Techno Musings

Late last year we did a series of shorts, at the white board, talking about cloud storage and how Hitachi’s existing offerings can help with getting traditional applications writing into the cloud.  Well we just released them and you can find all 5 of the videos here.  I’ve embedded the first video in this post [...]

I would argue that Sharepoint is the number one Enterprise 2.0 application on the planet — note the use of Enterprise 2.0 and not Web 2.0.  From interactions within our customer base we are finding that the deployment of Sharepoint sites is well mushrooming.  Part of the reason for this is that it is so [...]

There are some interesting moves afoot in the IT industry in just the past couple of weeks.  HP has bought Palm and apparently dumped their Microsoft tablet aspirations.  Microsoft has meanwhile announced an end to the experimental Courier project which was to be a tablet computer reference design including a modified version of Win7.  Apparently [...]

Makes about as much sense as IP over avian carriers.  Seriously if I look on the Top500 super computer list I can see an emerging trend towards hybrid/many core computing with the combination of vertical and horizontal scaling — sometimes called Cartesian scaling or scale-up and scale-out.  There is still a lingering hangover in the [...]

Digressions from the previous post If you had not guessed already I’m sticking with the Kermit the Frog theme here.  And just for grins here is the Rainbow Connection with Kermit and Debby Harry singing.

Storage Fusion – StoraFgUeSION – SfTuOsRiAoGnE “HybridStorage” refers to the mix of flash and magnetic storage medias blended together to increase performance and efficiency. This particular effort is part of the HybridStorage Alliance to promote and educate the industry on the benefits and advantages of this approach. While I’m not personally involved in this organization’s [...]

Hi there folks! Okay so there are two logical arguments that come up again and again and I want to address them, but in two posts and this is the first.  For this post I want to point out the obvious and put a stake in the ground.  For all of the hubris about cloud [...]

My intention with this post is to tie quite a few things together.  The first thing to accomplish is a quick review of the previous chapters.

Over at the Enterprise Storage Forum there is a great article on data corruption and various media types for both the Enterprise as well a Consumer cloud markets.  Henry Newman basically looks at the error rates per media type — I find it interesting that tape has a lower error rate than HDDs and it [...]