Archive for the 'HDS Day' Category
To Infinity … and Beyond!
Posted in Customer Focus, HDS Day, Innovation on Jul 23, 2010 8 Comments »
A glib title, but none the less I hope it captures the major theme of this week: the formal celebration of Hitachi’s 100th birthday at the Hitachi uValue convention in Japan. Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Ltd. jointly hosted industry analysts, industry bloggers, and technology focused international press in Japan this week for uValue and other [...]
Geek Day Recap
Posted in HDS Day on Jun 17, 2010 3 Comments »
Firstly, I wanted to thank everyone for the time. It was great to meet folks in person and I look forward to the next event: most likely Geek Day 1.0. I think that there is a lot more ground to cover and I believe at future events we will be spending more one on one [...]
Geek Day 0.9 – Update 2
Posted in HDS Day on Jun 15, 2010 3 Comments »
Generally, I believe that the day went well, and I wanted to thank all of the attendees as well as the HDSers who provided their time. There was a great deal of discourse, debate and Q&A. Two more interesting questions I wanted to highlight:
Geek Day 0.9 – Update 1
Posted in HDS Day on Jun 15, 2010 No Comments »
Just gave my short talk titled “Scale-up/Scale/out.” Started the discussion on where the HPC world was 8 years ago: scale out only architectures ruled until the NEC Earth simulator changed the game reminding people about scaling in multiple dimensions. I further tied that into how Hitachi is attacking three dimensions of scaling: up, deep/virtual, and [...]
