Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Likewise 2014 so far is continuing the momentum living up to the mantra that while there may be economic challenges, there is no such thing as a data or information recession. 2013 wrapped up with a flurry of industry activity including some acquisitions (Avago buying LSI and Seagate acquiring Xyratex among others).

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

The post June 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog. The question remains how much, when, where, with what and from whom. Needless to say there is plenty of SSD related hardware and software activity occurring in the StorageIO labs as well as StorageIO.com/SSD;).

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Enjoy this edition of the Server and StorageIO update newsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIO lab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcasts along with in the news commentary appearing soon.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Following on from my IDF 2014 Day 1 recap , here’s a quick recap of day 2. I did have an extremely productive conversation regarding Intel’s rack-scale architecture (RSA) efforts. Overall, another solid day at IDF 2014. IDF 2014 Day 2 Recap. Similar Posts: IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap. IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Since the August newsletter, things have been busy with a mix of behind the scenes projects, as well as other activities including several webinars, on-line along with in-person events in the US as well as Europe.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. SQL Server among others).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. The first area of SDI that Bryant focuses upon is storage, where growth is happening rapidly but storage is still siloed. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session. Similar Posts: IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. This would improve container security and move Linux containers closer to the Bromium “microvisor” architecture. IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap. Coffee Chats.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

What this means is that instead of paying for an hour of time for your code to run, you can choose to use the Lambda service with more fine-grained consumption billing.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 12, 2014

The current calendar which continues to be updated includes a mix of webinars (playback are available), and live events covering data infrastructure topics from cloud, virtual, physical and software defined across servers, storage I/O networking, SSD, performance, object storage and data protection among other related themes.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Hello and welcome to this December Server and StorageIO update newsletter.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O networking hardware software and virtualization (aka software defined) was the general announcement (GA) by VMware of Virtual SAN (VSAN). Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g. more than simply selling servers and networking hardware).

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC. DataDirect Networks (DDN) said its branded GS7K Parallel File System storage device will be generally available in December and target broadcast media, financial services, government, life sciences, oil and gas, and other high-performance computing … Read more on TechTarget.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Weaver next takes this relatively abstract discussion and makes it a bit more concrete with a specific example of how a microservice architecture would look under virtualization (OS instance, microservice libraries, and microservice itself) and well as under containers (shared OS instance and shared libraries plus microservice itself).

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

It gave us the opportunity to invent a new database architecture that would address to needs of modern cloud-scale applications, departing from the traditional approaches that had their roots in the databases of nineties. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

RSA Conference 2014, San Francisco, CA – Novetta Solutions and Teradata (NYSE:TDC) have created a new solution available now for US companies that closes the time gap between initial security compromise and discovery, enabling enterprises to shift the balance of power in cyber security. About Teradata and Novetta at RSA Conference 2014.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 30, 2015

Its 2015 and the new year is off and running picking up where 2014 left off. Hello and welcome to this January 2015 Server and StorageIO update newsletter. January is typically a relatively quiet month when it comes to technology announcements and other industry activity.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I started writing about this idea back in 2012 and called it the Personal Cloud Application Architecture. Fuse had a mobile app and felt like any other connected car application, but underneath the covers, the architecture gave control of the data to the car's owner. Fuse's technical success showed the efficacy of the idea at scale.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2014

Jun/03/2014. Project Rhino is a broad based open source security architecture addressing many of the major pillars of enterprise security including: perimeter security, entitlements and access control and data protection. Architecture Big Data CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Apache Hadoop Cloudera Gazzang Hadoop Intel Key management'

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

EMC announced today the general availability of their DSSD D5 Shared Direct Attached SSD (DAS) flash storage system (e.g. If you recall, EMC acquired DSSD back in 2014 which you can read more about here. All Flash Array or AFA) which is a rack-scale solution.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Here’s the list of components that make of Cisco ACI architecture according to Cisco’s product page. An open ecosystem of network, storage, management, and orchestration vendors. However, the APIC is the central component to Cisco’s ACI architecture. This is where I start to see trails of vapor.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

First, OHMS is open source (find it here on GitHub ); second, OHMS appears to interact with/integrate with/support Redfish, a hardware-level API I first discussed back in 2014. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Rajdeep Dua has written an overview of the architecture of SwarmKit.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. This is an idea that was discussed extensively a couple of weeks ago at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco, which I had the opportunity to attend. Thinking About Intel Rack-Scale Architecture.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

They’re thicker than the Spin 513, with big bezels, and they both look like they were built in 2014. Inside, the 7c processor comes paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. It’s difficult to compare the Snapdragon 7c to these chipsets (in terms of power) because their architecture is completely different.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Normally the hardware space is pretty boring (in fact, I’ve been considering removing it from the Technology Short Take series), but HPE decided to shake things up recently with its Synergy servers and “composable architecture”. The recent release of CentOS 7.2 has caused some issues building Docker containers; see this article for a fix.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

This is a semi-liveblog of the day 2 keynote at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

By the way, if you’re looking for a decent OpenFlow primer you could do worse than Matt Oswalt’s deep dive from July 2014. This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2014, AWS said the cloud was the “new normal.” Not only is the business growing rapidly, but the platform is growing rapidly as well; Jassy indicates that AWS is on pace to launch about 1,000 new features in 2016 (up from 722 last year and 516 in 2014). the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

By Bob Gourley New Release of ViSX Performance Storage Appliance OS Boosts Tier 1 Applications and VDI Performance by up to 10X While Supporting Existing NAS and SAN Infrastructure Investments. February 25, 2014 – Astute Networks ™ ,Inc., February 25, 2014 – Astute Networks ™ ,Inc., SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. Next Skaugen announces Skylake, the code name for the next-generation processor architecture that is anticipated for arrival in the second half of next year. IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote. IDF 2013: Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Games should also load quicker because both consoles now include fast solid-state storage, a big improvement over the mechanical hard drive included in the Xbox One. Both support expandable storage of up to 1TB via an expansion card, both output over HDMI 2.1, It has 16GB of RAM, 825GB of storage, and a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray drive.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This leads Eul into a discussion of the Intel Silvermont core: built with 22nm Tri-Gate transistors, multi-core architecture, 64-bit support, and a wide dynamic power operating range. Bay Trail is a mobile computing experience reference architecture. In 2014 will come Advanced LTE (A-LTE). What’s next after Bay Trail?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

With software defined infrastructure as the strategic foundation, Bryant explained plans for how Intel will invest in rack scale architecture, big data and high performance computing (HPC) technologies. “Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 7, 2014

August 5, 2014 — X15 Software, Inc., X15 Enterprise’s Hadoop-based architecture, scalability and openness enables organizations to easily access their machine data with a wide variety of analytics tools.”. X15 Enterprise offers an impressive array of features and capabilities, including: Modern, open and extensible architecture.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Once again this comes back to Intel’s rack-scale architecture work.) A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Construction is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2013, with the first two data halls to be delivered in mid-2014. architecture, a modular approach to building mechanical and electrical systems. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government.

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