Archive for July, 2011
How Storage Virtualization Affects Capitalization
Posted in Storage Economics, Virtualization on July 28th, 2011 No Comments »
I recently talked to a Director of a regional bank who came to our Executive Briefing Center to learn more about our storage virtualization solutions with Virtual Storage Platform (VSP). He described the following problem to me.
vSphere 5.0 – Optimized storage efficiency (VAAI phase 2)
Posted in Hardware, Storage Software, Virtualization on July 27th, 2011 No Comments »
On July 12, we blogged about the vSphere V5 announcement. In my last post, I talked about the ability of storage virtualization to add new capabilities, like the support of vSphere, to lower level resources. Today, Michael Heffernan is back to explain what you need to look for in storage systems to get the full [...]
Say Farewell to FC and SATA Disk Drives
Posted in Hardware on July 22nd, 2011 4 Comments »
The products recently announced by EMC and IBM all feature Serial Attached SCSI and SAS for back-end disk connections, which Hitachi introduced with our AMS 2000 midrange storage system over a year ago and with Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) enterprise storage system last September.
The Value of Storage Virtualization With New vSphere 5 Features
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, Virtualization on July 15th, 2011 1 Comment »
Last month, I was invited to speak to the St. Louis Super Computer Group, by Gary Stiehr, who is the founder of this user group and the Information Systems Group leader at The Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis. Hitachi Data Systems and our partner Enterprise Consulting Group were sponsors of this event.
Life just got easier for the vSphere admin
Posted in Virtualization on July 12th, 2011 1 Comment »
VMware’s announcement of vSphere 5 is a major step toward closer integration between server and storage virtualization. This integration is enabled through their extension of open APIs for vStorage. Hitachi has been working closely with VMware to leverage new vSphere 5 benefits with our AMS and VSP virtualization storage systems. The combination of vSphere 5 [...]
When is losing data not important?
Posted in IT Security on July 6th, 2011 No Comments »
As a long time storage person the notion of “thou shalt not lose data!” was ingrained in me. In my last trip to Chicago, I came across an example of where this is not true. It is in the mach speed world of investment trading. In this world should something happen that takes down the system, [...]
The rise of the storage computer
Posted in Tech Talk on July 1st, 2011 No Comments »
Whenever I talk about VSP I point out the new pool of global processors that is integrated on the switch matrix of VSP controller. The function of this processor pool of quad core Intel processors, which we identify as Virtual Storage Directors, is to offload the general functions like page level tiering, replication, in-system copy, [...]
