Techno Musings

Last week’s  announcement dovetails perfectly with my current series on data archiving, although the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) team may not appreciate my angle based on all their accomplishments with HCP product that go above and beyond just archiving. Be that as it may, I can’t ignore an important feature of the new release of  HCP, [...]

Firstly, it has been quite a while since I’ve last posted. A lot has happened between the beginning of the year and today. In fact it has been so action packed, the past 100 days seem more like 365. While I cannot spill the beans on everything, my colleague Ken Wood and I are super [...]

…and it is our sincere desire to Inspire Your Next Insight.  The reveal of our infrastructure, content and information clouds exposes a framework to help our customers and the market get to that next “ah ha” moment.

In a July post on the Techno-Musings blog, we made the case for keeping content/data in its original, unaltered form. More specifically when an application stores data/content in a non-obfuscated mode, it is possible to unleash the true power of the content. This is a key tenet by which Hitachi lives and breathes-ensuring that application

Have you watched Apple’s Lion and iOS 5 keynotes? Being the fanboy that I am, I snuck a peek on my AppleTV and was greeted with several new concepts including making the cloud invisible.  I was, however, struck by a comment from Steve Jobs that I’d like to address:

Like many others organizations, I’m pleased to announce that Hitachi Data Systems has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a full corporate member. We are quite excited about the CSA scope of work, and in particular, we anticipate getting involved in Version 3.0 of the “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud [...]

First off, I want to acknowledge all of my family, friends, and colleagues here in Japan after our recent shocking event.  In the Northern territory, where Japan was hardest hit, there are several nuclear power plants in danger as a result of multiple explosions.  Fortunately, as I write this post my family is okay, but [...]

The Government of Singapore held its annual security conference, called GovWare 2010, during the last week of September. This event reminded me of the early days of the RSA Conference when it was much smaller and not so hyped or chaotic. The event was small enough that the organizers could entice the participants into the [...]

At the risk of being called a certification snob, I’d like to weigh in on the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), which was announced in late July of 2010 (The CCSK examination became available on September 1, 2010 and will ultimately cost $295; however, there is a promotional period that [...]

So it has been a month now of using my iPad, I have managed to take it with me almost everyday. In the morning I bring it with me to the gym and while on the stationary bike either catchup on email, read the news online, or watch a TV episode that I’ve downloaded from [...]