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

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

TP4 adds a new tiering capability where Windows and storage spaces can cache and migrate data between Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) including flash SSD. 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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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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Santa Clara, CA , Feb 13, 2015 at 5:00:00 AM. February 13, 2015 – Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), McAfee Labs, Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), co-founders of the industry’s first cyber threat alliance, today announced that Barracuda Networks, Inc. ABOUT PALO ALTO NETWORKS. Santa Clara, Calif.,

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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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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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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

3D Printing - Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 98 percent in 2015, followed by a doubling of unit shipments in 2016. Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing. "The next generation of technology solutions will transform lives, businesses and economies."

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The reports description puts the nature of global cybercrime in perspective by highlighting that: Annual costs attributable to cybercrime are expected to rise from $400B in 2015 to more than $6T by 2021; From 2017 to 2012, enterprise cumulative spend on cybercrime defense will exceed $1T. Jackson 2015 ) Follow me at [link].

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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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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Networking. Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup. This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). Virtualization.

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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). Google was the company that originally created and owned Kubernetes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. blog/videos-around-world-2015. list=PLmqXqqjZSStnG33E_865NgHONETzM8kVb.

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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. He says that now, in a very non-marketing way, applications have become the network. Once you implement distributed network encryption, all those pain points go away.

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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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The move to the cloud is projected by 2015 see a reduction of 30% in IT infrastructure costs, which amounts to $7.2 To make use of the services in this region, customers will use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to organize their AWS resources. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. At werner.ly Syndication.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Krzanich announced 14nm today, but James points ahead to 10nm (in 2015) and 7nm (in 2017). Gate last approach.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Krzanich announced 14nm today, but James points ahead to 10nm (in 2015) and 7nm (in 2017). Gate last approach.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

August 31, 2015 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time. Through years of protecting customers through the FireHost Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Armor repeatedly witnessed a critical industry problem. As one of our vCloud Air Network partners, Armor understands what’s required to better protect end customers in the cloud. About Armor.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Digital Realty will invest at least $150 million in the new facility by 2015 and create 50 new jobs, allowing it to qualify for tax exemptions under Virginia’s newly beefed-up incentives for data center development. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2014

With many of his most lucrative contracts coming up for renewal in 2015, Joe D. Broad network access: Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth and active user accounts).

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

“OMB had not tracked and reported on other key performance measures, such as progress against the initiative’s cost savings goal of $3 billion by the end of 2015,” according to David Powner , Director of Information Technology Issues at the GAO. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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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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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Networking. The article shows you how to build a Cumulus VX lab on Ravello Systems.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Networking. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it. Virtualization.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2021

Services and features will include haircuts and blowouts, dry cleaning, meeting rooms, bike storage, yoga meditation, “Zoom rooms,” volunteer opportunities, fitness studios, cafes, portable power, as well as a speaking series and networking events. The first SaksWorks locations will open this fall in the New York City area.

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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

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

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 6, 2021

And it is true that the design is virtually identical to that of last year’s iPhone 12 Pros. The design is virtually identical to the iPhone 12 Pro models. Base storage still starts at 128GB, but at the top end, there’s a new 1TB option. But it’s there if you buy an iPhone that has enough storage to handle it.

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