by Hu Yoshida on January 6, 2012
Happy 2012! While this year is starting with a lot of uncertainty around the world economy and supply/demand questions, there are still areas of assurance. One is that you can still do more with less to meet your storage needs.
by Hu Yoshida on December 29, 2011
As we close out 2011, the storage industry has seen significant growth based on budgets, which were established in the beginning of the year. However, over the course of 2011, we saw natural disasters, political upheaval, and heightened economic turmoil. Companies are now looking ahead to 2012 with a great deal of uncertainty around their budgets. However, there is absolute certainty that the growth of data will continue to explode.
by Hu Yoshida on December 27, 2011
The big hype in 2012 will be around Big Data. The explosion of unstructured data and mobile applications will generate a huge opportunity for the creation of business value, competitive advantage, and decision support if this data can be captured, stored, managed, accessed, analyzed, and visualized. Companies that provide these capabilities for Big Data will be targets for acquisition, much like we saw in past years with thin provisioning technology companies.
by Hu Yoshida on December 22, 2011
By now it is clear that cloud is a reality with many successful implementations of cloud services. One of the most valuable benefits is the way that cloud services can be acquired—namely on demand, pay as you go, and self-service.
by Hu Yoshida on December 20, 2011
The number of applications that are consolidated onto a SAN attached storage frame has increased dramatically with the adoption of virtual servers. This is making it increasingly more difficult to migrate the data when the storage system needs to be refreshed. The quantity of data is in the tens or even hundreds of TBs, which will take days or weeks to physically move from one storage frame to another. What is even more impactful is the number of applications, which have to be stopped while the data is moved and then restarted when that move is complete.
by Hu Yoshida on December 16, 2011
Server and desktop virtualization will increase the need for enterprises to scale up storage systems as physical server demands increase. Initial installations of server virtualization were done to consolidate non-critical application servers, which were installed on lower cost modular, dual controller, storage systems. As multiple servers were virtualized and consolidated onto a single physical server, their storage was also consolidated onto a single modular storage system connected behind the physical server. The I/O workload that used to be distributed on file systems across multiple modular storage systems is now consolidated onto one virtual file system and one modular storage system.
by Hu Yoshida on December 15, 2011
Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) combines with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) to provide an “edge-to-core” data solution that eliminates the need for backup and delivers a seemingly bottomless filer on the edge of a cloud, or for remote office/branch offices.
by Hu Yoshida on December 12, 2011
Many analysts are recognizing a growing gap between technology and the ability of IT organizations to consume the product features and value that new technology can enable. Read More »
by Hu Yoshida on December 9, 2011
As you may have read already, I led off my 2012 trends blog series with a post on a “Focus on increasing storage utilization.”
I have talked with many customers who have seen utilization of storage assets increase from 20% -30%, and 50% - 60% using efficiency tools such as thin provisioning, dynamic tiering, deduplication, and active archive. A comment from John Nicholson indicates that the problem of efficiency may be even greater than the problem of utilization, as he ponders “how 100TB of raw disk capacity turns into 15 TB of actual data with layers of thick provisioning, virtualization, and wasteful snapshots.”
by Hu Yoshida on December 5, 2011
An ABC news blog caught my eye recently. It was entitled Tech Firm implements employee “Zero Email” policy.
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