Server Storage I/O Network Benchmark Winter Olympic Games
On the other hand, the current powers to be would lodge protest, change the benchmark or rules to stay in power, hmm, sound familiar with IT?
View ArticleFebruary 2014 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter Data Infrastructure Insights
2013 wrapped up with a flurry of industry activity including some acquisitions (Avago buying LSI and Seagate acquiring Xyratex among others). Likewise 2014 so far is continuing the momentum living up...
View ArticleUSENIX FAST (File and Storage Technologies) 2014 Conference Proceedings
If like me you are interested in FAST related technologies, trends, tools and related research, check out the conference proceedings with over 320 pages of material.
View ArticleMarch 2014 StorageIO Update Newsletter : Cisco Cloud, VMware VSAN and More
Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g. more than simply selling servers and networking hardware). Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O...
View ArticleNand flash SSD server storage I/O conversations
The following are some of my tips, articles, blog posts, presentations and other content on SSD. Keep in mind that the question should not be if SSD are in your future, rather when, where, with what,...
View ArticlePart II: What I did with Lenovo TS140 in my Server and Storage I/O Review
Overall I give the Lenovo TS140 an provisional "A" which would be a solid "A" once the BIOS/firmware issue mentioned above is resolved for VMware. Otoh, if you are not concerned about using the TS140...
View ArticleLenovo TS140 Server and Storage I/O Review
Overall I give the Lenovo TS140 a provisional "A" which would be a solid "A" once the BIOS/firmware issue mentioned above is resolved for VMware, otoh, if you are not concerned about using the TS140...
View ArticleIs there an information or data recession? Are you using less storage? (With...
Is there an information recession where you are creating, processing, moving or saving less data? Are you using less data storage than in the past either locally online, offline or remote including via...
View ArticleApril and May 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter
Welcome to the April and May 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. In this edition there is coverage...
View ArticleJune 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter
Even with flash SSD vendor and technology consolidation, this is in no way an indication of the health of the market. Quite the opposite in that flash SSD has a very bright future and we are still in...
View ArticleCompTIA needs input for their Storage+ certification, can you help?
CompTIA needs input for their Storage+ certification, can you help? The CompTIA folks are looking for some comments and feedback from those who are involved with data storage in various ways as part of...
View ArticleSeagate has shipped over 10 Million storage HHDD’s, is that a lot?
These HHDDs or SSHDs are self-contained in that the flash are built-in to the actual drive as part of its internal electronics circuit board (controller). This means that the drives should be...
View ArticleSeptember October 2014 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter
Hello and welcome to this joint September and October Server and StorageIO update newsletter. Since the August newsletter, things have been busy with a mix of behind the scenes projects, as well as...
View ArticleWhat does server storage I/O scaling mean to you?
Often I hear people talk about scaling only in the context of space capacity. However there are aspects including performance, availability as well as scaling-up or scaling-out. Scaling from...
View ArticlePart II: Seagate 1200 12Gbs Enterprise SAS SSD StorgeIO lab review
The earlier proof-points focused on SSD as a target or storage device. In the following proof-points, the Seagate Enterprise 1200 SSD is used as a shared read cache (write-through). Using a...
View ArticleSeagate 1200 12Gbs Enterprise SAS SSD StorgeIO lab review
Back to the Seagate 1200 12Gbs Enterprise SAS SSD which is covered in this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective thought leadership white paper. The focus of the white paper is to look at how the...
View ArticlePart II: Revisiting re:Invent 2014, Lambda and other AWS updates
In addition to announcing new higher performance Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) compute instances along with container service, another new service is AWS Lambda. Lambda is a service that automatically...
View ArticleCloud Conversations: Revisiting re:Invent 2014 and other AWS updates
AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service...
View ArticleServer Storage I/O Cables Connectors Chargers & other Geek Gifts
It is that time of the year when annual predictions are made for the upcoming year, including those that will be repeated next year or that were also made last year. Then there are the gift lists or...
View ArticleDecember 2014 Server StorageIO Newsletter
Hello and welcome to this December Server and StorageIO update newsletter.
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