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With the hype in the market around cloud, it’s no wonder customers don’t know where to begin or which road to follow. That is exactly why Hitachi Data Systems is introducing new cloud solutions to help customers take a low risk approach to adopting cloud at their own pace.
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Back in December, I wrote about how Hitachi Data Systems uniquely provides a “synergy” of file and content technologies to customers which help them achieve tremendous storage cost and backup savings. I’m happy to share how one of our many customers has bought into this architecture and deployed our integrated portfolio to solve their problems.
Today, Hitachi Data Systems announced the Hitachi unified compute platform. You’ve probably heard about “converged infrastructure” or “unified stacks” which are typically a combination of server, storage, and network components pooled together as an integrated unit and assigned as a business resource. Hitachi Data Systems is taking this concept to the next level by adding end-to-end orchestrated management that will provide an integrated and truly unified compute platform for data centers and cloud deployments.
It’s all about synergy. Defined, synergy is “the interaction of two or more agents or foces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.” 1+1=3. That’s exactly what Hitachi Data Systems’ file and content strategy is all about. Instead of building “product silos” that don’t leverage cross-product capabilities, HDS has brought to market a product portfolio that integrates together.
Intel recently showed an experimental 48-core processor and called it t
he “Single-chip Cloud Computer.” As some folks have already written, we’re essentially getting to the point where data centers can be built on a chip, and this will fundamentally change (and enable) how we construct data processing environments over time.
Today, Hitachi announced a new portfolio of agile cloud solutions at SNW in Phoenix, including the release of the Hitachi Content Platform version 3.0 (formerly Hitachi Content Archive Platform — more on that later). With this announcement, Hitachi is poised to help end-users, service providers, telcos and system integrators deliver cloud services that reduce the TCO of IT environments.
SNW Fall 2009 kicks off today in Phoenix, and I’m struck by the number of sessions dedicated to “cloud”. Certainly, what has captured everbody’s imagination is the potential cost savings cloud solutions can have (I guess timing is everything — would the cloud concept have gotten this far had we not found ourselves in this lovely economic downturn?).
The leaves are starting to change colors here on the east coast, a visual punctuation that we’re a week into the fall season. This, and the coolness in the air — a harbinger of the winter that lies ahead — prompted me to begin my search for a replacement snowthrower. This past winter put undue stress on the Sandorfi marriage, as every time it seemed to snow back home I was traveling to some place sunny and warm leaving the snow clearing duties to my less-than-happy wife. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but the snowthrower that we have is an “HQ special” (you remember HQ don’t you, the now defunct Home Depot competitor?). The “HQ special” was cheap enough, but requires attention every time it’s used — snow jamming, slipping belts, sticking throttle, and so on. “Hey, you get what you pay for” I told my wife after our last snow storm (of course, returning from a trip to sunny and warm Santa Clara). She simply scowled and handed me the starter handle that broke off when she tried to restart the stalled machine — a couple hundred feet from the house. She finished after running several extension cords to use the electric starter. Needless to say, she wasn’t a happy camper.
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It was a great game — an annual family outing to watch our favorite baseball team in action. 
This year we decided to see them play the Orioles at Camden Yards (Saturday 10/19). Funny how it’s cheaper to see your home team as a visitor in somebody else’s venue, but that’s a topic for another post… In any case, being the family-annointed video-and-photo journalist, I faithfully snapped the requisite pictures and captured the action in HD video. We won 11-5 (Go Sox!). Then I downloaded the content to our family’s server, and immediately lost a few gigabytes. Read More
…at Storage Networking World. There’s a packed agenda planned, and I’m happy to be part of it speaking about “Gaining Control of Unstructured Data” (Monday 10/12 at 1:55pm). I’d love to have the opportunity to meet you and spend some time discussing content growth (and, in particular, your views of where you’re heading) and ways to help manage it more effectively (and for less money!).
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