by Michael Hay on January 26, 2012
Other than being an allusion to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, there is real meaning in the title of this post, which I’ll get to towards the end. What I want to start with is a look back into the past and talk about, of all things, math co-processors.
by Michael Hay on January 18, 2012
Per my previous post, I wanted to provide more concrete examples from the storage world related to the sedimentary hypothesis.
by Michael Hay on January 9, 2012
I’ve mentioned the sedimentary hypothesis of technology in a few tweets already, and now I wanted to take the time to explain this concept in more detail. Before I get into explaining the hypothesis, let me provide a warm-up in the form of a definition of the process for forming organic sedimentary rock.
by Michael Hay on January 4, 2012
As I have mentioned before, there is more to the Big Data story than Data Warehousing. Let me conclude first and back my way into the “why”.
by Ken Wood on December 28, 2011
Amy Hodler’s post a few weeks ago on the Cloud Blog inspired me to share some of my own geek related book buys from 2011. They are as follows (in my preferred ranking).
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by Michael Hay on December 21, 2011
I find the IT community seems to be in a state of confusion between the two—now mind you I think that some people get it and can easily discriminate between the two. Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) offerings are just that. A more formal definition of COTS from Wikipedia follows:
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by Ken Wood on November 30, 2011
For everyone that celebrates the holiday, Happy [late!] Thanksgiving. The week of Thanksgiving in the US is a great time to catch-up on many of those little work chores that pile up or slip through the cracks while traveling and prioritizing big tasks ahead of fun work stuff.
This morning I was catching up on some HDS Industry Influencer Summit bloggers’ and analysts’ write-ups and opinions from the days of Nov 10th and 11th. As I wrote previously my blog, I was in a concurrent breakout event with several industry bloggers on the “other stage” during the afternoon’s main session. I was following links to various write-ups and ran across Ilja’s Coolen’s blog. Funny thing is, it was a write-up from a separate event back in March in the UK that I didn’t participate in. So, when I finished writing this blog, I realized what happened: too much link-clicking, and I ultimately ended up at an article that was six months old. While it is several months old, Ilja’s post did ask a very good question that still I would like to respond to on server packaging and capacity. In his blog, he states:
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by Ken Wood on November 18, 2011
Initially, I wasn’t planning to attend SC11, especially since this week I had several other meetings to participate in. However, as is common in this industry,
I ended up heading to Seattle to meet with several people and companies at SC11 at the last minute for the day. I was able get into the exhibit hall early to explore the behind-the-scenes activities of many of the booths. Hitachi Ltd.’s HPC Group was present with a very impressive booth again this year.
A VSP was on display in the booth, next to what I call the world’s largest server blade. I don’t actually know if this is a fact or not, but it is very impressive to see this device used in this specialized field of computing. Also, there was the new HA8000-tc rack mount server for technical computing (I want/need some of these in the Innovation Lab).
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by Ken Wood on November 18, 2011
Last week was the inaugural HDS Influencer Summit, convened in downtown San Jose. This event included financial analysts, industry analysts and key industry bloggers. It is interesting that the majority (maybe all) of these attendees are related to the storage industry in some fashion. There are several blogs detailing the event and explaining the resounding “…they do that?” in these posts from my colleagues Frank and Miki. What I would like to describe here is the blogger breakout sessions, and the tour of the new Innovation Lab, which is an extension of the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, the day after the main event.
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by Michael Hay on November 8, 2011
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with John Mansfield, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Strategy and Development at HDS. John and I discussed a variety of topics, including Hitachi’s organization design depth and expertise, along with where we can make investments that make a difference. John also tackles tough questions about what Hitachi does and does not see as competitive and commodity.
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