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

MARCH 30, 2019

World Backup Day Reminder Don’t Be an April Fool Test Your Data Recovery World Backup Day Reminder Don’t Be an April Fool Test Your Data Recovery. March 31 is the annual world backup day to spotlight awareness around the importance of protecting your data and test your data recovery.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence tools.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder It’s that time of year again, World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder. In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Saturday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day).

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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

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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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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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Enabling Recovery Points (Backup, Snapshots, Versions) Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part 4 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics (..)

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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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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Some of the many offerings in its growing portfolio include Disaster Recover-as-a-Service , Backup-as-a-Service , a fully dedicated private cloud based on VMware technology in a maximum-security data center , and Platform-as-a-Service offerings designed for Kubernetes-based environments. Cloud Management, Green IT, IT Leadership

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

Based on VMware technology, that foundation is today relied on by a rapidly growing customer base that includes leaders in the automotive, education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries that demand the elasticity, utter reliability, and ironclad security of the PeaSoup cloud. “We But that’s just the start.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Based on VMware technology, that foundation is today relied on by a rapidly growing customer base that includes leaders in the automotive, education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries that demand the elasticity, utter reliability, and ironclad security of the PeaSoup cloud. “We But that’s just the start.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2023

Now it is also the first provider in Sri Lanka to earn the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction. Based on VMware technology and featuring numerous capabilities, among them Container PaaS service, Backup-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, the Dialog Enterprise Cloud is the choice of many of the country’s industry leaders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2023

Eindhoven-based Copaco is well-known for the cloud services and solutions it offers for managed service providers – including managed security service providers – independent software vendors and systems integrators throughout Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Learn more about Copaco and its partnership with VMware here.

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Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . Virtualization software loads files that define a new virtual computer, called a virtual machine.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We Jansma notes that’s why the decision to embrace the VMware Zero Carbon Committed initiative was a natural one. “As The VMware Zero Carbon Committed initiative builds on that momentum and is a natural next step.”

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

The company’s offerings are also diverse, with hybrid, public and private clouds – including a Managed VMware Cloud – and services that encompass everything from Infrastructure-as-a-Service to high performance computing, custom software, and backup and data protection. Green IT, IT Leadership

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

We recently caught up with Aaron Tebbutt, strategic vendor alliance manager, to learn more about iomart, get his thoughts on what it means for the company to be among the prestigious providers to have earned the VMware Cloud Verified distinction, and learn what he sees as the pivotal issues shaping the cloud. “We Cloud Computing

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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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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Today, Dell as in Michael Dell and his corporation Dell along with partner Silver Lake investment announced a $67B USD deal that they are acquiring EMC along with their stake in VMware which will stay an independently public traded company.

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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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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? The post Microsoft Azure Software Defined Data Infrastructure Reference Resources appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The post Six (or more) data center and software defined management dashboards appeared first on StorageIOblog. Turns out the piece was nothing more than a list of six items featured as part of the vendors (Sunbird) piece about what to look for in a dashboard (e.g. their product).

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Here is the updated Server StorageIO fall 2016 webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, data infrastructure, virtual, cloud, containers, converged, hyper-converged server, storage, I/O network, performance and data protection among other topics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

As the value and business criticality of data increases, so do the challenges of backup, recovery, and data management. Many IT organizations that have cobbled together data protection solutions over the years now find themselves saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup approach.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 11, 2017

Overall this is a good set of announcements by Intel and what we can also expect to be a flood of enhancements from their partners who will use the new family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors in their products to enable software-defined data infrastructures (SDDI) and SDDC.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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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Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

This network software is not only powerful but also easy to use. PRTG is network software that monitors your entire infrastructure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and alerts you to problems before users even realize it. The software offers a hierarchical structure of device views with options to group similar sensors.

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