The Cloud Blog

The inaugural Influencer Summit 2011 was a tremendous success! Industry and financial analysts as well as some key bloggers traveled from all over to meet with HDS and spend a day, plus some, talking strategy, industry and futures. Although the agenda was packed, I was able to do a short recap on HDS cloud announcment. [...]

The trends are clear and spectacular.
We create, collect and store an immense amount of data and information at an exponential rate.

It’s no wonder we have so much buzz around Big Data:  we’ve reached a tipping point, which Michael Hay discussed in a previous blog post on how ‘Big Data Is Turning Content Into Appreciating Assets.’  I find news of discoveries and innovation based on massive amounts of data pretty inspiring, and, as you can imagine, [...]

Last year, VMworld was all about virtual machines. All the partner plug-ins focused on helping to do just about anything to virtual machines. From backing up to deploying virtual machines, almost every eye was on the virtual machine ball. What a difference a year makes!

Guest post by Tracey DoyleStorage Visions is an event focused on digital media storage that occurs every year just before CES. I am lucky enough to have presented at Storage Visions the past four years, and am pleased to share this year’s presentation with you here (see the bottom of the post).
During this time, the [...]

As Andrew Reichman of Forrester put it in his report “Prepare for Object Storage in the Enterprise,” there seems to be agreement on the sweet spots for the technology mentioned in the title (archiving, cloud storage, imaging applications, etc), as well as where it isn’t the best choice (OLTP, dynamic files, HPC). But, as Dave [...]

I was just reading David Linthicum’s article on the subject of bogus myths about the private cloud. He talks about how vendors of private and public clouds are serving up tall tales to drive customers away from the opposite approach and instead into their own camp.  Let’s take a look at the three myths highlighted [...]

Converged infrastructure solutions are critical to organizations as they move to “operationalize IT” in order to increase agility, IT efficiencies and business alignment. And for those serious about the private cloud, it’s one of the most important trends we’ve seen to enable adoption.  Today, Microsoft announced another step in making deployments easier with Hyper-V Cloud [...]

One of the fundamental tenets for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) development team is ensuring that each release strikes a balance between delivering value for both cloud and enterprise HCP use cases. Since Miki has covered some of the cloudier aspects of the launch, I’d like to cover some of the other benefits of this [...]

Over the past couple of years, there has been a lot of discussion about deploying clouds.  In my opinion, what’s been mostly overlooked is providing a comprehensive path for customers to transition from their traditional IT environments to more “cloudy” ones – without leaving their current environments in the “legacy” trash bin.  Today we announced [...]