Archive for the ‘object storage’ Category
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 Join me on Thursday May 30, 2013 at Noon ET (9AM PT) for a live web chat at the 21st Century IT (21cit) site (click here to register, sign-up, or view earlier posts). This will be an online web chat format interactive conversation so if you are not able ...
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 May 2013 News letter
Welcome to the May 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition has announcement analysis of EMC ViPR, Software Defined Storage (including a video here), server, storage and I/O metrics that matter for example how many IOPS can a HDD do (it ...
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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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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, April 5th, 2013 Now also available via
This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content here) as well as listening via iTunes or via your preferred means using this RSS feed ...
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Now also available via
This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content here) as well as listening via iTunes or via your preferred means using this RSS feed ...
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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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