Techno Musings

Trains, Tapes and Roadmaps I’m writing this blog while heading to the Narita Airport from Yokohama on the brand new Narita Express. This new train is beautiful, shiny and clean with 180 degree rotating seats. All the things you expect from brand new equipment. Though I thought the old Narita Express train wasn’t too bad [...]

Okay, okay I cannot help myself I have to write about the iPad from Apple. The first thing is that I want to point out is that there is some cool Hitachi technology in the iPad display called IPS or in-plane switching.  IPS enables the user to better view images on the screen at extreme [...]

Over at Network Computing there is a good article discussing how to get primary storage applications utilizing a cloud storage infrastructure, public or private.  George’s discussion hints at a model that would entail a on premise  device making it easy to get data into the cloud.  This device would make it easy for users and [...]

Drum roll please!!!!  And voila the system is based on the Tesla platform from NVidia.  There is a pretty cool video on YouTube (at the end of the post) which talks about what the system is and what kinds of applications can be moved to that platform.  Also there is a particularly good paper here [...]

The Storage Playoff on the Industry’s Proving Grounds The pressure is on for team Performance Disks which lists on its roster 10Krpm and 15Krpm magnetic disk drives in various capacities with FC/SAS interfaces. The challengers are the  dynamic duo of FC/SAS interfaced Solid State Disks and high capacity – good enough performance – SATA interfaced [...]

There has been a lot of press within the past week about Google’s selection of EXT4 as their new default file system.  While Google’s performance numbers have yet to be published, the basic line of logic was that due to EXT2′s ability (Google’s current file system) to be more easily upgraded to EXT4 and the [...]

I’d like to urge community that reads and is interested in HDS bloggers to sign up and vote for top blogging honors.  Personally I’d like there to be a diverse set of blogs representing Hitachi, EMC, NetApp, HP, etc. all in the top 10.  However as of now this looks as if it is an [...]

Through some digging around on the IBM research lab web site I ran into IBM’s Liquid Metal Project.  Quite simply this project seeks to use a modification to Java, which they call Lime, to allow engineers to target hybrid compute platforms that include both general purpose CPUs and FPGAs.  For me this is the best [...]

For many years now IBM has been the king of the number of US patents filed.  Denise Dubie has an excellent article, that can be found here, on IBM’s long held supremacy in this space.  For reference Hitachi Ltd. (including HDS) is listed as number 13 and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is listed at number [...]

Recently on Rand’s, he brings up the topic of simplicity in design.  Specifically, in Rand’s discussion is OmmWriter and its execution of simplicity.  In essence by Omm implementing only what is needed to get the task done it removes clutter, distractions, errors (slips and mistakes), and provides an environment to facilitate the creative process.  I would classify [...]