Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. Aurora is positioned as an alternative to traditional SQL based transactional databases commonly found in enterprise environments (e.g. SQL Server among others).

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder It’s that time of year again, World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder. In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Saturday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

There is only one pathway forward and that involves making rapid and deep cuts in emissions – including at data centers and across the cloud computing industry that is absolutely fundamental and crucial for how we work and nearly everything we produce.”. – PeaSoup embraces environmental friendly immersive cooling for cloud services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

There is only one pathway forward and that involves making rapid and deep cuts in emissions – including at data centers and across the cloud computing industry that is absolutely fundamental and crucial for how we work and nearly everything we produce.”. – PeaSoup embraces environmental friendly immersive cooling for cloud services.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g. Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O networking hardware software and virtualization (aka software defined) was the general announcement (GA) by VMware of Virtual SAN (VSAN).

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Check in on those cloud costs “Highly scalable technology combined with increasing use and increasing costs leads to runaway spending,” says Mark Troller, CIO at telecom expense management company Tangoe, which estimates that its clients overspend on cloud by as much as 40%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

Cloud products and services among others, along with associated data infrastructures including object storage, file systems, repositories and access methods are at the center of bulk, big data, big bandwidth and little data initiatives on a public, private, hybrid and community basis.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

Listen in to our podcast conversation here as we cover cloud, convergence, software defined and more pertaining to data storage. The post Data Storage Innovation Chat with SNIA Wayne Adams and David appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

” – Bryce Allan, head of sustainability at Teraco Data Environments Sumeeth Singh, head of VMware’s Cloud Provider Business in sub-Saharan Africa, was not surprised when the region’s leading cloud solutions and services companies enthusiastically embraced the VMware Cloud Verified initiative. Singh saw an opportunity.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

There are various types of cloud, bulk and object storage including public services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), Google, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace among many others. The post Software Defined, Cloud, Bulk and Object Storage Fundamentals appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Enjoy this edition of the Server and StorageIO update newsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIO lab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcasts along with in the news commentary appearing soon.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Since the August newsletter, things have been busy with a mix of behind the scenes projects, as well as other activities including several webinars, on-line along with in-person events in the US as well as Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database work. Software engineer. Full-stack software engineer. Back-end software engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2022

The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database work. Software engineer. Full-stack software engineer. Back-end software engineer.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Blog post – Goodbye 2013, hello 2014, predictions past, present and future Good by 2013 and hello 2014 along with predictions past, present and future First, for those who may have missed this, thanks to all who helped make 2013 a great year! Looking back at 2013 I saw a continued trend of more vendors […].

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 12, 2014

The current calendar which continues to be updated includes a mix of webinars (playback are available), and live events covering data infrastructure topics from cloud, virtual, physical and software defined across servers, storage I/O networking, SSD, performance, object storage and data protection among other related themes.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2014

Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization, software defined and data infrastructure topics. This past week I along with around 22,000 others attended VMworld 2014 in San Francisco.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 29, 2014

Server and StorageIO Update newsletter – July 2014 Welcome to the July 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. For some of you it is mid summer (e.g. in the northern hemisphere) while for others it mid-winter (southern hemisphere).

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I’m happy to announce that Cloud Playground is now available on Linux Academy! Seven years ago we launched our first Cloud Servers interface providing the ability for Linux Academy students to spin up virtual machines on demand as part of their membership. Major Upgrades Brought by Cloud Playground.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […]. With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance, there were also many announcements today (e.g. Monday) and many more slated for out the week. Here are a synopsis of some of those announcements.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Is more better for example (among others): Facebook likes Twitter followers or tweets (I’m @storageio btw) Google+ likes, follows and hangouts More smart phone apps LinkedIn connections People in your circle or community […].

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence tools.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. VVOL’s are not LUN’s like regular block (e.g. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Today, they run on data and that data is usually juggled, herded, curated, and organized by business process management (BPM) software. Some systems also use a mechanism called “process discovery” to watch the use of existing digital software and make it simpler with the addition of automated routines. Bonitasoft.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It’s not how much you have, its how storage I/O work gets done that matters Following last weeks VMworld event in San Francisco where among other announcements including this one around Virtual SAN (VSAN) along with Software Defined Storage (SDS), EMC today made several announcements.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Likewise 2014 so far is continuing the momentum living up to the mantra that while there may be economic challenges, there is no such thing as a data or information recession.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 23, 2013

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 31, 2014

Welcome to the April and May 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. In this edition there is coverage of vendors technology announcements, trends, earnings results and much more.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Is your company, organization or one that you are a fan of, or represent listed on the StorageIO industry links page?

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. Unlike traditional partner software defined solutions that relied on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, VMware is being deployed using private bare metal AWS elastic servers.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

November 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter Welcome to the November 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 23, 2019

Cloud Ready Data Protection for Hybrid Data Centers Are In Your Future Join me for a free webinar Cloud Ready Data Protection for Hybrid Data Centers and Data Infrastructures 11AM PT Thursday July 11th produced by Redmond Magazine sponsored by Quest Software.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 7, 2016

Dwight Bu e s & Kevin Jackson This is Part 1 of a three part series that addresses the need for a systems engineering approach to IoT and cloud network design: The “Internet of Things” depends on the “Cloud” for the processing and storage of data. The Cloud’s backbone, however, is the network.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

Needless to say there is plenty of SSD related hardware and software activity occurring in the StorageIO labs as well as StorageIO.com/SSD;). The question remains how much, when, where, with what and from whom. The post June 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2015

However there are also many blogs at the vpad site that have a cloud, virtual, server, storage, networking, software defined, development and other related themes. You will find a nice mix of new school, old school and a few current or future school theme blogs represented with some being more VMware specific.

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