As many of you already know, Hitachi Data Systems partners with technology leaders like Brocade to deliver complete solutions to our customers… and Business Continuity/Business Resilience is a natural fit for both companies. The core infrastructure is truly the heart of the datacenter supporting everything users have come to rely on to get their job [...]
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.
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.
It was pretty interesting to hear from EMC this week with their (rushed) announcement of the DMX-5, sorry, Symmetrix-V, where the V stands for Virtual…I think, which really means “virtual virtualization” because it doesn’t do storage virtualization. Wait. I get it, it’s virtual reality! Hu has a great perspective on this.
Today I would like to thank Anuraag Bhargava, the CIO of Electro-Motive Diesel for his great presentation at Storage Networking World in Orlando this week. The work he’s accomplished for his company is outstanding, and he’s really set a great example of “how it’s done”.
Last week I blogged on an announcement we made around mainframe compatibility updates, and the company’s focus on this business-critical platform. But wait, there’s more!
Business Continuity and High Availability are really business as usual in the mainframe world. Vendors like Hitachi Data Systems spend a lot of engineering time enhancing what some consider the most demanding mission-critical environments. Actually, next time you’re on a plane, you might be flying because of an HDS system, but more on this in [...]
My colleague and friend Dennis Wenk stopped by the other day to show me an abstract he wrote about operational risk and BC (note: there are a few papers on this subject on our website). The focus of our discussion was operational risk vs. business impact analysis and the usefulness of such tools, as well [...]
In a recent eWEEK article there was an interesting discussion of data protection in the context of a virtual migration.
