by Hu Yoshida on February 6, 2012
I have shared my top 10 predictions for 2012 in my previous blog posts, but in case you missed it or want a quick review you can access my video interview on the key challenges that the industry will face this year, available here:
by Hu Yoshida on February 3, 2012
As noted in previous posts, capacity efficiency has two dimensions: allocation efficiency and utilization efficiency.
by Hu Yoshida on February 1, 2012
If you Google storage efficiencies, eventually you will get a Wikipedia definition, which describes storage efficiency as “the ability to store and manage data that consumes the least amount of space with little or no impact on performance, resulting in a lower total operational cost.” Wikipedia also references the SNIA definition, which notes: Read More »
by Hu Yoshida on January 27, 2012
In response to my last blog, Jon Toigo was kind enough to post a training piece that he wrote last year, reminding us that capacity is only one part of storage efficiency.
by Hu Yoshida on January 26, 2012
The greatest tool for storage efficiency is storage virtualization, which enables the extension of other storage efficiency tools like tiering and thin provisioning to existing storage systems that do not have that capability. It also reduces operational costs by providing a common pool of dynamic shared resources under a common set of management tools.
by Hu Yoshida on January 24, 2012
Since I posted my trends for 2012, I have been looking at what other bloggers have been predicting.
by Hu Yoshida on January 23, 2012
I have been working for HDS for almost 15 years, so, needless to say, I am very proud that we have been recognized as one of FORTUNE magazine’s 100 best companies to work for in the United States in 2012. This recognition helps to validate one of our stated company goals, which is to be the employer and partner of choice.
by Hu Yoshida on January 18, 2012
Q1 2012 marks a major turning point in the storage industry. After 50 years of price declines in the magnetic disk industry, we are seeing what most analysts predict to be a 5% to 20% increase in disk prices due to the catastrophic floods in Thailand, which has had a major impact on the disk supply chain. While the manufacturers are hoping to get their capacity back on line to ease the supply shortages by the second half of this year, the cost of rebuilding their manufacturing capabilities will impact prices for some time. This additional cost will also impact the investments required to deliver next generation higher capacity disk technologies, like Bit Patterned Media or Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording, which are on the roadmap for disk drives. Read More »
by Hu Yoshida on January 12, 2012
At the top of my list of trends to watch in 2012 was an increased focus on storage efficiency due to economic uncertainty and hard disk supply shortages—stemming from last year’s floods in Thailand. Yesterday IDC and Gartner both reported declines in 4th quarter PC shipment of 1.4 to 0.2%, compared to 2010 that was partly due to disk drive shortages. (My colleague David Merrill also covered this in a recent post.)
by Hu Yoshida on January 11, 2012
Recently, I spent a few days with Garth Gibson, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and the founder of Panasas, an enterprise server and storage company. Garth and I were in Singapore for a review with the Data Storage Institute.
Hu Yoshida
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