Archive for May, 2009
What is commodity?
Posted in Competition, File and Content Management, Processing Architectures, Tech Talk on May 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
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. < --more-->
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Posted in Competition, Tech Talk on May 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
“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 [...]
NetApp and Data Domain
Posted in File and Content Management, Tech Talk on May 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
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?
Reality Distortion Field
Posted in Competition, IT Transformation, Tech Talk on May 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
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 [...]
So is tape really dead?
Posted in File and Content Management, Innovation, IT Transformation, Sustanability on May 17th, 2009 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Hitachi’s Content Services Offerings – Part 2
Posted in File and Content Management, Tech Talk on May 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Hitachi’s Content Services Offerings – Part 1
Posted in File and Content Management, Tech Talk on May 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
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 [...]
