Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

This is also that time of year where predictions for 2016 will start streaming out as well as reflections looking back at 2015 appear (more on these in January). Overall 2015 has been a very good year with many things in the works both public facing, as well as several behind the scenes some of which will start to appear throughout 2016.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 29, 2015

Also test your copies and remember the 4 3 2 1 rule or guide.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2015

Eric has run for several years now an annual top VMware, Virtualization, Storage and related blogs voting now taking place until March 16th 2015 (click on the image below). However there are also many blogs at the vpad site that have a cloud, virtual, server, storage, networking, software defined, development and other related themes.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 28, 2015

Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions. EMC covered my hotel and registration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas (thanks EMC, that’s a disclosure btw ;) and here is a synopsis of various EMCworld 2015 announcements.

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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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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 28, 2015

Clouds (OpenStack, vCloud Air, AWS, Azure, GCS among others), virtual and containers, flash SSD devices (drives, cards), software defining, content servers, NVMe, databases, data protection items, servers, cache and micro-tiering among other things. In terms of what have I been working on (or with)?

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Relaying comments from earlier classes, graduating students gain a strong sense of personal accomplishment and professional goal achievement ( See "From PC Break/Fix to CloudMASTER® ") Shawn Bolan is Training Manager for New Horizons Omaha , a New Horizons franchise organization that provides virtual training through the cloud.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 27, 2015

That is why I jumped at the chance to meet Dimension Data ’s Steve Nola during the company’s analyst event, Perspectives 2015, in Prague, Czech Republic. Traditional architectures aren’t designed with an ability to cycle up and down. Jackson 2015 ) Follow me at [link]. They are also not typically metered and monitored.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 27, 2015

That is why I jumped at the chance to meet Dimension Data ’s Steve Nola during the company’s analyst event, Perspectives 2015, in Prague, Czech Republic. Traditional architectures aren’t designed with an ability to cycle up and down. Jackson 2015 ) Follow me at [link]. They are also not typically metered and monitored.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In case you had not heard, Microsoft recently released the bits (e.g. software download) for Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 (TP4). TP4 is the successor to Technical Preview 3 (TP3) that was released this past August and is the most recent public preview version of the next Windows Server.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

In accomplishing this work, they provide industry leading data center professional services which also include networking, Cloud Design and IT infrastructure architecture expertise. Apart from physical relocation of equipment, customers achieved data center consolidation thru virtualization. Jackson 2015 ) Follow me at [link].

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). You cannot possibly deny that Kubernetes is built on a very mature and proven architecture.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2015

This edition of the Server StorageIO update newsletter has a focus on industry trends perspectives including recent M&A and PTSA activity.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 30, 2015

This months newsletter has a focus on cloud and object storage for bulk data, unstructured data, big data, archiving among other scenarios.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2015, as next week is Christmas and the following week is the New Year’s holiday. Networking. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Here’s a post that claims to translate OVS and OpenStack Neutron to the network engineer’s language.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Here is more on what we expect each will bring us in 2016: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. CyberSecurity : Some of humanity's greatest thinkers, business leaders and computer scientists have struggled for years trying to enhance the security of our computers and networks.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. Not everyone agrees, though—here’s Steven Noble’s take on the introduction of 6-pack and why this is pushing the networking industry forward. Virtualization. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Bring on the content!

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So why is networking (and Neutron) so hot right now? Mark believes that this is due to the increasing maturity of software-defined networking and network virtualization. Mark shows data from Crehan Research that states SDN is growing twice as fast as server virtualization. QoS (Quality of Service) APIs.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Krzanich talks about how this migration to the “Internet of Things” drives Intel away from CPU-centric architectures into integrated (i.e., system-centric or System-on-Chip [SoC]) architectures, and he believes this is why Intel will win and drive marketshare in this transition. Gate last approach. Phase shift masks.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Krzanich talks about how this migration to the “Internet of Things” drives Intel away from CPU-centric architectures into integrated (i.e., system-centric or System-on-Chip [SoC]) architectures, and he believes this is why Intel will win and drive marketshare in this transition. Gate last approach. Phase shift masks.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s the fifth generation of cellular networking, slowly replacing 4G networks. Scheduled to ramp up deployment in 2019, 5G brings download speeds that are 20x faster than 4G networks. AR/VR : Augmented and Virtual reality has been around for a while now, but hasn’t really exploded yet. IoT is about to explode.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

APRIL 4, 2018

With limited deployment planned for this year, we can expect 5G wireless networks to become standard within a few years. In short, 5G makes wireless networks much, much faster. Cloud architecture was designed for speed and performance. Here’s a great article that highlights virtual reality’s possibilities for business.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2016

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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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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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

In fact, the market for cloud computing solutions grew a staggering 21% in 2015 and promises to continue growing at a similar pace over the next five years. Major cloud infrastructure services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have fueled new hiring strategies, with 81% of enterprises adopting DevOps strategies and engineers.

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TM Forum

AUGUST 9, 2022

Whereas postpaid customers may be characterized by their affordability, high propensity to call ‘on-net’, i.e., to their family or friends from within their network of provider, a rich residential location, etc. Postpaid subscribers will stay, but today the network coverage is very bad for all the operators.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Networking. Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” This post is slightly older (it’s from June 2015), but still helpful, especially if you’re trying to wrap your mind around the idea of a “pod” in Kubernetes.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2014

His strategy was to basically replicate the customer’s architecture and operational processes. With many of his most lucrative contracts coming up for renewal in 2015, Joe D. Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory and network bandwidth. Service Level Agreement were never an issue either.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

This is the first Technology Short Take for 2015 and the first to be published on the new blog platform. Networking. Speaking of Cumulus Linux, here’s a write-up on using Cumulus Linux on Dell Networking switches ; in particular, this article describes how to install Cumulus Linux on a Dell S6000-ON. Good stuff.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This integrated architecture provides the APIs, services and extensibility to support the needs of data scientists and application developers for varied analytics on virtually any data, of any size, located anywhere. Jackson 2015 ) Follow me at [link].

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This solution automated their IT governance by tying planning, consumption, delivery, and management seamlessly across public, private, virtual, hosted, and on and off premises resources. A visual designer that includes sync-and-discover capabilities to pull all assets (VMs) into a single, architectural view and management standard.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

And their concerns are not unfounded: In its 2015 State of Resilience report, Vision Solutions revealed that 36 percent of respondents had experienced a migration failure. Nineteen percent of respondents in the Vision Solutions 2015 State of Resilience report indicated that the cost of downtime ranged from $10,000 to $50,000 per hour.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

And their concerns are not unfounded: In its 2015 State of Resilience report, Vision Solutions revealed that 36 percent of respondents had experienced a migration failure. Nineteen percent of respondents in the Vision Solutions 2015 State of Resilience report indicated that the cost of downtime ranged from $10,000 to $50,000 per hour.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

From Animal Crossing helping folks stay connected during the pandemic’s early days to Travis Scott performing a virtual concert in Fortnite to politicians streaming Among Us on Twitch, games seem to be everywhere. With my apologies to the developers of Mario’s Tennis for the Nintendo Virtual Boy, that’s never been the case before.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

The following list provides a brief profile of 178 fabulous female futurists [up from 78 in the original list of September 2015, 143 in the update of November 2015, 158 in January 2018, 167 in February 2017, and 178 in the 2018 revision]. Zhouying Jin. Location: Beijing, China.

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