Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Seagate Kinetic Cloud and Object Storage I/O platform Seagate announced today their Kinetic platform and drive designed for use by object API accessed storage including for cloud deployments.

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Storage Cloud Big Data Architecture 74

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 1, 2013

So, you want to improve your knowledge of virtualization. Doesn’t matter if it’s Hyper-V, VMware, Xen or KVM the major decision of Physical vs. Virtual lab is the same. If you are new to virtualization your first thought may be to go out and purchase some dedicated hardware to run your lab sessions.

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Virtualization Vmware Storage Hardware 78

Dataconomy

MARCH 16, 2023

Blockchain storage is based on a distributed ledger system, where a network of nodes maintains a full copy of the blockchain. This innovative system results in an extremely resilient and tamper-proof storage solution that is highly resistant to cyber attacks and hacking attempts. What is blockchain technology?

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Storage Data Network Security 28

Galido

MAY 30, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - PCI Compliance and Network Segmentation - Information Technology Blog. The first step to determining the scope of your Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is segmenting your data networks. What You Should Know About PCI DSS Network Segmentation.

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Network Firewall LAN Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. So how does this work?

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage. ” (That’s a mouthful.)

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” It could be argued that full machine virtualization might not be the most efficient way of handling NFV.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Although big data doesn’t refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data. 3-D printing is known by many names; depending upon the context, the term may also be referred to as rapid prototyping, stereolighography, architectural modeling or additive manufacturing.

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Government Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Big Data 301

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Here’s a quote from the KB article : The distributed switch network health check, including the VLAN, MTU, and teaming policy check can not function properly when there are hardware virtual NICs on the server platform. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Network Vmware Virtualization Intel 62

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

find and fix) vs. simply move or mask data center and server storage I/O bottlenecks. There are many approaches to address (e.g. Having insight and awareness into how your environment along with applications is important to know to focus resources.

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Storage Big Data Virtualization Data Center 40

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 5, 2024

Networking Via this blog post , I learned that Ivan Pepelnjak has a GitHub repository of hands-on examples for learning public cloud networking (including both AWS and Azure). Although this article references additional posts, it doesn’t appear that any more posts on this topic have been published (yet). x and ESXi 8.x.

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Cloud Network Engineering Operating Systems 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2022

This is the story of Infinidat’s comprehensive enterprise product platforms of data storage and cyber-resilient solutions, including the recently launched InfiniBox™ SSA II as well as InfiniGuard®, taking on and knocking down three pain points that are meaningful for a broad swath of enterprises. . Otherwise, what is its value?

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Devops Storage Enterprise Enterprise 112

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

I’ve had a few conversations about network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) recently (see here and here ) and the amorphous use of the term “software-defined.” Separating the storage control plane from the storage data plane is a much closer storage analogy to SDN, in my opinion.

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 114

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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Resources Software Software Microsoft 40

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A shift toward hybrid IT infrastructure has accelerated as a result of the pandemic, along with an increased demand for ultra-low latency, high-bandwidth networks and, by extension, edge computing. The open architecture, which is sometimes referred to as fog computing, drives storage and data processing towards a location where it’s needed.

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Healthcare Applications Enterprise Enterprise 70

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Networking. This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. food references in the title of this article are almost too much. Virtualization. But is it really a virtual machine ? See here for more details.

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A shift toward hybrid IT infrastructure has accelerated as a result of the pandemic, along with an increased demand for ultra-low latency, high-bandwidth networks and, by extension, edge computing. The open architecture, which is sometimes referred to as fog computing, drives storage and data processing towards a location where it’s needed.

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Healthcare Applications Enterprise Enterprise 57

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable. Beth Marshall (aka “Beth the Tester”) provides a reference guide to blocks in Postman Flows.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 30, 2013

I am wondering if Cisco’s ACI Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution is vaporware. VMware’s purchase of Nicira seems to be the catalyst for Cisco’s stepped up campaign against “software only” network virtualization, a form of SDN. A Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) for the virtual network edge.

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Virtualization Hardware Network Software 97

TM Forum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To date, communications service providers’ (CSPs’) implementations of network-as-a-service (NaaS) have focused on increasing efficiency and agility in business and operations while improving business customers’ service experience. TM Forum’s Network as a Service (NaaS) Requirements.

Network 130

Network WAN Enterprise Enterprise 130

Scott Lowe

APRIL 5, 2013

Florian’s treatise—it’s far too in-depth and comprehensive to be referred to as anything else—covers just about everything and anything you want to know about getting OpenStack Quantum and OVS up and running. how each of these components leverages different Linux network namespaces to accomplish their tasks.

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Resources Virtualization Linux Network 118

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Like, “we’ve got more customers, we need more storage.” Like many solutions, Nutanix converges “storage,” “compute” & virtualization. In addition to storage, compute, and virtualization, they converged, DNS, DHCP and their own hypervisor. The most famous example of this is SONET, Synchronous Optical Network.

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How To System SOA Storage 150

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Networking. As I said, this doesn’t just apply to networking folks, but to everyone in IT. I hope you find something useful. Good post, Nick.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 106

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Dataconomy

MAY 15, 2023

This approach, often referred to as pay-per-use or metered services, is gaining popularity in enterprise computing and is occasionally extended to consumers for services such as internet connectivity, website access, file sharing, and other applications. What are the types of utility computing?

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Resources Virtualization Cloud Agile 40

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

In previous posts, I’ve shown you how to use Open vSwitch (OVS) with VLANs through fake bridges , as well as how to wrap libvirt virtual network around OVS fake bridges. Second, you must include the portgroup reference to the virtual network in the domain (guest VM) configuration. > element.

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Virtualization .Net Network Linux 127

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2013

This is the kick-off to a series of posts introducing networking concepts to VMware administrators. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten in speaking to VMware admins, networking is an area in which a lot of VMware-focused folks aren’t particularly comfortable. Layer 2 Versus Layer 3: The OSI and DoD Models.

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Network Vmware Internet Media 65

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. 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. Mircea Ulinic has a nice article describing the combination of NAPALM and Salt for network automation.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Networking. However, I was not familiar with the term “bogons” to refer to such prefixes that should not be publicly routed. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Yes, please.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! Networking. Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. Virtualization. However, there should be something for most everyone else.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Networking. Looks like this is another tool I need to add to my toolbox as I continue to explore networking technologies like OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and others. I also found references to running CFEngine on network apliances and running Chef on Arista switches. As always, I hope you find something useful here.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 110

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Here’s a good source.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

Depending on network connectivity, this might not get published until after the keynote is finished. From there, she launches into a discussion of the “customer virtualization journey”; it’s the same 3-step journey of IT production, business production, and IT-as-a-Service that we’ve heard about for several years.

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 62

Galido

JUNE 27, 2018

Thumb drive and external drives enable some flexibility for people to transport essential files, however, there are limitations to storage space, as well as security, redundancy, reliability and can easily be lost or stolen. This includes servers and virtual machines (VMs), storage, networks, operating systems.

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Cloud Backup Storage Applications 81

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Sorry for the long delay since the last Technology Short Take; personal matters have been taking quite the toll (if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know to what personal matters I’m referring). Networking. Ansible has made some good progress in supporting network automation in the latest release (2.2), according to this blog post.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. 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). Using Python and Netmiko for network automation is the topic of this post by Colin McAlister.

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