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Virtualization Transparency

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:42:59 +0000

One of the objectives of storage virtualization is to separate the management of the physical storage from the application, the server, and the network view of the storage, so they can continue to operate while the storage is refreshed, tuned, migrated, maintained, replicated, or replaced.

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How do you increase storage utilization?

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:50:09 +0000

A while back we did a storage assessment for a non HDS customer and showed him that his storage utilization was actually around 30% which is typical in most accounts. While that was not surprising to the operations people this was a surprise to the financial people who could not understand why 70% of their storage capacity, in this case, several hundred TBs, was not being utilized. Management was embarrassed and immediately fingers were being pointed at the storage architect and storage administrators, who in turn pointed to the application users who were asking for way more storage than they appeared to need.

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Remote Service can speed storage virtualization implementation

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:10:33 +0000

Hitachi Data Systems has been very successful selling the benefits of Storage Virtualization and Dynamic Provisioning.

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Transition from Sun to Oracle

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:34:34 +0000

This week we shared with our partners that Oracle and HDS will not renew the current distribution agreement for our Enterprise Storage platform that we had with Sun Microsystems prior to the Oracle acquisition. That agreement expires on March 31. We have enjoyed a very good relationship with Sun over the past nine years and have many joint customers whom we consider as our own. Oracle has ongoing capability to service their installations beyond the end of the Sun contract and we will continue to work with them to ensure that these customers receive the same high level service and support.

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