Submitted by MCA Admin 1 on 3 May, 2012 - 06:44
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Last week’s announcement dovetails perfectly with my current series on data archiving, although the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) team may not appreciate my angle based on all their accomplishments with HCP product that go above and beyond just archiving. Be that as it may, I can’t ignore an important feature of the new release of HCP, for me anyway. I have a passion for efficiency, especially when it comes to power and environmental efficiencies. Overall, the new release of the Hitachi Content Platform has increased its dominant foothold in the object store and cloud arena, with a richer set of enhancements and features designed to provide a world-class platform for managing the massive scale-out requirements of today’s explosive data growth.
A highlighted list of these new and enhanced features include:
Improved Operational Efficiency to Lower Costs
Submitted by MCA Admin 1 on 1 May, 2012 - 03:23
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Firstly, it has been quite a while since I’ve last posted. A lot has happened between the beginning of the year and today. In fact it has been so action packed, the past 100 days seem more like 365. While I cannot spill the beans on everything, my colleague Ken Wood and I are super excited to communicate to you about the new Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) and the Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) developments.
With HCP and HDI we are bringing well over 130 new features and capabilities to the cloud-enabled object storage market. While documenting a log-like post of every detail would be downright boring I believe referencing the top 5 HCP capabilities and top 2 HDI capabilities will expose the stellar work completed by our HCP and HDI R&D teams.
HCP’s top 5 new capabilities are:
Submitted by MCA Admin 1 on 13 April, 2012 - 23:31
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Per my previous post, I wanted to provide more concrete examples from the storage world related to the sedimentary hypothesis.
Here goes example number one: NAS virtualization.
You may recall past companies and products in this space. Those that come immediately to mind include Rainfinity, Acopia, and StorageX, with only Acopia ARX really existing at F5 as a standalone NAS virtualization product. All the others have either been acquired or have gone out of business (at least as far as I know). As there are no longer being highlighted via a standalone application or appliance begs the question: Is NAS virtualization a viable technology?
You bet, and you can see it in action within two Hitachi products, except not as separate appliances: Notably, you’ll find NAS virtualization in the Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) and the Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS).
