Techno Musings

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with John Mansfield, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Strategy and Development at HDS. John and I discussed a variety of topics, including Hitachi’s organization design depth and expertise, along with where we can make investments that make a difference. John also tackles tough questions about what Hitachi does [...]

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

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

“Project Carrot” is officially complete! As Michael Hay recounted, our relationship with BlueArc has been an exciting journey over the past 5 years; a journey that we dubbed internally as “Project Carrot”. As you know by now, Project Carrot set out to evaluate and choose the NAS technology that would become HNAS. A small team [...]

These are exciting times we live in, indeed! Steve Jobs has officially resigned his post. HP has opened their kimono to enterprise focused strategy leaving behind WebOS and the PC business. And today we celebrate combining the innovative talent of BlueArc with the Hitachi family.

OK, so I lied about my last blog being the final of a three part series (1, 2 & 3). But aren’t we used to being lied to these days? I classify virtualization into three categories of prose: one-to-many, many-to-one, and this-to-that. (Turns out, I thought I blogged about this some time ago, but it [...]

So, this is the third and final installment of my blog series on capacity optimization techniques. The first article was on file level single instancing and file level compression, which also included a combination of the two. The second article described how data de-duplication works, which I demonstrated by using Linux commands.

This blog is the first in a series of short articles I plan on writing over the next several weeks describing capacity optimization techniques and designs. This series will describe various standard data manipulation algorithms for reducing the amount of storage required to store data such as single instancing, compression and de-duplication.

I cannot resist starting out the post this way; the title of this post is how one would open a file stored in a Remote BLOB Store (RBS), a part of MS-SQL 2008 and later, stored on a Mac — that is if we assume that the file is a *.txt file.  Said BLOB/file could [...]