Claus's Blog

I just returned from a great couple of days outside Windsor in the UK. Our HDS offices are at Sefton Park just a few miles away, in Stoke Poges, which in turn is outside Windsor. Got it? If you haven’t been there, it’s a must see in a beautiful setting. I’m actually a little late [...]

It has certainly been a long few weeks (months!) getting ready for today’s launch of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), and although I should be tired, I’m more enthused than ever. Anyone who has ever launched a product knows the routine and the feeling, but this launch and its products are rare, as they [...]

I’m currently in this very large silver tube hurtling from Tokyo to San Francisco. It’s that 10-hour flight that seems like 40 hours, especially when the person in front of me just jerked their seat back and almost snapped off my laptop screen. If you’re reading this, please, in the future, make that a gradual [...]

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This story started for me 4 years ago when I found myself in Barcelona during the 2006 World Cup, where I had the opportunity to hang out in a cool local Spanish pub while Spain was playing France in the first game of the “Round of [...]

At Fall SNW, HDS announced version 3 of our Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) to expand on our originally named Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP). Why drop the “A”? Well, because it’s no longer just about the archiving. Afterall, the industry has been archiving data for decades so there’s nothing new there.

I’ve been on this “Mission from God” (with all due respect to Messrs Aykroyd and Belushi, Blues Brothers, circa 1980) over the past few months to promote the additional benefits of HDP.

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.

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 [...]