Storage IO Blog

APRIL 29, 2016

Needless to say that there is a lot going on as you will see in this April 2016 edition of the Server StorageIO Update newsletter. LTS released including Ceph, OpenStack and other updates Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 5 (TP5) is now available, get the bits here.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 28, 2016

This months feature theme and topics include backup (and restore) as part of data protection, more on clouds (public, private and hybrid) including how some providers such as DropBox are moving out of public cloud providers such as AWS building their own data centers. and some of their research.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 28, 2016

The post Server StorageIO August 2016 Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog. However something else at FMS besides variations of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) including SSD, NAND, Flash, Storage Class Memory (SCM) such as 3D XPoint (among its new marketing names) along with NVM Expres (NVMe) was NVMe over Fabric.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The post September and October 2016 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog. Welcome to the September and October Server StorageIO Update Newsletter covering IT and Data Infrastructure spanning hardware, software, cloud, managed and software defined data infrastructure topics.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 20, 2016

Happy Earth Day 2016 Eliminating Digital and Data e-Waste With Earth Day 2016 on April 22, here are some thoughts about electronic waste (e-waste). For those involved in data management or data infrastructures, the following are five tips to help cut the overhead and resulting impact of digital e-waste and later physical e-waste.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 7, 2016

It’s that time of the year when Eric Siebert (@ericsiebert) hosts his annual top virtual Blog (vBlog) voting via his great vsphere-land site (check it out if you are not familiar). While the focus is virtualization, rest assured there are other categories including scripting, storage, independent, new, video and podcast among others.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Single Instance Storage (SIS) has been removed from Windows Server 2016 (Read the Microsoft Announcement here, or below). Windows SIS is part of Microsoft’s portfolio of tools and technology for implementing Data Footprint Reduction (DFR).

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

This included industry activity from servers to storage and I/O networking, hardware, software, services, mergers and acquisitions for cloud, virtual, containers and legacy environments. Even with an extra day during the month of February, there was a lot going on in a short amount of time.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 2, 2016

Today’s EMCworld theme is modernize the data center which means a mix of hardware, software and services announcements spanning physical, virtual, cloud among others (e.g. how do you want your servers, storage and data infrastructure wrapped).

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

PACE) related to servers, storage, I/O networks, hardware, software, cloud, virtual and containers. In terms of what have I been working on, it includes the usual of performance, availability, capacity and economics (e.g.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Join me and Virtual Instruments CTO John Gentry on October 27, 2016 for a free webinar (registration required) titled The Value of Infrastructure Insight – Enabling Informed Decision Making with Virtual Instruments.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 3, 2016

Following up from yesterdays post covering the set of announcements, today’s theme is around Hybrid, Converged and Clouds your way. In addition to the morning announcements, EMC also yesterday afternoon announced InfoArchive 4.0 and EMC LEAP cloud native content applications for Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 22, 2016

Ethernet enhancements include speeds, connectivity interfaces that span needs from consumer, enterprise, to cloud and managed service providers.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Windows Server 2019 in the past might have been named 2016 R2 also known as a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview has been announced. Microsoft recommends LTSC Windows Server for workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server, Share Point and SDDC.

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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). Another EOY activity is planning for 2016 as well as getting items ready for roll-out or launch in the new year.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

Microsoft ReFS (Resilient File System) is part of Windows Servers 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 as well as Windows 8.1 and 10 platforms as an alternative to NTFS file system. ReFS is designed not only for resiliency, also for scaling volumes beyond 256 TBytes (NTFS) to 4.7 Zettabytes (ZB). Note files size for both NTFS and ReFS is 18 Exabytes (EB).

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

software download) for Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 (TP4). In case you had not heard, Microsoft recently released the bits (e.g. 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

JUNE 18, 2016

To help address the question of which server storage I/O interface is applicable for different environments, I invite you to a webinar on June 22, 2016 at 1PM ET hosted by and compliments of Micron. The post 12Gb SAS SSD Enabling Server Storage I/O Performance and Effectiveness Webinar appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Each component of our CRS ran inside virtual machines on this host. The overall architecture of our setup was something like this: Both the Murphy and Mayhem clouds automatically distributed load across their instances. 2/10/2016, 7:26:12 PM. Diagramatic view of our CQE infrastructure. Named after John Davis's cat, Murphy ?.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Each component of our CRS ran inside virtual machines on this host. The overall architecture of our setup was something like this: Both the Murphy and Mayhem clouds automatically distributed load across their instances. i Diagramatic view of our CQE infrastructure. i Diagramatic view of our CQE infrastructure.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Each component of our CRS ran inside virtual machines on this host. The overall architecture of our setup was something like this: Both the Murphy and Mayhem clouds automatically distributed load across their instances. i Diagramatic view of our CQE infrastructure. i Diagramatic view of our CQE infrastructure.

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