WHAT DOES SOCIAL INNOVATION MEAN TO YOU?
If you look up ‘Social Innovation’ at the fount of all online knowledge – Wikipedia – –you’ll find a description of strategies, concepts and ideas that address different elements of society in which...
View ArticleSoftware-Defined Is only As Good As The Infrastructure Behind It
Software defined infrastructure provides flexibility and business agility, but it can only be as good as the underlying hardware it uses. One of the key tenets for software-defined infrastructure is...
View ArticleWhat’s Required For 142 Year Data Retention?
I just became a grand father for the second time just as this issue of Time Magazine was published. I now have two grandsons and hope to see them grow up to carry on the family name. When I thought...
View ArticleHow is Hitachi Uniquely Positioned To Deliver on its Social Innovation Strategy?
Since our Connect 2015 event last month in Las Vegas where we displayed a number of Social Innovation solutions, I have had a lot of questions about what we mean by Social Innovation and how it...
View ArticleThe Race to Zero
Some friends at Infosys sent me this article from Business Insider and asked that I comment on it. The title of the article is “Google just took the lead in the dangerous game called ‘Race To Zero’”....
View ArticleI’ve Been Hacked!
Yesterday, you may have seen a strange post from me on the HDS blog site. I want to assure you that the post was not mine. Someone had obtained my ID and password and posted it without my knowledge. It...
View ArticleSoftware-Defined is Only as Good as the Infrastructure Behind it
Software-defined infrastructure provides flexibility and business agility, but it can only be as good as the underlying hardware it uses. One of the key tenets for software-defined infrastructure is...
View ArticleWhat’s Required For 142 Year Data Retention?
I just became a grandfather for the second time just as this issue of Time Magazine was published. I now have two grandsons and hope to see them grow up to carry on the family name. When I thought...
View ArticleHow is Hitachi Uniquely Positioned to Deliver on its Social Innovation Strategy?
Since our Connect 2015 event last month in Las Vegas where we displayed a number of Social Innovation solutions, I have had a lot of questions about what we mean by Social Innovation and how it...
View ArticleThe Race to Zero
Some friends at Infosys sent me this article from Business Insider and asked that I comment on it. The title of the article is “Google just took the lead in the dangerous game called 'Race To Zero'”....
View ArticleSoftware (re)Defined Storage
With Hitachi Storage Virtualization you can redefine your already installed storage assets as the latest Hitachi VSP G Series array through software. This software is the Storage Virtualization...
View ArticleIDC Predicts Increasing Cost of Enterprise Hard Disk Drives
IDC’s Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Forecast for 2015 to 2019, published in May 2015, predicts that “Slow HDD areal density (capacity per disk) growth means that a steadily increasing number of components...
View ArticleHow do you back up and restore a Petabyte?
The simple answer is you don’t. It would take you weeks to backup a petabyte and much more to restore a petabyte. Even if time were not a factor, the costs could be prohibitive since studies we have...
View ArticleHow Do You Explain Prime Numbers to a Three-Year-Old?
Yesterday, Sharon Crost, the head of our social media team, and I took our former intern, Chloe Bertao to lunch to thank her for her contributions to our social media team, celebrate her graduation...
View ArticleI’ve Been Hacked!
Yesterday, you may have seen a strange post from me on the HDS blog site. I want to assure you that the post was not mine. Someone had obtained my ID and password and posted it without my knowledge. It...
View ArticleFlash Devices Make the Difference in Enterprise Flash Performance
While flash arrays are a better fit for the highly random access demands of consolidated infrastructure and high performance analytics than spinning disk, flash technology requires more management in...
View ArticleHitachi Data Systems Delivers Live Insight for IT Operations
The data center has evolved into complex, virtualized, containerized, and distributed systems which span traditional and cloud based implementations. In addition to the data and information that is...
View ArticleHypervisors, LPARs, Containers, and UCP
Server virtualization has made a dramatic impact on the efficiency and scalability of the data center. Hypervisors have been the primary tool for server virtualization since VMware commercialized the...
View ArticleFinTechs: Disruptive Innovation In Financial Services
Every meeting I have had with customers in the financial services sector recently has touched on the impact of FinTechs. FinTech stands for Financial Technology and refers to the software companies...
View ArticleHitachi Data Systems Commitment to Mainframe Storage Systems
In my recent trips to the different geos, I still find many mainframe systems running core applications. Mainframes are still seen as the most reliable systems for non-stop, bulletproof, computing....
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