Storage IO Blog

MAY 13, 2021

ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Cloud VDI Environments The following is a new Industry Trends Perspective White Paper Report titled ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments. This new StorageIO report looks at ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI environments.

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Analysis Trends Report Industry 52

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the sixth in a multi-part series (read part five here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus is around general I/O performance including 8KB and 128KB IOP sizes.

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Applications Report Enterprise Enterprise 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the fifth in a multi-part series (read part four here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus looks at large and small file I/O processing.

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Applications Report Enterprise Enterprise 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the fourth in a multi-part series (read part three here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus expands to database application workloads that were run to test various HDD’s.

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Applications Report Enterprise Enterprise 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the second in a multi-part series (read part one here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post we look at some decisions and configuration choices to make for testing content applications servers as well as project planning.

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Applications Report Enterprise Enterprise 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the third in a multi-part series (read part two here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus expands to hardware and software defining as well as configuring the test environments along with applications workloads.

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Hardware Applications Report Enterprise 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the seventh and final post in this multi-part series (read part six here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In perusing some of Brian’s content, I see lots of stuff at the intersection of networking and virtualization. Virtualization. This blog post has a link to a white paper that could be useful. That’s a good place to be right now, in my opinion. Nothing this time; sorry!

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

I came across this article that shows Red Hat is allowing Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) to use/leverage OpenStack Neutron networks, thus allowing OpenStack and non-OpenStack workloads to easily communicate with one another. Virtualization. This seems like a really nice approach. This puts LXD at 2.4.1 and LXC at 2.0.4;

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

This article by Red Hat provides a reasonable overview of various networking options available in OpenStack (specifically, Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution) to support Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Eric Sloof points readers toward a new white paper on VSAN 6.2 Virtualization.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. We must dispel a myth about storage costs, particularly for flash.

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Storage Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise 211

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. ‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Sharma indicates that a white paper is under development that will provide more details on exactly how this is implemented. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

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Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2011

networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” 10 comments: Shivan October 3, 2011 at 12:19 PM Hi Kevin - thanks for the article, and more importantly, pointing me to your white paper.

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Cloud Resources Government Study 167

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

colocation » Fortrust » White Papers. According to this white paper from FORTRUST, the key to making the right decision often depends on asking the right questions. At the end of the paper , FORTRUST provides a detailed workbook/checklist where you’ll find a list of evaluation questions. White Papers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 201

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication. This is where cloud storage can really help. Utility Storage for Virtual and Cloud Computing. White Papers. Comments (required).

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 19, 2009

These interactions have included among other topics, IT optimization, boosting server and storage efficiency, as well as the roll of tiering IT resources to boost efficiency, achieve better productivity while boosting performance in a cost-effective way during touch economic times, in other words, the other green IT ! " SAS 15.5K

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Gelsinger takes the stage again to shift the focus from end-user computing to cloud computing (albeit he focuses primarily on virtualization). The evolution of virtualization, according to Gelsinger, lead to the virtualization of the entire data center. Microsegmentation. Encryption. Multi-factor authentication.

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Vmware Cloud IBM Security 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. Riverbed Evolves Steelhead, Adds Edge Virtualization. White Papers. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Management » White Papers. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Currently, Bill works as a cloud and virtualization architect at MTM Technologies, a Stamford, CT based consulting firm. White Papers. Virtualization.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. In HP’s white paper , you are able to see how to more easily deliver data to any device. Download this white paper to learn what you need to protect your environment and still deliver a powerful user experience. White Papers.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

A white paper goes into the math of this vs. some typical setups. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Accelerating its strategy to deliver Flash across the enterprise server and storage EMC announced it will acquire privately-held ScaleIO. ScaleIO Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) software will become part of the EMC XtremSW Suite of Flash storage software. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. White Papers.

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Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Virtualization 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.

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Data Center Storage Data Big Data 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. Additional HP converged infrastructure used in the making of “Turbo” included 3PAR StoreServ storage, archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage, simplified network management with HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and HP BladeSystem c7000. White Papers. Networking.

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HP Data Center Data Film 221

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. White Papers.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution. Intelligent replication and storage control mechanisms now allow for the distribution of cloud components. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. News Channels White Papers. Virtualization. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge.

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Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. White Papers. Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory.

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Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment.

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Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 18, 2006

The technology purchases covered spanned enterprise software, servers, storage, and voice over IP. We surveyed 289 organizations, and for each one uncovered the influence networks that supported a major technology purchasing decision made over the previous 12 months. Input from selected external parties support successful decisions.

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