By Greg Schulz Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates
Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrasture Updates
September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announce... Oct. 10, 2017 08:11 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Dell EMC VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates
Dell EMC VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates
September was a busy month including VMworld in Las Vegas that featured many Dell EMC VMware (among other) software defined da... Oct. 10, 2017 08:11 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Microsoft September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates
Microsoft September 2017 Software Defined Data infrastructure Updates
September was a busy month for data infrastructure topics as well as Microsoft in terms of new and enhanced technologies. Wrapping up Septem... Oct. 10, 2017 08:11 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Server StorageIO September 2017 Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter
Oct. 10, 2017 08:11 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Getting Caught Up What Happened To September 2017
Getting Caught Up, What Happened In September?
Seems like just yesterday it was the end of August with the start of VMworld in Las Vegas, now its the end of September and Microsoft Ignite in Orlando is wrapping up. Microsoft has mad... Sep. 28, 2017 07:23 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Server StorageIO August 2017 Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter
Aug. 27, 2017 01:16 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Hot Popular New Trending Data Infrastructure Vendors To Watch
A common question I get asked is who are the hot popular new or trending data infrastructure vendors to watch.
Keep in mind that there is a difference between industry adoption and customer deployment, the former being w... Aug. 26, 2017 07:23 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Travel Fun Crossword Puzzle For VMworld 2017 Las Vegas
Some of you may be traveling to VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas next week to sharpen, expand, refresh or share your VMware and data infrastructure tradecraft (skills, experiences, expertise, knowledge). Here is something fun to sharpe... Aug. 24, 2017 02:18 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz New SDDI Essentials Book by Greg Schulz of Server StorageIO
SDDC, Cloud, Converged, and Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft
Over the past several months I have posted, commenting, presenting and discussing more about Data Infrastructures and my new book (my 4th solo... Aug. 23, 2017 03:18 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Chelsio and Storage over IP (SoIP) continue to enable Data Infrastructures from legacy to software defined virtual, container, cloud as well as converged. This past week I had a chance to visit with Chelsio to discuss data infrastructures, server storage I/O networking along with oth... Aug. 18, 2017 02:17 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure Reference Architecture Resources
Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads?
Microsoft... Aug. 17, 2017 07:23 PM EDT Reads: 112 |
By Greg Schulz For Now Quantum Revenues Continue To Grow
For Now Quantum Revenues Continue To Grow. The other day following their formal announced, I received an summary update from Quantum pertaining to their recent Q1 Results (show later below).
Various IT and Cloud Infrastructure Layers incl... Aug. 14, 2017 10:13 AM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspectives Report WekaIO Matrix
WekaIO is a scale out software defined storage startup vendor whose solution is Matrix.
This Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective report looks at common issues, trends, and how to address different applic... Aug. 12, 2017 11:14 AM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Do You Take Trade Show Exhibit Infrastructure For Granted?
Think about this for a moment; do you assume that Information Technology (IT) and Cloud based data centers along with their associated Data Infrastructure supporting various applications will be accessible when needed. Like... Aug. 11, 2017 12:15 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz NVMe Wont Replace Flash By Itself They Complement Each Other
Various Solid State Devices (SSD) including NVMe, SAS, SATA, USB, M.2
There has been some recent industry marketing buzz generated by a startup to get some attention by claiming via a study sponsored by including the st... Aug. 9, 2017 01:16 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Jul. 31, 2017 07:22 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Zombie Technology Life after Death Tape Is Still Alive
A Zombie Technology is one declared dead yet has Life after Death such as Tape which is still alive.
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Tapes Evolving Role
Sure we have heard for decade&rsquo... Jul. 24, 2017 02:17 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, process... Jul. 22, 2017 03:18 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Today Intel announced a new family of Xeon Scalable Processors (aka Purely) that for some workloads Intel claims to be on average of 1.65x faster than their predecessors. Note your real improvement will vary based on workload, configuration, benchmark testing, type of processor,... Jul. 11, 2017 05:21 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Jun. 30, 2017 05:20 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) go into effect in a year on May 25 2018 are you ready?
What Is GDPR
If your initial response is that you are not in Europe and do not need to be concerned about GDPR you might want to step back and review that thought. W... Jun. 20, 2017 01:11 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Microsoft Windows Server, Azure, Nano and life cycle Updates
For those of you who have an interest in Microsoft Windows Server on-premise, on Azure, on Hyper-V or Nano life cycle here are some recently announced updates.
Microsoft has announced updates to Windows Server Core and... Jun. 15, 2017 02:17 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Part II Revisiting AWS S3 Storage Gateway (Test Drive Deployment)
This Amazon Web Service (AWS) Storage Gateway Revisited posts is a follow-up to the AWS Storage Gateway test drive and review I did a few years ago (thus why it's called revisited). As part of a two-part series, the ... Jun. 14, 2017 07:13 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
AWS S3 Storage Gateway Revisited (how to avoid an install error)
This Amazon Web Service (AWS) Storage Gateway Revisited posts is a follow-up to the AWS Storage Gateway test drive and review I did a few years ago (thus why it's called revisited). As part of a two-part series, the f... Jun. 14, 2017 07:13 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Top vBlog 2017 Voting Now Open
It is that time of the year again when Eric Siebert (@ericsiebert) over at vSphere-land holds his annual Top vBlog (e.g. VMware and Virtualization related) voting (vote here until June 30, 2017). The annual Top vBlog event enables fans to vote for thei... Jun. 7, 2017 03:18 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
May. 29, 2017 02:17 PM EDT Reads: 112 |
By Greg Schulz
GDPR goes into effect May 25 2018 Are You Ready?
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) go into effect in a year on May 25 2018 are you ready?
Why Become GDPR Aware
Now if your initial response is that you are not in Europe and do not need to be concerned ... May. 25, 2017 06:33 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Dell EMC World 2017 Day One news announcement summary
This is the first day of the first combined Dell EMC World 2017 being held in Las Vegas Nevada. Last year’s event in Las Vegas was the end of the EMC World, while this being the first of the combined Dell EMC World events ... May. 8, 2017 07:23 PM EDT Reads: 133 |
By Greg Schulz
Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) Overview Preview Review
Perhaps you are aware or use Microsoft Azure, how about Azure Stack?
This is part one of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack providing an overview, preview and review. Read part two here that looks at my ... May. 4, 2017 03:18 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Azure Stack TP3 Overview Preview (Part II) Install Review
This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read pa... May. 4, 2017 03:18 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Broadcom aka Avago aka LSI announces SAS SATA NVMe Adapters with RAID
In case you missed it, Broadcom formerly known as Avago who bought the LSI adapter and RAID card business announced shipping new SAS, SATA and NVMe devices.
While SAS and SATA are well established continuing to b... May. 2, 2017 07:23 PM EDT Reads: 118 |
By Greg Schulz
Apr. 30, 2017 05:22 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
A Story About Stadiums Along With Seismic Activity
I find in my inbox several pitches a day for briefings, products, vendors, services, authors, books, blogs and other things to cover, write about or simply take their pitch and post it as is, or with some editing. Of course, there a... Apr. 12, 2017 03:18 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the fifth of a five-part series pertaining to VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, part ... Apr. 11, 2017 07:22 PM EDT Reads: 107 |
By Greg Schulz In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the fourth of a five-part series pertaining to VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, part... Apr. 11, 2017 07:22 PM EDT Reads: 107 |
By Greg Schulz In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the third of a five-part series pertaining to VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, part ... Apr. 11, 2017 07:22 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the second of a five-part series pertaining to VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, part III (reducing cost and complexity) located here, part I... Apr. 11, 2017 07:22 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the first of a five-part series pertaining to VMware vSAN V6.6. Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, part III (reducing cost ... Apr. 11, 2017 07:22 PM EDT Reads: 107 |
By Greg Schulz
Cisco Next Gen 32Gb Fibre Channel and NVMe SAN Updates
Cisco announced today next generation MDS storage area networking (SAN) Fibre Channel (FC) switches with 32Gb, along with NVMe over FC support.
Cisco Fibre Channel (FC) Directors (Left) and Switches (Right)
Highlights of th... Apr. 11, 2017 07:22 PM EDT Reads: 124 |
By Greg Schulz
Volume 17, Issue III
Hello and welcome to the March 2017 issue of the Server StorageIO update newsletter.
First a reminder world backup (and recovery) day is on March 31. Following up from the February Server StorageIO update newsletter that had a focus on data protection... Mar. 29, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 152 |
Greg Schulz is founder of the Server and StorageIO (StorageIO) Group, an IT industry analyst and consultancy firm. Greg has worked with various server operating systems along with storage and networking software tools, hardware and services. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and storage and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO.
