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How can Hitachi Storage Virtualization OS ensure software-defined environment without compromise?
Our journey is to get set of feature capabilities, behaviors, operational semantics and so forth. Historically, we have two kinds of search operating systems. Users are asking for operational consistency and feature sets which are consistent as much as possible across the spectrum of hardware offerings.
We started what Industry calls ‘Storage-Defined-Whatever’ around 2010. Basically, what customers demanded was flexibility and frankly, if you think about the entire software defined storage world, we have to talk about software defined content, software defined controls (APIs) and it has to run on something and there comes containers and there are two different prototypes – one is scale up and another is scale down.
The virtualization software that we are talking about now is in the scale up context. Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System is the first stand-alone software implementation of our storage virtualization. It definitely provides a common software architecture that will not only increase the life of hardware architectures but strengthen the HDS infrastructure portfolio. The server virtualization is meant to add the capabilities of customers. Now, ITDMs have power of choice, coupled with flexibility and a simplified infrastructure for SDDC.
With the recent announcements, does it mean you’ve got this single software architecture and single hardware architecture?
We have detected several years ago that our users are interested in going this direction. It’s a reality and not just a trendy thing like big data was a trendy thing six months back. Now, Internet of Things (IoT) is. It’s kind of cycles, waves of ideas and SDDC is now a trend where customers are trying to bring the synergy in maintaining their data centres.
How is Hybrid Cloud impacting SDDC in India?
In general, data locality is interesting and important intersection that senior ITDMs have to think about when they think about any sort of cloud deployment. It is obviously a great amount of concern today that Amazon and other services outside the United States and all the issues that Microsoft has just mastered in the EU for some of the privacy regulations, contractual complications and all other models that they are building. So, even with hybrid cloud, there is some concerns –whether it’s a bare model or Software defined environment. There is certain amount of desire to figure out on how to resolve compliance and other sort of issues around it. But generally, hybrid cloud is all about bringing out important behaviours, important bits of data as close to them as possible.
I find it interesting, especially given the hype around Internet of Things (IoT) because in that world, what is required is divergence of cloud with more processes on the edge, in platforms, inside the car as Mclaren and F1 have 8GB of storage in their engine petrol unit. Examples like this imply that persistence is indicative of hybrid cloud. IoT is going to force more types of infrastructures because it stems from the fact that bandwidth from the edge to the core is really narrow and in some cases, it’s wireless. Be itIndiaor any other market, the whole idea of separating processes and pushing it into the right locations can be relevant.
The adoption of Big Data in India is still on the lower side. Is there any technological challenge that IT Managers face today?
I don’t think there is any technological challenge because technology comes out from people ears. There is new stuff to do and people find out the relevance. The transition from data warehouses to advanced analytics indicates that relevance to business is always weightage.
Certain customers feel that thousands of racks are waiting which is not a good recipe for success. There is definitely a friction between IT Teams and Business teams but businesses, when convinced about the benefits, approach towards any emerging trend, not only Big Data, will be all embracing.
How all these innovations will change ten years down the line?
By 2024, the fundamental solutions system of the key design challenges will rule and High Performance Computing will lay the road to the future.
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