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Andy Kyte from Gartner was been sounding the alarm for data center modernization for a number of years. He warns that the data center is headed for a train wreck

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

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.

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”

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

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

Today, SNIA announced the first vendors to demonstrate their commitment to management interoperability by passing the Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP) provider suite for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) version 1.4. These vendors included Brocade, EMC Corporation, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, and Hitachi Ltd

Next week many of us in the storage industry will be heading out to Orlando Florida for the Storage Networking World . Storage conference which is jointly sponsored by Computerworld and SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association.  This is the world’s largest event for IT executives/mangers, vendors, channel partners, press and analysts involved in storage and data systems.    This is a great place to meet your peers in the storage industry, exchange best practices, hear the latest vendor updates, participate in workshops, and quickly gather information about the latest developments in the industry. One of the highlights for me is to get an update on the SNIA work around SMI-S, the Storage Management Initiative Specifications

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.

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