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Briefing Note: Hitachi upgrades HCP Anywhere, adds new Object Storage Node

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Eric Slack

The new paradigm for employee computing is mobility; the right data at the right time in the right place. Users have made this clear with a willingness to set up their own cloud-based file sharing services, even at work. Companies…

Tagged with: Briefing, Cloud, file sync and share, FS&S, Gateway, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Object
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A Big Data Center without White Boxes – Storage in the Large Financial Enterprise

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Eric Slack

Google, FaceBook and many of the largest web-scale companies have made the use of commodity, ‘white box’ storage systems seem like the standard practice for large enterprises. Not so. Storage Switzerland recently spoke with a global financial institution about how…

Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Efficiency, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Infrastructure, Real Time, Scale Up, Tier-1
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Business Outcome Driven Storage

Posted on January 8, 2015 by George Crump

The new mantra for IT is to focus the technology and services their data centers provide on business outcomes. That concept seems more easily applied to front-line and customer-facing applications, like customer relationship management, decision support and Web servers that…

Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDS, Hierarchical Storage Management, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, ILM, Information Lifecycle Management, NAND, NVM, performance, SSD, Virtual machine
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Ten IT Trends for 2015 from HDS and StorageSwiss

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent webinar Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump, and HDS CTO, Hu Yoshida, discussed 10 IT Trends for 2015. A theme of this list was the importance of “business-defined IT” and the specific technologies that are coming to support…

Tagged with: Big data, Business-Defined, Cloud, Consolidation, Convergence, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-convergence, Trends
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Is Commodity Storage Hardware really less expensive?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent blog, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO, Hu Yoshida, discusses the top 10 business trends that will impact IT in 2015. Number four on his list is “Software Defined Everything”. One of the theoretical selling points of software defined…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Cloud, Commodity Hardware, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Software Defined, Trends
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Why Business-Defined IT may well Define IT in 2015

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

One of the IT trends that we see coming in 2015 is something called “Business-Defined IT”. This is essentially a focus for IT on collaborating with internal business entities and providing business services rather than just building and running infrastructure.…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Business-Defined IT, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Trends
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Designing Highly Scalable Storage for Dense Virtual Machine Environments

Posted on October 16, 2014 by George Crump

We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster,…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Storage Short: How Dense can a VM Environment get?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Why a 15,000 VM NAS Test is important to all Users

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an enterprise NAS system was able to successfully support 15,000 VMs. This is certainly an impressive number, and a performance spec that some larger enterprises may actually need.…