Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 28, 2016

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. The post Server StorageIO August 2016 Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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

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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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

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 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

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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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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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

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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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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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. I’m not yet convinced that running something like the AWS CLI in a Docker container is worth the extra effort (a Python virtual environment may be more appropriate here). Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. 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. Virtualization. Good advice.

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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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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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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Two articles in particular stood out to me: one by Christos Karamanolis on erasure coding with VSAN 6.2 , and one by my good friend Jase McCarty on the use of sparse virtual swap files. Virtualization. Networking.

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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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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. Virtualization. Networking.

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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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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Significant increase in the number of options available for various business requirements and loads “Bare metal” servers that aren’t virtual. Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link]. Containers , like Docker, that makes deploying software much easier and faster.

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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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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

A lot of people think tools like Consul are only valuable in “next-generation” microservices-based architectures, but Benny’s article shows how it can add a lot of value in “traditional” architectures. Virtualization. Yes, containerization is a key part of the future, but virtualization isn’t going away anytime soon.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As has virtually every other company, ours included, because of the Delta variant and rising cases of COVID everywhere. So this really goes back to 2016. In 2016, Tim Cook told shareholders that women and underrepresented minorities made a little bit less than their white male counterparts. They ask to get the storage upgrade.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Nvidia buys block storage software developer Excelero. In early March it announced its second of 2022, Excelero, which develops software for securing and accelerating arrays of flash storage for use in enterprise high-performance computing. Atlassian buys Percept.ai. Lansweeper acquires UMAknow. Precisely buys PlaceIQ.

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