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Hitachi Plans to Store Data for a Few Hundred Million Years
Just as the Rosetta Stone preserved data in stone for a few thousand of years, Hitachi plans to preserve data in quartz for a few hundred million years. Hitachi researchers have announced a method to...
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HDS Values
Hitachi was founded more than 100 years ago in a small electrical repair shop by Mr. Namihei Odaira. After constantly repairing imported, electrical motors for a mining company in Hitachi city, Mr....
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Replacing DIY with UCP
Back in the 1960s, before most of you were born, stereo components were new and most of us took a DIY (Do It Yourself) approach and built our own stereo sets. We immediately became experts on the best...
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Big Data Analytics for Tomorrow
Big Data analytics today has mainly to do with data warehouses, data marts, Hadoop or SAP HANA to support business decisions. Big Data of tomorrow will require expertise in many new areas and handle...
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HUS VM: An Efficient Enterprise Architecture for the Midrange
Twelve years ago when we introduced Hitachi Lightning™ 9900 V Series enterprise storage systems, the control unit was in a separate frame from our disk frames. The specifications for 9900 V were state...
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Increasing Data Transfer with Twisted Light
I just received this IEEE Spectrum alert on twisted light. As the alert notes, a group of British and Chinese researchers have developed a microchip that is capable of emitting photons with a property...
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The DSI celebrates 20th Anniversary with Introduction of 5 mm Hybrid Drive
As a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute (DSI) of Singapore, I was very privileged to be invited to their gala event that was held to celebrate 20years of R&D...
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Hitachi Accelerated Flash Storage Ignites Flash From Enlightenment to...
Most everyone in the storage business is familiar with the Gartner Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies. When prospective game-changing technologies start, they rise to the peak of inflated...
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Garth Gibson on Shingled Magnetic Recording
Garth Gibson, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University also known for co-authoring the seminal “Berkeley Raid paper,” was the keynote speaker at the Storage Systems, Hard Disk and Solid State...
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An Interview with Dr. Takahashi
At the core of Hitachi Data Systems product portfolio is our enterprise storage systems, which were originally developed in the early 1990s as a RAID storage array that could support both mainframe as...
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Top Ten IT Trends for 2013–Trend 1
Over the past few Decembers I have posted on the top 10 trends that I expect to see in the coming year. This blog post is the first in a series on my top IT trends for 2013. The Background for 2013...
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Top Ten IT Trends for 2013–Trend 2
The current consumption model for storage creates a lot of wasted storage capacity which customers pay for but may never use. In the past when storage hardware costs were low compared to the...
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Top Ten IT Trends for 2013–Trends 3 and 4
Trend 3: Explosion of Data Replication Today’s businesses require more and more copies of data for faster point-in-time recovery, business continuity, business analysis, data sharing,...
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Top Ten IT Trends for 2013—Trends 5 and 6
Trend 5: New Requirements for Entry-level Enterprise Storage Systems Up till now, the price gap between midrange and enterprise storage architectures has been very wide forcing midrange customers to...
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Top Ten IT Trends for 2013—Trends 7 and 8
Trend 7: Accelerating Use of Content Platforms for Data Archive and Data Sharing Virtualization enables multiple application servers to run on the same physical server and share storage resources. The...
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Top Ten IT Trends for 2013–Trends 9 and 10
Trend 9: Secure Platform for the Adoption of Mobile Devices The adoption of mobile devices and BYOD will dramatically change the workplace, create more intimate end user experiences, and enable...
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Top Ten IT Trends of 2013—Wrap-up
Over the past few weeks I have been posting some trends that I expect to see in 2013. I am interested in any IT industry trends that you might expect to see. While some might point to big data as a...
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“ Only 12% of my storage contains production data.”
I recently visited some large customers in New York with multi-petabytes of data and heard consistently that very little was used for production data. One customer with close to 100 petabytes of...
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Can technology make you happy?
Can technology make you happy? This is the title of a featured article in IEEE Spectrum Magazine<, December 2012 by Kazuo Yano, Sonja Lyubomirsky, and Joseph Chancellor. The sub title is: “Yes, and...
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Mainframes are alive and well at Hitachi Data Systems
IDC’s WW Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Track, 3Q1012 reports that Hitachi Data Systems has shipped more storage capacity than any other supplier during the first 9 months of 2012. A lot of this can be...
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