Christophe's Corner

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.

Last week I blogged about the criticality of leveraging innovations and technology to optimize efficiencies, reduce your carbon footprint and improve operational costs in the data center.

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 [...]