Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2018

VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements of new features and other enhancements.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Congratulations to VMware on 10 years of VMworld! 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. Here are a synopsis of some of those announcements.

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Fountainhead

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Meanwhile VMware was experimenting with growth by partnering with independent cloud service providers, a precursor to their failed vCloud Air approach – an attempt to reach from the enterprise up into the cloud. thereby lowering the barrier-to-adoption of hybrid workloads based on VMware technology.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lenovo buys IBM’s xSeries x86 server business for $2.3B Once again Lenovo is new owner of some IBM computer technology, this time by acquiring the x86 (e.g. Today Lenovo announced its plan to acquire the IBM x86 server storage business unit for $2.3B USD, what about EMC? xSeries) server business unit from big blue.

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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. The day-long conference will drill into key areas of balancing data security and innovation, emerging technologies, and leading major initiatives.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems. The […] The post IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems appeared first on StorageIOblog. An E980 system comprises up to four E950 based systems as a solution.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rumored buyers have included IBM, Cisco, and Bain itself, and in December 2022 reports named HPE as a potential acquirer of Nutanix. Customers of Nutanix who aren’t customers of HPE might justifiably be concerned — but they could just as easily worry about the prospects of an acquisition by IBM, the focus of earlier Nutanix rumors.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Tom Kravitz' article on how IBM lost the public cloud war is a fascinating look at the internals of a former technology powerhouse. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Here’s a conveniently compiled list of container CVEs.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Gelsinger welcomes the crowd, and takes a minute to reflect upon his time at CEO of VMware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

This technology has since been improved by Red Hat, IBM, and Docker. They don’t need to utilize the same resource as virtual machines do. Though containers solve a lot of security problems compared to traditional virtualization methods, they also introduce new security challenges. Challenges.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Tom Kravitz' article on how IBM lost the public cloud war is a fascinating look at the internals of a former technology powerhouse. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Here’s a conveniently compiled list of container CVEs.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. Players: VMware, Citrix, MSFT, Parallels, etc. Virtualization. (31).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Naturally, VDI is a key part of this effort, and Herrod reviews the improvements that VMware made in the last release of View, version 5.1. He specifically calls out IBM as a first-time partner in Europe, and calls out Cisco’s ISR G2+VMware View appliance as an “interesting” approach to lowering acquisition costs.

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SPF13

JUNE 29, 2011

VMware bringing their decades of virtualization experience to their offering. IBM is all in, competing on the Paas, SaaS and IaaS fronts. VMware disrupts with open source PaaS play. Rounding out the compelling offerings are GoGrid , Cloud.com. and Joyent. This post is sponsored by Enterprise CIO Forum and HP.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 4, 2014

This year, Spousetivities is sponsored by VMware NSX , Origami Owl , vBackup , The Virtualization Practice , VMUG , HyTrust , Xangati , and Wine Shop at Home. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Spousetivities at IBM Edge 2013.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. This post was brought to you by IBM Global Technology Services. For more content like this, visit Point B and Beyond.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 24, 2018

As the manager of data centers for some of the most significant companies in the world, IBM has observed this profound shift in the strategic outsourcing marketplace. Physical infrastructures and virtual servers, toward containerized environments. This post was brought to you by IBM Global Technology Services.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Greg Schulz discusses new Power9-based systems announced by IBM; see his post. One of the interesting announcements to come out of the recent VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas is also described in this post on the AWS News Blog : Amazon RDS on VMware. I suppose it’s a win-win deal for both VMware and AWS (else why bother?),

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Atlassian has acquired chatbot developer Percept AI and plans to add its virtual agent technology to its Jira Service Management IT support tool. Activision Blizzard’s apps are not typically authorized on enterprise networks, but there’s a chance its technology for creating and animating virtual worlds could make it into the workplace.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Jason Boche has a nice write-up on how a QLogic HBA setting prevented NPIV from working in a Dell Compellent environment (used with VMware vSphere).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Virtualization. I’m not. million IOPS.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

It also adds Fibre Channel support for the virtual Granite Core that extends integration with enterprise-class storage arrays, including those from EMC, NetApp and IBM. “We Riverbed and VMware Collaborate on Networks. Riverbed Evolves Steelhead, Adds Edge Virtualization. Virtualization. Northern Virgina.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. Labels: Infrastructure Orchestration , IT Ops , Unified Computing , Virtualization. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Ken Oestreich.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

With September being generally known as back to school month, the two September event bookends were VMware VMworld and Microsoft Ignite with many other things in between. The post September 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Gal and Liran Schour from IBM are slated to do a talk on this at the OVS conference this week.). William Lam shares an article on using Ansible to provision Kubernetes on VMware Photon. Networking.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The I/O would be "virtualized" into a logical (rather than physical) connection. In the way that LUNs are mapped to physical drives, logical nodes would be mapped to physical (or virtual) CPUs. Not very "virtual," are they? Fountainhead.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 20, 2014

There are Cloud services such as AWS, VMware Cloud Hybrid Service and the host of OpenStack providers competing for your compute responsibilities. Then there are the traditional outsourcing companies such as Accenture, IBM and HP Enterprise Services competing for general IT services. The network will get virtualized.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The blade servers are believed to come with Ciscos Nexus 5000 switches embedded in the chassis, which support the Unified Fabric and is built to be virtualization-ready. The servers will also feature tight integration with and support for VMware software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Prior to joining Nlyte, Matt worked at IBM for more than ten years, helping to launch multiple products in their Information Management and SMB groups. This point was brought up by VMware, but in connection to the above points, really hits home as it is the cost of a service, not an application, is what counts. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Hykes says that micro-segmentation is built in to Docker Network, which allows people to assemble virtual networks into any topology. Firshman shows off the use of the VMware Fusion driver for Docker Machine so that he can deploy some containers defined via Docker Compose to run/test the application on his local laptop.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Other companies involved in LinuxKit include IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and the Linux Foundation. Hykes now brings out John Gossman, Azure Architect from Microsoft, to take the stage. Gossman points attendees to a session later in the day where Microsoft will discuss Hyper-V Isolation in more details.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Broadcom buying CA, Brilliant or a Brainbuster? Broadcom buying CA, Brilliant or a Brain buster? For some in the IT industry as well as financial markets, there is skepticism about Broadcom (formerly known as Avago) making an announcing that they are buying CA Technologies (CA) for USD 18.9 Billion (cash).

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