Christophe's Corner

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 [...]

I was reading Claus’s recent blog entry and I wanted to provide a complementary perspective and highlight my take on how our recently-announced storage clustering capabilities generate business and operational advantages that are virtually (ah ah) impossible to match.

In case you haven’t spent your evenings solving Claus’s anagram from last week’s blog – although I read that Mr. Mellor from the Register has offered a few “exciting” but less “classy” options (very funny however) – today should have provided you with the answer.  Our “classy treat” is indeed a treat for storage customers, [...]

Well, I was hoping that getting up early today would pay off and that we’d get some big news from EMC World. You can tell EMC’s folks have been busy opening Twitter accounts to make it look like there’s actually something to talk about. So, all we got from the keynotes was a regurgitation of [...]

Today is a great day for backup.  We’ve just announced the general availability (GA) of Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0. Did you know that this version is the 4th major release of this powerful unified Data Protection and Data Management solution? Unlike products that find their roots in old code and cloggy architectures, this software [...]

Today, Hitachi Data Systems made a significant strategic announcement around end to end (E2E) server-to-storage virtualization, recognizing the critical role virtualization will play across the data center going forward.