Techno Musings

What a week this was! The HDS acquisition of BlueArc announcement was a great event. Members of the blog team (Michael Hay, Claus Mikkelsen, and myself) and executive team held several Q&As, as well as multiple briefings with media, analysts and bloggers. We even held a tweetchat, which was a great opportunity to connect with [...]

Our page size for both Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) and Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (HDT) is 42MB, and what other size could it or would it be as 42 is The Answer to The Question.

I will not comment or field questions on who will win the bidding war, but instead I’ll  use this article and 3PAR’s ASIC technology to prove a point.

Talking About Storage Virtualization and Storage Federation and Storage…
So, while reading Devang Panshigar’s recent blog post (here) on his assessment of EMC’s Storage Federation concept, I like that he is contrasting HDS’ approach with Storage Virtualization. However, I do take exception to the statement of “While HDS has a slightly different approach yielding almost the same [...]

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 [...]

According to NetApp’s CEO it is. Well that is at least what he is cited as saying within NetApp’s most recent earnings conference call. (Here is an article at the Register, and here are the Google search results for this topic.) The rationale that NetApp’s CEO uses is that with 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 [...]

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 [...]

I was watching a TV show commercial-free on my AppleTV and an interesting thought occurred to me.  You see at the beginning I failed to understand the title of the episode, but about 75% of the way through I finally understood the title.  This also led me to an epiphany: the best way to name [...]

I’m always looking for alignment of ideas or logic or thoughts across a variety of disciplines.  For instance in past posts like “The Dance” I talked about the offload characteristics of electronics and showed an equivalent example in offloading typing to your hands — kind of let your fingers do the walking.  In this case [...]