Email Investigations Made Easier with HCP/HCI
Emails are the primary communications tool for enterprise business. We exchange documents and make agreements through email. Emails contain private information of people and companies. Almost...
View Article“SHARE is not an acronym; it’s what we do.”
I began my career in IT during the mainframe days. Now 40 years later, the mainframe and I are still around. Next week SHARE, the volunteer-run user group for IBM mainframe computers, will be holding...
View ArticleA data scientist, a storage specialist, and a lawyer walk into a bar….
I included this phrase in my blog post Email Investigations Made Easier with HCP/HCI to explain that while the data scientist will interpret and represent data mathematically and the storage...
View ArticleA Safe and SAIN Approach to Object store -- HCP
If you are going to commit your unstructured data to long term storage and want to ensure that it will be available as your data scales to petabytes across generations of technology, the choice of...
View ArticleDeep Learning with Hitachi AI Technology/H
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, computer systems that can achieve intelligent activities like those of human brains such as learning, reasoning, and judgment. The learning method employed by...
View ArticleData Governance: A Key Stakeholder in Digital Transformation
Data is the foundation for digital transformation and the strategy for digital transformation requires data management, data governance, data mobility, and data analytics. While IT has a pretty good...
View ArticleStephen Hawking - will AI kill or save humankind
“Stephen Hawking – will AI kill or save humankind” was the title of a blog post by Rory Cellan-Jones on BBC News. This was a report on a speech by Stephen Hawking at an event in Cambridge in October of...
View ArticleAI, Social Innovation, and the UK IEP
IEP stands for the Intercity Express Programme, which will convert the current 60+ year old diesel UK intercity trains to state of the art, high speed electric trains. The new trains are from Hitachi...
View ArticleHitachi Tests Blockchain Technology With 150 Million PointInfinity Members!
It has been about a year since I blogged about the distributed ledger technology called blockchain and the establishment of the Hitachi Financial Innovation Lab in Santa Clara. This year Hitachi has...
View ArticleFake News Around FMD versus SSD Performance and Availability
Competitors who lack the engineering capability to design their own flash devices use standard SSDs that were designed for the high volume commodity PC and server markets. These competitors are trying...
View ArticleCreating A Centralized Data Hub
In my trends for 2017, I called out the movement to a centralized data hub for better management, protection and governance of an organization’s data. “2017 The year of the Rooster teaches the lessons...
View ArticleHitachi Content Platform Continues to Extend Its Lead in OBS
The Hitachi Data Systems’ object based storage (OBS) solution HCP (Hitachi Content Platform) has earned another analyst assessment as a leader in the Object Based Storage (OBS) Market. In addition to...
View ArticleWho is being disrupted by the Fintechs?
In the past I have blogged about Fintech companies that are disrupting the financial markets, by offering banking services with more consumer efficiency, lower costs, and greater speed than traditional...
View ArticleDX and IoT In Energy, Insurance, and Entertainment
This past week I visited several customers in different business verticals. One was an energy and power company, another was an insurance company and the others were in media and entertainment. A...
View ArticleThe Case for Hitachi Hybrid Flash Arrays
A recent analyst report makes the following claim “Solid-state arrays have reached a level of maturity, reliability and cost-effectiveness that they now exceed hybrid disk arrays in all characteristics...
View ArticleProvenance and Blockchain
Last month two Harvard researchers stunned the experts with the discovery of a second parchment copy of the United States Declaration of Independence in the UK’s West Sussex Records Office. They...
View ArticleWhat if your Laptop Is Banned from your Carryon?
Airlines told to "be prepared" for an expanded ban on carry-on electronic devices allowed on airplanes. On February 2, 2016, an explosive that was hidden in a laptop exploded 20 minutes into the...
View ArticleLessons Learned From WannaCry Attack of May 12, 2017!
Today May 12, there has been a massive denial of service attack that began with the NHS system in the UK which affected dozens of hospitals, and spread to six continents affecting an estimated 75,000...
View ArticleHCP Stands the Test of Time
Recently FINRA fined an investment firm $17m for inadequate investigation of anti-money laundering “red flags”, during a period 2006 to 2014 when they had significant growth in their business. Their...
View ArticleHCP: An Integrated Data Portfolio For Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is the transformation of business activities and processes that fully leverage the capabilities and opportunities of new digital technologies. There are many cases of companies...
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