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Big Data Variety

by Hu Yoshida on May 14, 2012

In past posts we talked about Big Data Volume and Velocity requirements and how they could be addressed with Hitachi Data Systems block, file and content storage. Today we will be looking at big data variety.

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99 Notre Dame, San Jose

by Hu Yoshida on May 8, 2012

This morning I accompanied a young person to the Superior Court in San Jose. This Court is located at 99 Notre Dame in San Jose. Once we went through the metal detectors we joined a long line of people in a crowded waiting room. What surprised me was the display along the south wall, which reminded me that this location was the birthplace for magnetic disk recording. IBM established a research lab at this location in 1952. The first lab director was Reynold B. Johnson and the first Random Access Method of Accounting andControl, RAMAC, was announced here in 1955.

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Big Data Velocity Requirements

by Hu Yoshida on May 4, 2012

Velocity is the next attribute of big data according to Gartner and IDC which I cited in my post Big Data Origins.

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Big Data Volume Requirements

by Hu Yoshida on May 2, 2012

Referring back to my last post, I am continuing my series on big data where we are looking at the dimensions of big data: volume, velocity, variety and value, and what we need to do to address them. The first dimension has to do with the “big” in big data – volume.

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Big Data Origins

by Hu Yoshida on April 26, 2012

Wikipedia attributes the concept of big data as follows: Read More »

The BUZZ about HUS

by Hu Yoshida on April 24, 2012

There has been a lot of buzz about a new Hitachi storage platform. Today we announced our Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) system for the midrange and enterprise markets, which confirms these rumors and redefines the industry’s notion of unified storage. The reason for the buzz has been the excitement that it has generated in our pre-release evaluations with partners and customers as HDS delivers a truly single unified management framework for the entire HDS portfolio.

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How many ways are we connected? Let me count the ways.

by Hu Yoshida on April 16, 2012

Last month after I had visited Asia, I blogged about how information is being made available to a whole new population of users who were not connected to the e-life of the internet but are now connected to the m-life of the mobile phone: Information: No Longer for the Privileged Few

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Hitachi Announces Hitachi Compute Blade 500 with Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors and embedded 10 Gig Ethernet Switch

by Hu Yoshida on April 12, 2012

Last month Intel announced their latest Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 with the ability to deliver up to 80% improved performance, new integrated I/O with PCI Express (that can triple the movement of data in and out of the processors), and improved performance per/watt of over 50% gain on SPEC power.

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Seagate’s HAMR Reaches the 1TB Per-Square-Inch Barrier and HGST Announces 4TB Disk

by Hu Yoshida on April 11, 2012

In the last few weeks there have been some major announcements for magnetic storage hard disk drives.

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Reducing Costs or Being More Efficient?

by Hu Yoshida on April 10, 2012

Last Friday the markets were closed, so much of the financial media spent the day talking to analysts to get their views on the recovery, such as it is. One of the top stories in the US was around the job market slowdown in March, which had the lowest increase since October.

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