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Remembering Jack Harker
Last month the storage world marked the passing of one of the most beloved pioneers of the storage industry, Jack Harker. Jack was one of the original developers of the first disk drive, the IBM...
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Software Defined Storage is not about commodity storage
Software defined storage, SDS, seems to be the marketing phrase these days. Wikipedia calls it a marketing theme for promoting storage technologies that is lacking consensus. Wikipedia does go on to...
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Object Stores and HCP: An Interview with Bob Primmer (Part 1)
I have read a number of my colleague Bob Primmer’s publications on object storage and our Hitachi Content Platform. I thought he would be the best person to help us understand how object storage and...
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Hitachi Data Systems Celebrates Growth in Colorado
The server and storage markets are going through a major transition through virtualization, which increases the efficiency of existing infrastructure while reducing the need for new footprint. IDC and...
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Opening of the European Distribution Center Hitachi Data Systems Invests in...
While the European economy is facing challenges, Hitachi Data Systems is investing in growth in Europe. Today, Hitachi Data Systems announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art European Distribution...
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Maximizing IT Velocity for Data Explosion
Maximizing IT Velocity The biggest challenge facing IT today is the explosion of data and in particular, the explosion of unstructured data. Obviously this will require a tremendous amount of storage....
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Maximize IT with an Integrated, Unified, Converged Solution Strategy
Last weekend I was on a panel at a CIO summit sponsored by South Asian Technologies, one of our partners in Sri Lanka. While Sri Lanka is a relatively new market for HDS, the level of IT is well...
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Object Stores: Addressable Capacity vs. Object Count – Part 1
In our last post together, Bob Primmer talked about the concept of object stores and how they enable us to store data without the need to understand the underlying infrastructure. When asked if object...
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Have your Mainframes Fallen behind your Open Systems in Efficiencies?
This past week I received a note from Claus Mikkelsen who was sounding concerned about the growing inefficient use of mainframe storage. This is a shock for many of us who looked to mainframe storage...
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SSDs Are Differentiated by Software
Unlike Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) that are defined by the hardware; spindle motors, actuator arms, servo mechanisms, and spin coated disks, Solid State Drives (SSDs) are differentiated by the software....
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Ephesus: A Lesson in Social Innovation
Last week a group of us from Hitachi Data Systems toured the archeological remains of the ancient Greek and Roman city of Ephesus on the coast of Anatolia in Turkey. Ephesus was one of the greatest...
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Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi—Global Innovation for the Global Good
In past posts I have chronicled the closer integration of Hitachi Data Systems with our parent company Hitachi, Ltd. In April, we announced the appointment of our CEO Jack Domme as a corporate officer...
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HUS VM Blurs The Midrange vs. Enterprise Debate
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) can be classified as a midrange storage system based on its 19 in rack footprint with 2 U media drawers, and 5 U control processor drawer with midrange pricing and...
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Software Defined Data Center and Private Cloud at VMworld
If you were one of the 23,000 people who attended VMworld in San Francisco this week, there was not a doubt that VMware is targeting the Software Defined Data Center. This simplification and automation...
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Virtualization and Automation is Required for a Private Cloud
HDS has a strong history of helping our customers build and manage private clouds. Our strategy recognizes that modernizing their datacenters is an important, transformational step for enterprises to...
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Big Data of Tomorrow – Internet of Everything
There are basically three types of data. First there is business data that is generated by business processes and is usually stored in a structured repository like a database. The next type is human...
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Will Big Data Create Information Silos?
One of the big requirements in healthcare today is the requirement for Vendor Neutral Archives. This is the ability to store medical images from different vendors in a way that enables access to the...
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Royal Fusiliers or Cyber Warriors
Recently the UK Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond announced plans to recruit Cyber Specialists into the military reserve. At his speech last Sunday he was heckled by retired veterans of the Royal...
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Hitachi NAS Architecture for HUS and HUS VM
The Hitachi NAS (HNAS) platform is unique in the industry since it uses a patented hardware accelerated architecture which delivers massive data path parallelization and provides the foundation for...
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Achieve the Plateau of Productivity with Private Cloud today
The value of cloud computing has moved past the early hype cycle and is providing real value to the market in terms of agility, and on demand services which provide strategic use of business data which...
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