Techno Musings

I can’t help but enjoy reading some of the comments, debates and other various blog articles on optical storage technologies, especially on technology durability and media longevity, even more when compared to tape storage for long-term digital archiving or as a slightly active data repository. Back in November 2011, I wrote a blog on the [...]

Have you ever watched a completely uncut interview or viewed footage of Steve Jobs when he doesn’t have a script? From the moment he announced his official retirement this summer I have done exactly that.  When the moment called for it, Jobs would pause, sometimes uncomfortably, collect his thoughts and then respond.  Most recently, I [...]

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 [...]

Today I want to draw attention to the the 2012 IEEE(*1) Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award, which was granted to Dr. Naoya Takahashi.  The Hitachi press release details several of of Dr. Takahashi’s achievements, and I want key off this statement in the release:

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:

Recently there has been some media attention about a roadmap and our X, Y, and Z year plans. Along with this, it is also expected that there would be some speculation on the health of certain product lines. Let me assure you, the Hitachi VSP and AMS lines are still alive, kicking and quite healthy [...]

There are a lot of opinions in the industry as to the relationship between HDS and Hitachi Ltd. in Japan. When last I checked Hitachi is included in our name, Hitachi Data Systems, and we are most certainly a member of the Hitachi group. To dispel any lingering doubts I recommend looking at this presentation [...]

The past year was all about expansion — expansion of my family with the birth of my son, expansion of my role at HDS and expansion of the Techno-Musings blogger roll.  These were all exciting and very positive changes in their own ways and make me very excited for what 2011 will bring.

This year’s Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) event was held in New Orleans. The initial estimate on the attendance was approximately 13,500. Based on the other various conferences that I’ve attended in the past, mostly storage-focused, this has a lot of end users and “real customers” in attendance.

So this may fall in to the category of “So what? All of the vendors solve this problem somehow and why should I care?” True, this is one of those insurance features that you don’t appreciate until it happens to your data center. But, for the technical minded and those that like a cool technology [...]