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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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Hyper-converged infrastructure maker adds all-flash SME and remote office server-storage hardware with VMware hypervisor to vSTAC SLX products based on NexGen buy

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This places VMware and Cisco on a collision course.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 9, 2015

One interesting trend for Storage Field Day 7 (SFD) is the lack of Tier 1 SAN vendors. While several of the vendors are claiming support for Tier 1 applications, none of the vendors offer a traditional Tier 1 hardware array. Virtualization SFD7'

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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. But rapid hardware advances may mean CIOs need to budget for much shorter hardware refresh cycles in future to stay up to date.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2023

As a result of all this, the need for carefully architected sovereign clouds has gone mainstream and VMware is powerfully positioned to expand its multi-cloud strategy with VMware Sovereign Cloud. The benefits of VMware Sovereign Cloud A common benefit of sovereign clouds for cloud providers and customers is compliance.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. VMware is not lacking for innovation. There is still a ton to be done in virtualizing networks and storage.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2023

Notably, Cloudist’s cloud services include Infrastructure-as-a-Service based on VMware Cloud Director and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service based on VMware Cloud Director Availability. We have a long relationship with VMware and know firsthand that it is trusted and relied on by organizations across industries,” says Brink.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Networking.

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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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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. But no matter how much I and my peer like the solution, VMware impresses the wrong crowd and may be headed down the path of other great infrastructure technologies like Novell Netware.

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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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47. What do I have in store for you this time around? Networking. Programming. Are you ready to give up GitHub ?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

With nearly 140 employees, the high-performance data center provides government agencies with mission-critical compute, storage, and networking solutions needed to provide important services to citizens. One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We It’s all important.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

These problems are exacerbated by a lack of hardware designed for ML use cases. Gartner reports, “86% of organizations identified at least one of the following areas as a weak link in their AI infrastructure stack: GPU processing, CPU processing, data storage, networking, resource sharing, or integrated development environments.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

We recently caught up with Aaron Tebbutt, strategic vendor alliance manager, to learn more about iomart, get his thoughts on what it means for the company to be among the prestigious providers to have earned the VMware Cloud Verified distinction, and learn what he sees as the pivotal issues shaping the cloud. “We Cloud Computing

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Virtualized Greek

MAY 30, 2014

Software Defined Networking is a meaty topic and a good follow-up to last week’s conversation on Software Defined Storage. There’s a lot at stake from both the software and hardware vendors in this space. Both VMware, who’s trying to… Cloud Computing Network Virtualization NSX SDDC SDN'

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Servers/Hardware. Brandon Gordon shares how to use VMware Harbor and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network (vCAN) environment for container management.

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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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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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

The keynote starts with a catchy, jazzy dance/music piece, and then Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer for VMware, takes the stage. VMware is on a voyage of brave transformation itself, and Gelsinger provides examples of VMware’s BYOD efforts and running all of VMware’s SAP ERP efforts on vCloud Air.

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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. . Bare metal virtualization runs virtualization software installed directly on hardware.

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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. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week at VMworld , I had the opportunity to meet with Lightbits Labs , a relatively new startup working on what they called “disaggregated storage.” So what is “disaggregated storage”? It’s one of the first questions I asked the Lightbits team. NVMe/TCP acceleration.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts? All good stuff, thanks Mike!

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a pair of articles ( one here and one here ) that describe the port connections required between the various components in a VMware NSX deployment. Servers/Hardware. These posts are a bit slanted toware VMware vSphere environments, but very detailed, very thorough, and very useful. Three more posts are planned.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Reader Brian Markussen—with whom I had the pleasure to speak at the Danish VMUG in Copenhagen earlier this month—brought to my attention an issue between VMware vSphere’s health check feature and Cisco UCS when using Cisco’s VIC cards. VMware ESX Networking Articles. vSphere Network Health Check and Cisco UCS.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. He also has a good article outlining some storage options for various blade server platforms that might be helpful as well. Frank Denneman—now back at VMware (welcome back, Frank!)—has

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 24, 2013

Scott Lowe was a guest on the latest episode of VMware Community Podcast and was discussing Network Virtualization. I posed the question in the live chat on the difference between SDN and what VMware is defining as “Network Virtualization.” I believe the industry outside of VMware is defining SDN in a broader sense.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Keith Townsend: VMworld session review – NET2207, VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Technical Deep Dive. Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – VMware vSphere Hardening to Achieve Regulatory Compliance INF-SEC1840. Derek Seaman: VMworld – Architecting Storage DRS Clusters INF-STO1545. Vladan Seget: Top VMware vSphere 5.1

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