Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the second in a multi-part series (read part one here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post we look at some decisions and configuration choices to make for testing content applications servers as well as project planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

Typically, flexible consumption, also known as paying based on usage, has often been touted as the top reason for implementing aaS today, whether for storage or computing. Other challenges included keeping legacy applications securely connected as the network infrastructure modernizes.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the sixth in a multi-part series (read part five here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus is around general I/O performance including 8KB and 128KB IOP sizes.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the fifth in a multi-part series (read part four here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus looks at large and small file I/O processing.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the third in a multi-part series (read part two here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus expands to hardware and software defining as well as configuring the test environments along with applications workloads.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Comments ().

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 23rd, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. The author does recommend using Alpine, but also recognizes that it may be necessary to add glibc in some cases to ease application compatibility. Kenneth Hui has a couple of great articles on persistent storage with application containers (first one here , then this follow-up post ).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. This blog post has a link to a white paper that could be useful. Taylor Clauson takes an investment-centric view of AWS, its ever-growing list of services and offerings, and the evolving cloud computing market. Nothing this time; sorry! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. I don’t really remember why I came across this white paper, but I did, and I thought it might be useful for readers as well: here’s a white paper on deploying VSAN over both Layer 2 and Layer 3 network topologies. This seems like a really nice approach. This puts LXD at 2.4.1

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

These issues are second only to concerns on how to migrate applications to cloud OEs (or, in Sharma’s terms, “how to cloudify applications”). Sharma indicates that a white paper is under development that will provide more details on exactly how this is implemented.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2011

networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” 10 comments: Shivan October 3, 2011 at 12:19 PM Hi Kevin - thanks for the article, and more importantly, pointing me to your white paper. Lower Costs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

colocation » Fortrust » White Papers. A high-availability data center or colocation service provider minimizes the chances of downtime occurring for critical applications and makes it easier to secure and manage a company’s IT infrastructure requirements. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

This brings him to reviewing VMware’s vision: any cloud, any application, any device. Digging in a bit deeper into VMware’s any cloud-any application-any device vision, Gelsinger talks about VMware’s goal to support any application across any modality of access, and this leads him to a mention of Workspace ONE.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

“You really couldn’t buy enough CPU for common server applications in the past,” said Sharp. A white paper goes into the math of this vs. some typical setups. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers. Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication. This is where cloud storage can really help. Utility Storage for Virtual and Cloud Computing. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

With the new release IT managers can now extend the benefits of Granite to larger branch offices and data-intensive applications that previously were difficult or impossible to consolidate. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. By: John Rath July 17th, 2013. Granite 2.5. Networking.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 19, 2009

These interactions have included among other topics, IT optimization, boosting server and storage efficiency, as well as the roll of tiering IT resources to boost efficiency, achieve better productivity while boosting performance in a cost-effective way during touch economic times, in other words, the other green IT ! " SAS 15.5K

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Fieldview says its latest update focuses on addressing a critical gap in DCIM solutions: sharing data that is gathered, stored and analyzed with other applications. DataView is a non-compressed cache of data for a wide variety of applications to access or publish historical and trending data for asset management and capacity planning needs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

The new benchmark being proposed is called the High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG), and should better correlate to computation and data access patterns found in many applications today. Designing for a Benchmark, or Applications? Performance for Real-World Applications. gigaflops performance. gigaflops performance.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. One Hybrid Cloud can “clone” existing cloud applications, making it easier to replicate a deployment in a new cloud environment or create a failover solution that keeps an app online when your public cloud crashes.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Management » White Papers. From centralizing data collection, managing physical capacity and assets, and integrating with critical IT management applications, DCIM unifies the processes, tools and raw data needed to provide an accurate view of data center performance across both IT and facilities. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. Still, many users insist on utilizing their own devices to access applications, workloads and their data. In HP’s white paper , you are able to see how to more easily deliver data to any device. White Papers. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. Much is said about how Docker enables applications to be moved about from Linxu distribution to Linux distribution, but I don’t think that complete kernel independence has been achieved yet. Via Eric Sloof , here’s a link to a white paper discussing deployment considerations around vCenter Server 6.0.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. White Papers. Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 18, 2006

The technology purchases covered spanned enterprise software, servers, storage, and voice over IP. I’ll post here on new applications we find. We surveyed 289 organizations, and for each one uncovered the influence networks that supported a major technology purchasing decision made over the previous 12 months.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Too frequently I&O says, “I got that application back online in 20 minutes”. Business services is the top level in a business, sitting above an application, in order to support a business service, you need to consider all the infrastructure involved. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. RELATED POSTS: Instart Logic Launches Application Streaming Network. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Businesses are looking to migrate applications hosted on-premise into the cloud using a variety of hybrid solutions,” said Andrew Higginbotham, chief technology officer at Savvis. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The systems will be based on open internet standards and designed to help application developers mobilize connected assets of all kinds. ARM technology and its ecosystem create the bedrock of this smart intelligence that will enable others to build unique services and applications to help the IoT flourish.” White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

MapR Technologies announced MapR M7, a Big Data platform for NoSQL and Apache Hadoop applications, now available through Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). Benchmark tests of M7 running on AWS High Storage instances have shown it delivering consistent performance of over 100,000 operations per second per node. White Papers.

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