Comments on: Sustainable Data Storage Services - Data Islandia http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html Hu Yoshida, VP and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, provides his insight into industry issues, discusses in his own words storage best practices, and provides realistic solutions to real storage problems of current and next generation storage environments. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:35:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Earth Hour and Coming Events(mod)at Hu Yoshida http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-67251 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:31:03 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-67251 [...] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. [...] […] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. […]

]]> by: Earth Hour and Coming Eventsat Bhive Blog http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-65814 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:31:37 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-65814 [...] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. [...] […] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. […]

]]> by: Earth Hour and Coming Eventsat Bhive Blog http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-63040 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:59:02 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-63040 [...] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. [...] […] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. […]

]]> by: Hu Yoshida » Blog Archive » Earth Hour and Coming Events http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-62385 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:02:03 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-62385 [...] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. [...] […] In April I have been asked to participate in several conferences on the topic of Green. Next Tuesday, I will be speaking at Data Center World Spring 2008 Conference on Eco-friendly data centers during the keynote at 9:00am on April 1. I will also be attending SNW, April 7 to 10 where there will be a number of sessions addressing Green. SNIA will sponsor a tutorial track devoted to Green Storage. Sol Squire from Data Islandia who I have blogged about before, will be presenting in a session at 1110 am on Monday April 7 on best practices and technical considerations in building a Green Data Center. […]

]]> by: MIke Workman http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-39784 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:46:03 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/10/sustainable_data_storage_services_-_data_islandia.html#comment-39784 Hu, I can see the point you are trying to make regarding trivializing "Green". Green is about more than the relentless 50+ year drive the Storage Industry has been on to put more data in less space, make it more accessible, faster to store and retrieve, at less cost. It is easy to be seduced by any metric that is calculated as "Something" per terabyte: In this we (the storage industry, especially HDD manufacturers) have all done a great job. At Pillar we certainly try to improve efficiency: measured in deliverables (other than TB) per watt, or BTU. Hardware and Software Systems that allow extraction of more of what a customer needs for less cost to buy or operate is what we at Pillar are trying to build. Retention policies and the like can have far greater impact on the relative "green" factor of a data center. The compounded growth rate for data storage is so large that compression and de-duplication only buys us a year or two relief in capacity growth requirements. I think the quote above from Sol Squire however is a bit extreme, and your own blog site is a good example of why I think so...unless you are OK referring to your Blog posts from October 2005 through April 2007 as "toxic waste"? We may be a competitor, but even I read your Blogs and although I don't love them all, I wouldn't refer to many of them as "toxic waste". Mike Workman CEO Pillar Data Systems Hu,

I can see the point you are trying to make regarding trivializing “Green”. Green is about more than the relentless 50+ year drive the Storage Industry has been on to put more data in less space, make it more accessible, faster to store and retrieve, at less cost. It is easy to be seduced by any metric that is calculated as “Something” per terabyte: In this we (the storage industry, especially HDD manufacturers) have all done a great job.

At Pillar we certainly try to improve efficiency: measured in deliverables (other than TB) per watt, or BTU. Hardware and Software Systems that allow extraction of more of what a customer needs for less cost to buy or operate is what we at Pillar are trying to build.

Retention policies and the like can have far greater impact on the relative “green” factor of a data center. The compounded growth rate for data storage is so large that compression and de-duplication only buys us a year or two relief in capacity growth requirements.

I think the quote above from Sol Squire however is a bit extreme, and your own blog site is a good example of why I think so…unless you are OK referring to your Blog posts from October 2005 through April 2007 as “toxic waste”?

We may be a competitor, but even I read your Blogs and although I don’t love them all, I wouldn’t refer to many of them as “toxic waste”.

Mike Workman
CEO Pillar Data Systems

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