Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Instead of a VM host accessing its virtual disk (aka VMDK) which is stored in a VMFS formatted data store (part of ESXi hypervisor) built on top of a SCSI LUN (e.g.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. The argument is that today with the expansion of n-tier distributed systems and massively parallel architectures, east-west traffic has increased exponentially. Nathaniel Crocker.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2022

Workloads encompass applications and a range of often-platform-specific dependencies, such as virtual machines (VMs), servers, and data. While multi-cloud architectures are complex today, they will only become more so in the future. Cloud providers operate very differently from on-premises data centers and local VMs.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco and EMC called VCE had a change of ownership today.

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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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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Catalyst is championed by Telefónica and American Tower Corporation, with NTT Data as prime system integrator and supported by participants Akamanta, Blue Prism, Compax Software Development, MATRIXX Software, and Salesforce. Open Digital Architecture. General architecture and approach. as well as the.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. VVOL’s are not LUN’s like regular block (e.g. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month including VMworld in Las Vegas that featured many Dell EMC VMware (among other) software defined data infrastructure updates and announcements. The post Dell EMC VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

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). Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g.

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

A multicloud architecture can provide layers to meet local and national regulations, and thereby give organizations greater choices and flexibility across multiple sovereign cloud environments. Let’s take two examples of sovereign cloud deployments using large global professional service partners, VMware and Broadcom.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Congratulations to VMware on 10 years of VMworld! Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […]. With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance, there were also many announcements today (e.g. Monday) and many more slated for out the week.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 15, 2016

vSphere Beta, Something free from VMware (other than your time) Something free from VMware (other than time) VMware is looking for candidate beta test sites and environments for an upcoming vSphere release. in your environment and looking to test the new software […].

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CIO Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

We do virtual desktops. GIS Analyst - Use our state of the art ESRI GIS software to develop mapping solutions for our customers. Solutions Architect (2) - Help create solutions and the architecture that make the applications possible, mentor other programmers, solve complicated problems, save the day occasionally. We have BYOD.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary VMware announced last week vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 among other updates for their software-defined data center (SDDC) and software-defined infrastructure (SDI) solutions. The new April v6.7 SDDC Update Summary appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

IBM Server Side Storage I/O SSD Flash Cache Software As I often say, the best server storage I/O or IOP is the one that you do not have to do. The second best storage I/O or IOP is the one with least impact or that can be done in a cost-effective way. Likewise the question […].

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN V6.6 Part III (Reducing costs complexity) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the third of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. Part III (reducing costs complexity) appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2023

Kirkland will describe key points on how cloud is enabling business value, including its sustainability initiatives, at CIO’s Future of Cloud & Data Summit , taking place virtually on April 12. Before organizations map an architectural approach to data, the first thing that they should understand is data intelligence.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). This made me consider how is software-defined is different from private cloud.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN v6.6 Part II (just the speeds feeds features please) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the second of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6.

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Network World

JANUARY 4, 2018

First, to be clear, these exploits affect all the major computer chip architectures. And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN V6.6 Part V (vSAN evolution and summary) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the fifth of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. Part V (vSAN evolution and summary) appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN V6.6 Part IV (HCI scaling ROBO and data centers today) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the fourth of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). This made me consider how is software-defined is different from private cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Therefore, the framework enables IT teams to build applications on any software and in any environment, then deploy those across the multicloud environments seamlessly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

Disruptive by nature, PeaSoup was the first cloud company in Europe to go to market with a fully hyper-converged architecture, one of only five in the world at the time. In additional to being VMware Zero Carbon Committed, all of the company’s data centers and buildings will be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Key […] The post Next Generation Hybrid Software Defined Data Infrastructures Are In Your Future #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Disruptive by nature, PeaSoup was the first cloud company in Europe to go to market with a fully hyper-converged architecture, one of only five in the world at the time. In additional to being VMware Zero Carbon Committed, all of the company’s data centers and buildings will be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

or those who are into, or simply like to talk about software-defined storage (SDS), APIs, Windows, Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) or VHDX, or Hyper-V among other related themes, have you ever actually looked at the specification for VHDX? How about Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, are you familiar with that?

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

In addition, there is no extra software needed to automated tiering or movement between the flash on the HHDD or SSHD and its internal HDD, its all self-contained managed by the drives firmware (e.g.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Our Virtual Data Center Platform and Private Cloud for Enterprise, both of which are VMware Cloud Verified, are two of the many ways we’re helping our customers harness the cloud to solve their core business challenges while also providing the freedom to simultaneously use the public cloud for workloads it is best suited for.”. “The

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. Unlike traditional partner software defined solutions that relied on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, VMware is being deployed using private bare metal AWS elastic servers.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 2, 2018

Dell Technologies Announces Class V VMware Tracking Stock exchange for stock or cash Dell Technologies Announces Class V VMware Tracking Stock exchange for stock or cash. Image via Dell Technologies Summary of Dell transaction announcement includes: VMware declares an $11 Billion USD cash dividend pro rata to all VMware stock holders.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2015

Eric has run for several years now an annual top VMware, Virtualization, Storage and related blogs voting now taking place until March 16th 2015 (click on the image below). You will find a nice mix of new school, old school and a few current or future school theme blogs represented with some being more VMware specific.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2014

Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization, software defined and data infrastructure topics. This past week I along with around 22,000 others attended VMworld 2014 in San Francisco.

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