Christophe's Corner

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]