Overcoming CPU Chokepoints For NVMe
Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting published a recent article on the CPU chokepoint in servers and controllers for NVMe storage. This supports blogs that I have recently posted on CPU...
View ArticleTCP Is A Network Protocol for NVMe
Last year in August,I posted a blog about NVMe, an open standards protocol for digital communications between servers and non-volatile memory storage. It replaces the SCSI protocol that was designed...
View ArticleThoughts on HPE’s Acquisition of MapR
In June I posted a blog commenting on the cloud management company MapRclosing its headquarters and laying off 122 workers. At that time Cloudera, another cloud big data management company, announced...
View ArticleMainframe FICON Connection for Analytics
On the occasion of the 50thanniversary of the Apollo lunar landing, I posted a blog about my experience with IBM mainframes in support of North American Rockwell’s work on the Lunar command and service...
View ArticleResearch in Regenerative Medicine
This week I am at the Hitachi Central research Lab in Kokubunji, Japan, to attend Hitachi’s annual Kenpatsu. This is an event where the Central research lab provides an update to the global Hitachi...
View ArticleInterrogare And demandi Realize DataOps Advantage with Hitachi Vantara
Interrogare, a 20 year oldmarket research company in Germany, conducts more than two million interviews each year across a range of industry sectors and focus areas, including product pricing, employee...
View ArticleThe AI Revolution Requires Accelerated Compute
We are in the midst of a new technology revolution that is described as the AI revolution. It is different from all previous revolutions like the industrial revolution or the information revolution in...
View ArticleReduce Shrinkage with Live Face Matching
This week I had a chance to meet with Chris Henderson a Biometric specialist who recently joined Hitachi Vantara in Australia. Chris was no stranger since we had worked together in the past and he has...
View ArticleLessons from Apollo 11
July 20th, 1969, marks the 50thanniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11. This brings back a lot of great memories for me as I was on the IBM team that was supporting the IT requirements for North...
View ArticleThe 5G Requirement for Data Storage
This year we have seen some of communications service providers (CSP) like ATT, China Mobile, and Telefonica begin the rollout of 5G services. 5G stands for fifth-generation cellular wireless. 5G is...
View Article5G Storage and HCP Anywhere
Hitachi Vantara has partnered with Telefonica and Santander Bank in developing the first 5G use cases for the banking sector in Europe. They have developed the first 5G experience around three use...
View ArticleHitachi’s Application of AI and Machine learning
Bernard Marr published an article about The Amazing Ways Hitachi Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning in the June 14 issue of Forbes. In that article he talks about Hitachi AI Technology/H...
View ArticleThe Changing Demands of Data Require DataOps
At a high level DataOps may be described as the process to enable the right data to get to the right place at the right time. According to Wikipedia,this process includes the following:Validation –...
View ArticleThe Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
In January 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and dozens of artificial intelligenceexperts[1] signed an open letter on artificial intelligence calling for research on the societal impacts of AI. The...
View ArticleLumada Video Insights And DataOps Add Value to Video Assets
According to Stratistics MRC, the global video surveillance market stood at $19.51 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach $63.2 billion by 2022. It’s unclear how many surveillance cameras there are...
View ArticleMoore’s Law Is Replaced by Neven's Law for Quantum Computing
Moore’s LawIn 1965, Gordon Moore, the CEO of Intel, published a paper which described a doubling in every year in the number of components per integrated circuit and projected this rate of growth would...
View ArticleHow Do You Replace the Durable World of Paper?
In a time, long past, when we went to a bank to deposit or withdraw money, we had a passbook where a bank teller or post master would write, by hand, the date and amount of the transaction, the updated...
View ArticleAdding to the Confusion at HPE- Yet Another Storage Platform
On Tuesday, June18, HPE announced a new high end storage platform called Primera. HPE’s current storage product lines – Nimble and 3PAR - are mostly positioned as midrange to the low -end of the...
View ArticleThe Growing Demand for Object Storage
There has been a growing buzz from analysts and thought leaders on the growing role of object storage in the data center. A recent IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Hitachi Vantara, titled “Object Storage:...
View ArticleStorage Slowdown in Europe - With One Exception
According to today’s online StorageNewsletter.com, The storage market is beginning to slow down in EMEA. Although the EMEA external storage systems market recorded a positive quarter in 1Q19, with 2.4%...
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