Techno Musings

Per my previous post, I wanted to provide more concrete examples from the storage world related to the sedimentary hypothesis.

Last week was the inaugural HDS Influencer Summit, convened in downtown San Jose. This event included financial analysts, industry analysts and key industry bloggers. It is interesting that the majority (maybe all) of these attendees are related to the storage industry in some fashion. There are several blogs detailing the event and explaining the resounding [...]

While having dinner in Waltham, Massachusetts the other night with a table of smart people, the topic of commodities came up.

The Hitachi companies are passionately committed to quality, which is an important goal based on the company philosophy of long term excellence. Products that Hitachi Data Systems sell go through rigorous design, testing, and manufacturing processes to ensure quality,reliability, interoperability, and performance.  In fact, engineers that participate throughout the entire product lifecycle are very proud [...]

Early in November, Ray Lucchesi from Silverton Consulting posted on his views about pure commodity hardware versus customized hardware within the storage industry. To recap his thesis in a sentence: where there is clear value and it can be solved with a platform including differentiated hardware, users aren’t shy about acquiring the solution, even if [...]

Just this past week IBM announced their long awaited refresh to the zSeries: zEnterprise or z196.  The tech-media and blog-o-sphere will and has focused on the large changes in the system architecture, processor, software, and linkage between BladeCenter and the zSeries: zBX and URM (Unified Resource Management).  To be clear this appears to be IBM’s [...]

A glib title, but none the less I hope it captures the major theme of this week: the formal celebration of Hitachi’s 100th birthday at the Hitachi uValue convention in Japan.  Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Ltd. jointly hosted industry analysts, industry bloggers, and technology focused international press in Japan this week for uValue and other [...]

There has been a lot of positive reaction to our unified compute announcement from last week.  However there were very interesting words from both 3PAR and Storagebod about our announcement in their blogs.  (As for 3PAR, well like NetApp they don’t have any kind of a server business in their back pocket — we’ll get [...]

What does a “Core Dump” Mean Today?
I can’t help myself. In my last blog, I reminisced about some exotic old equipment from the earlier days of the IT industry. I also mentioned that back then “core” meant something very different than it does today. Back then, core meant memory, random access memory in a computer [...]

Recently there was a study commissioned by Microsoft and RSA which compared the preparedness of security executives in the area of compliance versus protection of Intellectual Property assets.  I have to say that I applaud these companies for bringing the core issue to the top of the IT industry’s mind.  It has long been known [...]