Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lenovo buys IBM’s xSeries x86 server business for $2.3B Once again Lenovo is new owner of some IBM computer technology, this time by acquiring the x86 (e.g. Today Lenovo announced its plan to acquire the IBM x86 server storage business unit for $2.3B USD, what about EMC? xSeries) server business unit from big blue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2023

Before organizations map an architectural approach to data, the first thing that they should understand is data intelligence. With that foundation, CIOs can move on to considering emerging best practices and options for cloud architecture and cloud solution optimization.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems. The […] The post IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems appeared first on StorageIOblog. An E980 system comprises up to four E950 based systems as a solution.

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Storage IO Blog

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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 28, 2016

After that talk Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, takes the stage. Following these customer testimonials, Gelsinger announces VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cross-Cloud Services, and talks about the first partner for providing VMware Cloud Foundation as a service: IBM. Which way will you face?

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SPF13

JUNE 29, 2011

VMware bringing their decades of virtualization experience to their offering. IBM is all in, competing on the Paas, SaaS and IaaS fronts. VMware disrupts with open source PaaS play. Architecture. Rounding out the compelling offerings are GoGrid , Cloud.com. and Joyent. A field guide to the cloud. news.cnet.com).

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. This post was brought to you by IBM Global Technology Services. For more content like this, visit Point B and Beyond.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Continuing with the statistics, Johnston shows a very familiar set of numbers stating that 80% of the IT spend is on maintenance (I say familiar because these numbers were also used by VMware—and other vendors, no doubt—in years past). This leads to an announcement from Johnston that IBM is joining the MTA Program.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Improved platform support (Azure, packet.net, IBM Bluemix, AWS, GCP, VMware, Hyper-V, etc.). The demo shows using LinuxKit to build an identical image across three different architectures (x86, ARM64, and Raspberry Pi). Major additions since it was announced include: arm64 support. Improved Kubernetes support. Namespace sharing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

Some tools for surveying enterprise architectures or managing software governance now track costs at the same time. Densify’s optimizers focus on cloud resources such as instances, Kubernetes clusters, and VMware machines. Some are not marketed directly as cloud control tools but have grown to help solve this problem.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

With September being generally known as back to school month, the two September event bookends were VMware VMworld and Microsoft Ignite with many other things in between. The post September 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

As Lansweeper scans on-premises computing environments, Cloudockit compiles architecture diagrams and documents users’ assets in the cloud. Dell and VMware to split up. Dell Technologies and VMware will soon be changing their relationship status from “its complicated” to “separated.” IBM buys Salesforce specialist 7Summits.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ). Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. Red Hat and IBM put out a press release today on improved I/O performance with RHEL 6.4 Not familiar with oVirt? I’m not.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. .” But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

"The blades include a PCI-Express connection, allowing them to connect to Ciscos high-speed Unified Fabric architecture. Similarly, Egenera BladeFrame Frabric architecture inherently eliminated the need for NICs and HBAs, and permitted unified/consolidated I/O to travel between blades at 2.5GB, or out to data center switches and storage. "The

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