GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2021

The last 18 months have been an audio-visual adventure, requiring many of us to improve and refine our at-home tech setups for virtual meetings and remote work. We’re sharing some of our hard-earned lessons on this behind-the-scenes episode of the GeekWire Podcast, including details on hardware and software.

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Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . What is Virtualization? There are two methods of running virtualized software.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. Gabriel Sieben ruminates on the potential dangers of Microsoft Pluton , a new security chip co-developed by Microsoft and AMD. Virtualization. Howard Oakley takes a look at virtualization on Apple silicon Macs.

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2020

Microsoft has spent the past few weeks teasing the Surface Duo on Twitter, and it now looks like the dual-screen device is ready to launch. Microsoft’s new Android-powered device first appeared at the FCC earlier this week , and today it has shown up on the Bluetooth SIG certification page. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We may be a long way away from the datacenter vision that VMware calls software defined data center (SDDC) or what Microsoft calls the cloud based data center, but we have arrived at the virtual first data center. The concept of the SDDC is that storage, compute and network are all software enabled abstracts.

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Data Center Virtualization Data Network 74

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023, 79% of roughly 1,300 enterprise cloud decision-makers surveyed said their firms are implementing internal private clouds, which will use virtualization and private cloud management. billion in 2024, and more than double by 2027. billion in 2024 and grow to $66.4

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Cloud Airlines Enterprise Enterprise 135

The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Bloomberg reports that Sony’s virtual event is tentatively planned for next week but that “plans have been in flux and that the day may change.” Further events are planned in the coming weeks and months, much like how rival Microsoft has been trickling out information about its Xbox Series X console in recent months. Image: Sony.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” ” The speakers are Brian Johnson (@thehevy on Twitter) from Intel and Jim Pinkerton from Microsoft. Key attributes of SDN, according to Microsoft, are flexibility, control, and automation.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 14, 2017

The post Server Storage I/O Converged (CI) Hyper-converged (HCI) overview appeared first on StorageIOblog. This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources.

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Storage Resources Cloud Data 84

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Ken Oestreich. 、????，???????，?????????，??????。

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It offers global compute, storage, data protection, and client device as-a-Service solutions, enabling cloud adjacency, multicloud connectivity, and a full suite of hosting, outsourcing, and application management services through Dell and its global partners.

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Cloud Dell Intel Agile 123

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

If you are a database person, you will want to listen to what Cash has to say about boosting performance and getting more value out of your physical hardware or cloud services. On the other hand if you are a storage person, listen in to get some insight and ideas on to address database performance and resiliency.

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Cloud Storage Big Data Architecture 58

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

they sell Servers, Storage, I/O and Networking hardware, software and services). The post EMC is now Dell EMC, part of Dell Technologies and other server storage Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog. The Dell Server division which sells direct as well as via channels and OEMs is now part of the Dell EMC division (e.g.

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Dell Storage Hardware Network 40

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Did you happen to notice that CoreOS is now available on Microsoft Azure ? Virtualization. of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter will keep popping up.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. Servers/Hardware. Overall, this is a quick but worthy read if you are trying to get started in this space.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Oculus released its first-generation Quest VR headset in 2019, and it quickly became a sought-after head-mounted display , if you were looking to play virtual reality games without being tethered to a gaming PC. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Despite this, the original Oculus Quest model is still a good VR headset to buy.

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Retail Storage Hardware Course 69

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Some Azure folks from Microsoft have published a threat matrix for Kubernetes. Virtualization. Thomas Leonard has an interesting blog on using virtualization to isolate Xwayland. include, among other things, support for Apple Silicon-based virtualization hosts (to run AArch64 guests).

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. The WD Sentinel DX4000 looks pretty awesome from a hardware perspective as well.

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Storage Network SMB Windows 48

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Storage Windows Small Business Backup 73

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Peyton Smith and Mitchell Moser share seven common Microsoft Active Directory misconfigurations that adversaries tend to abuse. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Justin Garrison shares some thoughts on whiteboarding software (and hardware). Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. VMware has looked to both storage and networking as areas of growth. Specifically, for the network VMware is not looking to add network virtualization as just another feature of their server virtualization platform.

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Vmware Virtualization Hardware Network 91

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. Server virtualization is just the beginning of their plan to virtualize the data center. It’s the CTO.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Virtualized Greek

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

I just went on a Twitter brain dump of my predictions on where VMware is going ultimately with their plan on living beyond their market leading server virtualization technology and eventual data center domination. If Mickey Rourke could figure out how to build an Iron Man suit, Microsoft can build a fairly decent x86 hypervisor.

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Data Center Vmware Virtualization Data 75

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Kubernetes 1.15

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Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and now an architect at Microsoft Azure, has a blog post about how Kubernetes enables containers-as-a-service (CaaS), which in turn is the foundation for the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

PACE) related to servers, storage, I/O networks, hardware, software, cloud, virtual and containers. In terms of what have I been working on, it includes the usual of performance, availability, capacity and economics (e.g.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Hardware 40

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Microsoft seems to be all about shocking the world these days (see my related mention of their SQL Server announcement below). At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. Kudos to Microsoft and Microsoft’s leadership for quite the culture change.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. The new storage startup Excelero—as described in this post by Chanaka Ekanayake (“Chan”)—certainly looks interesting. (As Virtualization. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D?

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