Storage Unpacked 254 – Announcing VSP One and Hitachi Vantara Reorganisation with Gary Lyng

Storage Unpacked Podcast

English - November 10, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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In this live episode, recorded at Hitachi Exchange in Paris, Chris chats to Gary Lyng, VP of Products and Solutions at Hitachi Vantara. The company recently announced the VSP One platform, plus some organisational changes that will take Hitachi Vantara back to a focus on core infrastructure.

We covered the VSP One announcement and reorganisation details in a blog post, available here – https://www.architecting.it/blog/hitachi-vsp-one/

More information on Hitachi Vantara is available through our X-Ray eBook (subscription required).

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Timeline

00:00:00 – Intros
00:01:50 – The 100% availability guarantee is 20+ years old
00:02:40 – What is the VSP One announcement?
00:04:10 – With many silos, infrastructure has become complex
00:07:05 – The current announcement is a strategy, products due in 2024
00:08:10 – Modern storage requirements have evolved
00:09:55 – Reliability, consistency and availability are key attributes of modern systems
00:13:30 – GenAI and analytics are driving data volumes
00:14:55 – Can data be culled or at least tidied?
00:15:50 – Humans like to keep “stuff”
00:19:45 – Modern IT systems can never be offline
00:21:20 – Cloud now has high performance instances that can build virtual SANs
00:24:20 – DLM is back, but in a new way, as data value can increase over time
00:25:05 – Keeping data “forever” doesn’t really mean forever
00:27:00 – Hitachi Vantara has restructured to move capabilities to Hitachi Digital Services
00:30:50 – Wrap Up

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