Innovation Starts with Leadership
Recently Hitachi Data Systems announced new roles for several of our senior executives. The key part of the announcement was the appointment of our CEO, Jack Domme, as a Corporate Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. This means that Jack has an [...]
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Big Data Just Got Bigger
Well, it’s been quite a while since the health and life sciences (HLS) team issued a blog. Things have been quite busy as our business continues to grow at unprecedented rates, far beyond the market. While we’ve been busy driving [...]
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Big Data and Many Things Trying to Get Along
The n-body problem is the problem of predicting the motion of a group of celestial objects that interact with each other gravitationally. The result of the n-body problem, beyond 3 interacting bodies of gravity on each other, becomes chaos and [...]
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Hitachi Machine Data in Action: Open Pit Data Mining
Sara Gardner, Senior Director SW Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems in conversation with Martin Politick Director, Research and Development at Wenco International Mining Systems The Internet of Things is the future of big data! Millions of machines all connected to [...]
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Oh, The Places You’ll Go
A couple of weeks ago we held our annual HDS Influencer Summit – so titled because it is a gathering of IT industry influencers that span the financial analyst, industry analyst and social media guru/blogger communities. One day spent together [...]
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Big Data – It’s not the size of your source but the size of the insight that really matters
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve heard some great quotes from acquaintances and colleagues. Ron Lee from my team recently attended a CIO breakfast in Asia Pacific (APAC) where he heard the following from a CIO: “I’m not worried [...]
Scaling Down?
Scaling-out is a well-oiled, in vogue term in use today. There are, of course, other related terms around scaling like scaling-up, scaling-down or my recent favorite scaling-right. In different contexts these terms imply different things– for instance, whether or not [...]
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Conversation with Dave Wilson on the State of IT in the Health Care Industry
I recently participated in a briefing for a health care provider with Dave Wilson who works with our partners in the Health and Life Sciences Industry Solutions group. While I was there to present our products and roadmaps, Dave made [...]
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From the show floor at SIGGRAPH — Tuesday, August 7, 2012
As Matt Jacobs, Video Effects (VFX) Supervisor of Tippett Studio, discussed how during their rendering of the movie The Immortals, Tippett’s artists nonetheless struggled with creating what he referred to as “The Ballet of Blood”. They used Pipeline FX Qube, [...]
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Social Innovation
If you have been following my blog lately, you have seen me referring more and more to “social innovation”. Social innovation has become a corporate strategy for Hitachi, Ltd. over recent years. Hitachi has grown into 900+ companies, serving diverse [...]
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The Value of Big Data – First Steps
There are many examples of how big data brings value to companies large and small. Collecting data from new sources and correlating the data to generate information that helps grow the business and provide a competitive edge. I will be [...]
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Digital Archiving Part 3: How would you define "Technology Longevity"?
I can’t help but enjoy reading some of the comments, debates and other various blog articles on optical storage technologies, especially on technology durability and media longevity, even more when compared to tape storage for long-term digital archiving or as [...]
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Silence Is A Part Of The Discussion
Have you ever watched a completely uncut interview or viewed footage of Steve Jobs when he doesn’t have a script? From the moment he announced his official retirement this summer I have done exactly that. When the moment called for [...]
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Textbook Acquisition Strategy
What a week this was! The HDS acquisition of BlueArc announcement was a great event. Members of the blog team (Michael Hay, Claus Mikkelsen, and myself) and executive team held several Q&As, as well as multiple briefings with media, analysts [...]
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Grout Expectations, and a Disk Story
It’s been two weeks since returning from Thailand on my Habitat for Humanity build. After the 17-hour flight home from Thailand to the US, I had a 48-hour turnaround before heading off to Mexico City for the week to participate [...]
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A great honor for a great leader
Today I want to draw attention to the the 2012 IEEE(*1) Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award, which was granted to Dr. Naoya Takahashi. The Hitachi press release details several of of Dr. Takahashi’s achievements, and I want key [...]
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Pounding Nails and the Reach of Technology
So it’s time for that all-too-rare vacation to somewhere. I’ll undoubtedly trigger an out-of-office message that says I’ll not be checking email, voicemail, or any other kind of “mail”, but probably will sneak in an occasional digital-check, if I can. [...]
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EMC/HDS: Fundamental Strategy Difference
I’m sure many of you have seen EMC’s latest product announcement, the VMAXe. It’s basically a “mini” VMAX which makes the name rather oxymoronic (VMAXmini?), I think. But I’d like to use that announcement to point out a basic difference [...]
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Why Holding Data Prisoner is Not a Good Idea
Have you watched Apple’s Lion and iOS 5 keynotes? Being the fanboy that I am, I snuck a peek on my AppleTV and was greeted with several new concepts including making the cloud invisible. I was, however, struck by a [...]
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So what’s your X, Y, Z year plan?
Recently there has been some media attention about a roadmap and our X, Y, and Z year plans. Along with this, it is also expected that there would be some speculation on the health of certain product lines. Let me [...]
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