Hu's Blog

Recently a lot of attention has been given to Capacity Optimization, and there are plenty of solutions to choose from. Compression, dedupe, dynamic tiering, and thin provisioning are those most often mentioned, and each is effective in reducing capacity in their own way. Choosing the right solution is important too—for instance, using dedupe to reduce [...]

Today, September 27, 2011, marks the one-year anniversary of our Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) announcement. VSP has been the most successful product in our history, and according to Roberto Basilio, our VP of Product Management for Storage Hardware, VSP helped us increase the shipment of storage systems by 27%, and nearly quadruple (387%) the capacity [...]

This morning there were two interesting blog postings around VAAI. The first one was from Scott Lowe of EMC, which sets the record straight around the speculation of what vendors are in or out on future VMware virtualization – storage integration development. As one of the five vendors who participated in the vVol session #VSP [...]

Today HDS announced enhancements to Hitachi IT Operations Director, which is a fully integrated IT management software solution that automates tasks related to the IT infrastructure lifecycle, making it easier to meet changes in business and application service requirements. These enhancements provide security management, asset management, and software distribution. For more details, visit our IT [...]

During customer visits the past few weeks, I have heard a growing concern over the gyrations in the global economy and the impact it will have on IT budgets in the coming year. Financial companies are particularly concerned as the value of their assets erode with each new crisis.

There has been quite a buzz stemming from some new directions presented at VMworld by VMware, specifically around virtual volumes. Since I was not able to attend due to customer commitments in Asia, I have asked Michael Heffernan to guest again on this blog to put in perspective some of the discussion around virtual volumes.

Hello Shmuel, welcome to the Hitachi Data Systems family. The industry certainly knows who BlueArc is today. Can you give us a short history of how the company began and how BlueArc distinguished itself in the competitive NAS space?

Hitachi and Hitachi Data Systems recognized the value of BlueArc’s technology early on, which has resulted in many customer wins in the very competitive NAS marketplace. What distinguishes Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) from others in the industry is its hardware approach to supporting NFS and CIFS, which gives it tremendous performance, scalability, and power saving [...]

A common experience that I run into with virtual server users is the over commitment of modular storage which results in poor performance and outages.

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