be about national or California politics. Itís tempting, but rather, Iíd like to focus on something positive –the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).†† In particular, I want to cover some important sustainability aspects of our newest platform.
On Monday, Hitachi Data Systems introduced two game-changing products:† the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and the Hitachi Command Suite (v7.0).†† Itís been a lot of work for a large team of people at HDS around the world and for our colleagues in Japan.† It culminated in a fantastic launch event that kicks off a series of Hitachi Information ForumsÖyet itís only the beginning.† ††
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