The Cloud Blog

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 [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time with customers, partners, press and analysts over the last several months as we prepared for, and released, our next series of Hitachi Cloud Services.  In those discussions, there were several areas of emphasis that I continually made.  First, Hitachi Cloud Services – and “cloud” in general – are [...]

With the hype in the market around cloud, it’s no wonder customers don’t know where to begin or which road to follow. That is exactly why Hitachi Data Systems is introducing new cloud solutions to help customers take a low risk approach to adopting cloud at their own pace.

It’s all about synergy.  Defined, synergy is “the interaction of two or more agents or foces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.”  1+1=3.  That’s exactly what Hitachi Data Systems’ file and content strategy is all about.  Instead of building “product silos” that don’t leverage cross-product capabilities, HDS [...]

Intel recently showed an experimental 48-core processor and called it the “Single-chip Cloud Computer.”  As some folks have already written, we’re essentially getting to the point where data centers can be built on a chip, and this will fundamentally change (and enable) how we construct data processing environments over time.

Today, Hitachi announced a new portfolio of agile cloud solutions at SNW in Phoenix, including the release of the Hitachi Content Platform version 3.0 (formerly Hitachi Content Archive Platform — more on that later).  With this announcement, Hitachi is poised to help end-users, service providers, telcos and system integrators deliver cloud services that reduce the [...]

SNW Fall 2009 kicks off today in Phoenix, and I’m struck by the number of sessions dedicated to “cloud”.  Certainly, what has captured everbody’s imagination is the potential cost savings cloud solutions can have (I guess timing is everything — would the cloud concept have gotten this far had we not found ourselves in this [...]