Techno Musings

For much of this year, I intentionally have been telling a story about hybrid computing and Hitachi’s innovative prowess. This has been intentional leading up to today with the launch of the new Hitachi Command Suite and the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP). Since there are so many things to talk about, I suppose that [...]

I have written many posts on scaling and the unique value we have brought to the market, as has my colleague Hu.  Many of my discussions have centered on our application of differentiation in a variety of disciplines including unique silicon, value-added microcode, and dense packaging.

With all of the buzz about the server-ization of storage, software-only storage, and stack vertical-ization I wanted to comment and address these points and then some.

In the coming weeks we will be rolling out some changes to the Techno-Muse blog.  I won’t spill all of the beans just yet, but I will talk about some of the new focus areas and people that are going to be contributing.  Ken Wood and I will continue to contribute, of course, on a [...]

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.

Well it has been several months since I purchased mine, and it is a good investment in my opinion.  I continue to use it everyday in a variety of locations such as the gym and in bed.  The use cases are largely about browsing the web, doing casual work emails, and watching Movies/TV shows.  When [...]

Trying to Out-Geek Michael Just a short blog on how to “out-geek” a visit to the  Transformers Museum by Michael Hay? How about dragging your family to Fermilab, actually, the only one that needed dragging was my wife. The kids loved it. Working in the IT industry for over 25 years, especially as a vendor, has allowed [...]

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 [...]

For those that attended uValue this last week any guess as to what this is?  (Please put guesses as comments on this post, if possible.)

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 [...]