Christophe's Corner

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.  

Back from what seems a long absence from blogging, I thought I’d take some time to share a few interesting facts about our customers, how they use their USP-V and USP-VM systems, and how they truly leverage the unique capabilities of these platforms.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thank you for your comment on my previous post, Barry. It’s a pleasure to see you on these pages. I have to admit I found your post both utterly amusing and actually a little bit disturbing because many of your facts are wrong. So, let me point out a few important issues that need clarification [...]

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 [...]