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A Guide to Data Reliability Engineering

By Subramanian V posted 12 days ago
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Data Reliability Engineering After the first wave of a deluge of big data projects a few years ago, we now have an even bigger pipeline of data modernization projects. With modernization and cloud migration projects, the analytical framework needs to run on accurate and reliable data. Data Reliability Engineering ensures that the data systems are reliable, available, and performant. In this technical document, I discuss the concepts of Data Reliability Engineering (DRE), my thoughts on what are its architecture components, principles, and metrics, and explain Hitachi’s DRE service offering which ensures the data can be trusted and acted upon in ...
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FC vs iSCSI Storage Area Networks (SAN)

By Stephen Rice posted 30 days ago
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In this blog I am attempting NOT to choose the best vehicle for your business application.   I have multiple vehicles that I personally own, each has a best application or purpose.    I have a sporty luxury sedan and a four-door pickup truck.   Each vehicle has area’s where it excels and where it is deficient.   As there is no perfect vehicle, there is no one perfect network protocol for all workloads in a Storage Area Network.   You will have to choose the one that fits the best for your business application. Fibre Channel Fibre Channel(FC) was designed to be a high speed low latency network, I would equate the sporty luxury sedan to FC . FC networks ...
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Total Economic Impact of Hitachi HCI Appliance

By Dinesh Singh posted 08-11-2023
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Cyber protect your environment with Veeam 12 and Hitachi Content Platform

By Muthuraman Deivanayagam posted 08-08-2023
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Veeam 12 introductions of direct-to-object storage enhance backup performance, simplifies management, and improve data protection against ransomware threats when using Hitachi object storage as a primary backup target.   The direct-to-object storage feature brings several benefits.   Enables faster backups and restores, which helps streamline disaster recovery efforts and reduces recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs).  By eliminating the need for tiering, the backup process becomes more efficient and faster.   Additionally, this approach optimizes storage by allowing massive scalability ...
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Moving a CM-REST Server to a Clustered Environment

By Prasenjit Chatterjee posted 08-07-2023
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Moving a CM-REST Server to a Clustered Environment   Because Configuration Manager API (CM-REST API) is a commonly used management tool, it’s always a good idea to run it from a clustered environment to avoid any disruption. However, it’s also a challenging task for a customer to move their entire existing API environment from a non-clustered environment to a clustered environment instead of deploying a new API environment in a clustered environment.   In this blog, we’ll provide details for moving an existing API environment (Hitachi Ops Center API Configuration Manager) from a non-clustered environment to a clustered environment using the ...
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Addressing Hybrid Cloud Complexity with Hitachi and VMware : Discover @ VMware Explore

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 08-02-2023
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Addressing Hybrid Cloud Complexity with Hitachi and VMware : Discover @ VMware Explore For modern enterprises, hybrid cloud promises profound opportunities yet poses substantial challenges. As businesses strive to innovate and compete, they need solutions to effectively balance these realities, enabling agile DevOps. The strategic integration of   Hitachi Vantara’s Unified Compute Platform (UCP) and VMware provides this equilibrium – helping IT and DevOps teams simplify complexity while development harnesses velocity.   The Hybrid Landscape: A Double-Edged ...
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Sneak Preview: Hitachi Vantara @ VMware Explore

By Dinesh Singh posted 08-02-2023
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Sneak Preview: Hitachi Vantara @ VMware Explore   In a recent survey conducted by a leading cloud management organization, 82% of enterprises cite unanticipated cloud cost escalations as their top cloud challenge. It’s probably the first time that cloud spending containment has a higher priority than cyber security.   Join us at the upcoming  VMware Explore  to learn how Hitachi Vantara can help find the right balance of on-premises, hyperscalers, near-cloud and edge computing to deliver on business objectives without breaking the bank. Hitachi provides market-proven solutions, designed to provide flexibility to customers to choose the ...
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ON-PREMISES S3-COMPATIBLE STORAGE FOR SNOWFLAKE WITH HITACHI CONTENT PLATFORM

By Benjamin Clifford posted 07-19-2023
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On-premises S3-compatible Storage for Snowflake with Hitachi Content Platform   With their June 2023 update, the folks at Snowflake announced general availability of S3-Compatible storage support for Hitachi Content Platform and HCP for Cloud Scale (collectively HCP). With this announcement customers can directly integrate their HCP data sets either on-premises or in collocated private datacenters with their cloud-based Snowflake compute to enable hybrid cloud workflows. Snowflake’s data platform has revolutionized data warehouse as a service with their impressive suite of capabilities resulting in rapid adoption and tremendous growth. Snowflake’s ...
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Universal Volume Manager (UVM) Capabilities with Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO)

By Arvin Jami posted 06-06-2023
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Universal Volume Manager (UVM) Capabilities with Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO)  Target audience: Intersight users / IT infrastructure administrators Value proposition: Virtualizing legacy and third party storage systems through the Hitachi VSP system provides the ability to use Intersight management functionality for storage resources that are normally not supported by Cisco Intersight . Additionally, virtualized systems behind the Hitachi VSP gain access to all the features that are available internally via the Storage Virtualization Operating System RF (SVOS). This includes ...
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Can we really have it all? Is “the cloud” the only way?

By Lynn Collier posted 06-02-2023
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Can we really have it all? Is “the cloud” the only way?   So often in the technology industry we are captivated by the allure of the shiny and new.   Don’t get me wrong, I love the new stuff, but my feet are firmly planted in the reality of needing to deliver to the business on time, within budget and consistently – every day.   There are seemingly endless reasons to go all in with Cloud, but resisting the relentless pressure to “keep up with the trend” could pave the way to a golden future for the IT choices you make in supporting business needs and delivering for the business both today and for the foreseeable future.   ...
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UCP & GitOps to the Rescue: Streamlining Database Deployment on Hitachi UCP with OpenShift

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 06-01-2023
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Introduction In today's hybrid cloud ecosystems, advanced automation is a must for scalable and diverse IT infrastructure. GitOps offers a framework that uses Git as a central single source of truth, ensuring consistency, version control, and efficient sharing across projects. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) leverages GitOps-based solutions for customer-focused IT automation and management, driving competitive business growth. Dive into this blog post as we explore a GitOps-driven framework for deploying modern databases on Hitachi UCP Kubernetes Solution with ...
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Azure AKS Multitenancy Primer

By Chandrasekar Ganapathy posted 05-18-2023
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Innersourcing and its benefits

By Chandrasekar Ganapathy posted 05-12-2023
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Innersourcing and its benefits   We all understand how much opensource has transformed software development practices.   By embracing practices like collaborations, transparency, innovation, accessibility, and imbibing philosophy like if many brains across the world work together quality products emerge at much faster pace.   Innersourcing is a software development approach that leverages the same opensource development principles within a controlled boundary like an organization or a business unit.   In other words, it is a methodology by which a company can enable community development of Code, Documentation, and any project collateral ...
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Testing MongoDB Data Replication and Failover Capability Use Cases on Hitachi Virtual Storage Software

By Subhash Sindhe posted 05-04-2023
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Testing MongoDB Data Replication and Failover Capability Use Cases on Hitachi Virtual Storage Software This Blog demonstrates a reference configuration of Red Hat as a base OS and outlines deploying the MongoDB environment on Hitachi Advanced Servers with Hitachi Virtual Storage Software (VSS). In the test cases, we show the failover capabilities of MongoDB using the VSS platform. What is MongoDB MongoDB is a distributed architecture and an open-source NoSQL database management program with the essential function of creating highly accessible and adaptable web-based technologies. MongoDB is widespread among database development companies because it ...
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Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) Series - Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Volume Snapshot Cascade Capability with Cisco ICO

By Arvin Jami posted 04-27-2023
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Target audience:  Intersight users / IT infrastructure administrators Value proposition:  Intersight users are now able to create multiple snapshots based on the same quiescent point whenever demand arises in a self-service manner, without having to ask for assistance from a storage administrator. Introduction In daily operations there are frequent situations where a copy of the current production data is required for other purposes, such as analyzing a copy of the production database or sharing select sales data with various regions or branch offices. Creating snapshots enables administrators to freeze that data at a particular ...
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INTRODUCTION TO GITOPS: REVOLUTIONIZING INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT FOR EDGE, ON-PREM, AND CLOUD SYSTEMS

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 04-19-2023
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Once upon a time, in the not-so-magical world of IT, professionals toiled day and night, grappling with clunky deployment processes, elusive configuration files, and the ever-present fear of breaking the system. It was a time of chaos and confusion, where developers and operations teams clashed like titans, and the sacred runbook held the key to survival. But fear not, for this is a story of triumph and redemption, as we explore why  GitOps principles emerged to bring order, collaboration, and a newfound sense of humor to the realm of IT. GitOps is a natural evolution of DevOps principles, and its growing popularity in the IT industry is no laughing matter. ...
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What is new with UCP Boulder Release (version 6.x)

By Sreeram Vankadari posted 04-07-2023
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Boulder release got delivered in multiple phases from August 2022 to December 2022.   Below blog summarizes the list of features delivered as part of this release. G720 switches   UCP CI introduced new FC switch option, Brocade G720 Brocade G720 brings in several benefits like 64G FC ports and better bundling price options.   There are sales promotions on G720 as well that can benefit our customers.   Brownfield deployment option is available where customers can add G720 to existing G620 fabric.   Green field deployments (All G720 fabric) are supported as well.   This also helps to address 32G SFP shortage situation.   ...
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Social Proof- Cloud adoption

By Sasikumar Ananthan posted 04-07-2023
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Recently I started reading a book names “Influence by Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Dr. Robert Cialdini. There were six principles discussed in detail, but the one which caught my attention, relating to cloud adoption, is “Social Proof” Dr. Cialdini talks about a term called peer-suasion . Am trying to provide a simple meaning of this along with persuasion. Persuasion - the act of persuading somebody to do something or to believe something. Peer-suasion – acting due to peer pressure. This brings up the below questions: Are organizations adopting cloud due to peer pressure?   Is this impacting their ...
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