Archive for the ‘big data’ Category
Sunday, May 19th, 2013 How many IOPS can a HDD, HHDD or SSD do?
A common question I run across is how many IOPS (IO Operations Per Second) can a storage device or system do or give.
The answer is or should be it depends.
This is the first of a two-part series looking at storage ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 This is part III in a series of posts pertaining to EMC ViPR software defined storage and object storage. You can read part I here and part II here.
More on the object opportunity
Other object access includes OpenStack storage part Swift, AWS S3 HTTP and REST API ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 This is part II in a series of posts pertaining to EMC ViPR software defined storage and object storage. You can read part I here and part III here.
Some questions and discussion topics pertaining to ViPR:
Whom is ViPR for?
Organizations that need to scale with stability across EMC, third-party ...
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Monday, May 6th, 2013 Introducing EMC ViPR
This is the first in a three part series, read part II here, and part III here.
During the recent EMCworld event in Las Vegas among other things, EMC announced ViPR (read announcement here) . Note that this ViPR is not the same EMC Viper project ...
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Monday, April 29th, 2013 April 2013 News letter
Welcome to the April 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition includes more on nand flash SSD, after all its not if, rather when, where, why, with what along with how much SSD is in your future. Also more on ...
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 A couple of weeks ago I attended the spring 2013 Storage Networking World (SNW) in Orlando Florida. Talking with SNIA Chairman Wayne Adams and SNIA Director Leo Legar this was the 28th edition of the US SNW (two shows a year), plus the international ones. While ...
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Sunday, April 21st, 2013 How a pressure cooker should be used for good things
First, let me say condolences to those and their families that were killed and/or injured in the tragic terrorist act at the Boston marathon bombings this past week.
Second, let me say thank you and congratulations to all of ...
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Monday, April 8th, 2013 Riding the current software defined data center (SDC) wave being led by the likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by VMware via their acquisition of Nicira last year, Software Defined Marketing (SDM) is in full force. HP being a player in providing the core building blocks ...
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Friday, March 29th, 2013 March 2013 News letter
Welcome to the March 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update news letter including a new format and added content.
You can get access to this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web sites and subscriptions. ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the third (tying the posts together) in a three-part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part I is here (closer look ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the second (looking at S3) in a three-part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part I is here (closer look at ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the first (looking at EBS) in a three-part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part II is here (closer look at ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced global availability of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) optimized support for four extra Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instance types. The support enables optimized performance between standard and provisioned IOP EBS volumes and EC2 instances to meet different bandwidth or throughput needs (learn more about AWS ...
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Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 Updated 5/8/13
There is no such thing as an information recession with more data being generated, moved, processed, stored, preserved and served, granted there are economic realities. Likewise as a society our dependence on information being available for work or entertainment, from medical healthcare to social media and all points in ...
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