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Data Center Transformation Part 3: Storage Transformation

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:56:51 +0000

This is the third part in my series on data center transformations. My last post was on server transformation and the impact of virtual servers on the data center. In this post I will address the impact of storage transformation on the data center. Data is at the core of the Data center Data is at the core of the data center, and any effort to transform the data center must involve the movement, provisioning, access, and protection of data which is provided by storage systems

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Data Center Transformation Part 2 – Server Transformation

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:48:16 +0000

This is the second post in my series on data center transformation. In my first post , I offered up several warning signs that indicate why it is time to take action and transform your data center to be agile, sustainable, and business-oriented.

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What Storage Virtualization can not sacrifice

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:04:54 +0000

There is an increasing interest in storage virtualization as seen an the increasing number of articles and blog posts on storage virtualization. In the last few days Rick Vanover posted a very balanced overview of storage virtualization for Datamation where he reviewed some of the many options. Carol Sliwa posted a Storage Pro Guide to block-based storage virtualization for SearchStorage which cited some use cases. One of the use cases was the City of Coquitlan (Canada) who is a 2010 Computerworld Honors Laureate award winners in IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program and a customer of Hitachi.

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Hitachi Data Systems Blogger Day

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:19:15 +0000

Last week Hitachi Data Systems held their first blogger day, which was attended by 10 bloggers who cover the IT space.

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Computerworld Honors Laureate Award Winners

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:02:23 +0000

Since 1988, the Computerworld Honors Program has been recognizing and documenting the achievements of men, women, organizations and instututions around the world whose visionary use of information technology promotes positive social, economic and educational change. We are pleased to announce that five Hitachi Data Systems customers have been selected as the 2010 Computerworld Honors Laureate award winners by IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program. These Hitachi Data Systems customers will be recognized during the 22nd Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards Evening on June 7, 2010 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

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The Mythical FTE per TB

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:36:47 +0000

Full Time Employee (FTE) per TB used to be a measure of productivity for storage managers. Some people still use that metric today. I submit that FTE per TB is no longer relevant today. For the last 10 years the mantra for IT has been “do more with less”

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Debating secure multi-tenancy

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:31:32 +0000

Chuck Hollis wrote a blog post earlier this week,titled "Once Upon a Time" . I thought it was an excellent post, telling about the transition EMC made a decade ago starting when Joe Tucci replaced Mike Ruettgers. FWIW, I think the diversification that Tucci accomplished at EMC has made all the difference there – especially the acquisition of VMware. You might call it lucky (as I tend to do), but the fact was they were looking to diversify their business took them on a journey that has buoyed their company far beyond the capabilities that their storage products by themselves would have supported. At the end, he asks the question if history was bound to repeat itself again – which appeared to be a nudge towards some of the other companies in the industry. I didn't think this was such an affront – Chuck has been known to tweak competitors from time to time, but for the last 6 months or so, he's restrained himself from doing so. So I was surprised this morning when I saw some tweets that had me look at the post again. And sure enough there was a blow up there involving a cadre of Netapp people that over-reacted to Chuck's post. One of the consequences of this over reaction was that a benign blog post about EMC history became a referendum on Netapp's Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT). It wasn't what Chuck was driving at in his original post, but the comments from Netapp folks steered the discussion that direction. Chuck's main argument is that SMT isn't very secure if your service provider can gain access to a tenant's data. I'd add to that and say, it's not very secure if your service provider can delete volumes and destroy data too. Inadvertent destruction of data by administrators is a larger threat than somebody pulling "an inside job". But it doesn't just effect service provider scenarios.

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Hitachi’s Answer to Storage Virtualization Requirements

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:48:46 +0000

Five Requirements for Storage Virtualization In my previous blog, I identified the following requirements for Storage Virtualization. The first two requirements were already identified by SNIA in 2001. The additional three requirements are addressed by Hitachi in our implementation of Storage virtualization in the USP V/VM. These five requirements are: 1

Additional requirements for storage virtualization; multi-tenancy, transparancy, and scalability

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:31:16 +0000

SNIA defined storage virtualization in 2001 and focused on two important requirements. First was the abstraction of storage functions to enable application and network independent management of storage and data. Second was the application of virtualization to add new capabilities to lower level storage resources

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100 Years of Success

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:05:35 +0000

As you likely already know, Hitachi Ltd, our parent company, is celebrating its 100 th birthday this year.

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