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Hu Yoshida, the 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 needs in today
Posted in Uncategorized, Storage Industry, Best Practices on February 18th, 2008 No Comments »
As we go into year 2008, this quotation from Yogi Berra, keeps playing in my head. 2008 is beginning a lot like 2001. If you remember 2001 we just came off a year where storage capacity grew by 100% over the growth in 1999. This growth was due to the dot com boom and the […]
Posted in Storage Industry, Forward Thinking, Eco-friendly/Green on November 11th, 2007 6 Comments »
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 Storage Industry on September 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
IT has traditionally operated in stove pipes. These stove pipes operate separately and each consists of a group of applications that are assigned to run on a host server that in turn is connected to a set of storage devices. This stove pipe approach results in the inefficient use of IT resources. Applications have to rewrite […]
