In September of this year Hitachi ltd, our parent company announced a program in Japan that is known as CoolCenter50 which is targeted at reducing power consumption in their Yokohama and Okayama data center by 50% in 5 years. This effort encompasses all of the groups in Hitachi including, air conditioning, power generation, IT […]
Posted in Forward Thinking on June 24th, 2007 No Comments »
While waiting for my flight in the airline lounge in Beijing, I noticed a TV program that was running on one of the state run channels. On the HDTV screen was a young lady who was standing in front of a large flat panel monitor that must have been over 100 inches. It was a […]
Today, Hitachi and Hitachi Data Systems announced the new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, which will take us to new levels of virtualization, performance, scalability, and delivery of storage as a service.
The highlights of this announcement include:
Dynamic Provisioning which enables the ability to virtualize capacity within virtual volumes. This enables IT to eliminate the waste […]