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An April 6 article on SearchDataCenter.com by Rick Cook introduced several misunderstandings about controller based virtualization which I would like to correct.In this article Rick compares three types of storage virtualization, server based, SAN based, and controller based. While he does acknowledge that controller based virtualization is "intimately connected to the storage arrays" and does [...]

On April 3, 2006, HDS announced the Hitachi Global Link Manager (PDF) which enables centralized management for multipath data connections across multiple servers which greatly simplifies alternate storage path management in a complex SAN. HDS also announced the AMS1000 modular disk array (PDF) which extends the AMS product line to 208GB of capacity, increased cache [...]

Let’s say you are in a strange city, Like San Diego, and some one knocks on your hotel room door. Instead of throwing the door wide open, in this day and age, we issue a challenge. “who’s there?”

Some 40 to 45% of the USP platforms are sold with the Universal Volume Manager software which enables a USP to discover and access LUNs from external storage that is connected through its FC ports. Once this is done the USP can migrate volumes between internal storage and external storage and between different external storage [...]

Last Thursday and Friday I was at CeBit, the worlds largest trade fair for information and telecommunications technology in Hanover Germany. They expect to get over a million people between March 9 and 15. I was there to support the Hitachi/HDS stand in Hall 1.  While I was too busy to see any of [...]

The 2006 Winter Olympics is over and the next one will be in Vancouver in 2010. Some of the athletes who competed this year will return, but very few will be able to compete in a third Olympic. One of the most famous skiers in the world is Rosi Mittermeier of Germany who competed in [...]

I love the sound of the Italian Language, as it rolls trippingly off the tongue. "razionalizzazione dello storage". I love it more when I understand it and it agrees with what I have been preaching for some time. The translation is "rationalization of storage". I believe that CAGR for storage of 50% to 100% is [...]

Last week I had the pleasure to meet our reseller partners in Central Eastern Europe and Middle East Mediterranean Area at an event in Istanbul. Together they make up the largest geographical area in HDS with the richest diversity of cultures. Istanbul was the perfect venue with its rich mixture of Greek, Roman, Ottoman, Christian [...]

Brian Garrett of ESG believes that future storage controllers will be composed of cluster based storage controllers instead of the enterprise class storage controllers from EMC, HDS, and IBM. He observes that many emerging storage controllers use commodity Intel servers clustered together , using Linux instead of proprietary operating systems.

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