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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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: 131 |
By Greg Schulz Preparing For World Backup Day 2017 Are You Prepared
In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Friday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day). The annual day is a to remember to make sure you are protecting your applications, data, information, configuration set... Mar. 27, 2017 04:20 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
In this Server StorageIO podcast episode, I am joined by Tom Becchetti (@tbecchetti) for a Friday afternoon conversation recorded live at Meisters in Scandia Minnesota (thanks to the Meisters crew!).
For those of you who may not know Tom, he has been in the IT, data center, data i... Mar. 26, 2017 07:23 PM EDT Reads: 102 |
By Greg Schulz  Welcome to the Cloud, Big Data, Software Defined, Bulk and Object Storage fundamentals page part of the objectstoragecenter.com micro site collection of resources. Software defined, Bulk, Cloud and Object Storage exist to support expanding and diverse application data demands. There ar... Mar. 17, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,031 |
By Greg Schulz Server Storage I/O Converged (CI) Hyper-converged (HCI) overview
This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources. CI, CIB and HCI can... Mar. 14, 2017 07:24 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz  Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network and associated tradecraft are your skills, experiences, insight as well as tricks of the trade, profession and job function (read more about what is a data infrastructure here). This is the first of a two-part series exploring data infrast... Mar. 8, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,382 |
By Greg Schulz
Updated 3/7/2017
Cloud, Bulk, Object Storage Trends News
Welcome to the Cloud, Big Data, Software Defined, Bulk and Object Storage trends news page, part of the objectstoragecenter.com micro site collection of resources. Software defined, Bulk, Cloud and Object Storage exist to su... Mar. 7, 2017 06:01 PM EST Reads: 103 |
By Greg Schulz Slilly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB) Database Server I/O Podcast
In this Server StorageIO podcast episode, I am joined by @Kevinclosson who is an Oracle (along with other Databases) performance expert and creator of the Silly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB) tool. Not surprising our ... Mar. 3, 2017 06:02 PM EST Reads: 108 |
By Greg Schulz
Feb. 26, 2017 06:59 PM EST |
By Greg Schulz
The other day VMware announced the 2017 list of vExperts which you can view here.
Congratulations and welcome to all new and returning fellow vExperts for 2017.
In its ninth year, it is an honor to now have been named a vExpert for eight consecutive years.
Where To Learn ... Feb. 11, 2017 03:19 PM EST Reads: 136 |
By Greg Schulz The following are some of the more popular viewed posts from StorageIOblog.com during 2016.
Big Files and Lots of Little File Processing and Benchmarking with Vdbench - Need to test, validate, compare, contrast or simply apply workload to file systems, NAS or other file-based access?... Feb. 11, 2017 03:19 PM EST Reads: 122 |
By Greg Schulz
If NVMe is the answer, then what were and are the various questions that should be asked?
Some of the common questions include what is the difference between NVM and NVMe?
Is NVMe only for servers, does NVMe require fabrics and what benefit is NVMe beyond more IOPs.
Lets t... Feb. 4, 2017 04:21 PM EST |
By Greg Schulz Jan. 21, 2017 06:22 PM EST |
By Greg Schulz
Will 2017 be there year of all software-defined X (e.g. SDx) where X can be everything from data centers (SDDC), data infrastructures (SDDI), infrastructure (SDI), storage (SDS), network (SDN) or marketing (SDM) among others? What about IoT, IoD, ByoD, ByoL (bring your own license)... Jan. 21, 2017 03:19 PM EST |
By Greg Schulz  IMHO there is no doubt that cloud and object storage are in your future, what are some questions?
Granted, what type of cloud and object storage or service along with for work or entertainment are some questions.
Likewise, what are your cloud and object storage concerns (assuming you... Jan. 13, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,805 |
By Greg Schulz
Will 2017 be there year of solid state device (SSD), all flash, or all Non-volatile memory (NVM) based storage data centers and data infrastructures?
Recently I did a piece over at InfoStor looking at SSD trends, tips and related topics. SSDs of some type, shape and form are in yo... Jan. 3, 2017 01:17 PM EST |
By Greg Schulz http://storageioblog.com/cloud-object-storage-future-questions
IMHO there is no doubt that cloud and object storage are in your future, what are some questions?
Granted, what type of cloud and object storage or service along with for work or entertainment are some questions.
Lik... Jan. 3, 2017 12:16 PM EST |
By Greg Schulz
This is an overview review of Microsoft ReFS (Resilient File System) along with some resource links. ReFS is part of some Windows operating system platforms including Server 2016.
Some context here is that review can mean an in-depth deep dive product or technology review, while a... Jan. 3, 2017 11:15 AM EST |
By Greg Schulz
Server StorageIO 2016 Seasons Greetings
Dec. 23, 2016 05:22 PM EST |
By Greg Schulz
Oct. 31, 2016 08:13 AM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Software Defined Data Infrastructure Webinars and Fall 2016 events
Here is the updated Server StorageIO fall 2016 webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, data infrastructure, virtual, cloud, containers, converged, hyper-converged server, storage, I/O ne... Oct. 17, 2016 06:11 AM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016
In case you had not heard, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA, also known as Release To Manufacturing (RTM) ) of the newest version of its Windows server operating system aka Windows Server 2016 along wit... Oct. 13, 2016 10:15 AM EDT |
By Greg Schulz The Value of Infrastructure Insight â Enabling Informed Decision Making
Join me and Virtual Instruments CTO John Gentry on October 27, 2016 for a free webinar (registration required) titled The Value of Infrastructure Insight – Enabling Informed Decision Making with Virtual ... Oct. 11, 2016 07:45 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz EMC is now Dell EMC and other server storage Updates
In case you missed it or did not hear, EMC is now Dell EMC and is future ready (one of their new tag lines).
What this means is that EMC is no longer a publicly traded company instead now being privately held under the Dell Te... Oct. 11, 2016 08:13 AM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Software Defined Data Infrastructure Webinars and Fall 2016 events
Its September and that means back to school time, and not just for the kids. Here is the preliminary Server StorageIO fall 2016 back to school, webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, da... Sep. 11, 2016 05:20 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz Like an Eagle Standing Tall and Proud, 9/11 2001 Never Forget
Like an Eagle Standing Tall and Proud
On this 15th anniversary of the September 11 (e.g. 9/11), 2001 terror attacks on the United States, instead of a lot of words, photos, videos, links and other items, standing tall ... Sep. 11, 2016 07:10 AM EDT |
By Greg Schulz
Server StorageIO August 2016 Update Newsletter
Aug. 28, 2016 12:15 PM EDT |
By Greg Schulz  This is the second in a two part series of posts pertaining to using some common server storage I/O benchmark tools and workload scripts. View part I here which includes overview, background and information about the tools used and related topics. Aug. 12, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,961 |
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.
