Data Center Advisors

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A few weeks ago I was in London for internal planning meetings and had the opportunity to catch up with some old friends in the industry, Chris Evans and Martin Glassborow. Chris and Martin have a way of keeping me grounded in the harsh realities of enterprise IT and this visit was no different. Martin [...]

As we listen to our customers who live and breathe in the data center, there is a growing need for intelligent platforms, a platform that:

In my recent posts, I’ve mentioned the vast amount of unnecessarily redundant content in today’s IT environments. This time, I’d like to dig a little deeper on this aspect by considering what can happen with just one file in a typical IT environment and contrast that with #CloudAnywhere.

As the final production truck has packed up and pulled away from the Las Vegas Convention Center declaring the end of the 2013 NAB conference, we look back at the new products and technologies announced at the show. One thing that became very apparent was that if you can’t relate to the following 5 topics, [...]

In my last post, I talked about how the traditional means of storing, protecting and sharing files are breaking down and hinted at a new approach from Hitachi Data Systems. For now, I’ll refer to this as #CloudAnywhere,  where your own cloud makes data available anywhere it is needed without the need for complicated, cumbersome [...]

Well, it’s been quite a while since the health and life sciences (HLS) team issued a blog. Things have been quite busy as our business continues to grow at unprecedented rates, far beyond the market. While we’ve been busy driving our business, the growth of big data in health and life sciences industries has continued [...]

So you may be asking yourself, what’s the big deal about cloud computing terminology? And how can something as simple as a term or a definition be so important? Simply put, when standards development organizations (SDOs) like the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), or the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) wade [...]