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Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
Hu is responsible for defining the technical direction for Hitachi Data Systems, and is spearheading the company's effort in addressing Data Life Cycle requirements to address compliance, governance, and operational risk issues. He also played a part in defining the Hitachi TrueNorth™ initiative, a collaborative approach to develop open, standards based, storage management. In his previous position as Vice President of Data Networks, Yoshida helped to define Hitachi Data Systems' strategy for Freedom Data Networks, which Includes Storage Area Networks, Network Attached Storage, and other network related storage and data technologies. Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems in 1997 as the Director of Product Marketing for Open Systems Storage, he held various positions in sales, performance evaluation, software development, product management, and product marketing for the IBM Storage Division. While at IBM, Yoshida gained international experience with assignments in Japan as a development manager and in the UK as the European Business Manager for RS/6000 Storage. He has authored several papers on Storage Area Networks, Fibre Channel, Multi-Protocol SANs, and Data Network Technologies. Yoshida is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Mathematics. He served in Vietnam as a Marine Rifle Platoon Commander and was discharged with the rank of Captain. Yoshida has served on the advisory boards of several technology companies and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute of the Government of Singapore.
June 10, 2006
Storage
I had another great conversation with Jon Toigo last Friday about Records Management and active archives. Jon described RIM, Records and Information Managers, as the new rock stars for IT. After the Enron - Arther Anderson debacle, many IT shops...
May 13, 2006
Storage
Last week I was invited to participate in the HDS South East Asia, Out Loud Storage Conference. I was especially excited to do this since it was in Ho Chi Minh City, which I last saw 40 years ago as...
April 28, 2006
customer talk / Storage
I came across a post on the RupturedMonkey blog, which is documenting a customer's experience in installing our USP with virtualization and migration of a CX600 to an AMS200, using Tiered Storage Manager. He has also employed Logical Partitioning for...
April 7, 2006
Storage
An April 6 article on SearchDataCenter.com by Rick Cook introduced several misunderstandings about controller based virtualization which I would like to correct.In this article Rick compares three types of storage virtualization, server based, SAN based, and controller based. While he...
April 5, 2006
Hu Yoshida, the CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, provides his insight into industry issues, discusses in his own words storage best practices, and provides realistic solutions to real storage needs in to
April 3, 2006
Storage
On April 3, 2006, HDS announced the Hitachi Global Link Manager (PDF) which enables centralized management for multipath data connections across multiple servers which greatly simplifies alternate storage path management in a complex SAN. HDS also announced the AMS1000 modular...
March 24, 2006
Storage
Let's say you are in a strange city, Like San Diego, and some one knocks on your hotel room door. Instead of throwing the door wide open, in this day and age, we issue a challenge. who's there? If the...
March 20, 2006
tiered storage
Some 40 to 45% of the USP platforms are sold with the Universal Volume Manager software which enables a USP to discover and access LUNs from external storage that is connected through its FC ports. Once this is done the...
March 12, 2006
Storage
Last Thursday and Friday I was at CeBit, the worlds largest trade fair for information and telecommunications technology in Hanover Germany. They expect to get over a million people between March 9 and 15. I was there to support...
February 20, 2006
Storage
Brian Garrett of ESG believes that future storage controllers will be composed of cluster based storage controllers instead of the enterprise class storage controllers from EMC, HDS, and IBM. He observes that many emerging storage controllers use commodity Intel servers...