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 [...]
Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 4.1, the next generation of their ever evolving hypervisor. To be honest it would be hard to miss this announcement judging by the flurry of “first to blog” posts I’ve seen on RSS feeds and Twitter today (see the list at the end of this post). I’d [...]
It may come as a surprise, but many of the HDS attendees at the Geek Day are also bloggers and tweeters. I’ve compiled a list of those within Hitachi (including non-attendees) that I’m already aware of. Feel free to comment if there’s anyone I have missed. I recommend you follow these people on your RSS [...]
Hitachi Geek Day has been and gone and I’m back home in the UK recovering from quick turnaround jetlag. Originally this event was known as HDS Bloggers Day and in actual fact was a day and a half long. Somewhere along the line the Geek monika was adopted and has been retained for the page [...]
Here I am again on the start of another vendor blogging day. As the title of this post suggests, this will be a trip to see Hitachi, or HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) if you prefer. The Bloggers Day is taking place over two days and is located in San Jose, just south of San Francisco [...]
This time next week I shall be in the middle of the first HDS Bloggers Day, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday 15/16th June 2010. I’m well versed in HDS (or Hitachi, depending on how they preferred to be known) storage products, mainly their large enterprise arrays. I doubt we’ll see revelations on the upcoming USP [...]
I’ve just been reading Greg Knieriemen’s post over at iknerd.com on the ending of Sun/Oracle’s OEM agreement with Hitachi to resell their high end storage arrays. On the one hand I’m surprised by the announcement; on the other I’m not.
Sun have resold Hitachi for some time under the 9990V and 9985V [...]
So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it! All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”. It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved today using EMC’s Symmetrix Optimizer?
Hot Spots
EMC’s [...]
Yesterday Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) used SNW USA to release information on their proposed cloud strategy, referred to as “Agile Cloud”. Everyone believes they need a cloud story and clearly Hitachi are no different.
Taken from the presentation I was given last week, is the following picture. This pretty much sums up [...]
I just read this on The Register. 5TB drives! Can you imagine it! The HDD manufacturers continue to push the envelope even further.
Now I have a concern about drives getting to this size and that’s the ability to get data on/off the drive itself. With 73/146/300GB drives, the capacity to response time [...]
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