Data Center Advisors

Like many others organizations, I’m pleased to announce that Hitachi Data Systems has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a full corporate member. We are quite excited about the CSA scope of work, and in particular, we anticipate getting involved in Version 3.0 of the “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud [...]

My last blog, “Binary”, covered our recent Geek Day (Blogger Day) outside of London and some of our observations surrounding them. This time I’ll be covering another event: the recent Spring SNW in Santa Clara, down the road from HDS. The event occurred two weeks ago, but I want to bring up a subject that [...]

Stepping Further into the Cloud Last October, I told you about our new Edge-to-Core solution. Today, I’d like to give you an update on that and to show how we can help you step further into the cloud.

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 [...]

I cannot resist starting out the post this way; the title of this post is how one would open a file stored in a Remote BLOB Store (RBS), a part of MS-SQL 2008 and later, stored on a Mac — that is if we assume that the file is a *.txt file.  Said BLOB/file could [...]