GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

Microsoft and Ball Aerospace say they’ve demonstrated that the cloud can handle it — and not just handle it, but process multiple streams of satellite data five times faster than the Pentagon’s target speed. Ball Aerospace provided the event-driven architecture for dealing with the data beamed down from space.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 10, 2013

Converged Compute, SSD Storage and Clouds Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced today several enhancements to their data storage and unified compute portfolio as part of their Maximize I.T. initiative.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Talking about tools and technologies is one thing, installing as well as trying them is the next step for gaining experience so how about some quick hands-on time with Microsoft Diskspd (download your copy here).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Microsoft is fully detailing its new Xbox Series S console today. Microsoft is using the same CPU from the Xbox Series X inside the Series S, running at 3.6Hz. That led Microsoft to use a different GPU inside the Xbox Series S to bring the price down, one that the company promises is around three times more powerful than the Xbox One.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Microsoft Diskspd is a synthetic workload generation (e.g. benchmark) tool that runs on various Windows systems as an alternative to Iometer, vdbench, iozone, iorate, fio, sqlio among other tools.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This is a liveblog of the AWS re:Invent session titled “Hybrid Architectures: Bridging the Gap to the Cloud” (ARC208). The speaker for the session is Jamie Butler, Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS (focused on state/local government). This leads Butler into a (recorded) demo of creating a Microsoft AD instance on AWS.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 18, 2016

Researchers make big advancements in DNA storage architecture Read More.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Expandable storage on the Xbox Series X. Microsoft has previously detailed the new Xbox Series X controller and optional 1TB expansion cards, and now we’ve been able to get a closer look at both. We’ll have a full preview of the Xbox Series X soon, but for now let’s take a closer look at the controller and expandable storage.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 12, 2014

Some Windows Server Storage I/O related commands The following are some commands and tools for Microsoft Windows environments that are useful for storage I/O activities (among others).

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

The post Enterprise SSHD and Flash SSD Part of an Enterprise Tiered Storage Strategy appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While Microsoft Windows Server recently celebrated its 20th birthday (or anniversary), a lot has changed as well as evolved. The post Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016 appeared first on StorageIOblog. This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

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Gizmodo

MAY 19, 2020

Both sport custom AMD GPUs based on its RDNA2 architecture. Now that we know the full specs of the PS5 and Xbox Series X, there’s not much to differentiate them at the hardware level. Both are ray tracing capable. Both have roughly the same amount of TFLOPS, and the amount of CU graphic cores and operating frequency… Read more.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

It has an immense amount of GPU power, but also multi-order bandwidth increase in storage management. We’ve been working super close with Sony for quite a long time on storage,” he says. The storage architecture on the PS5 is far ahead of anything you can buy on anything on PC for any amount of money right now.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

There are various types of cloud, bulk and object storage including public services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), Google, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace among many others. The post Software Defined, Cloud, Bulk and Object Storage Fundamentals appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Cloud, Gender Equality. Microsoft has already shown its muscle in the cloud era as one of three companies with the resources and knowledge to dominate the $ 100 billion cloud market, CEO Satya Nadella told CNBC’s John Fortt. DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Microsoft promised that these improvements would deliver significantly better performance and battery life than the previous Surface generation. So my big question when looking at AMD’s new Ryzen 7 Surface Edition (also known as the AMD Ryzen 7 4980U Microsoft Surface Edition because of course it is) is: Does it beat Apple’s M1?

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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

IMHO there is no doubt that cloud and object storage are in your future, what are some questions? Granted, what type of cloud and object storage or service along with for work or entertainment are some questions. Likewise, what are your cloud and object storage concerns (assuming you already have heard the benefits)?

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As the cost of data storage has fallen, many organizations are keeping unnecessary data, or cleaning up data that’s out of date or no longer useful after a migration or reorganization. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. SQL Server among others).

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 23, 2014

Today Lenovo announced its plan to acquire the IBM x86 server storage business unit for $2.3B announcement big data Cloud Comment convergence I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics news perspective post server ssd Storage Architecture and Access virtualization Dell HP IBM Intel lenovo microsoft storage vmware'

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 12, 2017

This past week HPE continued buying into server storage I/O data infrastructure technologies announcing an all cash (e.g. no stock) acquisition of Nimble Storage (NMBL). As a refresh, or overview, Nimble is an all flash shared storage system leverage NAND flash solid storage device (SSD) performance.

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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

MAY 9, 2018

Part III Dell Technology World 2018 Storage Announcement Details This is Part III Dell Technology World 2018 Storage Announcement Details that is part of a five-post series (view part I here, part II here, part IV (PowerEdge MX Composable) here and part V here).

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2018

Traditional networking architectures over the past two decades or so prescribe that the hub of the network be build around a specific location, such as a data center or a company’s headquarters building. For one thing, there has been a major migration to the cloud. In fact, companies often use multiple cloud platforms these days.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Note that in Information Technology (IT) conversations there are multiple meanings for SMB including Server Message Block aka Microsoft Windows CIFS (Common Internet File System) along with its SAMBA implementation, however for this piece the context is Small Medium Business. A […].

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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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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Single Instance Storage (SIS) has been removed from Windows Server 2016 (Read the Microsoft Announcement here, or below). Windows SIS is part of Microsoft’s portfolio of tools and technology for implementing Data Footprint Reduction (DFR).

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The earlier proof-points focused on SSD as a target or storage device. Using a write-through cache enables a given amount of SSD to give a performance benefit to other local and networked storage devices. In the following proof-points, the Seagate Enterprise 1200 SSD is used as a shared read cache (write-through).

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The focus of the white paper is to look at how the Seagate 1200 Enterprise class SSD’s and 12Gbps SAS address current and next generation tiered storage for virtual, cloud, traditional Little and Big Data infrastructure environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Given existing relationships with Webster Bank, that includes AWS and Microsoft. Though a multicloud environment, the agency has most of its cloud implementations hosted on Microsoft Azure, with some on AWS and some on ServiceNow’s 311 citizen information platform. For vendors, Nafde is starting with established with hyperscalers. “We

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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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