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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Scott Lowe

JULY 15, 2013

What is PuppetConf 2013 ? If you’re interested in going to PuppetConf 2013, then you might be in luck. If you’re interested in going to PuppetConf 2013, then you might be in luck. I’ve managed to score a pair of tickets to PuppetConf 2013 that I can give away, 1 each to 2 lucky readers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. By: John Rath July 10th, 2013. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164). May 2013 (165). April 2013 (179). March 2013 (167).

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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

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Galido

AUGUST 13, 2016

Large 2 TB storage capacity. Virtualization environment support for VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Virtual Iron. Get it here: Convert Windows Servers into Shared Storage. Originally posted 2013-04-13 12:21:49. StarWind Free is an iSCSI Target that converts any Windows server into a SAN in less than 10 minutes.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 1, 2013

She’s also had activities at EMC World (2011 and 2012), HP Discover EMEA , and Dell Storage Forum in Boston. This year, she’s added another conference: IBM Edge 2013 in Las Vegas! IBM Edge 2013 (conference site here ) runs from June 10–14 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Spousetivities at IBM Edge 2013.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013. 20, 2012 — NJVC ® , an information technology solutions provider headquartered in northern Virginia and supplier of Cloudcuity™ AppDeployer , and Virtual Global , a provider of cloud-enabled enterprise IT solutions based in northern. In 2013 there will be a shakeup.

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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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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2013

In every other area, from servers to operating systems to applications to storage have changed. He also provided info on how organizations are leveraging the rise in processing power and decrease in memory cost to improve data center performance through virtualized data center resources. Find his presentation here.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Summer 2013 News letter Welcome to the Summer 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. Welcome to the Summer 2013 (combined July and August) edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 28, 2013

From the VMworld 2013 event this week in San Francisco, Mellanox announced a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution with LSI Corporation, and a 40 Gigabit Ethernet Flash storage solution with Micron. Networking Virtualization VMware LSI mellanox micron VDI'

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” Brian starts the session with a review of how the data center has evolved over the last 10 years or so, driven by the widespread adoption of compute virtualization, increased CPU capacity, and the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

June 2013 News letter Welcome to the June 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. Other items include backup and data protection topics for SMBs, as well as big data storage topics. [.].

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Happy Thanksgiving 2013. If you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, that’s OK too—it might still be beneficial to reflect upon the good things in your life. Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. Supposedly there are more than 22,000 people in attendance at VMworld 2013, making it—according to Carl—the largest IT infrastructure event. At Carl’s prompting, Kit goes yet another level deeper into how network virtualization works.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 15, 2013

What is PuppetConf 2013 ? If you’re interested in going to PuppetConf 2013, then you might be in luck. If you’re interested in going to PuppetConf 2013, then you might be in luck. I’ve managed to score a pair of tickets to PuppetConf 2013 that I can give away, 1 each to 2 lucky readers.

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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. By: John Rath July 12th, 2013. Storage provider Scality announced it has closed its series C funding round for $22 million, bringing the total invested capital since company inception to $35 million.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote for VMworld 2013. 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. But what is software-defined storage?

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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. They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization. VMware has some great technology.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is IDF 2013 session CLDS001, titled “Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud.” I’d contend that virtualization helps address most of this concern.) Again, I’d contend that the configurability of resources is mitigated somewhere by the extensive use of virtualization.) What about virtualization here?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. ” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

By: Jason Verge July 12th, 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. Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013. 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.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Finally, in early January 2013 I graded myself on my progress on my 2012 goals. In this post, I’d like to take lessons learned from my 2012 projects and apply them toward my list of 2013 projects. So, that’s my list of 2013 projects. Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects. I later dropped Xen in favor of KVM.)

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Dell Inspiron 660 i660, Virtual Server Diamond in the rough? During the 2013 post thanksgiving black friday shopping day, I did some on-line buying including a Dell Inspiron 660 i660 (5629BK) to be used as a physical machine (PM) or VMware host (among other things). Now technically I know, this is a workstation or desktop […].

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. First, here are links to all the liveblogging I did while at the conference: IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 1: [link].

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

By: Rich Miller July 19th, 2013. billion in its data centers in the second quarter of 2013. billion into its server farms in the first three months of 2013, topping the $1.02 1Q 2013: $1.20 1Q 2013: $1.60 Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164).

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

For example, I shared my 2012 project list in early January 2012, then gave myself grades on my progress in early January 2013. In this post, I’m going to grade myself on my 2013 project list. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

By: John Rath July 17th, 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. and Steelhead EX 1360 model appliances are expected to be generally available in the third quarter of 2013.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […].

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2013

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. OpenStack Summit 2013: Getting from Grizzly to Havana, a DevOps Upgrade Pattern. OpenStack Summit 2013: Building HA OpenStack with Puppet in 20 Minutes. OpenStack Summit 2013: Nicira NVP Deep Dive.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

His basic answer was Virtualization and Virtualization Administrators. Specifically, the theme seemed to try to move past x86 virtualization and into Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). One is virtual disk size limitation. VMware has increased the virtual disk size limit from 2TB to 32TB. Virtual Data Plane.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

By: Colleen Miller July 10th, 2013. In this video recorded at GigaOm Structure 2013, Jelle Frank van der Zwet, cloud marketing manager at carrier-neutral colocation provider Interxion , speaks about cloud migration in Europe and Interxion’s footprint in Europe. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. By: John Rath July 11th, 2013. 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 NetWorker 8.1

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