Volume 17, Issue VIIHello and welcome to the July 2017 issue of the Server StorageIO update newsletter. It has been busy time with a lot going on, so let’s get right to this months topics which include software defined, data infrastructures, server, I/O networking, storage and related topics.
A quick update following up from the June newsletter is that my new book is now available via Amazon.com, CRC Press and other venues in hardcopy hardcover as well as electronic versions. Visit storageio.com/book4 to learn more including view table of contents, preface, how organized among other items. | ||
In This Issue | ||
Enjoy this edition of the Server StorageIO update newsletter. Cheers GS | ||
Data Infrastructure and IT Industry Activity Trends | ||
Some recent Industry Activities, Trends, News and Announcements include: Arcserve who gained their independence from CA a few years ago has now acquired Zetta to expand its data protection solution portfolio for legacy, software defined virtual and cloud data infrastructure environments. Software Defined Data Infrastructure (SDDI) solution provider Compuverde has been awarded a US Patent for optimal server selection in software defined data centers (SDDC). The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced its April 2017 integrators list including RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) along with other recent plugfest updates. Learn more about IBTA and related topics at www.infinibandta.org Next Platform has an interesting piece about a slump in the High Performance Computing (HPC) also known as High Profit Compute (for financial firms among others) along with Super Compute (SC) industry sector. Some of the vendors in the HPC and SC space include AMD, Cisco, Cray, DDN, Dell EMC, Fujifilm, IBM, Intel, HPE/SGI, Mellanox, NetApp, Oracle, Seagate and Western Digital (WD) among others. Check out the piece over at Next Platform here. To beef up its storage solution offerings, Cray has done a deal with Seagate who is one of their suppliers of HDDs as well as software defined storage software (ClusterStore) and related systems. In this new deal, Cray will get (e.g. now own) Lustre based ClusterStore storage solution which besides the intellectual property (IP) including software, around 100 or so workers will shift from being Seagate to becoming Cray employees. Note that Seagate acquired ClusterStore solution as part of its acquisition a few years ago of Xyratex (enclosures and Lustre storage system software). Meanwhile Seagate CEO Stephen Luczo is steeping down from his top leadership position after posting poor earnings and more job cuts. We have heard that HDDs are dead for decades, yet they continue to be consumed, granted with ups and downs, lately more downs for Seagate than its competitor Western Digital (WD). Seagate has dabbled in flash solid state devices (SSDs) ranging from drives to cards including acquisition of the flash business from LSI/Avago a few years ago, along with some partnerships. As a component supplier, does Seagate need to take a bold move and get closer or do a deal with one of the nand flash or other persistent memory chip makers? Or, does Seagate need to continue to move up the stack with solutions building on their previous deals buying Xyratex (enclosure and ClusterStor), Evault (data protection software), DotHill (storage systems), LSI/Avago flash (flash cards)? Lets see what happens with Seagate both from a big picture as well as more focused product, technology, portfolio perspective. Watch for a flurry of NVMe, along with flash SSD and other non-volatile memory (NVM), persistent memories along with storage class memories over the next few weeks. Keep in mind that If Answer is NVMe, what are the questions? Also watch for a flurry of software defined, cloud, virtual and related news towards the end of the month and into September. Just for fun, Mike Acton (@mike_acton) has an interesting read on Introductory bullshit detection for non-technical managers that you can check out here. Over at Coding Horror there is another interesting read on the notion of paying down your technical debt, check it out here. Check out other industry news, comments, trends perspectives here. | ||
Server StorageIO Commentary in the news | ||
Recent Server StorageIO industry trends perspectives commentary in the news. Via EnterpriseStorageForum: Comments on Who Will Rule the Storage World? View more Server, Storage and I/O trends and perspectives comments here | ||
Server StorageIO Featured White Paper Report | ||
This months featured Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure content is a new white paper industry trends perspective report looking at Weka.IO Matrix Multi-Dimensional Software Based Storage (e.g. software defined storage). In this report, we look at WekaIO Matrix, an elastic, flexible, highly scalable easy to use (and manage) software-defined (e.g. software-based) storage solution. WekaIO Matrix enables radically simple software defined storage that is flexible elastic scaling with stability and without compromise.
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Server StorageIOblog Posts | ||
Recent and popular Server StorageIOblog posts include:
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Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Tips and Articles | ||
Recent Server StorageIO industry trends perspectives commentary in the news. Via IDG/NetworkWorld: Ensure your data infrastructure remains available and resilient View more Server, Storage and I/O trends and perspectives comments here | ||
Events and Activities | ||
Recent and upcoming event activities. Sep. 21, 2017 – MSP CMG – Minneapolis MN Sep. 14, 2017 – Fujifilm IT Executive Summit – Seattle WA Sep. 12, 2017 – SNIA Software Developers Conference (SDC) – Santa Clara CA Sep. 7, 2017 – TBA – Enabling, Planning and Executing Your Software Defined Journey August 28-30, 2017 – VMworld – Las Vegas June 22, 2017 – Webinar – GDPR and Microsoft Environments May 11, 2017 – Webinar – Email Archiving, Compliance and Ransomware See more webinars and activities on the Server StorageIO Events page here. | ||
Server StorageIO Industry Resources and Links | ||
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Ok, nuff said, for now.
Cheers
Gs
Greg Schulz – Multi-year Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert (and vSAN). Author of Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press), as well as Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press), Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio.
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