Hitachi Data Systems Unveils Next Gen Storage
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today introduced a new platform that Hitachi says provides organizations with more intelligent, scalable storage and also prepares them for the next-generation data centers leveraging virtualization and cloud computing. HDS unveiled a new upgrade to its management software that, among other things, can manage more volume of objects and capacity via one management server and offers visibility and correlation of applications, virtual machines and servers and logical storage devices for traditional and virtualized VMware and Microsoft Hyper V environments.
Government Bodies Embrace Cloud Computing
Ed Bugnion, CTO for the Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit at Cisco, certainly got it right when he predicted that the adoption of cloud computing within the enterprise could well be led by the government and not the corporate sector.
"Complex, process-driven environments like government have been used to inflexible IT infrastructures," he said. "The cloud’s flexibility is so appealing that it will drive the creation of a private government cloud."
That statement was made a year ago at EMC World. Today, many government entities are leading the way in cloud adoption.
Cloud Caution Still Common
As someone who writes about technology rather than actually deploying it, I admit I sometimes succumb to vendor-fueled hype. The good news is, it rarely takes long for someone to set me straight. Before I interviewed vendors, analysts and other experts for a story on cloud computing in 2009, I had the idea that virtually any enterprise application could run in the cloud, though some certainly might be better candidates than others.
Tackling the Potential Problem of SaaS Silos
Much of the discussion with cloud integration focuses on integrating with on-premise, even legacy, applications. But with more companies moving into SaaS, there’s another integration question worth considering: How do you integrate between these cloud-based companies so you avoid SaaS silos?