Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the fourth in a multi-part series (read part three here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus expands to database application workloads that were run to test various HDD’s.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the second in a multi-part series (read part one here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post we look at some decisions and configuration choices to make for testing content applications servers as well as project planning.

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Applications Report Enterprise Enterprise 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the third in a multi-part series (read part two here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus expands to hardware and software defining as well as configuring the test environments along with applications workloads.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the seventh and final post in this multi-part series (read part six here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here.

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Report Enterprise Enterprise Resources 40

Kitaboo

MARCH 9, 2021

Publishers who leverage these online tools can benefit in multiple ways, be it content storage, customization, collaboration, speeding up their editorial review process, distribution, producing quality designs in less time, ensuring regulatory compliance, or content engagement. Easy to use with excellent customer support.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. We must dispel a myth about storage costs, particularly for flash.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 9, 2021

Publishers who leverage these online tools can benefit in multiple ways, be it content storage, customization, collaboration, speeding up their editorial review process, distribution, producing quality designs in less time, ensuring regulatory compliance, or content engagement. Easy to use with excellent customer support.

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Tools eBook Software Software 78

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. Colt has the largest enterprise-class cloud footprint in Europe, with 20 European data centers in 10 countries.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. ‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. White Papers. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Riverbed (RVBD) has introduced a new release of its Granite product family, delivering an enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The problem, according to Sharma, is that the natural evolution of open source projects–which are playing an increasingly influential role in the direction of data centers, cloud OEs, and provider implementations/services–is often at odds with what enterprises need. The OpenAttestation code is available on Github.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Nick Chapman over at CloudFlux shares his experience working with whitebox switches , and mulls on why the adoption of whitebox switches in the enterprise may be slower than some might expect (or hope). If you’re new to NSX or looking for an overview, this might be helpful. This puts LXD at 2.4.1 and LXC at 2.0.4;

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2011

networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” 10 comments: Shivan October 3, 2011 at 12:19 PM Hi Kevin - thanks for the article, and more importantly, pointing me to your white paper. ► September. (4).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

colocation » Fortrust » White Papers. According to this white paper from FORTRUST, the key to making the right decision often depends on asking the right questions. At the end of the paper , FORTRUST provides a detailed workbook/checklist where you’ll find a list of evaluation questions. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

VP of Engineering Jack Mills has worked in the enterprise platofmrs team at Intel, while CTO and co-founder Peter Theunis has experience at Yahoo. A white paper goes into the math of this vs. some typical setups. LoPoCo counts a number of enterprises as customers, including Light and Motion Industries. “We White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise – and the Competition. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise – and the Competition. These instances are ideal for enterprise workloads, especially those under the umbrella of corporate policies or industry regulations. AWS wants to win over the enterprise.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

Cloud startup CloudVelocity has raised $13 million to further its tools to provide seamless migration of enterprise applications between data centers and cloud platforms, and has released its One Hybrid Cloud software to move workloads to Amazon Web Services, the company said today. Image: CloudVelocity).

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 18, 2006

The technology purchases covered spanned enterprise software, servers, storage, and voice over IP. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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A Screw's Loose

MARCH 5, 2013

They throw around words like secure containers, containerization (hmm…somebody went to marketing class and turned it into a verb), encryption, VPN, Secure Communication, EMM (Enterprise Mobile Management) and a whole host of other terms that of course make it okay to bring your device into work. What happened when you lost one of those?

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Mobile Security Enterprise Enterprise 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop. ” Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management. DataStax raises $45 million.

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Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. DreamWorks Animation utilized HP Enterprise Cloud Services to provide a robust, scalable, cloud-based infrastructure that offers the additional compute power needed to render the 10 CG films that are in production at any given time. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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HP Data Center Data Film 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The acquisition will integrate the Cloudsmith engineering team and products into Puppet in a bid to accelerate enterprise adoption of IT automation. Puppet Labs plans to tightly integrate Cloudsmith’s products with its flagship Puppet Enterprise offering to boost customers’ ability to automate and manage complex infrastructures.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication. This is where cloud storage can really help. Utility Storage for Virtual and Cloud Computing. White Papers. Five Myths of Cloud Computing.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated a $36 million contract with HP Enterprise services, initially announced last November. What kind of enterprise email system the VA is going to use is up in the air for now. White Papers. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Colocation.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. In HP’s white paper , you are able to see how to more easily deliver data to any device. Download this white paper to learn what you need to protect your environment and still deliver a powerful user experience. Securing the Mobile Enterprise.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Management » White Papers. White Papers. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution. Intelligent replication and storage control mechanisms now allow for the distribution of cloud components. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

White Papers. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Infrastructure.

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Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

and Cisco’s Unified Data Center technologies, it’s aimed at enterprise hybrid needs. API is a big deal to enterprises; it enables consistent cloud management experience and seamless hybrid cloud adoption. White Papers. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. ” RELATED POSTS: Pivotal Launches Enterprise PaaS, Receives $105 Million From GE.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. White Papers. Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory.

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Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. White Papers. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers. Comments (required).

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Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

“Feedback from enterprises indicates that a ‘well-connected’ data centre is critical to their businesses. White Papers. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers.

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