Christophe's Corner

There has been a flurry of posts recently in the blogosphere comparing EMC’s VMAX and Hitachi’s VSP.  Lots of details and perspectives have been provided by both camps.  These loaded architectural discussions can be confusing for readers, even for those who are really savvy and know storage systems well.  But there is a fundamental marketing [...]

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.

I have shared some data from TechValidate in the past that pointed at many storage characteristics and benefits that our systems make possible. Two of the main benefits are  reliability and availability – both signatures of HDS.  

There’s been a lot of discussion around the automation of storage tiers recently, and I wanted to take a few minutes to focus on what HDS has been doing for many years in this space.  Hu Yoshida alluded to this in his recent blog entry.  I too spent some time on the topic recently.

When EMC announced V-Max in the spring of 2009, it included statements of intent to deliver fully automated storage tiering, otherwise known as FAST.  Many years ago, when EMC was innovating in the storage business, the company rarely if ever pre-announced future products. Today, it’s common for EMC to sell a future vision because its [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]