Storage IO Blog

JUNE 7, 2018

Announcing Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event Announcing Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event Microsoft will be hosting a free (no registration required) half day virtual (e.g. online) Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event June 26, 2018 starting at 9AM PT.

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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. This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g. The post Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016 appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You may enjoy your favorite books virtually on your computer, laptop, or smartphone. If the ton of options across ePUB reading software intimidate you, and you are struggling to find the best ePUB reader, here’s a list of the most sought-after ePUB readers for iOS, Android, and Windows in 2023. How do you do that, you ask?

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a technology that has revolutionized the way we access and control remote computers. In this article, we will delve deeper into the world of Virtual Network Computing, exploring its history, technology, and various applications. What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

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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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

(Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products. “That is exactly what we’re going for,” he said.

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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As the cost of data storage has fallen, many organizations are keeping unnecessary data, or cleaning up data that’s out of date or no longer useful after a migration or reorganization. It can be tempting to view cloud projects at lower priority than shiny new AI initiatives but he says they’re actually foundational.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Dell Inspiron 660 i660, Virtual Server Diamond in the rough? During the 2013 post thanksgiving black friday shopping day, I did some on-line buying including a Dell Inspiron 660 i660 (5629BK) to be used as a physical machine (PM) or VMware host (among other things). Now technically I know, this is a workstation or desktop […].

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Photo credit: Shutterstock As the industry matures, cloud computing will increasingly rely on interoperability in order to grow and deliver more value to industry. Events at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona helped provide a window into the promise of tomorrow's interoperable environment.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My! I thought you were a Cloud guy?" and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud. Fountainhead.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

Ready to learn Google Cloud by doing? From new courses to new labs, we have a ton of exciting new Google Cloud updates at Linux Academy ( where you can get the most Google Cloud training on this planet! ). Google Cloud Sandboxes. You can now spin up live Google Cloud Sandboxes in our Cloud Playground!

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Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 1, 2012

This is debatable but the idea got me to thinking about using a Cloud based datacenter as a DR for traditional datacenter services and if the operations continuality concerns stretched to the datacenter. It’s actually my opinion that DR is a great place to start building your Cloud based datacenter strategy.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

This is a list of various articles, tips, post and other resources on server storage I/O performance benchmarking for legacy, virtual, cloud and software defined environments along with associated tools.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

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

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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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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2015

My reason for getting a NUC is to use it as a simple low-power platform to run different software on including bare-metal OS, hypervisors, cloud, virtual and software defined server storage and networking applications on that might otherwise be on an old laptop or mini-tower.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2023

Latest cybersecurity threats expose flaws in traditional security methods Let’s consider two methods of security for customer data: firewalls and cloud storage. However, when companies only use this security method it’s like leaving the doors and windows of your home open, without motion detectors, alarms, or other safeguards.

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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?

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Linux Academy

JULY 18, 2019

At Linux Academy, we have the most extensive learn-by-doing library of cloud training and the largest on-staff training team in the e-learning market. Intro to Using Azure Blob Storage. Securing Storage with Acces Keys and Shared Access Signatures in Microsoft Azure. What is the Azure Cloud Sandbox From Linux Academy?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” Weaver includes a discussion of the drivers behind virtualization as well as the pros and cons of virtualization. That, naturally, leads to a discussion of containers.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2016

Happy 20th Birthday Microsoft Windows Server, get ready for Windows Server 2016 August 3, 2016 – 1:48 pm Print Friendly Version of this pagePrint Get a PDF version of this webpagePDF Happy 20th Birthday Windows Server, ready for Server 2016?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” Brian is a Solution Architect; Jim is a Windows Server Architect. At this point, Jim Pinkerton of Microsoft takes over to discuss how Windows Server thinks about this issue and these challenges.

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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). This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. Butler then quotes Werner Vogels in saying that adopting cloud is not an all-or-nothing proposition.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

However, in the new world of cloud computing and hybrid workforces, some basic practices and assumptions need to be revisited. Locking the front door doesn’t help if the windows and back doors are open. Secure the windows. Or a person may open a document using an unauthorized cloud-based PDF reader launched from the Play Store.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The CompTIA Cloud+ certification validates the skills and expertise of IT practitioners in implementing and maintaining cloud technologies. This is exactly what it takes to become a good cloud technician. The cloud will therefore spin up a new instance with a container-ready version of the OS at the bottom.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Introducing Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL and Overview. Microsoft has been increasing their support of Linux across Azure public cloud, Hyper-V and Linux Integration Services (LIS) and Windows platforms including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as Server along with Docker support.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview has been announced. Windows Server 2019 in the past might have been named 2016 R2 also known as a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements This is part three of a three-part series looking at last weeks v6.7 VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements. The focus of this post is on server, storage, I/O along with deployment and other wrap up items.

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Sean Daniel

MARCH 29, 2011

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials & Windows Home Server 2011 RTM! Another set of great products out the door from the Windows Server Solutions team. Both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 have released to manufacturing! Cloud Computing. (10).

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

file and data management migration software Some of you may recall back in 2006 (here and here) when Brocade bought a file management storage startup called NuView whose product was StorageX, and then in 2009 issued end of life (EOL) notice letters that the solution was being discontinued. DataDynamics StorageX 7.0

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it does add an aesthetic appeal to a room, it has a slight drawback in terms of storage. This is what a virtual online bookshelf lets you experience. This is what a virtual online bookshelf lets you experience. Unlike a physical library or a bookstore, the virtual library does not have timings to follow.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Enough said.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Enough said.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

Expanding The Cloud â?? AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. The SSDs will give you very high IO performance: for 4k random reads you can get 120,000 IOPS when using PV and 90,000 when using HVM or Windows. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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