It’s a very interesting time in the industry because there are many users of storage going through data center consolidations, moves, and technology refreshes that invariably generate significant disruptions to business as usual. More importantly, these events generate migration projects which are fraught with risk….and cost…and misconceptions. So, this blog entry is the first in a series over the next few weeks and months on this subject.
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I was recently chatting with one of my colleagues, and we got around to discussing midrange storage and XIV. After a few minutes of healthy banter, we quickly concluded that the XIV definitely has some product limitations customers need to be aware of.
With its V-Max announcement a while back and its recent earnings call, EMC is making noise about so-called federated storage, scale out architecture… and selling futures in a big way. Like any marketing term, federated storage has been heavy on implication and light on definition. Some of us believe, in fact, that federated storage is vitally important and Hitachi is already delivering on the vision not EMC, or any other vendor for that matter.
Last week in London…
Just a few lines to highlight a new agreement between HDS and InMage in case you missed it in the past couple of weeks. In a nutshell Hitachi Data Systems will co-brand and resell the InMage Appshot technology.
In the past few weeks we’ve seen quite a bit of traffic on blogs, Twitter and the like, with ample feedback from storage experts, and quite frankly lots of unjustified and inaccurate statements and/or attacks from ‘other vendors’. I suppose there’s a good reason for this: HDS is leading the pack in the market and is shedding its conservative image to the chagrin of many competitors.
What about increasing your cost savings, automating performance optimization and making data storage easier to provision? Good news today, since Hitachi Data Systems strikes again with great updates for its customers. more
Looking at recent threads, there is something I’d like to clarify concerning some less than accurate information regarding our ability to be in compliance with constant replication requirements: our Tiered Storage Manager will only need to be suspended if a customer is using asynchronous replication (typically over very long distances). As a reminder, synchronous replication environments will be supported with TSM V6.2 which is currently in beta. Additionally, let’s not mitigate the fact that while the pairs are suspended, the Universal Storage Platform tracks and capture all updates so they will be propagated upon reestablishing the session (after resync).
Wrestling with superior technology: French Samurai vs. Barry the Tigon
By: Christophe Bertrand on May 28, 2009
My last entry generated some interesting comments from both EMC and IBM. Last night I ended up watching a few minutes of a wrestling match (although Martha Stewart’s cookie recipe re-run looked great too), so I figured I’d adopt the theme today for fun. I gave myself and my dance partner stage names for the occasion. Of course, in the end the winners are the spectators. Please enjoy the show! more
