Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

more than simply selling servers and networking hardware). 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).

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

One area of particular note is how they are innovating in micro-data centers, including servers in storage containers. 6] [7] Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems , Dell entered the market for IT services.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. Trusted Platform Module) support, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Windows 11 will require Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up, TPM 2.0

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Like the other M1 Macs, everything is soldered together now — so there’s no upgrading RAM or internal storage even if you do crack it open. Other iMacs like the 27-inch 5K iMac from 2014 or the 2018 iMac Pro fared better, thanks to their replaceable CPUs and RAM, but these are absent from the new machine.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 31, 2024

8 Key Benefits of Cloud-Based K12 Classrooms Cost Effectiveness Environment Sustainability Scalability and Flexibility Security and Privacy Accessibility and Facilitation of Distance Learning Data Storage and Backup Streamlined Administrative Processes Professional Development Opportunities for Educators III.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 30, 2013

By putting this capability in the hardware platform instead of abstracting it via software customers could reap the benefits of SDN such as orchestration without giving up performance. The announced ACI product has some of these earlier traits but has been labeled a hardware (first) & software solution. So, let’s review.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. 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.

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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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #70!

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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. As can be expected given the very recent release of Juno, the fall 2014 release of OpenStack, a number of Juno-specific “how to install” pages are popping up.

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2022

New Macs, including a Mac Mini with an M1 Pro / M1 Max processor update, could also get a showing, and new iMac and Mac Pro hardware are said to be in the works — but those will likely show up later in the year. Storage: 64/128/256GB. Whatever the case might be, we might see at least one of these new Macs on March 8th.

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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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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2021

When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker debuted in 2014, it was something of a novelty: A voice-activated natural language processing interface that could perform a number of simple tasks. Prasad : From the moment we introduced Echo and Alexa in 2014, our approach has combined processing in the cloud, on device, and at the edge.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2014

Cloudera also offers software for business critical data challenges including storage, access, management, analysis, security and search. Cloudera works with over 800 hardware, software and services partners to meet customers’ big data goals. – bg.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s not uncommon for individual departments to house several vendors’ compute, storage, and network platforms under one roof. It’s no longer driven by hardware technology, which had a predictable life cycle to it. At times overwhelmed. As IT environments expand, managers find themselves dealing with cases of vendor sprawl.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Show Notes. Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Show Notes. Cassandra and Neo4j.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

Customers who already pay for GoPro’s Plus subscription service (which includes unlimited cloud storage, live-streaming functionality, and camera replacement) will get Quik’s features for free. But it’s] too limiting to just serve people through our hardware alone. We’re known for enabling amazing content. Meet them where they are.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. This is a software-defined data center discussion—compute virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and management. But what is software-defined storage?

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Galido

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

PC’s generally get slowed down due to slow storage devices, SSDs have eliminated this problem altogether with their high processing and transfer speeds. A sound storage device is the key to a perfectly operating PC. The SATAe interface was compatible with select motherboards which were manufactured in 2014. 2 interface.

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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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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. Servers/Hardware. Kenneth Hui has a couple of great articles on persistent storage with application containers (first one here , then this follow-up post ). ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Servers/Hardware. First, he provides a high-level overview of Mesos ; that’s followed up by a slightly deeper look at Mesos, then a discussion of persistent storage and fault tolerance. look no further—Jad El-Zein has posted a ton of content generated by an online “install and config” event he held right at the end of 2014.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. In 2014 will come Advanced LTE (A-LTE). They are doing that via Intel Identity Password, which embeds keys into the hardware to enable passwordless VPNs. Naturally, a great CPU is key to success.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.) Here’s a post on converting VX from VirtualBox to Libvirt , in case you’d like to run it that way. Kubernetes cheat sheet?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. He shows off a demo of Skylake as well as a hardware reference platform for Skylake playing full 4K video. Dell also makes mention of new PowerEdge servers, including the R720XD, a 2U box with 36 cores, up to 1.5TB of RAM, and up to 100TB of storage.

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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. beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!), The hardware specification for EVO:RAIL is a 2U, four-node enclosure (think Dell C6100 or similar hardware form factor). VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote.

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The Investing Edge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

He adds, “Gartner believes that key platform-enabling technologies are 5G, Digital Twin, Edge Computing, Blockchain, IoT Platforms, Neuromorphic Hardware, Quantum Computing, Serverless PaaS and Software-Defined Security.” There are a number of other interesting conclusions; do read the entire article. that multitasking makes us stupid. “

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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. Establishing hardware-level APIs.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). IDF 2014: Virtualizing the Network to Enable SDI. Technology Short Take #39.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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. IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth. Third generation Atom processors will be based on Intel’s forthcoming 14nm process technology and are scheduled for 2014. The 2014 Xeon E3 family SoC processor is code named Broadwell, and will also be 14nm. Networking.

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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. Full production is planned for the fourth quarter of this year, with a new line of solid-state drive solutions expected to ship in 2014.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is a quite old post (from 2014!), Rather than trying to curate my own list of storage-related links this time around, I’ll point you to this list instead , curated by none other than Dr. J Metz himself. Vincent Bernat provides some feedback on Cisco pyATS and Genie Parser. Thank you, Ben!

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CTOvision

AUGUST 7, 2014

August 5, 2014 — X15 Software, Inc., Unlike other tools, X15 Enterprise allows machine data to remain in HDFS and does not require it to be duplicated into proprietary storage before it can be indexed and analyzed. X15 Software Launches X15 Enterprise. SAN MATEO, Calif., Automatic fault tolerance. Real-time data indexing and querying.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The company broke ground on the new development on July 1, 2013 and the facility will be fully-commissioned and ready for occupancy in April 2014. It also offers sales tax rebates on the purchase of computers and related equipment, including networking and storage systems, cooling and power infrastructure, software and even electrical power.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Seattle startup, spun out from Intellectual Ventures in 2014 , sells compact radar systems to border security, military and law enforcement. Energy storage company Powin charges up with $135M. Powin , an energy storage company based in Oregon, received a $135 million investment in July. 111 on the GeekWire 200. Powin Image).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Seattle company, founded in 2014 with a vision of driving cryptocurrency access, started with a small number of bitcoin ATMs, and has since grown to support thousands of crypto-enabled units around the country through a partnership with Coinstar. Qumulo is a data storage platform for multi-cloud environments. 78: Coinme.

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