Last week I was talking to Mike Brown about the requirement for logically partitioning in virtual storage in order to ensure safe multi-tenancy and Quality of Service for multiple users who share the same virtual storage pool. Without it, users would not be able to ensure the security and performance of their data storage. Mike […]

Thanks to John Harker, I was able to meet Jack Harker, one of the major contributors to the development of magnetic disk storage. John Harker works at HDS as a Product Marketing Manager for storage management software. His father, Jack Harker was a member of the original IBM engineering team that developed the first […]

The Storage Network Industry association released the names of the new members of their Board of Directors at the Storage Networking World conference which is taking place this week in Orlando, Florida.
Executive Board Members

Vincent Franceschini (Hitachi Data Systems), Chairman
Matthew Brisse (Dell), Vice Chairman
Phillip Mills (IBM), Secretary
Wayne M. Adams (EMC), Treasurer

Board of Directors

Brad Bickford (Intel), Member
David […]

StorageMojo’s comment on "The Capacity Illusion"  points out that RAID was developed 20 years ago when "capacity was expensive and I/Os were relatively cheap…. Now the world is different and capacity is cheap and I/Os are expensive", he submits that "if Patterson et al. were designing a fast, very big, very reliable drive today, it […]

Storagemojo by Robin Harris is a blog I always find interesting since he draws a lot of discussion. His recent post on Utilization versus cost: the capacity illusion was a comment on two of my posts about the low cost of storage which enable Web 2.0 companies to offer free storage to their subscribers while […]

Last week I had the opportunity to meet the Web 2.0 generation and the RAMAC generation in the same day. On Tuesday, I met the Web 2.0 generation at the "Lunch 2.0" event which HDS hosted in Santa Clara. That same evening, I celebrated with the RAMAC generation who were invited to the 50th Anniversary […]

According to the latest projections from IDC, we will reach a significant milestone this year. That milestone would be the recovery of the external disk storage industry to the revenue level of CY2000, when we went over $18B USD. In CY2000 the industry shipped about 200PB of external disk storage. This year the storage industry […]

Var Business Magazine recently selected Karen Sigman as one of the Power 50 women in the VAR Business. As vice president of Global Channels for HDS, she has successfully expanded channels into Eastern Europe, India, China, and recently signed up Ingram micro as a distributor. Her contributions to the channels has received world wide recognition […]

Save the date, Sept 12, to attend a Lunch 2.0 "Web Expo", which will show case web companies which store a lot of data. This event will be held at the Hitachi Data Systems Executive Briefing Center in Santa Clara. The event is free to all attendees and exhibitors. If you want to sign up […]

Bill Healy, senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was recently interviewed on C/NET. In this interview, Bill predicted that we would see 1TB Desktop hard drives in 2006. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the first disk drive which was introduced by IBM in 1956.

The […]