Claus's Blog

I’ve been bouncing around various blogs in the past few days answering questions on the HDS announcement from last Wednesday: The Hitachi High Availability Manager (HHAM, HAM, AM, call it whatever you want and make any jokes you wish). Like any announce, we try to keep things fairly high level, since in a 20-minute webcast, [...]

So I enjoyed the responses on the anagram and there were a lot of correct answers submitted, but unfortunately I failed to mention there was no prize involved. Sorry folks.

As long as I can remember, the EiaB syndrome has been alive and well. Technology moves from 100MB drives to 200MB drives? Too many eggs in one basket, people would scream!! This cry is an endless industry-wide issue. The problem is part paranoia, and partly adapting to the constant “bar raising” that technology brings. The [...]

Every few months or so, while driving to or from the office or airport or whatever, I see a “teaser” billboard that is very good at getting your attention but doesn’t tell you what it’s trying to advertise until days or weeks later. Intriguingly, we keep looking at it every time we drive by until [...]

There has been a bit of a skirmish in the enterprise storage industry of late, certainly as is relates to HDS.