If you haven’t read it already, I urge you to have a look at the following post on Claus Mikkelsen’s (@yoclaus) blog over at HDS. It’s a guest post from Ian Vogelesang, who seems to have held many jobs in HGST and Hitachi, but focusing on the disk drive [...]
I don’t talk about company acquisitions too often but I can’t let the purchase of BlueArc by HDS pass me by without adding my opinion. First of all, for those of you who don’t know, BlueArc sells NAS hardware which has been resold by HDS for some years under the HNAS brand. The hardware comes [...]
As previously mentioned, last week I attended the second HDS/Hitachi Bloggers’ Day, this year located at Sefton Park in the UK. Setting the event on this side of The Pond (rather than requiring me to take a 10,000 mile round-trip) was certainly a benefit and I welcomed the lack of jet lag! I [...]
At the recent Hitachi Information Forum on 27th September 2010 I caught a few minutes with Michael Hay, Chief Strategist and Vice President of Product Planning. We discussed some of the new features of the VSP platform. Here’s the video.
This is a series of posts that cover the features of Hitachi’s new enterprise storage platform, the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), also sold by HP as the P9500 array.
The VSP is the first enterprise array from Hitachi that offers support for 2.5″ drives. We’ve seen these Small Form Factor (SFF) models for some time [...]
Today HDS and HP will announce the next generation enterprise storage array architecture from Hitachi (see details here and here). Both companies OEM the VSP (HDS name) or 9500 (HP name) and so the releases are co-ordinated to occur at the same time. I am currently in Santa Clara for [...]
The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP & Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech. It signals an acceptance that storage is a key feature in the future direction of the IT industry – more important than [...]
The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture. Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the monolithic, sometimes [...]
This week I’ve been catching up with the folks at Hitachi in Japan, including a visit with the Storage Division. Unfortunately that part of the week was under NDA and so can’t be discussed. What I can say is what was discussed was extremely interesting and I look forward to what we get to see [...]
I have been fortunate to be invited by Hitachi to attend next week’s uValue conference in Tokyo, Japan. For those who aren’t aware, 2010 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Hitachi Ltd, the owning parent of Hitachi Data Systems, so this year’s uValue conference should be something special.
This event isn’t [...]
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