Infosmack 92 – HDS and Virtualization. Hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley with the Diva of Disruptive Technologies, Christina Weil. Our special guests this week are Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems and Claus Mikkelsen, Chief Scientist at Hitachi Data Systems with our round table of infamous bloggers, Chris Evans, Nigel Poulton and Devang Panchigar.
In this week’s episode we discuss…
- Value of storage virtualization
- VAAI as an extension of storage virtualization
- VMware on block or file?
- HDS’s legacy into virtualization
- Separating control data from actual data
- The true value of VAAI
- What’s next after storage virtualization?
Disclosure: Infosmack does not receive support directly or indirectly from vendors or guests. HDS did provide travel and accommodations for the “HDS Day” event.
Vendor relationships are disclosed on the podcast.
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