Techno Musings

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 [...]

If you have not had a chance to read Jason Robert Brown’s blog post with Eleanor I highly suggest that you take the chance to do so.  The exchange of email between the artist who makes the music, Jason, and the apparent aspiring artist who uses the music, Eleanor, is quite fascinating.  I have to say [...]

Horizontal-UVM – Step 1: Setup and Copy-less Data Distribution So it’s been about a month since my last post, sorry about that, but I’ve been working on several exciting projects that has me quite booked up as far as time goes. One of these projects I can actually share with you. I shared this concept [...]

During the week of June 14th, I’ll be in Santa Clara as a part of HDS Day or HDS Blogger Day or what we are calling it formally “HDS Geek Day 0.9.”  We’ve invited several bloggers to attend in person so that we can cover Hitachi’s capabilities and prowess (take a look at the screenshot [...]

We just completed a portion of our scale testing on the Hitachi Content Platform and I’m pleased to say that we were able to fill the system to a billion objects.  Some characteristics of the system tested are:

Today I got to thinking about the future of rich applications on the Internet specifically consideration about HTML5 and FLASH.  The first thing is that I don’t yet have an opinion one way or the other.  What tickled by brain a bit was remembering that sometime ago a tenacious individual created a UNIX-like operating system [...]

So it has been a month now of using my iPad, I have managed to take it with me almost everyday. In the morning I bring it with me to the gym and while on the stationary bike either catchup on email, read the news online, or watch a TV episode that I’ve downloaded from [...]

Late last year we did a series of shorts, at the white board, talking about cloud storage and how Hitachi’s existing offerings can help with getting traditional applications writing into the cloud.  Well we just released them and you can find all 5 of the videos here.  I’ve embedded the first video in this post [...]

Greetings I’m giving a blogging client for the iPad a spin with this post. Speaking of the iPad Mr. Hollis of EMC fame recently bought an iPad for his family and it has become a roaring success with them. He even quotes one of his family members as saying that whoever forgot to wipe the [...]

Recently the storage industry has been buzzing about federation, remote caching and clustering.  I would say that this is largely due to EMC’s webcast regarding virtual storage, whose technology underpinnings appear to come from some YottaYotta source IP.  There are only two things that I want to borrow from EMC’s discussion on this topic: 1.)varying [...]