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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Cloud Architecture Storage Applications 120

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This is a liveblog of the Thursday keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016. Vogels says that CloudFormation is critical with regards to automation, and points out some major improvements in CloudFormation over the course of 2016 (new services, YAML support, cross-stack references, resource schemas, and deeper IAM integration, among others).

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Data Applications Guidelines Architecture 60

Storage IO Blog

JUNE 18, 2016

Server storage I/O physical interfaces for access NVM SSDs include PCIe Add in Cards (AiC), M.2 Protocols include NVM Express (NVMe), SAS, SATA as well as general server storage I/O access of shared storage systems that leverage NVM SSD and SCM technologies. 2 as well as emerging SFF 8639 (e.g.

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Storage Applications System Data Center 40

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Some of the popular posts for 2016 are perennial favorites and based on experience will probably appear on the 2017 list. However there are also several new posts that appeared in 2016 that I suspect will also appear on the 2017 version of the above list, along with new content from 2017.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 17, 2016

There will be 4 seminar workshop sessions, two of those are paid sessions dedicated to Greg Schulz and the other two are free (sponsored) sessions where 50% of the content is sponsored (Reduxio, Fujitsu & SJ Solutions) and the other 50% will be independent (Greg Schulz & Gert Brouwer).

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Storage Virtualization Cloud Travel 49

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This is a liveblog of the Wednesday keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016. 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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Storage IO Blog

MAY 31, 2016

Hello and welcome to this May 2016 Server StorageIO update newsletter. The post Server StorageIO May 2016 Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Video Report Dell Storage 40

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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Intel Windows Industry Storage 40

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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Hardware Software Software Cloud 40

Storage IO Blog

MAY 7, 2016

While the focus is virtualization, rest assured there are other categories including scripting, storage, independent, new, video and podcast among others. For example, my blog is listed under StorageIO (Greg Schulz) and included in storage and independent among some other categories.

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Storage Virtualization Examples Video 40

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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Data Resources Storage Backup 40

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 Virtualization Hardware Industry 40

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Then, once the telco started moving to the public cloud in 2016, “we were able to … get our provisioning reduced to about a couple of days.” “When we first started, some of these applications still did not have … cloud native type architectures.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 2, 2016

how do you want your servers, storage and data infrastructure wrapped). 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.

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Dell Data Center Storage Virtualization 40

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

PACE) related to servers, storage, I/O networks, hardware, software, cloud, virtual and containers. Needless to say, like many of you I have been busy with various projects, many of which are behind the scenes, some of which will start appearing publicly sooner while others later.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Hardware 40

Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

In 2016, cloud computing started to dominate many IT market segments. This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong foundation in cloud technologies, and overall cloud architecture and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as a solid technical background in modern web services deployment and administration.

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Web Services Architecture Cloud Programming 70

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sovereign cloud provides a modern architecture to make changes as needed for compliance quickly, backed by local experts to provide guidance. Sovereign clouds are ideally part of a multi-cloud infrastructure that also includes public clouds for storage of non-sensitive data.

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Mobile Data Cloud Vmware 90

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

According to the Cloud Pulse 2Q22 survey conducted by consulting company IDC, data sovereignty and compliance with local regulations are important in shaping IT architecture for almost half of the 1,350 global cloud customers surveyed (48%). Customers can even select a service level agreement that guarantees “six-nines” availability.

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Cloud Data Center Vmware Disaster Recovery 94

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Quoting his OpenStack Summit keynote : "Even across Mirantis-powered OpenStack clouds like AT&T and the Volkswagen cloud, they are both based on the same distribution, but the underlying reference architectures are dramatically different…Volkswagen can't throw something at AT&T and it will just work."

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The architecture of the Cloud Speech API is as follows: In other words, this model enables speech to text conversion by ML. The following image shows the architecture of the translation model: In other words, the cloud translation API is an adaptive Machine Translation Algorithm. Jackson 2016-2018 ) Follow me at [link].

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Cloud Google Applications Architecture 112

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

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

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Windows Storage Microsoft Software 40

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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Backup Data Center Google Cloud 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14.

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Disaster Recovery Cloud Backup Architecture 60

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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Cloud Applications Enterprise Enterprise 40

Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2018

This book starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing and its architectural concepts. In later chapters, this book dives into how to leverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and Serverless architectures in your Cloud environment. Jackson 2016-2018 ) Follow me at [link]. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Disaster Recovery Cloud CTO Hire Architecture 79

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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Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Storage 40

Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

As stated in one of their recent articles "Cloud based platforms, storage and applications change the way of creating and delivering their products and services, managing risks and claims, collaborating with channel members and partners, and communicating with customers, agents and brokers." Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link].

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Insurance Meeting Cloud Training 70

Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Jackson and Scott Goessling was selected for use by the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, Applied Computing Systems & Technology Program as the textbook for their mandatory Enterprise Architecture - Hardware course starting Spring Semester 2019. Jackson 2016-2019 ) Follow me at [link].

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Cloud Course Programming Open Source 70

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Cloud Operations: This module helps you study the management of cloud operations and addresses the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting both structured and unstructured storage requirements. Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link].

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Training Vmware Web Services Cloud 70

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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Windows Microsoft Data Center Storage 50

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Some people love it, others absolutely hate it.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Networking. The script itself is on GitHub.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Iwan Rahabok has a couple of posts (these are slightly older) that discuss sample architectures for a VMware SDDC deployment. Have fun reading! Networking. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 of VSAN (alongside vSphere 6.0

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

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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Backup Vmware Storage Report 40

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link]. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.) ↑ Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L.

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Training Policies Cloud Artificial Intelligence 70

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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Resources System Microsoft Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. By the way, I alluded to this sort of architecture in December 2006 while discussing the future of the operating system; see this blog post.). Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

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