Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Since the August newsletter, things have been busy with a mix of behind the scenes projects, as well as other activities including several webinars, on-line along with in-person events in the US as well as Europe.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Blog post – Goodbye 2013, hello 2014, predictions past, present and future Good by 2013 and hello 2014 along with predictions past, present and future First, for those who may have missed this, thanks to all who helped make 2013 a great year! Looking back at 2013 I saw a continued trend of more vendors […].

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 12, 2014

The current calendar which continues to be updated includes a mix of webinars (playback are available), and live events covering data infrastructure topics from cloud, virtual, physical and software defined across servers, storage I/O networking, SSD, performance, object storage and data protection among other related themes.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O networking hardware software and virtualization (aka software defined) was the general announcement (GA) by VMware of Virtual SAN (VSAN). Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […]. With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance, there were also many announcements today (e.g. Monday) and many more slated for out the week. Here are a synopsis of some of those announcements.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence tools.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. VVOL’s are not LUN’s like regular block (e.g. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2014

Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization, software defined and data infrastructure topics. This past week I along with around 22,000 others attended VMworld 2014 in San Francisco.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Likewise 2014 so far is continuing the momentum living up to the mantra that while there may be economic challenges, there is no such thing as a data or information recession.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Is more better for example (among others): Facebook likes Twitter followers or tweets (I’m @storageio btw) Google+ likes, follows and hangouts More smart phone apps LinkedIn connections People in your circle or community […].

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 29, 2014

For some of you it is mid summer (e.g. in the northern hemisphere) while for others it mid-winter (southern hemisphere). Here in the Stillwater MN area […] The post July 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Is your company, organization or one that you are a fan of, or represent listed on the StorageIO industry links page?

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 31, 2014

In this edition there is coverage of vendors technology announcements, trends, earnings results and much more. The post April and May 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

Needless to say there is plenty of SSD related hardware and software activity occurring in the StorageIO labs as well as StorageIO.com/SSD;). The question remains how much, when, where, with what and from whom. The post June 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

Cloud products and services among others, along with associated data infrastructures including object storage, file systems, repositories and access methods are at the center of bulk, big data, big bandwidth and little data initiatives on a public, private, hybrid and community basis.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Fall (here in North America) has been busy with in-person, on-line live and virtual events along with various client projects, research, time in the StorageIO cloud, virtual […].

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Green and Virtual IT Data Center Links Moving beyond Green Hype and Green washing Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with (..)

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with e-waste, environmental health and safety related issues are topics that wont be going (..)

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2015

However there are also many blogs at the vpad site that have a cloud, virtual, server, storage, networking, software defined, development and other related themes. You will find a nice mix of new school, old school and a few current or future school theme blogs represented with some being more VMware specific.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Key […] The post Next Generation Hybrid Software Defined Data Infrastructures Are In Your Future #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

hyper-converged (HCI) software defined data infrastructure In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. hyper-converged (HCI) software defined data infrastructure appeared first on StorageIOblog. VMware vSAN 6.6

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AUGUST 17, 2018

Summer 2018 IBM Cloudy Software Defined Storage Announcements Time for some catching up with summer 2018 IBM cloudy software defined storage announcements that were made earlier this week. The Share Event (Mainframe centric) is occurring this week in St.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month including VMworld in Las Vegas that featured many Dell EMC VMware (among other) software defined data infrastructure updates and announcements. The post Dell EMC VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

It turns out, serverless BS (SLBS) and hardware less are still trendy, and while some might view the cloud or software-defined data center (SDDC) virtualization, or IoT folks as the culprits, it is more widespread with plenty of bandwagon riders. The post Did you want a side of SLBS (server less BS) with your software or hardware FUD?

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. Unlike traditional partner software defined solutions that relied on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, VMware is being deployed using private bare metal AWS elastic servers.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

Software-defined data infrastructures are where hardware, software, server, storage, I/O networking and related services converge inside data centers or clouds to protect, preserve, secure and serve applications and data.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The post Microsoft Azure September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog. Wrapping up September was Microsoft Ignite where Azure, Azure Stack, Windows, O365, AI, IoT, development tools announcements occurred, along with others from earlier in the month.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The post Six (or more) data center and software defined management dashboards appeared first on StorageIOblog. Turns out the piece was nothing more than a list of six items featured as part of the vendors (Sunbird) piece about what to look for in a dashboard (e.g. their product).

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

The post Software Defined, Cloud, Bulk and Object Storage Fundamentals appeared first on StorageIOblog. There are also solutions for hybrid and private deployment from Cisco, DDN, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, HDS, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Noobaa, OpenStack, Quantum, Rackspace, Scality, Seagate, Spectra, Storpool, Suse, Swift and WD among others.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

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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Storage IO Blog

JULY 11, 2017

Overall this is a good set of announcements by Intel and what we can also expect to be a flood of enhancements from their partners who will use the new family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors in their products to enable software-defined data infrastructures (SDDI) and SDDC.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

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.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Existing in the dark shadow of the most widely adopted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and foundationally powerful Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the third service model is often misunderstood and widely ignored. The elasticity of cloud architecture enables the company to lease additional nodes within a few days.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

or those who are into, or simply like to talk about software-defined storage (SDS), APIs, Windows, Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) or VHDX, or Hyper-V among other related themes, have you ever actually looked at the specification for VHDX? How about Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, are you familiar with that?

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 21, 2017

Some of the topics, themes, trends, technologies, tools and tips in my discussion will include among others: The post SDx Summit London UK (Planning and Enabling Your Journey to Software Defined) appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 21, 2017

There is a lot going on, in and around data infrastructure server, storage, and I/O networking connectivity from a hardware, software, and services perceptive. The post January 2017 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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