By: Tony Asaro on June 29, 2009
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Nigel Poulton - an independent consultant, storage expert and Hitachi USP V expert decided to respond to some of Marc Farley’s video blogs on Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning. Nigel did a great job providing education and information that you should check out - HDP Response to Marc Farley.
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By: Tony Asaro on June 24, 2009
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There are huge savings to be had by implementing intelligent tiering. I have written on this subject before but I just finished up two seminars and had this discussion with both groups. None of the companies at these forums have implemented intelligent tiering and these are the reasons they gave:
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By: Tony Asaro on June 17, 2009
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I was in NYC just last week presenting to a number of IT professionals that are in the financial industry. I was pleased to see that everyone was actually in pretty good spirits - no tears or outbursts claiming armageddon.
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By: Tony Asaro on June 4, 2009
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Another multimedia blog with Senior VP of Marketing for Hitachi Data Systems - Brian Householder. I also talk to Chris Evans, an independent consultant and storage expert. And the topic is the new Switch IT On program from Hitachi. This one is about five minutes, so check it out. more
By: Tony Asaro on May 27, 2009
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Hitachi just announced the Hitachi High Availability Manager and it actually does change the Enterprise-class storage landscape in the following ways:
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By: Tony Asaro on May 22, 2009
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One of the fallacies of storage networking is that for the most part storage isn’t really networked. Consider this for a moment. In a storage network the host systems can share storage resources however there is no real communication between storage systems - they are all still individual and closed. There is no sharing of storage systems assets. There is no load balancing between storage systems. There is no common intelligence across storage systems.
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By: Tony Asaro on May 7, 2009
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Brian is the EVP of Marketing for Hitachi Data Systems. I had a great conversation with him concerning the Switch IT On program and Hitachi in general.
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By: Tony Asaro on April 27, 2009
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I had a discussion with Chris Evans - an independent storage consultant that works with Enterprise end users - about the Switch IT On program. Chris is also a frequent blogger and in the past has reflected on the USP V and the idea of providing UVM for free. Additionally, Chris blogged on this announcement last week as well - HDS Switches Virtualisation On For Free. I also suggest you read Chris’ blog on an ongoing basis - he is in my blogroll as the Storage Architect.
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By: Tony Asaro on April 21, 2009
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What many technology companies tend to forget it is that the world doesn’t just revolve around technology. Hitachi has launched what I believe is a very smart business program called Switch IT On - providing the Hitachi UVM license - their external storage virtualization technology - for free until December 31st.
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By: Tony Asaro on April 14, 2009
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Just like any vendor, EMC is touting its new product - the Symmetrix V-Max and making as much hay about it as possible. But once the dust settles - there are some important questions to ask:
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