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In the first quarter of this year, the Financial Sector Technology Group held an award event in London where IT groups from all major financial institutions came together to recognize the best practices and achievements in IT over the past year.

I recently had the opportunity to hear a presentation by John Foley, who is a former lead pilot for the famous Blue Angels, the Navy precision flying team. John is a motivational speaker who talks about how the teamwork that is required for performance as a member of the Blue Angels can be translated to [...]

Next week, I will be traveling to Switzerland for a series of customer events and visits. I am starting in beautiful Geneva within sight of the majestic Matterhorn.

Electricity for power and cooling may well be the key limiting factor for data center growth in the near future. Most data centers–which were built 10 or 15 years ago when IT managers did not see the electrical bill–were not built for energy efficiency. Today there are new technologies and practices in terms of power [...]

The Ethisphere Institute recently announced its fifth annual selection of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, highlighting 110 organizations that lead the way in promoting ethical business standards. Hitachi Data Systems is honored to be among the prestigious list of winners.

Since my last post on the global pool of processors in the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), there has been a some discussion of this by Nigel Poulton, Scott Lowe, and myself on Scott Lowe’s blog.  The Storage Anarchist also threw in a comment.  I thought I might summarize that discussion for my blog readers.

Aside from the investments in software and hardware, data center transformation will take some investment in processes and people. The best way to address process is to follow ITIL best practices and reporting. If you are not using ITIL, you need to define and document your own best practices and follow them. The people part [...]

This is the third part in my series on data center transformations. My last post was on server transformation and the impact of virtual servers on the data center. In this post I will address the impact of storage transformation on the data center.

Andy Kyte from Gartner was been sounding the alarm for data center modernization for a number of years. He warns that the data center is headed for a train wreck. and he provides the following warning signs which I am paraphrasing here:

A new survey by Intercall shows that 48 percent of americans who use technology in their everyday jobs say that they are now required to do more work with fewer resources due to the current economic climate. As an example, nearly one third (30 percent) feel that they need to stay connected to work 24/7, [...]