by Greg Knieriemen on Jun 19, 2013
Earlier this month, the 5th annual Germany Hitachi Information Forum was held in Mainz. With over 300 attendees, 20 presentations, hands-on breakout sessions and a panel discussion on big data, the event was an overwhelming success.
by HDSBLOG on Jun 19, 2013
As IT departments struggle with growing the volumes and velocity of data, and especially the many copies of data that they generate, one of the biggest headaches is email. Mailboxes get crammed with copies of messages and attachments, not to mention all the trivial and junk email that we receive.
by Bob Madaio on Jun 11, 2013
Flash is undeniably a hot-topic in today’s IT landscape and flash storage deployments are growing rapidly across a number of important application environments. Flash storage is on the minds of customers, analysts, the press and vendors of all shapes and sizes, as everyone is looking for ways to capitalize on this important new storage option.
by Rich Vining on Jun 10, 2013
This is my first blog since recently joining Hitachi Data Systems as senior product marketing manager for data protection, and I’d like to share why I decided to make this career move, and why I’m really excited to be blogging for HDS.
by HDSBLOG on Jun 6, 2013
By Richard Jew and David Foster, Hitachi Data Systems
As storage infrastructures continue to grow in size and in complexity, significant challenges arise to properly monitor storage capacity growth and performance service levels delivered to critical business applications. Since storage systems are often viewed with a level of unknown within the IT environment, i.e. “black box”, storage is often the first to be blamed when an unexplained application performance issue arises. This often prompts storage administrators to scramble for detailed storage performance statistics in an attempt to prove storage is not at fault. Typically, this involves manual tracking processes that may not be completely accurate nor properly scaled in an enterprise environment. In addition, as enterprises are constantly evolving, manually maintaining and monitoring the pertinent storage (supply) to business application (consumer) relationships can be taxing. Enter storage analytics, where storage service level agreements and objectives that include detailed measurements of storage capacity and performance can be defined and measured for key business applications. With each business application having differing service level needs for storage, ensuring each of your critical business applications are meeting their required storage service levels is a challenging task that storage analytics can help solve.
by Manju Ramanathpura on Jun 4, 2013
by Greg Knieriemen on May 23, 2013
In June, we will begin our Hitachi Data Systems Information Forums around the globe and you are invited to join us for one of our most popular events. This year the forums begin with our largest venues in Mainz, Germany on June 5th and London, UK on June 13th.
by Steve Garone on May 21, 2013
Many of our customers prefer to use HDS cloud-ready technologies, solutions and services to create “content clouds” of their own. At the core of the content cloud is the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) object store which, in addition to its metadata capabilities, provides an automated, backup-free Web 2.0 storage environment with robust security, vast scale, and flexible multitenancy. Support for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi Unified Storage, a VMware version and the ability to tier data to almost any external storage, makes HCP a fully virtualized solution that builds on the investments customers have already made. Integration with Hitachi NAS provides easy access to vast amounts of content with only the most recent and relevant data in expensive, tier one storage.
by Jeff Lundberg on May 21, 2013
This morning, HDS announced a number of new cloud enabling technologies, delivery models and partner programs that enable our customers to extend their existing enterprise IT to embrace cloud solutions. This approach allows our customers to continue to take advantage of their existing infrastructure, consolidating and virtualizing it if need be, and then leverage one or more cloud-based approaches to extend their IT beyond the walls of their enterprise. In this way, they can deliver the services and information mobility their stakeholders need, from their own cloud, in their own way.
by Steve Garone on May 16, 2013
As organizations move toward implementing more cloud solutions, they face some important decisions. Data privacy and retention, regulatory and compliance considerations, and security all need to be considered, and may drive the decision to the choice of a private cloud. But then cost, a very important factor and in many cases is the key motivator for considering cloud in the first place, will come into play. Unless the organization has no issue with making the capital investment required to build their own private clouds, they will look seriously at alternatives where they won’t own or manage the infrastructure on which their clouds are built – that is, hosted cloud services.
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