Server StorageIO May 2016 Update Newsletter

Volume 16, Issue V

Hello and welcome to this May 2016 Server StorageIO update newsletter.

Enjoy this shortened edition of the Server StorageIO update newsletter, watch for more tips, articles, lab report test drive reviews, blog posts, videos and podcast’s and in the news commentary appearing soon.

Cheers GS

Recent and popular Server StorageIOblog posts include:

• Dell Updates Storage Center Operating System 7 (SCOS 7)
  In case you missed it, Dell recently announced Storage Center Operating System 7 (SCOS 7) with several enhancements for their SC series storage systems (e.g. Compellent). For those under maintenance agreements, the new features are no charge upgrades. Most of the SCOS 7 features should be generally available now (or soon) for the SC9000 series with other platform support phased in over time. Read more here.
• 2016 Going Dutch Cloud Virtualization Server Storage I/O Seminars
  In June 2016 Brouwer Storage Consultancy is organizing their yearly spring seminar workshops in Nijkerk Holland (south of Amsterdam, near Utrecht and Amersfoort) with myself among others presenting. The sessions will be presented by myself others in conjunction with Reduxio as well as Fujitsu & SJ Solutions. There is still time to register and learn more here.
• EMCworld 2016 EMC Hybrid and Converged Clouds Your Way
  A post looking at a high-level view of some EMCworld 2016 announcements. Following up from earlier post covering other announcements, theme is around Hybrid,Converged and Clouds your way. In addition to the morning announcements, EMC also yesterday afternoon announced InfoArchive 4.0 and EMC LEAP cloud native content applications for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). However lets focus on today’s announcements with a focus of modernize, transform and automate your date center..Read more here.
• EMCworld 2016 Getting Started on Dell EMC announcements
  Today’s EMCworld theme is modernize the data center which means a mix of hardware, software and services announcements spanning physical, virtual, cloud among others (e.g. how do you want your servers, storage and data infrastructure wrapped). While the themes are still EMC as the Dell acquisition has yet to be completed, however there is a Dell presence, including Michael Dell in person. Read more here.
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (aka Xenial Xerus) What’s In The Bits and Bytes?
  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (aka Xenial Xerus) was recently released (you can get the bits or software download here).Ubuntu is available in various distributions including as a server, workstation or desktop among others that can run bare metal on a physical machine (PM), virtual machine (VM) or as a cloud instance via services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as Microsoft Azure among others.Read more here.
• Which Enterprise HDDs to use for a Content Server Platform
  Even though Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) including NAND flash solid state devices (SSDs) are popular storage for use internal as well as external to servers, there remains the need for HDD’s Like many of you who need to make informed server, storage, I/O hardware, software and configuration choice decisions, time is often in short supply. Read more here.
• Server StorageIO April 2016 Update Newsletter

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