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Data Center Transformation Part 8: Storage Economics

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:39:02 +0000

Data Center transformation will not happen if we do not invest in the right technologies. In my previous posts , I have talked about some of these technologies — server virtualization , storage virtualization , dynamic provisioning — and the need to integrate them into a common pool of resources. Unfortunately, the return on investment for these types of technologies is often hard to communicate to the financial decision makers. This is particularly true in the case of storage technologies.

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Data Center Transformation Part 8: Storage Economics

Data Center Transformation Part 6: One platform all Data

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:38:25 +0000

There is a growing need for specialized storage servers to provide functions like Network Attached Storage (NAS) over Internet protocols, Content Archives, enterprise document management, Virtual tape Libraries (VTL), deduplication, low cost modular storage, high availability enterprise storage, etc. While storage servers provide benefits for the management and preservation of certain types of data, it can create storage/server sprawl and increase the fragmentation of data center resources if these services are delivered as standalone storage and server bundles

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Data Center Transformation Part 6: One platform all Data

Data Center Transformation Part 4: Dynamic Provisioning

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:03:05 +0000

This is the fourth part in my series on data center transformation. My last post was on storage transformation and the impact of storage virtualization on the data center. In this post I will address the impact of Dynamic Provisioning on the Data Center. The history of storage provisioning The provisioning of storage has been a major effort since the introduction of the random access disk drives in 1956.

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Data Center Transformation Part 1

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:17:20 +0000

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

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Data Center Transformation Part 1

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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Computerworld Honors Laureate Award Winners

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

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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SMI-S Conformance Testing

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:54:34 +0000

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

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SMI-S Conformance Testing