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The Data Storage Explosion

Cloud Musings

Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity. In the past, this type of unexpected enterprise business investment would have led to very costly and time-consuming storage technology refresh projects.

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Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Storage IO Blog

This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g. Besides how consumed and configured, which can also be for CI and HCI modes, Windows Server 2016 along with Hyper-V extend the virtualization and container capabilities into non Microsoft environments specifically around Linux and Docker.

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RIP Windows SIS (Single Instance Storage), or at least in Server 2016

Storage IO Blog

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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Happy 20th Birthday Microsoft Windows Server, get ready for Windows Server 2016

Storage IO Blog

Happy 20th Birthday Microsoft Windows Server, get ready for Windows Server 2016 August 3, 2016 – 1:48 pm Print Friendly Version of this pagePrint Get a PDF version of this webpagePDF Happy 20th Birthday Windows Server, ready for Server 2016?

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Updated Software Defined Data Infrastructure Webinars and Fall 2016 events

Storage IO Blog

Here is the updated Server StorageIO fall 2016 webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, data infrastructure, virtual, cloud, containers, converged, hyper-converged server, storage, I/O network, performance and data protection among other topics.

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Server StorageIO August 2016 Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

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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Back To Software Defined Data Infrastructure School, Webinar and Fall 2016 events

Storage IO Blog

Here is the preliminary Server StorageIO fall 2016 back to school, webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, data infrastructure, virtual, cloud, containers, converged, hyper-converged server, storage, I/O network, performance and data protection among other topics.