Gradual aging data center transferring storage priority

HDS Company is a subsidiary of Hitachi company in Tokyo. Huyoshida, a vice president and chief technology officer at HDS, says fast-aging data centers are forcing IT managers to move to virtual storage resources, enabling data to move between corporate networks. In a recent visit to Computerworld, Yishida talked about its growing feelings about the spread of virtual technology in the data center, which he thought was slower than expected, and also talked about how it felt about the application of host storage services.

What can companies do today to better manage data growth that is constantly exceeding storage capacity? The first thing people do is integrate. The second thing is to improve utilization, use virtualization or the ability to transfer data in space. The third thing is to keep the data you use and file the rest of the data so that you don't have to back up the same data every time. That's why data deduplication is a big hit last year. It is acknowledged that while backup data can be compressed, the rules impose another responsibility on data retention. This is not just a matter of getting a single instance and storing it, now you have to encrypt the data in your spare time.

How do I change the storage priority of the datacenter? Data centers are constantly aging, and most are unable to support growing data and storage requirements. In addition, data centers are being redesigned to make them more energy efficient and to reduce replica requirements. It is possible to propose some kind of EPA standard for data centers that require rebuilding or reshaping data centers. Therefore, it is important for you to understand how to transfer data in a well-organized way and migrate it to a new datacenter. I believe that this will be a major task for the next 5 years.

What skills do storage administrators need to improve in the future? Almost all CIOs begged me to train their IT staff and educate them on how to turn to virtualization. Switching storage systems and porting data is a very painful task. While virtualization can help them migrate data, users are less willing to learn these new tools. Also, people who are accustomed to using block data will have to learn how to handle file storage because more and more unstructured data will be file-based.

is host storage service a viable option for corporate IT actors? Now, to a greater extent, it's just a low-end service. I don't think the company will ever give up control of it at any time.