The Storage Muse

As a part of ongoing architecture discussions, the concept of commodity has come up.  First I would like to start with a few questions on the point.

“Hitachi released a storage system called the Universal Storage Platform, USP.  Our customers were happy, they had found a way to improve the performance of their EMC Symmetrix systems: put a USP in front of the Symmetrix and virtualize it!  However EMC did not want to hear about this, and when Hitachi told the world [...]

I’m sure that the purchase of Data Domain is well heard now throughout the Internet, and if you have not heard about it yet check out the following search on Google News.  I have one really simple question: why?

I’m sure that when this is referenced with Mr. Steve Jobs of Apple fame everyone can understand RDF and if not check out here and here.  Well in this case I’m extending RDF to EMC’s circus this week where by the gaudiness of the event and the recycling of content is standard fair.  It is [...]

What happens if you have a goal of creating a 1000PB scale community or service for this newly emerging cloudy world?  Is spinning disk really the right thing to consider for these extreme storage environments?  (A big thank you to Ken Wood for that term I’m going to steal, err adopt for this piece.)  Hitachi [...]

A quick recap of part 1 where we talked about migration to external file storage devices coordinated by HDDS with the migration engine inside of HCAP, and support of Netapp as a search target.  Here there are two more items to discuss.
The two capabilities  in the previous post provide a great adoption patterns for NetApp [...]

A while back there was a request about better defining what Hitachi is doing in this space.  I figured that I would come back to that point and talk about what we offer today.  There are four major capabilities that I want to point out over two posts.
Data Discovery Suite V1.2 and High Performance NAS [...]