Archive for February, 2009
Infrastructure for Enterprise 2.0 Applications – Part 2
Posted in IT Transformation on Feb 21, 2009 1 Comment »
In the last post I made the case that Sharepoint is an Enterprise 2.0 platform. As to how Hitachi can assist with appropriate infrastructures, well enter two of Hitachi’s products: the Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP) and Hitachi Data Discovery for Microsoft Sharepoint. Pointedly, we assist with the problems associated to the ever increasing number [...]
What is Storage, Anyway?
Posted in Innovation, IT Transformation on Feb 19, 2009 1 Comment »
You all know the feeling. All of a sudden you realize that something has happened or a moment has passed without notice. I had one of those moments last week. Actually, I had two; one was the realization that is already mid-February!! How can that be??
Infrastructure for Enterprise 2.0 Applications – Part 1
Posted in Innovation, IT Transformation on Feb 16, 2009 No Comments »
At Hitachi do we have such a thing? I’m sure many customers would say I think not, but wait maybe just maybe we do. Hang with me a second and let’s first consider the point that Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 is really an Enterprise 2.0 platform in sheep’s clothing. If we look at the Wikipedia definition [...]
Google Looks Even Smarter Now
Posted in Innovation, Tech Talk on Feb 8, 2009 No Comments »
Well I just read an article which stated that YouTube is now the number two search engine ahead of Yahoo. The article went into more details talking about a child who used YouTube as the research tool to find sufficient information on the platypus for a school paper. I know, I know this is old [...]
What’s a Flash Drive? The Whistler Knows.
Posted in Tech Talk on Feb 7, 2009 1 Comment »
So our buddies at EMC are, as usual, cunning and provocative. Witness storagezilla’s recent post on NetApp’s (still can’t get used to NTAP’s new logo after abandoning what I thought was the coolest logo of any storage company, ever!! (but then I’m not the marketing guy in the room!)) TMS SSD RAMSAN-500 DRAM WAFL EMC [...]


