In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco…
These HHDDs or SSHDs are self-contained in that the flash are built-in to the actual drive as part of its…
Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using…
In case you missed it, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) recently released their version 1.1 of its Cloud Data…
CompTIA needs input for their Storage+ certification, can you help? The CompTIA folks are looking for some comments and feedback…
Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization, software defined and…
VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. VVOL’s are not…
Instead of a VM host accessing its virtual disk (aka VMDK) which is stored in a VMFS formatted data store…
For those of you in VMware environments, now is the time to add VVOL to your vocabulary which might mean…
Recently the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) made an announcement pertaining to the continued development and enhancements including FC-BB-6 that…
Server and StorageIO Update newsletter - July 2014 Welcome to the July 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing…
In case you missed it today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Zocalo an enterprise class storage and file sharing service.…
Even with flash SSD vendor and technology consolidation, this is in no way an indication of the health of the…
Welcome to the April and May 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and…