More to Storage Efficiency than Capacity
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 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.
by Hu Yoshida on January 6, 2012
Happy 2012! While this year is starting with a lot of uncertainty around the world economy and supply/demand questions, there are still areas of assurance. One is that you can still do more with less to meet your storage needs.
by Hu Yoshida on December 29, 2011
As we close out 2011, the storage industry has seen significant growth based on budgets, which were established in the beginning of the year. However, over the course of 2011, we saw natural disasters, political upheaval, and heightened economic turmoil. Companies are now looking ahead to 2012 with a great deal of uncertainty around their budgets. However, there is absolute certainty that the growth of data will continue to explode.
by Hu Yoshida on December 27, 2011
The big hype in 2012 will be around Big Data. The explosion of unstructured data and mobile applications will generate a huge opportunity for the creation of business value, competitive advantage, and decision support if this data can be captured, stored, managed, accessed, analyzed, and visualized. Companies that provide these capabilities for Big Data will be targets for acquisition, much like we saw in past years with thin provisioning technology companies.
Hu Yoshida
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
