The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The stage is set for a next generation of games that can take advantage of powerful CPUs, GPUs, and SSD storage across consoles and PCs. Microsoft is launching its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles on November 10th, priced at $499 for the X and $299 for the S. Microsoft and Sony are each offering two options. Image: Sony.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Further events are planned in the coming weeks and months, much like how rival Microsoft has been trickling out information about its Xbox Series X console in recent months. A big part of Sony’s new PS5 is the impressive proprietary SSD, that provides 825GB of storage and 5.5GB/s of performance.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This past week, Microsoft announced it’s releasing not one but two new consoles: the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S. Not only that, but Microsoft’s initial crop of first-party games will also be playable on its last generation Xbox, the Xbox One, as well as Windows PCs. Microsoft’s two new consoles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. He went with cloud provider Wasabi for those storage needs. “We growth experienced in 2022.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It offers global compute, storage, data protection, and client device as-a-Service solutions, enabling cloud adjacency, multicloud connectivity, and a full suite of hosting, outsourcing, and application management services through Dell and its global partners.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

It’s no surprise Fortnite , which has more than 350 million registered players and is one of the biggest and most lucrative games on the planet, is coming to next-gen hardware. It’s Fortnite optimized to take advantage of the new hardware and features on next-gen consoles,” the company explained.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Here’s what to expect from Microsoft’s tiny new console Microsoft revealed its Xbox Series S console last week, aiming to offer more budget-friendly next-gen gaming for $299. Other than that, the Series S runs the same Series X CPU at a slightly slower speed, and has 512GB of SSD storage instead of 1TB.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This one of the reasons the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Microsoft have teamed up to advance this nascent field. The question was, how do you use these classical supercomputers to understand how a quantum algorithm and quantum architectures would behave while we build these systems?”.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 8, 2023

Trusted computing stands as a pivotal milestone in the ever-evolving landscape of digital security, strategically weaving hardware and software mechanisms into the very fabric of computing systems. Notably, major tech players including Intel, AMD, HP, Dell, Microsoft, and even the U.S.

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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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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2023

Illustration: Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1660 / Microsoft, 2022 / Alan Boyle) What does quantum computing have in common with the Oscar-winning movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” ? And Microsoft is placing its bets on topological superconducting nanowires. “How many quantum computer architectures are possible?

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Microsoft Azure Container Service (AKS) now supports burstable VM types. Adrian Hornsby has a series (two parts so far) on designing a multi-region active-active architecture. Chris Evans discusses a recent re-org that aligns ScaleIO with hardware sales. So much for software-defined storage?

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. Peyton Smith and Mitchell Moser share seven common Microsoft Active Directory misconfigurations that adversaries tend to abuse. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Ben Wilcock shares his experience with an Intel NUC 11.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. There goes that great Microsoft naming expertise again.). x86 marches on!

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Microsoft seems to be all about shocking the world these days (see my related mention of their SQL Server announcement below). At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. Kudos to Microsoft and Microsoft’s leadership for quite the culture change.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Looks like Microsoft’s Nano Server is headed in a new direction.

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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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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and now an architect at Microsoft Azure, has a blog post about how Kubernetes enables containers-as-a-service (CaaS), which in turn is the foundation for the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before? See here.).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. One key difference to keep in mind is that this solution is delivered by Microsoft (not VMware); with VMware Cloud on AWS, the solution is delivered by VMware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

.” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. This leads Eul into a discussion of the Intel Silvermont core: built with 22nm Tri-Gate transistors, multi-core architecture, 64-bit support, and a wide dynamic power operating range.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 10, 2023

It involves the use of sensors, embedded systems, and other hardware devices that are connected to the internet to gather and exchange data. Understanding IIoT architecture The architecture of the IIoT refers to the design and organization of the various hardware, software, and networking components that make up an IIoT system.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2018

Also, a quick note that I removed the “Servers/Hardware” and “Storage” sections this time around, as I didn’t have any useful content to share. This is interesting—Microsoft has added support for Terraform providers to Azure Resource Manager (ARM). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

VMware has looked to both storage and networking as areas of growth. Cisco for its part has held on strong to its lead on the enterprise network hardware front. However, the market for network hardware is extremely mature. Cisco takes a hardware first approach with software as an added component.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. Microsoft recently announced a preview of Azure Container Service (ACS). Here’s a post on converting VX from VirtualBox to Libvirt , in case you’d like to run it that way. Why, yes, thanks.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

PACE) related to servers, storage, I/O networks, hardware, software, cloud, virtual and containers. Needless to say, like many of you I have been busy with various projects, many of which are behind the scenes, some of which will start appearing publicly sooner while others later.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. The post is a bit geeky but quite informative, and worth reading if SSH bastion hosts are a key part of your architecture. Who would have thought that one day you’d refer to a Microsoft web site for instructions on configuring something in Linux? John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We affectionally call it the “next gen” every time a big leap in console hardware arrives, promising new games and things we’ve never seen before. In the meantime, Microsoft has built what feels like an exciting PC upgrade experience in a console form. Cool and quiet hardware. The Xbox Series X looks best standing vertically.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We had wall-to-wall coverage at The Verge , and a good place to start is our article detailing the 5 biggest announcements from Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ hardware event. Since the M1 is based on the Arm architecture, Apple needs an extra software layer to run apps designed for Intel chips — it’s called Rosetta 2. More from The Verge. ?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. (As a side note, almost every time I see “OpenSwitch” I have to do a double-take because I think it says “Open vSwitch”.).

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Dataconomy

APRIL 10, 2023

It involves the use of sensors, embedded systems, and other hardware devices that are connected to the internet to gather and exchange data. Understanding IIoT architecture The architecture of the IIoT refers to the design and organization of the various hardware, software, and networking components that make up an IIoT system.

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