by Ken Wood on November 1, 2011
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.
by Michael Hay on October 26, 2011
…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 »
by Michael Hay on October 11, 2011
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.
by Gary Pilafas on September 29, 2011
The first week of October marks the largest Oracle global event in San Francisco: Oracle Open World 2011.
by Ken Wood on September 23, 2011
While having dinner in Waltham, Massachusetts the other night with a table of smart people, the topic of commodities came up.
by Michael Hay on September 15, 2011
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
by Ken Wood on September 8, 2011
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 our followers about the news. It seemed like only positive comments (unless you are a competing vendor) about the acquisition were made, even from our toughest critics. In fact, the only comments remotely negative was similar to “…what took you so long?” which really isn’t that entirely negative, but more a validation of our decision.
by Ken Wood on September 7, 2011
“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 of HDSers conducted the technical and performance evaluation for our “carrot patch”. After dozens of paper evaluations and interviews, it eventually came down to 3 finalists – Littlefinger, Resistafly, and Jumbo, aka BlueArc (If you’re not a vegetable aficionado, all of these names are different types of carrots.) Without doubt, with today’s acquisition of BlueArc’s talent and technology, HDS has enhanced our file and content services strategy and vision. It’s been a great journey thus far working with the BlueArc teams and we are all looking forward to a great future together. 
by Michael Hay on September 7, 2011
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.
by Ken Wood on August 26, 2011
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 was a paper I started and never finished. I’ll extract this and post it as a future blog soon.) 
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