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Dell Inspiron 660 i660, Virtual Server Diamond in the rough?

Storage IO Blog

Dell Inspiron 660 i660, Virtual Server Diamond in the rough? During the 2013 post thanksgiving black friday shopping day, I did some on-line buying including a Dell Inspiron 660 i660 (5629BK) to be used as a physical machine (PM) or VMware host (among other things). Now technically I know, this is a workstation or desktop […].

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EMC New VNX MCx doing more storage I/O work vs. just being more

Storage IO Blog

It’s not how much you have, its how storage I/O work gets done that matters Following last weeks VMworld event in San Francisco where among other announcements including this one around Virtual SAN (VSAN) along with Software Defined Storage (SDS), EMC today made several announcements.

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New family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors enable software defined data infrastructures (SDDI) and SDDC

Storage IO Blog

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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Use Intel Optane NVMe U.2 SFF 8639 SSD drive in PCIe slot

Storage IO Blog

2 SFF 8639 disk drive form factor SSD in PCIe slot Need to install or use an Intel Optane NVMe 900P or other Nonvolatile Memory (NVM) Express NVMe based U.2 For example, I needed to connect an Intel Optane […] The post Use Intel Optane NVMe U.2 Use NVMe U.2

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Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober

Storage IO Blog

Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Vendor Meetings at VMworld 2013

Scott Lowe

Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. I very much enjoyed learning more about FlashSoft’s product and architecture. It was a highly entertaining discussion. SwiftStack.

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August Server StorageIO Update Newsletter – NVM and Flash SSD Focus

Storage IO Blog

In addition to NAND flash, other forms of NVM include Non Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM), Read Only Memory (ROM) along with some emerging new technologies including the recently announced Intel and Micron 3D XPoint among others.

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