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I have shared my top 10 predictions for 2012 in my previous blog posts, but in case you missed it or want a quick review you can access my video interview on the key challenges that the industry will face this year, available here:

The greatest tool for storage efficiency is storage virtualization, which enables the extension of other storage efficiency tools like tiering and thin provisioning to existing storage systems that do not have that capability. It also reduces operational costs by providing a common pool of dynamic shared resources under a common set of management tools.

An ABC news blog caught my eye recently. It was entitled Tech Firm implements employee “Zero Email” policy.

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.

Full Time Employee (FTE) per TB used to be a measure of productivity for storage managers. Some people still use that metric today. I submit that FTE per TB is no longer relevant today.

As you likely already know, Hitachi Ltd, our parent company, is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. This is a remarkable achievement which very few companies have attained. This is particularly amazing considering all that has happened to the world in the past 100 years. How does a company survive through geo political upheavals [...]

Next week many of us in the storage industry will be heading out to Orlando Florida for the Storage Networking World. Storage conference which is jointly sponsored by Computerworld and SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association.  This is the world’s largest event for IT executives/mangers, vendors, channel partners, press and analysts involved in storage and [...]

I was out of pocket last week supporting the EBC on the Road in Sweden. Kenneth Chang, who managers our Executive Briefing Centers in Sefton Park, UK and Santa Clara, California, recruits our executives to spend a week doing briefings for companies in locations outside of our EBCs so that we can get closer to [...]

February 14 marks the start of the Chinese New Year, Year of the Tiger. This year it happens to fall on Valantine’s Day.  Here is a greeting, wishing you all the best for this New Year From the Folks at Hitachi Data Systems.

I would like to wish you all the best for the holidays. I will be taking some time off and will be back after New Years day.  Thanks to all of you who read this blog and special thanks to those who take the time to add your comments. Even if you don’t agree with me, [...]