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. To me what’s ironic is that many purveyors of of SLBS also like to talk about hardware.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Trends involving tradecraft include capturing existing experiences and skills from those who are about to retire or simply move on to something else, as well as learning for those new to IT or servers, storage, I/O, and data infrastructure hardware, software, and services.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 14, 2017

The post Server Storage I/O Converged (CI) Hyper-converged (HCI) overview appeared first on StorageIOblog. This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 31, 2016

NetApp has announced ONTAP 9 the latest version or generation of their storage software that defines and powers ONTAP storage systems and appliances (e.g. The major theme of ONTAP 9 is simple anywhere eluding to the software runs on storage system appliances (e.g. tin wrapped” or hardware platform based), virtual storage (e.g.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

“Epic will release Fortnite , built with UE4, on next-gen consoles at launch and, in keeping with the team’s commitment to prove out industry-leading features through internal production, migrate the game to UE5 in mid-2021,” the company said in a blog post published today. How will Fortnite take advantage of next-gen console hardware?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Servers/Hardware Manoj Kumar provides a beginner’s guide to Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Howard Oakley has uncovered some changes to the macOS Gatekeeper/app notarization process; see more details in this blog post. Thomas Heinen examines some approaches for dealing with multi-architecture Docker image builds.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

announcement backup BC and DR big data Cloud convergence Data and Information Management Data archiving and preservation Data footprint and proliferation reduction Data protection Data security database DCIM Green IT I/O Networking Infrastructure Resource Management IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics little data object storage Performance (..)

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

more than simply selling servers and networking hardware). 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).

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

they sell Servers, Storage, I/O and Networking hardware, software and services). The post EMC is now Dell EMC, part of Dell Technologies and other server storage Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog. The Dell Server division which sells direct as well as via channels and OEMs is now part of the Dell EMC division (e.g.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 23, 2013

backup BC and DR Cloud convergence database DCIM I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics Performance and Capacity server ssd Storage and Storage Management Tools Storage Architecture and Access tools virtualization Availability ha hardware IO ndca ndcl network software storage'

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow have a blog series that, in their words, “aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts.” Servers/Hardware. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Programming.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #70!

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

Epic says the demo shows off what next-generation game consoles will truly be capable of once developers have full access to creative tools like UE5 and the capability to squeeze the maximum out of new hardware and software baked into Sony’s PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. The graphics speak for themselves.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

If you are a database person, you will want to listen to what Cash has to say about boosting performance and getting more value out of your physical hardware or cloud services. On the other hand if you are a storage person, listen in to get some insight and ideas on to address database performance and resiliency.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

The post Data Infrastructure Server Storage I/O related Tradecraft Overview appeared first on StorageIOblog. However, tradecraft is also about knowing how and when to use different technologies, tools with various techniques to address different scenarios.

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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;). Quite the opposite in that flash SSD has a very bright future and we are still in the relative early phase or waves and flash will be in your future.

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Galido

JANUARY 28, 2020

Information Technology Blog - - Ultimate Gaming Computer for 2020 - Information Technology Blog. If you are here looking for the ultimate PC, you should be ready to spend some of your hard-earned money on decent hardware. For inexpensive storage, you can buy the Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD or Seagate Barracuda 6TB.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Earlier this year EMC announced directed availability (DA) of the EMC version of XtremIO as part of other SSD hardware and software updates […].

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article. Servers/Hardware. of Photon Controller, and James Zabala has a blog post describing the new Photon Controller release. Highly recommended reading!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. I meant to get this published last Friday, but completely forgot. Networking. Nothing this time around!

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

Information Technology Blog - - Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World - Information Technology Blog. For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Scalability and modularity.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments).

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The following are a collection of odd’s and end’s devices and tools for hardware and software defining your environment. How about attaching a M2 form factor flash SSD card to a server or device that does not have an M2 port, or, for mirroring two M2 cards together with a RAID adapter?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Jason Edelman is on a roll with a couple of great blog posts. Next, Jason dives a bit deeper on the relationship between network overlays and hardware , and shares his thoughts on where it does—and doesn’t—make sense to have hardware terminating overlay tunnels. Servers/Hardware. I was wrong.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.)

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

This is interesting enough that I might actually write up a separate blog post about it; stay tuned for that. Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” x86 marches on!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Side note: you’ll probably start seeing more Pure Storage-focused content from Jase moving forward.). That’s cool. Not cool , Wacom.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

More information on the script is in his blog post. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Networking.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The data infrastructure environment (servers, storage, IO and networking, hardware, software, services, virtual, container and cloud) is rapidly changing. You may encounter a missing URL, or […] The post Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure and Related Links K to O appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Storage This is a good (albeit slightly dated) overview of EBS volume types. Wonder no longer.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) explaining the routing architecture in NSX-T (which brings multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud support to the NSX platform). It’s good to see my friend Brent Salisbury blogging again, this time writing about measuring bandwith using iperf and Docker. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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