The Cloud Blog

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 [...]

The leaves are starting to change colors here on the east coast, a visual punctuation that we’re a week into the fall season.  This, and the coolness in the air — a harbinger of the winter that lies ahead — prompted me to begin my search for a replacement snowthrower.  This past winter put undue [...]

It was a great game — an annual family outing to watch our favorite baseball team in action.  This year we decided to see them play the Orioles at Camden Yards (Saturday 10/19).  Funny how it’s cheaper to see your home team as a visitor in somebody else’s venue, but that’s a topic for another post…  [...]

…at Storage Networking World.  There’s a packed agenda planned, and I’m happy to be part of it speaking about “Gaining Control of Unstructured Data” (Monday 10/12 at 1:55pm).  I’d love to have the opportunity to meet you and spend some time discussing content growth (and, in particular, your views of where you’re heading) and ways to [...]

Do you remember that Isuzu ad from the ’90s where the schoolteacher was commanding his students to “stay within the lines, the lines are our friends“? The ad goes on to show a schoolgirl breaking the rules as a child (coloring outside the lines) and later becoming a wild adult driving her SUV offroad. [...]