For everyone that celebrates the holiday, Happy [late!] Thanksgiving. The week of Thanksgiving in the US is a great time to catch-up on many of those little work chores that pile up or slip through the cracks while traveling and prioritizing big tasks ahead of fun work stuff.
This morning I was catching up on some HDS Industry Influencer Summit bloggers’ and analysts’ write-ups and opinions from the days of Nov 10th and 11th. As I wrote previously my blog, I was in a concurrent breakout event with several industry bloggers on the “other stage” during the afternoon’s main session. I was following links to various write-ups and ran across Ilja’s Coolen’s blog. Funny thing is, it was a write-up from a separate event back in March in the UK that I didn’t participate in. So, when I finished writing this blog, I realized what happened: too much link-clicking, and I ultimately ended up at an article that was six months old. While it is several months old, Ilja’s post did ask a very good question that still I would like to respond to on server packaging and capacity. In his blog, he states:
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Initially, I wasn’t planning to attend SC11, especially since this week I had several other meetings to participate in. However, as is common in this industry,
I ended up heading to Seattle to meet with several people and companies at SC11 at the last minute for the day. I was able get into the exhibit hall early to explore the behind-the-scenes activities of many of the booths. Hitachi Ltd.’s HPC Group was present with a very impressive booth again this year.
A VSP was on display in the booth, next to what I call the world’s largest server blade. I don’t actually know if this is a fact or not, but it is very impressive to see this device used in this specialized field of computing. Also, there was the new HA8000-tc rack mount server for technical computing (I want/need some of these in the Innovation Lab).
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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 “…they do that?” in these posts from my colleagues Frank and Miki. What I would like to describe here is the blogger breakout sessions, and the tour of the new Innovation Lab, which is an extension of the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, the day after the main event.
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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 and does not see as competitive and commodity.
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In March of last year, I wrote a blog about disruptive technologies, specifically how the Blu-ray technology could change the storage landscape (or not). The new Blu-ray disc format specification enhancement was defined in June 2010 for the BDXL standard. This new specification increases the recording capacities for Blu-ray discs in two ways.
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…and it is our sincere desire to Inspire Your Next Insight. The reveal of our infrastructure, content and information clouds exposes a framework to help our customers and the market get to that next “ah ha” moment. Read More »
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 watched Steve’s extensive interview at D8. There, he pauses on several occasions, once about the Gizmodo incident, once in response to an audience question about content business/distribution, and a mild pause when reflecting on his 2005 Stanford speech. In every instance the silence spoke loudly, making me, as the listener, pay even more attention.
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The first week of October marks the largest Oracle global event in San Francisco: Oracle Open World 2011.
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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.
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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
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