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August 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter



Server StorageIO August 2017 Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter

Volume 17, Issue VII (Pre VMworld 2017)

Hello and welcome to the August 2017 issue of the Server StorageIO update newsletter.

Its end of summer season here in north america which means wrapping up holidays, vacations, back to school shopping (and going to school), as well as the start of the fall IT technology conference season. VMworld 2017 USA is this week in Las Vegas and there will be several announcements coming out of that event. Given all of the activity so far this month, I’m going to cover the VMworld and related topics in a special early September issue of this newsletter.

Speaking of VMworld 2017, if you are going to be there in Las Vegas, stop by the book store located in the community village area on Tuesday at 1PM I will be doing a book signing, meet and greet, stop by and say hello.

Thanks to all who participated in the recent thevPad top 100 vBloggers event, I am honored to have StorageIOblog listed in the top 100 vBlogs. Also congratulations to new and returning fellow Microsoft MVPs and VMware vExperts. There is a lot going on in the industry, lets get to it in this Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter.

In This Issue

Enjoy this edition of the Server StorageIO update newsletter (pre VMworld edition).

Cheers GS

Data Infrastructure and IT Industry Activity Trends

Acronis announced True Image 2018 for home based data protection (backup), while Crashplan aka code42 announced they were getting out of the consumer, small office home office (SOHO) backup and data protection space to focus on the enterprise.

Cisco bought software defined storage converged infrastructure software vendor Springpath for about $320M USD. Cisco and Swiftstack (object storage software) also announced interoperability news with the UCS S32600 storage server platform.

GPU vendor NVIDIA announced Quadro Virtual Data Center workstation technology.

Meanwhile ioFABRIC announced their new Vicinity 3.0 software defined management solution.

Microsemi (remember PMC Sierra) announced release of its Flashtec PCIe controllers to help speed adoption deployment of SSDs including NVMe based.

Microsoft bought Cycle Computing to enhance Azure services, while also making Azure Blob storage tiering available as part of an ongoing public preview. For those not aware, Azure Blob is similar to what other services call objects. Get in on the public preview here. For those who live in a hybrid world where your environment and experience include both Windows and Linux, check out Windows Services for Linux here. With this service which can install onto an Windows 10 system along side Win32 (e.g. it co-exists, its not a virtual machine), you can choose from the Windows Store which Linux distro you want (e.g. Centos, Ubuntu, etc).

Need to learn, refresh or simply gain a better understanding of Microsoft PowerShell for software defined management of Windows, Azure and other environments? Check out this great post from Microsoft Blogs.

For those who work in a Windows or Azure environment, here are some useful icons for Powerpoint, Visio, PNG and SVG from Microsoft. With Microsoft Ignite coming up in September, watch for some interesting update enhancements to Windows Server from a server storage I/O perspective.

NextPlatform.com has an interesting article on Exascale Timeline for Storage and I/O systems worth a read. Panzura global name space and scale out software defined storage management software announced mobile client file sharing. After dropping their own cloud business, Verizon is now a virtual network services partner with Amazon.

Over at all flash array (AFA) SSD vendor Pure, revenues are growing closer to an annual $1B USD rate despite loss per share, Pure also announced a change in leadership with current CEO Scott Dietzen stepping aside for Charles Giancarlo to take the lead spot.

VMware has been talking about the continued increase in customer adoption and deployment of VSAN now they are showing they eat their own dog food. Check out this post here from VMware that shows how many and what size VSAN clusters they are using for various internal operations. Also on the VMware storage front, learn more about enhancements for large and small file allocation blocks with vSphere VMFS6.

With all of the pre and post VMworld related announcements, remember to check out the tools available over at the VMware flings site including vSphere HTML5 Web Client, HCIBench, vRealize Operations Export, VisualEsxtop, ESXi Embedded Host Client, VMware OS Optimization Tool and many others. Watch for VMworld coverage in the September newsletter along with posts at www.storageioblog.com

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?
Via InfoGoto: Comments on Google Cloud Platform Gaining Data Storage Momentum
Via InfoGoto: Comments on Singapore High Rise Data Centers
Via InfoGoto: Comments on New Tape Storage Capacity

View more Server, Storage and I/O trends and perspectives comments here

Server StorageIOblog Posts

Recent and popular Server StorageIOblog posts include:

In Case You Missed It #ICYMI

View other recent as well as past StorageIOblog posts here

Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Tips and Articles

Recent Server StorageIO industry trends perspectives commentary in the news.

Via NetworkWorld: Do you have an IT trade craft skills gap?

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. 20, 2017 – Redmond Data Protection and Backup – Webinar
Sep. 14, 2017 – Fujifilm IT Executive Summit – Seattle WA
Sep. 12, 2017 – SNIA Software Developers Conference (SDC) – Santa Clara CA
Sep. 7, 2017 – WiPro – Planning Your Software Defined Journey – New York City
August 29, 2017 – VMworld – Las Vegas

See more webinars and activities on the Server StorageIO Events page here.

Server StorageIO Industry Resources and Links

Useful links and pages:
Microsoft TechNet – Various Microsoft related from Azure to Docker to Windows
storageio.com/links – Various industry links (over 1,000 with more to be added soon)
objectstoragecenter.com – Cloud and object storage topics, tips and news items
OpenStack.org – Various OpenStack related items
storageio.com/protect – Various data protection items and topics
thenvmeplace.com – Focus on NVMe trends and technologies
thessdplace.com – NVM and Solid State Disk topics, tips and techniques
storageio.com/converge – Various CI, HCI and related SDS topics
storageio.com/performance – Various server, storage and I/O benchmark and tools
VMware Technical Network – Various VMware related items

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.

Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2023 Server StorageIO(R) and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved.

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Hot Popular New Trending Data Infrastructure Vendors To Watch

Hot Popular New Trending Data Infrastructure Vendors To Watch

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Updated 1/21/2018

A common question I get asked is who are the hot popular new trending data infrastructure vendors to watch. This post looks at some data infrastructure vendors to watch and keep an eye on.

Keep in mind that there is a difference between industry adoption and customer deployment, the former being what the industry (e.g. Vendors, resellers, integrators, investors, consultants, analyst, press, media, analysts, bloggers or other influences) like, want and need to talk about. Then there is customer adoption and deployment which is what is being bought, installed and used.

Some Popular Trending Vendors To Watch

The following is far from an exhaustive list however here are some that come to mind that I’m watching.

Apcera – Enterprise class containers and management tools
AWS – Rolls our new services like a startup with size momentum of a legacy player
Blue Medora – Data Infrastructure insight, software defined management
Broadcom – Avago/LSI, legacy Broadcom, Emulex, Brocade acquisition interesting portfolio
Chelsio – Server, storage and data Infrastructure I/O technologies
Commvault – Data protection and backup solutions
Compuverde – Software defined storage
Data Direct Networks (DDN) – Scale out and high performance storage
Datadog – Software defined management, data infrastructure insight, analytics, reporting
Datrium – Converged software defined data infrastructure solutions
Dell EMC Code – Rexray container persistent storage management
Docker – Container and management tools
E8 Storage – NVMe based storage solutions
Elastifile – Scale out software defined storage and file system
Enmotus – MicroTiering that works with Windows, Linux and various cloud platforms
Everspin – storage class memories and NVDIMM
Excelero – NVMe based storage
Hedvig – Scale out software defined storage
Huawei – While not common in the US, in Europe and elsewhere they are gaining momentum
Intel – Watch what they do with Optane and storage class memories
Kubernetes – Container software defined management
Liqid – Stealth Colorado startup focusing on PCIe fabrics and composable infrastructure
Maxta – Hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) and software defined data infrastructure vendor
Mellanox – While not a startup, keep an eye on what they are doing with their adapters
Micron – Watch what they do with 3D XPoint storage class memory and SSD
Microsoft – Not a startup, however keep an eye on Azure, Azure Stack, Window Server with S2D, ReFS, tiering, CI/HCI as well as Linux services on Windows.
Minio – Software defined storage solutions
NetApp – While FAS/Ontap and Solidfire get the headlines, E series generates revenue, keep an eye on StorageGrid and AltaVault
Neuvector – Container management and security
Noobaa – Software defined storage and more
NVIDA – No longer just another graphics process unit based company
Pivot3 – An original HCI software defined players, granted, some of their competitors might not think so
Pluribus Networks – Software Defined Networks for Software Defined Data Infrastructures
Portwork – Container management and persistent storage
Rozo Systems – Scale out software defined storage and file system
Rubrik – Data Protection software, reminds me of a startup called Commvault 20 years ago.
ScaleMP – Composable scale out software defined servers
Storpool – Scale out software defined storage
Stratoscale – Software defined data infrastructure and hybrid solutions
SUSE – Linux distribution looking to expand their offerings, gain more insight
Tidalscale – Composable software defined data infrastructures
Turbonomic – Software Defined Management, insight, analytics and automation
Ubuntu – Known for their Linux distribution, check out their Metal as a Service (MaaS) technology
Veeam – Data protection and backup solutions
technology
Virtuozzo – Software defined storage and data infrastructure technologies
VMware – AWS, vSAN, NSX, Integrated Containers and much more
WekaIO – Scale out software defined storage and file system

Some Popular Trending Technology Trends

  • ARM, ASIC, FPGA, GPU servers among others
  • Converged Infrastructure (CI), Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Composable Infrastructure
  • Analytics, reporting, insight, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), automation
  • Software Defined including Cloud, Virtual, Containers, Docker, kubernetes, mesos, serverless, micro services
  • Data protection, backup/restore, archive, security, business resiliency (BR), business continuance (BC), disaster recovery (DR)
  • Non-volatile memory (NMV), NVM Express (NVMe), storage class memories (SCM), persistent memory, nand flash, SSD

Where To Learn More

Learn more about related technology, trends, tools, techniques, and tips with the following links.

Data Infrastructures Protect Preserve Secure and Serve Information
Various IT and Cloud Infrastructure Layers including Data Infrastructures

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

What This All Means

There are always more hot popular new or trending data infrastructure vendors to watch, which ones are you keeping an eye on?

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). 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. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2024 Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved. StorageIO is a registered Trade Mark (TM) of Server StorageIO.

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Microsoft Azure Software Defined Data Infrastructure Reference Resources

Azure Software Defined Data Infrastructure Architecture Resources

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads?

Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

Microsoft Azure Software Defined Cloud
Azure Reference Architectures via Microsoft Azure

Examples of some Azure Reference Architecture for various application and workloads include among others:

For example, need to know how to configure a high availability (HA) Sharepoint deployment with Azure, then check out this reference architecture shown below.

Microsoft Azure Sharepoint HA reference architecture
Sharepoint HA via Microsoft Azure

Where To Learn More

Learn more about related technology, trends, tools, techniques, and tips with the following links.

Data Infrastructures Protect Preserve Secure and Serve Information
Various IT and Cloud Infrastructure Layers including Data Infrastructures

What This All Means

Data Infrastructures exist to protect, preserve, secure and serve information along with the applications and data they depend on. Software Defined Data Infrastructures span legacy, virtual, container, cloud and other environments to support various application workloads. Check out the Microsoft Azure cloud reference architecture and resources mentioned above as well as the Azure Free trial and getting started site here.

Ok, nuff said, for now.
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.

Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2023 Server StorageIO(R) and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved.

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New family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors enable software defined data infrastructures (SDDI) and SDDC

Intel Xeon Scalable Processors SDDI and SDDC

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Today Intel announced a new family of Xeon Scalable Processors (aka Purely) that for some workloads Intel claims to be on average of 1.65x faster than their predecessors. Note your real improvement will vary based on workload, configuration, benchmark testing, type of processor, memory, and many other server storage I/O performance considerations.

Intel Scalable Xeon Processors
Image via Intel.com

In general the new Intel Xeon Scalable Processors enable legacy and software defined data infrastructures (SDDI), along with software defined data centers (SDDC), cloud and other environments to support expanding workloads more efficiently as well as effectively (e.g. boosting productivity).

Data Infrastructures and workloads

Some target application and environment workloads Intel is positioning these new processors for includes among others:

  • Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, deep learning and big data
  • Networking including software defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV)
  • Cloud and Virtualization including Azure Stack, Docker and Kubernetes containers, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack VMware vSphere, KVM among others
  • High Performance Compute (HPC) and High Productivity Compute (e.g. the other HPC)
  • Storage including legacy and emerging software defined storage software deployed as appliances, systems or server less deployment modes.

Features of the new Intel Xeon Scalable Processors include:

  • New core micro architecture with interconnects and on die memory controllers
  • Sockets (processors) scalable up to 28 cores
  • Improved networking performance using Quick Assist and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
  • Leverages Intel Quick Assist Technology for CPU offload of compute intensive functions including I/O networking, security, AI, ML, big data, analytics and storage functions. Functions that benefit from Quick Assist include cryptography, encryption, authentication, cipher operations, digital signatures, key exchange, loss less data compression and data footprint reduction along with data at rest encryption (DARE).
  • Optane Non-Volatile Dual Inline Memory Module (NVDIMM) for storage class memory (SCM) also referred to by some as Persistent Memory (PM), not to be confused with Physical Machine (PM).
  • Supports Advanced Vector Extensions 512  (AVX-512) for HPC and other workloads
  • Optional Omni-Path Fabrics in addition to 1/10Gb Ethernet among other I/O options
  • Six memory channels supporting up to 6TB of RDIMM with multi socket systems
  • From two to eight  sockets per node (system)
  • Systems support PCIe 3.x (some supporting x4 based M.2 interconnects)

Note that exact speeds, feeds, slots and watts will vary by specific server model and vendor options. Also note that some server system solutions have two or more nodes (e.g. two or more real servers) in a single package not to be confused with two or more sockets per node (system or motherboard). Refer to the where to learn more section below for links to Intel benchmarks and other resources.

Software Defined Data Infrastructures, SDDC, SDX and SDDI

What About Speeds and Feeds

Watch for and check out the various Intel partners who have or will be announcing their new server compute platforms based on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. Each of the different vendors will have various speeds and feeds options that build on the fundamental Intel Xeon Scalable Processor capabilities.

For example Dell EMC announced their 14G server platforms at the May 2017 Dell EMC World event with details to follow (e.g. after the Intel announcements).

Some things to keep in mind include the amount of DDR4 DRAM (or Optane NVDIMM) will vary by vendors server platform configuration, motherboards, several sockets and DIMM slots. Also keep in mind the differences between registered (e.g. buffered RDIMM) that give good capacity and great performance, and load reduced DIMM (LRDIMM) that have great capacity and ok performance.

Various nvme options

What about NVMe

It’s there as these systems like previous Intel models support NVMe devices via PCIe 3.x slots, and some vendor solutions also supporting M.2 x4 physical interconnects as well.

server storageIO flash and SSD
Image via Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC)

Note that Broadcom formerly known as Avago and LSI recently announced PCIe based RAID and adapter cards that support NVMe attached devices in addition to SAS and SATA.

server storage data infrastructure sddi

What About Intel and Storage

In case you have not connected the dots yet, the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor based server (aka compute) systems are also a fundamental platform for storage systems, services, solutions, appliances along with tin-wrapped software.

What this means is that the Intel Xeon Scalable Processors based systems can be used for deploying legacy as well as new and emerging software-defined storage software solutions. This also means that the Intel platforms can be used to support SDDC, SDDI, SDX, SDI as well as other forms of legacy and software-defined data infrastructures along with cloud, virtual, container, server less among other modes of deployment.

Image Via Intel.com

Moving beyond server and compute platforms, there is another tie to storage as part of this recent as well as other Intel announcements. Just a few weeks ago Intel announced 64 layer triple level cell (TLC) 3D NAND solutions positioned for the client market (laptop, workstations, tablets, thin clients). Intel with that announcement increased the traditional aerial density (e.g. bits per square inch or cm) as well as boosting the number of layers (stacking more bits as well).

The net result is not only more bits per square inch, also more per cubic inch or cm. This is all part of a continued evolution of NAND flash including from 2D to 3D, MCL to TLC, 32 to 64 layer.  In other words, NAND flash-based Solid State Devices (SSDs) are very much still a relevant and continue to be enhanced technology even with the emerging 3D XPoint and Optane (also available via Amazon in M.2) in the wings.

server memory evolution
Via Intel and Micron (3D XPoint launch)

Keep in mind that NAND flash-based technologies were announced almost 20 years ago (1999), and are still evolving. 3D XPoint announced two years ago, along with other emerging storage class memories (SCM), non-volatile memory (NVM) and persistent memory (PM) devices are part of the future as is 3D NAND (among others). Speaking of 3D XPoint and Optane, Intel had announcements about that in the past as well.

Where To Learn More

Learn more about Intel Xeon Scalable Processors along with related technology, trends, tools, techniques and tips with the following links.

What This All Means

Some say the PC is dead and IMHO that depends on what you mean or define a PC as. For example if you refer to a PC generically to also include servers besides workstations or other devices, then they are alive. If however your view is that PCs are only workstations and client devices, then they are on the decline.

However if your view is that a PC is defined by the underlying processor such as Intel general purpose 64 bit x86 derivative (or descendent) then they are very much alive. Just as older generations of PCs leveraging general purpose Intel based x86 (and its predecessors) processors were deployed for many uses, so to are today’s line of Xeon (among others) processors.

Even with the increase of ARM, GPU and other specialized processors, as well as ASIC and FPGAs for offloads, the role of general purpose processors continues to increase, as does the technology evolution around. Even with so called server less architectures, they still need underlying compute server platforms for running software, which also includes software defined storage, software defined networks, SDDC, SDDI, SDX, IoT among others.

Overall this is a good set of announcements by Intel and what we can also expect to be a flood of enhancements from their partners who will use the new family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors in their products to enable software defined data infrastructures (SDDI) and SDDC.

Ok, nuff said (for now…).

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Multi-year Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert (and vSAN). Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press), Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio. Watch for the spring 2017 release of his new book "Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials" (CRC Press).

Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2023 Server StorageIO(R) and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved.

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April 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructures Update Newsletter

Volume 17, Issue IV

Hello and welcome to the April 2017 issue of the Server StorageIO data infrastructures update newsletter.

Spring is here in the northern hemisphere which means that there is a lot of things going on, or about to be occurring soon. April has been a busy month for me including spending time in Europe doing some seminar and workshop presentations, along with other consulting advisory activities involving data infrastructures.

Besides travel, I have been busy working on client projects, attending to various post-production activities for my new book Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (more about this in the May issue). Other things I have been doing include being briefed on upcoming technology announcements along with some hands activities trying out things that will be covered in future updates, as well as working with some interesting NDA items that, well, are NDA.

Be sure to check out the recent blog posts, as well as industry trends perspectives commentary below, along with recent and upcoming webinar among events.

In This Issue

Enjoy this abbreviated edition of the Server StorageIO update newsletter.

Cheers GS

 

Server StorageIOblog Posts

Recent and popular Server StorageIOblog posts include:

View other recent as well as past StorageIOblog posts here

Server StorageIO Commentary in the news

Recent Server StorageIO industry trends perspectives commentary in the news.

Via SearchCloudComputing: Virtual private clouds an alternative to on-premisess computing
Hybrid clouds continue to grow in popularity as well as deployed usage, from storage to compute to networking, said Greg Schulz, the senior advisory analyst at StorageIO in Stillwater, Minn. Most cloud and service providers talk about hybrid along with public clouds, while AWS tends to talk about [VPC aka virtual private clouds].

Via SearchDataCenter: Ask the right questions before committing to a collocation SLA policy
Do you just need a physical space to put things, or do you need high bandwidth and ultra-reliable power? asked Greg Schulz, senior advisory analyst at StorageIO, a consultancy in Stillwater, Minn.

Via EnterpriseStorageForum: Tips for Enterprise SSD Form Factor Selection Deployment
It’s doubtful that there is one form factor to rule them all. Some may be best for X but lousy for Y. But Greg Schulz, an analyst at StorageIO Group notes that many vendors attempt to champion a particular flash SSD form factor and interface, claiming it’s the best and only fit for the enterprise.

Via SearchITOperations: Storage performance analysis reveals IT’s ongoing bottleneck
Sometimes it takes more than an aspirin to cure a headache, said Greg Schulz

Via SearchDNS: Parsing through the software-defined storage hype
Beyond scalability, SDS technology aims for freedom from the limits of proprietary hardware, explained StorageIO analyst Greg Schulz.

Via InfoStor: Data Storage Industry Braces for AI and Machine Learning
AI could also lead to untapped hidden or unknown value in existing data that has no or little perceived value, said Greg Schulz.

View more Server, Storage and I/O trends and perspectives comments here

Events and Activities

Recent and upcoming event activities.

May 11, 2017 – Webinar – Email Archiving, Compliance and Ransomware

May 8-10, 2017 – Dell EMCworld – Las Vegas

April 3-7, 2017 – Seminars – Dutch workshop seminar series – Nijkerk Netherlands

March 15, 2017 – Webinar – SNIA/BrightTalk – HyperConverged and Storage – 10AM PT

See more webinars and activities on the Server StorageIO Events page here.

Server StorageIO Industry Resources and Links

Useful links and pages:
Microsoft TechNet – Various Microsoft related from Azure to Docker to Windows
storageio.com/links – Various industry links (over 1,000 with more to be added soon)
objectstoragecenter.com – Cloud and object storage topics, tips and news items
OpenStack.org – Various OpenStack related items
storageio.com/protect – Various data protection items and topics
thenvmeplace.com – Focus on NVMe trends and technologies
thessdplace.com – NVM and Solid State Disk topics, tips and techniques
storageio.com/converge – Various CI, HCI and related SDS topics
storageio.com/performance – Various server, storage and I/O benchmark and tools
VMware Technical Network – Various VMware related items

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert (and vSAN). Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio. Watch for the spring 2017 release of his new book Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials(CRC Press).

Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2023 Server StorageIO(R) and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved.

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Backup, Big data, Big Data Protection, CMG & More with Tom Becchetti Podcast

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In this Server StorageIO podcast episode, I am joined by Tom Becchetti (@tbecchetti) for a Friday afternoon conversation recorded live at Meisters in Scandia Minnesota (thanks to the Meisters crew!).

Tom Becchetti

For those of you who may not know Tom, he has been in the IT, data center, data infrastructure, server and storage (as well as data protection) industry for many years (ok decades) as a customer and vendor in various roles. Not surprising our data infrastructure discussion involves server, software, storage, big data, backup, data protection, big data protection, CMG (Computer Measurement Group @mspcmg), copy data management, cloud, containers, fundamental tradecraft skills among other related topics.

Check out Tom on twitter @tbecchetti and @mspcmg as well as his new website www.storagegodfather.com. Listen to the podcast discussion here (42 minutes) as well as on iTunes.

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Ok, nuff said for now…

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert (and vSAN). Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio. Watch for the spring 2017 release of his new book Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press).

Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2023 Server StorageIO(R) and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved.

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Software Defined, Bulk, Cloud, Scale Out, Object Storage Fundamentals

Cloud, Bulk, Scale-Out, Object Storage Fundamentals

Welcome to the Cloud, Big Data, Software Defined, scale-out, Bulk and Object Storage Fundamentals page.

This page contains various resources, tips, essential topics pertaining to Software Defined, scale-out, Cloud, Bulk and Object and blob Storage Fundamentals. Other resources pertaining to Software Defined, scale-out, Cloud, Bulk and Object Storage include:

There are various types of cloud, bulk and object storage including public services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), Google, Microsoft Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace among many others. There are also solutions for hybrid and private deployment from Cisco, Cloudian, Fujifilm, DDN, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, HDS, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Noobaa, OpenStack, Quantum, Rackspace, Scality, Seagate, Spectra, Storpool, Suse, Swift and WD among others.

Cloud products and services among others, along with associated data infrastructures including object storage, file systems, repositories and access methods are at the center of bulk, big data, big bandwidth and little data initiatives on a public, private, hybrid and community basis. After all, not everything is the same in cloud, virtual and traditional data centers or information factories from active data to in-active deep digital archiving.

Cloud Object Storage Fundamentals Access and Architectures

There are many facets to object storage including technology implementation, products, services, access and architectures for various applications and use scenarios.

    • Project or Account – Top of the hierarchy that can represent the owner or billing information for a service that where buckets are also attached.
    • Region – Location where data is stored that can include one or more data centers also known as Availability Zones.

AWS S3 Cross region replication
Moving and Replicating Buckets/Containers, Subfolders and Objects

    • Availability Zone (AZ) or data center or server that implement durability and accessibility for availability within a region.

AWS Regions and Availability Zones AZs
Example of Regions and Availability Zones (AZs)

    • Bucket or Container – Where objects or sub-folders containing objects are attached and accessed.

Object storage fundamentals sddc and cloud software defined

    • Sub-folder – While object storage can be located in a flat namespace for commonality and organization some solutions and service support the notion of sub-folder that resemble traditional directory hierarchy.
    • Object – Byte (or bit) stream that can be as small as one byte to as large as several Tbytes (some solutions and services support up to 5TByte sized objects). The object contains whatever data in any organization along with metadata. Different solutions and services support from a couple hundred KBytes of meta-data to Mbytes worth of meta-data. Regarding what can be stored in an object, anything from files, videos, images, virtual disks (VMDKs, VHDX), ZIP or tar files, backup and archive save sets, executable images or ISO’s, anything you want.
    • End-point – Where or what your software, application or tool and utilities along with gateways attach to for accessing buckets and objects.

 

object storage fundamentals, sddc and cloud storage example

A common theme for object storage is flexibility, along with scaling (performance, availability, capacity, economics) along with extensibility without compromise or complexity. From those basics, there are many themes and variations from how data is protected (RAID or no RAID, hardware or software), deployed as a service or as tin wrapped software (an appliance), optimized for archiving or video serving or other applications.

Many facets of cloud and object storage access

One aspect of object and cloud storage is accessing or using object methods including application programming interfaces (API’s) vs. traditional block (LUN) or NAS (file) based approaches. Keep in mind that many object storage systems, software, and services support NAS file-based access including NFS, CIFS, HDFS  among others for compatibility and ease of use.

Likewise various API’s can be found across different object solutions, software or services including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) HTTP REST based, among others. Other API’s will vary by specific vendor or product however can include IOS (e.g. Apple iPhone and iPad), WebDav, FTP, JSON, XML, XAM, CDMI, SOAP, and DICOM among others. Another aspect of object and cloud storage are expanded  and dynamic metadata.

While traditional file systems and NAS have simple or fixed metadata, object and cloud storage systems, services and solutions along with some scale-out file systems have ability to support user defined metadata. Specific systems, solutions, software, and services will vary on the amount of metadata that could range on the low-end from 100s of KBytes  to tens or more Mbytes.

cloud object storage

Where to learn more

The following resources provide additional information about big data, bulk, software defined, cloud and object storage.

Click here to view software defined, bulk, cloud and object storage trend news.


StorageIO Founder Greg Schulz: File Services on Object Storage with HyperFile

Via InfoStor: Object Storage Is In Your Future
Via FujiFilm IT Summit: Software Defined Data Infrastructures (SDDI) and Hybrid Clouds
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via InfoStor: Cloud Storage Concerns, Considerations and Trends
Via InfoStor: Object Storage Is In Your Future
Via Server StorageIO: April 2015 Newsletter Focus on Cloud and Object storage
Via StorageIOblog: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements
Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview
AWS (Amazon) storage gateway, first, second and third impressions
Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Book)
Via ChannelPartnersOnline: Selling Software-Defined Storage: Not All File Systems Are the Same
Via ITProPortal: IBM kills off its first cloud storage platform
Via ITBusinessEdge: Time to Rein in Cloud Storage
Via SerchCloudStorge: Ctera Networks’ file-sharing services gain intelligent cache
Via StorageIOblog: Who Will Be At Top Of Storage World Next Decade?

Videos and podcasts at storageio.tv also available via Applie iTunes.

Human Face of Big Data
Human Face of Big Data (Book review)

Seven Databases in Seven weeks
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (Book review)

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

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Wrap up and summary

Object and cloud storage are in your future, the questions are when, where, with what and how among others.

Watch for more content and links to be added here soon to this object storage center page including posts, presentations, pod casts, polls, perspectives along with services and product solutions profiles.

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

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IT Data Center and Data Infrastructure Industry Resources

Updated 2/20/2018

Following are some useful Data Infrastructure IT Industry Resource Links A to E to cloud, virtual and traditional IT data infrastructure related web sites. The data infrastructure environment (servers, storage, IO and networking, hardware, software, services, virtual, container and cloud) is rapidly changing. You may encounter a missing URL, or a URL that has changed. This list is updated on a regular basis to reflect changes (additions, changes, and retirement).

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  • A3Cube    Computer I/O solution startup
  • AAPT   AAPT    AWS connect partner, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • abiquo.com    Cloud development and management tools
  • Above.net/Zayo Group    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • abrevity.com    eDiscovery, search, indexing, classification
  • accellion.com    File transfer tools
  • accessopt.com    Holographic storage
  • acinion.com    Video solutions
  • acopia.com    NAS aggregation and global name space (bought by F5)
  • acronis.com    Backup and data protection tools
  • acsacs.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • acs-inc.com    Hosting, outsourcing and managed services (Bought by Xerox)
  • actifio.com    Data protection solutions
  • active-circle.com    Data archiving and storage solutions
  • activestate.com    Stackato PaaS for cloud tools
  • adaptec.com    Adapters, iSCSI storage, data backup solutions (See PMC)
  • adesto.com    CBRAM startup
  • addonics.com    SSD storage solutions
  • adic.com    Backup, Dedupe and data protection solutions (Bought by Quantum)
  • adinfa.com        Energy and resource management tools
  • AdRem Netcrunch        Monitoring of Networks, Systems and Applications, DCIM
  • Adtran    Datacom and networking solutions
  • advancedvault.com    Business continuity solutions
  • advaoptical.com    Optical networking
  • afcom.com    Data center industry user group
  • aforesolutions.com    Cloud storage and infrasture management tools
  • agami.com    High performance NAS storage (Shutdown)
  • agilent.com    Host adapters and test equipment
  • agility.com    Optical solutions and components
  • agilysys.com    VAR
  • aiim.com    Archiving and records management trade group
  • ait.com    Cloud and web hosting
  • Ajubeo    Cloud and management solutions
  • akamai.com    Content distribution network (CDN)
  • akitio.com    Storage systems
  • akorri.com    Storage resource and capacity management
  • alacritech.com    Storage networking adapters for iSCSI
  • alacritus.com    Data Protection Software
  • alcatel.com    Networking and storage networking equipment
  • alliance-it.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • allstorage.nl    Storage services solution provider
  • amazon.com    Cloud compute and storage services
  • AmberPoint.com    SOA management tools
  • amcc.com    Storage networking components (aka JNI & 3ware Bought by LSI)
  • amd.com    Server and processor chips
  • americanfibersystems.com    Metropolitan storage networks and fiber bandwidth
  • amphenol.com    Storage Networking connectors and cables
  • Amplidata.com    Object and wide area based storage
  • ancot.com    Storage networking testing equipment
  • anixter.com    Networking components
  • Anobit.com    Memory components
  • ansi.org    American National Standards Institute
  • Anstor64.com    iSCSI storage software
  • anuesystems.com    SONET’/SDH and network test equipment
  • apc.com    Environmental and power systems and DCIM solutoins
  • apcon.com    Physical cabling and management
  • aperture.com    Data center tools including CMDB (Bought by Emerson)
  • appassue.com    SQL server and data protection tools (Bought by Dell)
  • Appcore    Cloud management tools
  • Appfirst    IT Ops, Development and DCIM monitoring and PKI metrics
  • appiq.com    Storage Management Software (Bought by HP)
  • appirio.com    Cloud and content tools and services
  • apple.com    Server and storage
  • apprenda.com    Grid and data management tools
  • Apprenda   Platform as a service tools
  • aprius.com    PCIe Server I/O virtualization (IOV) technology
  • aptare.com    Data protection management and backup reporting
  • arasan.com    IP Networking components
  • Archivas.com    Archiving and data management software (Bought by HDS)
  • arcmail.com    Email archiving
  • Arcplace    Data management archiving
  • arcsight.com    Compliance solutions
  • argent.com    Data center management and CMDB tools
  • ariodata.com    Scalable data storage and blade storage systems
  • aristanetworks.com    Networking technologies
  • aristoslogic.com    Storage controller technology (Bought by Adaptec)
  • Arkeia.com    Backup and data protection software (Bought by WD)
  • arkivio.com    Storage management and ILM software
  • arm.com    Microprocessor producer
  • armor247.com    SMB focused data protection solutions
  • arrow.com    Distributor
  • arsenaldigital.com    Managed backup service (Bought by IBM)
  • arxscan.com    SRM and file reporting software
  • asankya.com    Application delivery and cloud access
  • asciitable.com    Site containing the ASCII character set table
  • ashare.org    HVAC Engineers Association
  • asigra.com    Backup and data protection solutions
  • asnp.org    Association Storage Networking Professionals
  • asperasoft.com    High speed file and data transfer tools
  • astaro.com    Security tools
  • astutenetworks.com    iSCSI storage optimized for VMware
  • atempo.com    Backup Software
  • Atlantic Metro Communications    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • Atlantiscomputing    ILIO VDI and I/O optimization, cache tools
  • atmforum.com    ATM trade association
  • atrato.com    Storage systems
  • attachmate.com    IT management tools (bought Novell)
  • attotech.com    Storage networking adapters and gateways
  • Attunesystems.com    NAS and file virtualization (Assets bought by F5)
  • attunity.com    File and data movement tools
  • autonomy.com    Data management and cloud services (Bought by HP) –
  • autovirt.com    Storage automation tiering tools
  • avagotech.com    Semiconductor technologies
  • availl.com    Data movement and replication solutions
  • avamar.com    Dedupe, Backup and Restoration Solutions (Bought by EMC)
  • avanade.com    Var
  • avaya.com    Networking and communications
  • averesystems.com    NAS caching and automated tiering
  • avg.com    Security and anti-virus software
  • avnet.com    Distributor
  • www.avocent.com    Infrastructure resource management tools
  • axcient.com    Cloud data protection solutions
  • axiossystems.com    IRM and service management tools
  • axsone.com    Records and document management
  • axxana.com    Data protection and replication tools
  • Backblaze    Online and cloud backup storage
  • BackupAssist    Backup and Recovery software
  • backupify.com    Backup for google apps
  • BUMI    Backup and data protection tools
  • backupright.com    Online and cloud backup
  • Backula    Opensource Backup and data protection
  • bakbone.com    Backup Software (Bought by Quest bought by Dell)
  • balesio.com    File compression solutions
  • barracudanetworks.com    Networking devices, backup software
  • basho.com    NOSQL Database and object storage technology –
  • batblue.com    Cloud, application delivery networking services
  • Bestel   Bestel    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • Beyondtust    Vulnerability assessment and detection
  • bigswitch.com    Openflow based network switches
  • BitArmor.com    Data security software
  • bitcasa.com    Cloud storage and backup
  • Bitcentral    Video management solutions
  • Bitmicro    Solid state devices and other solutions
  • Blackbox    Data center infrastructure, DCIM, KVM and other solutions
  • BlackMESH    FedRAMP and DevOPs hosting
  • blade.org    Trade group for blade servers
  • bladelogic.com    Server management and discovery software
  • BladeNetwork.net    Server and storage blades (Bought by IBM)
  • Bladeroom    Data center and hosting
  • bladesystems.org    Industry trade group for blade servers and storage
  • bladetechnologies.net    Networking technologies
  • blockbridge.com    Elastic Storage Software and Tools
  • bluearc.com    High performance NAS enterprise class storage (Bought by HDS)
  • bluecoat.com    WAN optimization
  • bluecorenetworks.com    Networking infrastructure solutions
  • Bluehost    Web hosting, dedicated and virtual private servers
  • bluelock.com    Hosting, managed service and cloud provider
  • BlueOSS    Cloud and business inteligence solutions
  • www.bluestripe.com     Software for managing virtual data centers
  • bmc.com    Storage management software
  • bocada.com    Backup and management software
  • bowindustries.com    Tape media cleaning tools
  • box.net    Internet/web/cloud storage services
  • bphx.com    Legacy application transformation
  • bridgestor.com    Data reduction and storage optimization
  • Bridghead.com    Storage management software
  • broadband.com    Portal site for finding network bandwidth services
  • broadbandreports.com    Portal site for finding high speed internet access
  • broadcom.com    Storage networking component supplier
  • brocade.com    Switches, WAN gateways, software
  • brouwerconsultancy.com    Storage consultancy service
  • bswd.com    Brian Berg’s Storage Cornucopia web site
  • btiphotonics.com    WDM and Optical networking technologies
  • buffalotech.com    SMB and SOHO NAS storage
  • bustech.com    IBM Mainframe to open systems gateways (Bought by EMC)
  • bycast.com    Grid based fixed content, archive and object storage (Bought by NetApp)
  • c2c.com    Email archiving solutions
  • c2esoft.com    Data center operations and insight management tools
  • ca.com    Data management software
  • Computer Associates    Various data center, DCIM, data protection and other solution tools
  • call-recall.com    Optical storage
  • Canonical   Ubuntu Linux
  • carbonite.com    Cloud storage and backup
  • caringo.com    CAS archiving and object storage tools
  • casecentral.com    Cloud ediscovery
  • cassandra.apache.org    Data management and database alternative software
  • Apache Cassandra    NOSql Data Management tools
  • cassat.com    IRM management tools (Bought by CA)
  • Catalogic Software    Data protection and management tools
  • cataphora.com    Data management tools
  • catbird.com    VM security tools
  • caviumnetworks.com    Networking processors and chip technologies
  • cdproject.net    Carbon Disclosure Project
  • cdrive.com    VAR
  • cdw.com    VAR
  • celion.com    Network services for storage over distance
  • celona.com    Data migration tools
  • cemaphore.com    Messaging solutions
  • centos.org    Cluster Storage
  • centrepath.com    Storage management solutions (formerly Giant Loop)
  • centrify.com    Digital rights management for cloud, virtual, server, desktop and storage
  • Tier3/CenturyLink   Cloud, hosting and managed services
  • Centurylinkg/Savvis    Cloud and hosting solutions
  • Ceph   Cloud and object storage solutions
  • cert.org    Internet Security information
  • certesnetworks.com    Cloud security tools
  • certon.com    VAR
  • CFN Services    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • chelsio.com    High speed Ethernet adapters
  • chicorporation.com    Data protection, cloud and storage VAR
  • ciena.com    Optical networking
  • Cinenet    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • ciphermax.com    Data Storage Encryption Tools
  • cipheroptics.com    Storage networking security
  • ciprico.com    Storage systems (Bought by DotHill)
  • cirrustore.com    Backup data protection tools
  • cirtas.com    Cloud Storage Appliance – Added 6/9/10
  • cisco.com    Switches, WAN and Optical networking
  • Citrix.com    Virtualization solutions
  • ClearDB.com/.com    Local and distributed (GEO) MySQL database software and service
  • clearpace.com/.com    Large scale archive and data management tools
  • CleverSafe.com    Distributed object/esrasure storage
  • climatesaverscomputing.com    Green computing industry trade group
  • Clonix   Data cloning, duplication and protection tools
  • CloudByte   Scale-out and cloud storage
  • cloudera.com    Hadoop data storage and analytics tools
  • CloudFlare   CDN and Web Cache solutions
  • cloudfuzion.com    High performance servers
  • Cloudian   Cloud and object storage tools
  • Cloudphysics   Big data and virtualization tools
  • cloudreplica.com    Cloud data protection tools
  • cloudscaling.com    Open cloud platforms
  • Apache CloudStack   Open Source Cloud tools
  • cloudtp.com    Open cloud deployment solutions
  • CloudVelocity   Hybrid Cloud and data protection management solutins
  • cloverleafcomm.com    Storage Virtualization tools (Bought by DotHill)
  • clustrix.com    Storage software startup
  • cmg.org    Computer Measurement Group
  • cnt.com    Switches, WAN gateways, software (Bought by McData bought by Brocade)
  • Cobalt Iron   Data protection tools
  • code42.com    Cloud storage and backup aka Crashplan
  • Codenomicon.com    Data and security tools
  • cofio.com    Backup and data protection tools
  • CohesiveFT   Cloud solution and management tools
  • colliercomputing.com    VAR
  • colo-america.com    Co-location and hosting services

  • communities.vmware.com    VMware community
  • commvault.com    Data management software
  • comodo.com    Encryption tools
  • Comparitech    Consumer tech reviews
  • compellent.com    SMB Storage sub-systems and software – (Bought by Dell)
  • comptia.org    Computer and Technology Industry Association
  • compucom.com    VAR
  • computergamedesign.org    Computer game design
  • compuverde.com    Big data management tools and object storage
  • compuware.com    IT management and performance tools
  • condre.com    VAR/distributor
  • Condusiv   Data and storage management tools including Diskeeper
  • XO Communications    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • Connected Cloud    Cloud management tools
  • connectwise.com    IT automation tools
  • conres.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • consiliant.com    VAR
  • ConstantData.com    Real time data replication and mirroring
  • continuitysoftware.com    Replication and Snapshot data protection management
  • convirture.com    Cloud and virtualization tools
  • copansys.com    Secondary storage for backup and archiving (Assets Bought by SGI)
  • coraid.com    SATA over Ethernet storage
  • CoreSite    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • corevault.com    Cloud services
  • Cormant    DCIM and data center and infrastructure management tools
  • corning.com    Fiber optic cabling
  • corsair.com    SSD
  • corvis.com    Networking solutions
  • cPanel    Web, cloud and hosting management tools
  • crashplan.com    Cloud storage and backup aka Code42
  • creekpath.com    Storage management software
  • www.critical-links.com    Office in a box
  • crossroads.com    Storage routers and data protection management tools
  • Crosswalkinc.com    Clustered NAS storage (Ceased Operations)
  • crucial.com    Memory and SSD solutions
  • cru-dataport.com    Data Archive solutions
  • Crypto.com    Crypto resource site
  • www.ctera.com    Cloud storage appliance
  • Cumulus Networks    Open networking
  • curtisssd.com    SSD solution provider
  • cya.com    Document management and data protection
  • cyber-ark.com    Security data protection tools
  • cypress.com    Storage and networking components
  • dantz.com    Data protection and backup solutions (Aka Retrospect Bought by EMC, EMC sold off)
  • datacentertechnologies.com    Data management solutions (Bought by Symantec)
  • datacore.com    Storage management software
  • datadepositbox.com    Online backup and data protection
  • datadirectnetworks.com    Aka DDN Storage systems, SAN, NAS, Object and cloud
  • datadomain.com    Data Deduplication System (Bought by EMC)
  • Data Dynamics Inc    StorageX Data Movement, Migration and management
  • datafort.com    Online cloud backup
  • dataglobal.com    Data and storage management
  • Data Gravity    Big Data solutions
  • datagres.com    Cloud and application caching acceleration
  • dataguise.com/    Data security solutions
  • datalink.com    VAR
  • datallegro.com    Data warehouse storage solution (Bought by Microsoft)
  • datamirror.com    Data replication solutions
  • DataON Storage    Storage solutions
  • Datapipe    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • dataprotection.com    Vaultlogix data protection tools for cloud
  • DataRAM.com    SSD solutions
  • Data sales    Storage systems sales and leasing
  • dataslide.com    Hard rectangular disk (HRD)
  • datastor.com    Windows based backup data protection
  • datcollaborative.org    Data collaboration group and DAPL material
  • datoptic.com    Storage VAR
  • daymarksi.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • DBR360    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • ddifrontline.com    Security and access control
  • debian.org    Open source operating system
  • Debriefing software    Storage SRM tools
  • decru.com    Storage networking security solutions (Bought by NetApp)
  • Asempra.com    Data protection bought by Dell via Quest
  • dell.com    Storage networking equipment
  • Delphix    Storage, data management and data protection tools
  • demandtechnology.com    Demand technology software (performance software)
  • Denodo    Data virtualization tools
  • dexrexgear .com    Social media cloud storage
  • www.dey-sys.com    Open source software based sotrage
  • www.dh2i.com    Database virtualization software tools
  • digidata.com    Storage solutions
  • digistoresolutions.com    Archiving and data protection solutions
  • Digitalocular.com     Video data management tools
  • digitalreefinc.com    eDiscovery and compliance tools
  • digitiliti.com    Cloud and managed service backup
  • diligent.com    Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and Dedupe (Bought by IBM)
  • dimensiondata.com    VAR
  • Dimension Data    Hosting and managed services
  • dincloud.com    Cloud virtual desktop
  • directtextbook.com    Online book venue
  • discoverybox.net    Data protection for legal hold and compliance
  • diskkeeper.com    File and disk storage defragmentation (Condusiv)
  • Disklace.com    Disk storage optimization tools
  • dlink.com    Storage, network and cloud technologies
  • dmtf.org    Distributed Management Task Force
  • dnfstorage.com    iSCSI and hybrid storage (formerly Stonefly)
  • dothill.com    Distributed storage solutions
  • Doubletake.com    Data replication software
  • driveoncloud.com    Cloud drive online storage
  • drivesaversdatarecovery.com    Data protection and recovery
  • drobo.com    SMB and SOHO NAS storage
  • dropbox.com    Cloud storage and file sharing
  • druva.com    Backup, Storage, network and cloud technologies
  • dsireusa.org    Database of State Incentives and Renewable Energy
  • Dundas    Data Visualization and mobile dashboards
  • dvs.de    Digital video systems and storage
  • dynamicsolutions.com    Storage and data protection VAR
  • EaseUS    Backup, data protection and cloning tools
  • ecctek.com    Rugged data storage components
  • econnectix.com    Data and storage management solutions
  • eds.com    Data outsourcing and cloud provider (Bought by HP)
  • eere.energy.gov     U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) web site
  • egenera.com    Blade server and server virtualization management software
  • eginnovations.com    Application and infrastructure monitoring
  • egnyte.com    Cloud backup and data protection
  • eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html    Portal for electrical power generation, use and costs
  • emc.com    Storage sub-systems software
  • Emerson.com    DCIM IT Data center power, cooling and environmental management tools
  • Empired FlexScale    IT and business cloud solutions
  • emprisanetworks.com    Network management solutions (Bought by BMC)
  • emulex.com    Host bus adapters and embedded switches
  • enclarity.com    Healthcare CRM and analysis tools
  • encryptstick.com    USB based encryption device
  • enduradata.com    Data distribution and protection
  • energycenter.org    California Center for Sustainable Energy
  • energyshop.com    Portal for energy pricing and options
  • energystar.gov    United States EPA Energy Star web site
  • Enhance-tech.com    Storage VAR
  • enmotus.com    SSD storage tiering technology
  • Ensim   IT and cloud provisioning/management tools
  • enstratus.com    Amazon cloud computing management tools (Bought by Dell)
  • enterprisedb.com    Enterprise Database tools
  • epeat.net    Site for comparing desktop and related products
  • epic.com    Medical Information Technology software
  • equallogic.com    iSCSI storage systems (Bought by Dell)
  • Equinix, Inc.    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • equivio.com    Email data protection and retention
  • ericom.com    Desktop and VDI tools
  • esilicon.com    ASIC and custom silicon development
  • essextec.com    VAR
  • Eucalyptus    Open source cloud solutions
  • Evault.com    aka i365 – Remote (Cloud) backup service provider (Bought by Seagate)
  • Everspin Technologies    MRAM memories
  • evolvingsol.com    VAR
  • evostor.com    Storage startup
  • exablade.com    High performance application acceleration
  • Exablox    SMB storage solutions
  • Exabyte.com    Removable tape and robotics
  • exagrid.com    Backup Storage
  • exanet.com    Clustered NAS Storage (Bought by Dell aka FluidFileSystem)
  • exar.com    Server, Storage and Networking components
  • exavio.com    HD and SD data capture
  • exludus.com    Multi core optimize
  • Expand.com    Network and WAN optimization
  • Expertanalyticalsystems.com    Storage analysis tools
  • Exponential-e Ltd.    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • expresscomputersystems.com    Storage solutions VAR
  • extremenetworks.com    Networking switches

Where To Learn More

View additional NAS, NVMe, SSD, NVM, SCM, Data Infrastructure and HDD related topics via the following links.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

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What This All Means

Visit the following additional data infrastructure and IT data center related links.

Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). 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. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

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Data Infrastructure IT Industry Related Resource Links F to J

IT Data Center and Data Infrastructure Industry Resources

Updated 2/20/2018

Following are some useful Data Infrastructure IT Industry Resource Links F to J to cloud, virtual and traditional IT data infrastructure related web sites. The data infrastructure environment (servers, storage, IO and networking, hardware, software, services, virtual, container and cloud) is rapidly changing. You may encounter a missing URL, or a URL that has changed. This list is updated on a regular basis to reflect changes (additions, changes, and retirement).

Disclaimer and note: URL’s submitted for inclusion on this site will be reviewed for consideration and to be in generally accepted good taste in regards to the theme of this site.

Best effort has been made to validate and verify the data infrastructure URLs that appear on this page and web site however they are subject to change. The author and/or maintainer(s) of this page and web site make no endorsement to and assume no responsibility for the URLs and their content that are listed on this page.

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Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

  • f5.com    Networking solutions
  • fabric7.com    High speed networking
  • falconstor.com    Storage management software
  • FarStone.com    Backup and data protection software
  • fcoe.com    Web site pertaining to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
  • fdr.com    Aka Innovation data protection tools
  • fedoraproject.org    Linux based operating system
  • Fiber Internet Center    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • FiberLight    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • fibrechannel.org    Fibre Channel Trade Group
  • filenet.com    File Management Solutions
  • FilesX.com    Backup and data protection software (Bought by IBM)
  • filetek.com    Data management solutions (Bought by SGI)
  • finisar.com    Test, Diagnostic, and Optic Transceivers
  • firescope.com    DCIM, IRM, PMDB, CMDB data solutions
  • First Communications    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • Firewall Technical    AWS Desktop, Server and Network Support
  • flashsoft.com    SSD cache software (Bought by SANdisk)
  • Flexiant    Cloud management tools
  • flexstar.com    Hardware testing equipment
  • FNT Software    Data Center and DCIM software tools
  • Folder Sizes    Disk Space Management software tools
  • force10.com    High speed networking (Bought by Dell)
  • forsythe.com    VAR
  • foundrynetworks.com    Networking switches (Bought by Brocade)
  • FreeNAS    ZFS based NAS storage software
  • frety.com    Site with links to various technologies
  • fueleconomy.gov    US Government site for energy efficiency
  • fujifilm.com    Data storage tape media
  • Fujitsu.com    Computers, disks, storage
  • fujitsu-siemens.com    Storage, VTL, storage management solutions
  • fulcrummicro.com    10Gb and high performance chips and cross bars
  • fusionio.com    PCIe based NAND/FLASH local SSD for internal server attachment
  • ioturbine.com    IO optimization driver software (Bought by FusionIO)
  • fusionstorm.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • FutureMark    PC Benchmarking and testing tools (PCMark and others)
  • gear6.com    Data performance acceleration NAS caching appliance (Bought by Violin)
  • Geist Global    Data Center and DCIM tools
  • geminare.com    Cloud and application migration and recovery tools
  • genie-soft.com    Backup and data protection tools
  • genstor.com    Storage solutions
  • gfi.com    SMB Email security and data protection
  • gigaspace.com    Grid application and data management middle ware
  • gladinet.com    Cloud storage access software
  • Global Capacity    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • globalstor.com    Data storage solutions
  • glodynetechnoserve.com    IT Management tools
  • gluster.com    Open source clustered file system (Bought by Redhat)
  • gogrid.com    Cloud IaaS and hosting services
  • goldengate.com    Data protection and management software (Bought by Oracle)
  • goodsync.com    Data protection solutions
  • Google    Various cloud services including Google Drive, Documents and others
  • graudata.com    Archive software tools
  • Gravitant    Cloud brokerage and management tools
  • green-bytes.com    ZFS based storage management solutions
  • Greenfield Software    DCIM software tools
  • greenliant.com    Nand flash SSD for embedded solutions
  • greenplum.com    Data warehouse storage solutions (Bought by EMC)
  • greenracksystems.com    VAR
  • gresham-storage.com    Virtual tape solutions (VTL sold to Tributary)
  • GridGain    in memory computing
  • gridironsystems.com    Big data and high performance appliance storage
  • gridstore.com    Clustered NAS storage
  • Global Telecom Technology, Inc. (GTT)    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • Apache Hadoop    Hadoop Big Data Tools
  • hastorage.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • www.hddfiresafe.com    Fire proof and water resistant storage systems
  • hds.com    Storage sub-systems and software
  • hermes-softlab.com    IT and virtualization software
  • Hibernia Atlantic    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • hifn.com    Optimization technology (Bought by Exar)
  • high-rely.com    Removable storage solutions
  • hi-stor.com    VAR
  • hitachigst.com    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – Disk drives (Bought by WD)
  • Hotlink    Data protection, cloud and virtualization management tools
  • hp.com    Storage networking hardware and software
  • htch.com    Hutchinson technologies – disk drive components
  • huawei.com    Networking technologies
  • hydrastor.com    Multi-tenant clustered storage (NEC)
  • hyper9.com    Virtualization management tools (aka Inovawave)
  • hyperio.com    Storage and I/O performance monitoring for Windows
  • hytrust.com    Virtual infrastructure security tools
  • Hyve Solutions   Open Compute Project Servers and Storage
  • i365.com    Online cloud backup (Bought by Seagate e.g. Evault)

  • i3-groep.nl    Dutch ICT VAR
  • iarchive.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • iBackup    Online and cloud backup service
  • ibm.com    Storage networking hardware and software
  • Ibrix.com    Clustered and cloud storage software (Bought by HP)
  • Iceweb.com    Data storage solutions
  • icorps.com    IT outsourcing and consulting services
  • IDRIVE    Cloud storage backup
  • idt.com    Server, storage, memory, networking components
  • ieee.org    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • ietf.org    Internet Engineering Task Force
  • iland    Cloud and virtualization services tools
  • illumita.com    IT Cloud solutions
  • Imation.com    Removable media, primary and archive storage (Bought Nexsan)
  • imperva.com    Data protection tools
  • imtpartners.com    Storage TCO modeling tool
  • Inboxer.com    Email and compliance risk management tools
  • Incentra.com    VAR (Bought by Datalink)
  • incipient.com    Storage management and virtualization (Assets bought by TMS)
  • indexengines.com    eDiscovery, search, indexing, classification
  • infineta.com    WAN optimization
  • infinibandta.org    InfiniBand Trade Organization
  • infinicon.com    InfiniBand Technology
  • Infinio    VMware NAS I/O acceleration cache
  • infinityio.com    Storage networking training
  • infocachecorp.com    Data discovery solutions VAR
  • InfoGuard.com    Data security solutions
  • infology.net    eDiscovery
  • Infortrend.com    RAID controllers
  • infostor.com    Magazine focused on storage and storage networking
  • infostreet.com    Cloud Desktop tools
  • Inktank    Ceph services
  • inmage.com    Data protection appliance
  • innovationdp.com    Data management software
  • inoc.com    Network Operations Center (NOC) service
  • Inovawave.com    Virtualization management tools (aka Hyper9)
  • Inphase-technologies.com    Holographic storage
  • inquinox.com    Data, dedupe and data protection management tools
  • inrange.com    Storage Networking Formerly Dataswitch (Bought by CNT Bought by McData Bought by Brocade)
  • insight.com    Value Added Reseller (VAR)
  • insynchq.com    Cloud storage, document sharing
  • intel.com    Host adapters and chips
  • intelipathsolutions.com    Virtual network connectivity (Aka Onpath)
  • intellimagic.net    Server performance, resource management software
  • IntelliProp    SAS and SATA storage
  • InterCloud    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • intermedia.net.com    Exchange email hosting service
  • Intermine.com    Storage management software
  • Internap.com    Cloud, managed services, hosting and colo
  • interscapetech.com    Cloud and storage tools / services
  • InterSOC.com    Security management tools
  • intersystems.com    Medical Information Technology software
  • intradyn.com    Storage and data protection for SMB (Part of Sony)
  • intransa.com    iSCSI storage
  • Intronis.com    Online, managed and cloud backup solutions
  • iolo.com    Desktop tuneup, protection tools
  • iomega.com    SMB iSCSI, NAS and other storage (Bought by EMC, Partnering with Lenovo)
  • iometer.org    Iometer performance benchmarking tool
  • Ion Computer    Server, storage and data center solutions
  • iosafe.com    Rugged and fire proof, water proof storage
  • IP Fabrics    SDN switch
  • iphouse.com    MSP, hosting and cloud services
  • iqstor.com    Storage for SMB environments
  • iri.com    Big data management tools
  • CoSort Company IRI    Data management and protection tools
  • ironmountain.com    Data archive, managed and cloud services
  • ironspeed.com    Mobile database tools
  • iSecure    Internet security and forensics services
  • isilon.com    Shared storage – (Bought by EMC)
  • iso.org    International Standards Organizations
  • iStor.com    iSCSI storage
  • IT-ERNITY    Data center and hosting services
  • ivivity.com    Storage virtualization technology
  • iwavesoftware.com    Heterogeneous storage automation software
  • ixia.com    Fibre Channel test equipment
  • IX Reach    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • ixsight.com    IT and IRM/SRA insight and data migration
  • JAM Software    Treesize SRM including for NAS
  • jdsu.com    Storage networking optics
  • Jeda Networks    Software defined network and storage management
  • jedec.org    Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
  • jmr.com    Storage systems
  • jni.com    Host bus adapters
  • joyent.com    Cloud infrasture tools
  • jumpbox.com    VM virtual appliance hosting
  • jumpbox.com    Virtualization solutions
  • jungledisk.com    Cloud storage, backup file sharing
  • juniper.net    Networking technologies

Where To Learn More

View additional NAS, NVMe, SSD, NVM, SCM, Data Infrastructure and HDD related topics via the following links.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

What This All Means

Visit the following additional data infrastructure and IT data center related links.

Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). 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. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2024 Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved. StorageIO is a registered Trade Mark (TM) of Server StorageIO.

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Data Infrastructure IT Industry Related Resource Links K to O

IT Data Center and Data Infrastructure Industry Resources

Updated 2/20/2018

Following are some useful Data Infrastructure IT Industry Resource Links K to O to cloud, virtual and traditional IT data infrastructure related web sites. The data infrastructure environment (servers, storage, IO and networking, hardware, software, services, virtual, container and cloud) is rapidly changing. You may encounter a missing URL, or a URL that has changed. This list is updated on a regular basis to reflect changes (additions, changes, and retirement).

Disclaimer and note: URL’s submitted for inclusion on this site will be reviewed for consideration and to be in generally accepted good taste in regards to the theme of this site.

Best effort has been made to validate and verify the data infrastructure URLs that appear on this page and web site however they are subject to change. The author and/or maintainer(s) of this page and web site make no endorsement to and assume no responsibility for the URLs and their content that are listed on this page.

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Send an email note to info at storageio dot com that includes company name, URL, contact name, title and phone number along with a brief 40 character description to be considered for addition to the above data infrastructure list, or, to be removed. Note that Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO LLC (e.g. StorageIO) does not sell, trade, barter, borrow or share your contact information per our Privacy and Disclosure policy. View related data infrastructure Server StorageIO content here, and signup for our free newsletter here.

Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

  • kaminario.com    Scale out high performance database server
  • kanbox.com    Chineese cloud provider
  • kaseya.com    IT Infrastructure resource management tools
  • kashya.com    Data Protection Solutions (Bought by EMC)
  • kastenchase.com    Data and information security solutions
  • kazeon.com    eDiscovery, search, indexing, classification (Bought by EMC)
  • kcura.com    eDiscovery tools
  • Kerstor.com    Cloud storage
  • kickfire.com    Business analytics tools
  • kineticd.com    Storage and data protection solutions
  • Kingston.com    Memory manufacturer
  • KLSecurity.com    Data protection solutions
  • komnetworks.com    Archiving solutions
  • k-par.com    Archiving solutions
  • ksplice.com    Linux management tools
  • Kubisys.com    Virtualization management tools
  • KVH Co. Ltd.    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • kvsinc.com    Email archiving and compliance software
  • lacie.com    Consumer, SOHO and SMB NAS and DAS storage (Bought by Seagate)
  • laconicsecurity.com    Cloud security and storage
  • lampertz.com    Environmental and data center protection
  • laurustech.com    Managed services provider
  • lecroy.com    Analyzers, probes and diagnostics
  • lefthandnetworks.com    iSCSI clustered storage (Bought by HP)
  • legato.com    Storage management software (Bought by EMC)
  • Lenovo   Servers, storage, workstations
  • Level 3 Communications    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • lexar.com    Flash memory
  • liebert.com    Data center power and cooling systems (Bought by Emerson)
  • Lightower    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • lightsand.com    SAN connectivity
  • likewise.com    Open backup software for macs/Linux/windows
  • liquidcomputing.com    High density servers
  • liquidcoolsolutions.com    Liquid cooled servers
  • Liquidware Labs   Desktop management solutions
  • livedrive.com    Cloud storage and backup
  • www.liveoffice.com    Cloud and Email hosting
  • LiveVault.com    Online cloud backup service (Bought by IronMountain)
  • locknet-inc.com    Security and network management
  • Lockstep.com    Backup and data protection tools
  • logicube.com    Hard drive copy tools
  • LoginVSI   VDI Testing solutions
  • losttapes.org    Portal pertaining to lost magnetic tape information
  • lsi.com    Storage and networking chips and controllers (Bought by Avago)
  • lto-technology.com    Information about LTO tape media
  • lucent.com    Networking components
  • lumigent.com    Compliance management tools
  • luminex.com    S390 IBM Mainframe to open systems gateways
  • luxtera.com    High speed network and storage interconnects
  • m5data.com    VAR
  • MagePlace Backup    Backup and data protection solutions
  • Maginatics.com    Storage for virtual environments
  • magma.com    PCIe and storage solutions
  • mainline.com    VAR
  • Maintech    Infrastructure services
  • maintech.com    IT Servers and solutions
  • Maldivica    Cloud and object storage gateway
  • ManageEngine    DCIM, data center and networking management
  • maponics.com    Mapping data solutions
  • MAPR   Hadoop and Big Data Tools

  • maranti.com    Storage systems
  • marconi.com    Networking equipment
  • marvell.com    Data storage components
  • Masergy    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • Mathon.com    eDiscovery
  • maxava.com    HA tools for IBM iSeries
  • maxell.com    Data storage media
  • maxim-ic.com    Data storage components and solutions
  • maxiscale.com    Web infrastructure scale out file system
  • Maxta   Virtualization storage
  • maxtor.com    Disk drives (Bought by Seagate)
  • maxxan.com    Storage systems (Now Ciphermax)
  • mcdata.com    Switches, WAN gateways, software (Bought by Brocade)
  • mediagateusa.com    HD Video streaming appliance
  • Meditech.com    Medical information technology software
  • Megaport    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • mellanox.com    Ethernet and InfiniBand technology
  • Memeo.com    Data and content management tools
  • Mendocino.com    CDP and data protection (Missing in Action)
  • metalogix.net    Sharepoint archiving solutions
  • methode.com    Storage networking transceivers
  • mezeo.com    Cloud storage management tools
  • micron.com    SSD storage solutions
  • micronet.com    Storage solutions
  • microsoft.com    Hyper-V virtualizaiton, Windows Storage Server, Azure Cloud, Storsimple, SkyDrive (aka OneDrive) and more
  • midwave.com    Var
  • Mimecast email management including archiving
  • Mimosasystems.com    Email protection and archiving (Bought by Iron Mountain)
  • mindtree.com    Testing services
  • Mirantis    OpenStack tools, downloads, service and support
  • Miray HDClone    Storage clone and data protection tools
  • mirra.com    SMB storage sharing
  • mobiuspartners.com    VAR
  • Modius    DCIM power, cooling and monitoring
  • moka5.com    VDI tools
  • MongoDB    Open source document optimized database
  • Monitis.com    IT Monitoring and services (applications, systems, clouds and more)
  • Monosphere.com    Storage planning and usage software (Bought by Quest)
  • moonwalk.com    HSM, ILM and data management software
  • morphlabs.com    Dense converged server platforms
  • mosaictec.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • mosys.com    High density memory components
  • mpstor.com    Cloud storage and orchestration software
  • msiinet.com    VAR
  • mti.com    European VAR
  • mtron.net    Solid state storage devices
  • My Digital SSD    SSD solutions
  • NAKIVO    Backup and data protection tools
  • napatech.com    Network tools and analysis
  • naspa.org    System administrator’s user group
  • nasuni.com    Cloud storage access appliance
  • ncino.com    Banking and financial deployment platform
  • ncipher.com    Data protection and security solutions (Bought by Thales)
  • ncompass-inc.com    VAR and services firm
  • ncr.com    Servers and storage solutions
  • ndci.com    Data conversion services
  • ndmp.org    Trade organization for NDMP backup protocol
  • neartek.com    VTL software (Bought by EMC)
  • nebulassolutions.com    Security and data protection
  • NEC.com    Servers and storage
  • neopathnetworks.com    Network file management solutions (Bought by Cisco)
  • neoscale.com    Storage networking security (Assets Bought by nCipher)
  • nephoscale.com    Cloud and object storage
  • NeptunesCloud.net    Cloud IaaS solutions
  • www.neptuny.com    Performance and capacity planning tools
  • nerc.com    North American Electrical Reliability Council
  • netcelera.com    WAN File system caching and acceleration
  • netcomm.com.au    Broadband service provider
  • netdirectsystems.com    VAR
  • neterion.com    High performance iSCSI and Ethernet 10Gb technology Bought by Exar)
  • netex.com    IP compression and channel extension
  • netezza.com    Big Data – Data warehouse storage solutions (Bought by IBM)
  • Netgear.com    SOHO and SMB storage and networking
  • NetIQ    Data center, security, identify and data protection management
  • netlist.com    Memory solutions
  • netoptics.com    Network monitoring
  • netronome.com    Network and I/O optimization technology
  • netspi.com    Network security and digital forensics
  • networkappliance.com    Storage sub-systems, management software
  • networkgeneral.com    Network and application monitoring
  • networkinstruments.com    Network test and diagnostic and performance monitoring
  • netwrix.com    Enterprise systems management tools
  • netxen.com    High performance 10Gb Ethernet chips and NICs
  • neuwingenergy.com    Energy management organization
  • neuxpower.com    File compression and data reduction
  • Neverfailgroup.com    HA software
  • nevex.com    Caching and application acceleration
  • newboundary.com    IT policy management and IRM tools
  • newisys.com    Storage enclosures
  • newrelic.com    Web, cloud and application management
  • nexenta.com    ZFS based storage management solutions
  • nexgenstorage.com    Storage with PCIe flash card
  • nexsan.com    SAS/SATA and MAID storage subsystems (Bought by Imaiton)
  • nextio.com    SSD and application acceleration solutions
  • NexusMN / Computex    VAR (e.g. Formerly Nexus MN and Stratos – now Computex)
  • nfpa.org    National Fire Protection Association
  • nicira.com    Software defined networking and IOV (Bought by VMware)
  • nimblestorage.com    Converged iSCSI SAN, backup and DR
  • nimbula.com    Cloud and application orchestration management tools
  • Nimbusdata.com    iSCSI storage
  • nirvanix.com    Cloud storage provider (Ceased operations)
  • njvc.com    Cloud and technology service provider
  • Nylte    DCIM software tools
  • noggin.intel.com/rr/    Intel Recommended Reading List
  • noliosoft.com    Cloud application management tools
  • Norlight.com    Data communications and services
  • nortel.com    Networking products
  • nortelnetworks.com    Optical networking
  • northernsoft.com    Medical software
  • novastor.com    Backup and cloud data protection tools
  • Novell.com    Server software vendor (Bought by Attachmate)
  • Novuscg.com    Storage management and services (Bought by IBM)
  • Nomura Research Institute (NRI)    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • nsic.org    National Storage Industry Consortium
  • ntp.com    Storage Management Software
  • NTT Communications Corporation    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • numarasoftware.com    IT Resource management, asset tracking tools
  • numonyx.com    SSD memory solutions
  • nutanix.com    Converged server and storage VM platform
  • nvelo.com    Caching IO performance tools
  • nvidia.com    Graphics and visualization tools
  • ocarinanetworks.com    Data reduction and compression tools (Bought by Dell)
  • ocztechnology.com    SSD drives and PCIe cards (Bought by Toshiba after bankruptcy)
  • offsitebackups.com    Online and cloud backup solutions
  • olixir.com    Removable storage for backup and data protection
  • omneon.com    Archiving and fixed content storage solutions
  • onapp.com    Cloud, CDN and storage tools
  • onaro.com    Storage and Storage Network Management (Bought by NetApp)
  • onlinebackupsearch.com    Various online backup reviews
  • oblinecourses.com    Various online education courses for various topics
  • onpathtech.com    Physical layer networking
  • onstor.com    Clustered NAS storage including NAS gateways (Bought by LSI)
  • Ontrack.com    Email and data protection software
  • OO Software   Windows management and data protection tools
  • opalis.com    Virtual data center management tools
  • OpenCompute   OpenCompute consortium
  • opendatacenteralliance.org    Open Data Center Alliance
  • open-e.com    iSCSI and NAS storage
  • Open.IO    Application aware object and bulk scale out software defined storage
  • openfabrics.org    Open Fabric Alliance
  • OpenNebula    Open source cloud software
  • opennetworking.org    Open Networking Foundation
  • OpensourceSystems.com    Data storage solutions
  • OpenStack   Open source cloud compute and storage software
  • opnet.com    Application and network performance management
  • Opsware.com    Network and storage management (HP)
  • Optica Tech.    Server and storage connectivity including FICON
  • opticatech.com    Mainframe and ESCON encryption
  • oracle.com    Data management software, hardware and services (Bought Sun/STK and others)
  • Ortera.com    Performance monitoring and management
  • OSNEXUS   Quantstor ZFS based Storage management solutions
  • Outsource Data Recovery   Data Recovery services
  • overlandstorage.com    Tape and backup, data retention, NAS solutions
  • owncloud.org    Cloud infrastructure tools

Where To Learn More

View additional NAS, NVMe, SSD, NVM, SCM, Data Infrastructure and HDD related topics via the following links.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

What This All Means

Visit the following additional data infrastructure and IT data center related links.

Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). 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. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2024 Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved. StorageIO is a registered Trade Mark (TM) of Server StorageIO.

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Data Infrastructure IT Industry Related Resource Links P to T

Data Infrastructure IT Industry Related Resource Links P to T

IT Data Center and Data Infrastructure Industry Resources

Updated 6/13/2018

Following are some useful Data Infrastructure IT Industry Resource Links P to T to cloud, virtual and traditional IT data infrastructure related web sites. The data infrastructure environment (servers, storage, IO and networking, hardware, software, services, virtual, container and cloud) is rapidly changing. You may encounter a missing URL, or a URL that has changed. This list is updated on a regular basis to reflect changes (additions, changes, and retirement).

Disclaimer and note: URL’s submitted for inclusion on this site will be reviewed for consideration and to be in generally accepted good taste in regards to the theme of this site.

Best effort has been made to validate and verify the data infrastructure URLs that appear on this page and web site however they are subject to change. The author and/or maintainer(s) of this page and web site make no endorsement to and assume no responsibility for the URLs and their content that are listed on this page.

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  • Packeteer.com    WAFS and networking solutions (Bought Tacit)
  • packetlight.com    CWDM and DWDM networking solutions
  • Panasas.com    Clustered storage solution
  • pancetera.com    Virtual machine backup software (Bought by Quantum)
  • Panduit.com    Networking and cable management
  • panzura.com    Cloud storage access software
  • paraccel.com     Business and data analytics
  • paragon-software.com    Storage management and backup tools
  • parallels.com    VDI and desktop virtualization and cloud tools
  • parascale.com     Clustered and cloud storage software
  • pcisig.com    PCI trade group (PCI, PCI-X, PCI-Express/PCIe)
  • penguincomputing.com    HPC servers, storage and hosting
  • pergamumsystems.com    Archive solutions (Stealth)
  • Permabit.com    Data archiving solutions
  • Pernixdata    Server and storage I/O cache optimization for virtual servers
  • perotsystems.com    Hosting and managed service provider (Bought by Dell)
  • pgp.com    Security tools (Bought by Symantec)
  • PHDvirtual    Data protection tools
  • Pillardata.com    Data storage solutions – (Bought by Oracle)
  • pineapp.com    Email, archive solutions, web and data protection
  • Piviot3.com    IP Storage
  • Pivotal Labs    Big Data, PaaS development tools, EMC/VMware spinout
  • plasmon.com    (Now called Alliance Storage Technologies) Optical Storage Solutions
  • plextoramericas.com    SSD and other storage solutions
  • plianttechnology.com    Solid state storage devices (SSD) – (Bought by SANdisk)
  • Pluribus Networks    Converged and software defined network management
  • pmc-serria.com    Storage networking component supplier
  • pny.com    Memory componets and technology
  • Pogoplug    Cloud storage
  • PolyServe.com    Clustered storage solutions (Sold to HP)
  • Polargy    Data Center facilaties, HVAC and DCIM solutions
  • power.org    Power Processor trade group
  • Mushkin   SSD Solutions
  • Peak Cloud    Cloud and storage services
  • PowerFile.com    Data archiving solutions
  • powerware.com    UPS and power conditioning systems
  • procedo.com    Archiving and migration solutions
  • proceedtechnologies.com    SAP consulting
  • profusionbackups.com    Cloud and managed backup service solution
  • progeny.net    VAR and specialized IT systems
  • prolexic.com    Distributed denial of service tools
  • promise.com    RAID storage systems
  • Prostorsystems.com    Removable disk storage (See RDX Alliance)
  • Proxim.com    Wireless networking
  • proximaldata.com    SSD caching and tiering software
  • pt.com    Communications hardware and software
  • puresi.com aka Puresilicon    SSD storage solutions
  • purestorage.com    SSD based storage
  • Puppet Labs    IT Automation and DCIM tools for physical, Cloud and Virtual

  • qlogic.com    Host bus adapters and switches
  • qsantechnology.com    iSCSI IP storage
  • Qstart Technologies    Data protection storage including LTFS based systems
  • Quadric Software    Data protection software
  • qualstar.com    Tape backup and archive solutions (Aka Qstar)
  • quantum.com    Tape drives and libraries
  • quest.com    IT and data management solution tools (Bought by Dell)
  • Qumulo    Stealth storage startup
  • qwest.com    (Century Link) Telephone and data networking, managed services provider
  • racemi.com    Repurposing management tools
  • Rackable.com    Now SGI
  • Rackspace.com    Managed services and hosting
  • www.rackwise.com    Data center management tools
  • raidinc.com    Storage systems
  • raidundant.com    Storage systems
  • Rainfinity.com    File virtualization (Bought by EMC)
  • rainstor.com    Big data management tools
  • rapidio.org    RapidIO Trade Group
  • Raritan    Data center and DCIM tools
  • rasilient.com    Storage subsystem vendor
  • Ravello    VMware optimization and management tools
  • Raxco    Data, storage and systems management tools
  • rebit.com    Backup and data protection solutions
  • RecordNation    Digital Data Storage and Records Management
  • redbend.com    Mobile device and application management
  • redbooks.ibm.com    IBM Red books and Red pieces technical articles
  • Redhat.com    Linux provider (Bought Gluster)
  • Reduxio    Hybrid storage with data services
  • reflexphotonics.com    Optical connectivity solutions
  • Reldata.com    Storage systems (Renamed Starboard)
  • remote-backup.com    Remote backup software
  • renewdata.com    Data management and compliance tools
  • repliweb.com    Web and content distribution
  • Retrospect    Data Protection Software Tools
  • revivio.com    Data Protection Software (Assets Bought by Symantec)
  • rightscale.com    Amazon cloud computing management tools
  • rimage.com    CD/DVD production technologies
  • risingtidesystems.com    VAR
  • Ritek.com    Storage solutions
  • rittal.com    Enclosures and cabinets
  • riverbed.com    Wide area file access acceleration solution
  • rjssoftware.com    Document capture and management
  • rmsource.com    Cloud backup solutions
  • rnanetworks.com    Virtual memory management solutions (Bought by Dell)
  • rocketdivision.com    iSCSI technologies
  • rorke.com    VAR
  • rpath.com    Data center automation
  • rsa.com    Security division of EMC
  • safemediacorp.com    Internet security and intrusion detection tools
  • safenet-inc.com    Data protection focused VAR
  • Sagecloud   Cloud storage, deep cold archive
  • samsung.com    Various technologies including SSD memory
  • sanblaze.com    Embedded storage and emulation solutions
  • SANbolic.com    Storage, server and cloud management tools
  • sand-chip.com    Chip design
  • SANDforce.com    SSD storage solutions – (Bought by LSI)
  • sandial.com    Defunct SAN startup
  • SANdisk.com    SSD memory components
  • sandpiperdata.com    Data migration services
  • sanmina-sci.com    Contract manufacturer (Virtual Factory) for various OEM/VARs
  • sanovi.com    Disaster recovery management tools
  • sanpulse.com    SRA and automation tools
  • sanrad.com    Storage networking routers (Bought by OCZ)
  • sans.org    Security related web site
  • sansdigital.com    VAR
  • sap.com    Information management tools and applications
  • sas.com    Statistical analysis software
  • sata-io.org    Serial ATA trade organization
  • SavageIO   High performance storage solutions
  • savvis.com    Cloud, managed service provider and hosting (Bought by Centurylink)
  • sbbwg.org    Storage Bridge Bay Working Group
  • scalable-systems.com    Data warehouse consulting and tools
  • scalecomputing.com    Clustered storage management software
  • scalemp.com    Virtualization technology for scale out computing
  • scalent.com    Virtual IT data center management tools
  • scality.com    Email and sharepoint cloud storage
  • schoonerinfotech.com    SSD based database management solutions
  • scsita.org    SCSI and SAS trade group
  • seagate.com    Disk drives
  • Sealpath   Data and information protection tools
  • seanodes.com    Distributed storage
  • sec.gov    Site about compliance items including CFR 17a-4
  • securedatainnovations.com    Data protection and security tools
  • sentilla.com    Data center performance management tools
  • sepaton.com    Disk based backup solutions
  • serialata.org    Serial ATA trade association
  • servicemesh.com    Cloud, datacenter transformation and devops tools
  • servicenow.com    ITIL data center management tools
  • 1servosity.com    Cloud data protection
  • servoy.com    Cloud development tools
  • ServPath.com    Hosting services
  • seven10storage.com    Disaster recovery and archiving software
  • sgi.com    Storage, server and data management hardware, software, tools
  • sherpasoftware.com    Email archiving
  • shop.bellmicro.com    Distributor (Bought by Avnet)
  • siber.com    Data protection and security tools
  • sidusdata.com    Managed service and cloud provider
  • siemon.com    Storage networking infrastructure items
  • sigmasol.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • Signiant.com    Data management tools
  • silexamerica.com    Mobile device and server connectivity
  • SiliconImage.com    Digital Video components
  • SiliconStor.com    Storage networking silicon
  • siliconvalleypr.com    IT technologies press/media and analyst relations firm
  • silveradotech.com    VAR
  • silver-peak.com    Wide area data and file services (WAFS, WADM, WADS)
  • SilverSky    Cloud security
  • simpletech.com    Storage solutions including USB portable devices
  • simplivity.com    Convergence and virtualization solutions
  • simplycontinuous.net    Data protection and cloud backup
  • siriuscom.com    VAR
  • site-vault.com    On-line backup server provider (BSP) managed service provider (MSP)
  • skyera.com    SSD storage solutions
  • skytap.com    Public and private cloud application development tools
  • Smart421   Smart421    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • smartm.com    PC card and other memory module components
  • smc.com    Storage and networking components
  • smithmicro.com    Mobile data management tools
  • smmdirect.com    Memory devices
  • snapappliances.com    NAS Storage solutions (Now Adaptec)
  • snia.org    Storage Networking Industry Association
  • snseurope.com    U.K. & European Storage Networking News
  • snwusa.com    SNIA and Computerworld conference
  • softek.com    Storage management solutions (formerly Fujitsu Softek, Sold to IBM)
  • softlayer.com    Cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) (Bought by IBM)
  • softnas.com    ZFS based opensource NAS solutions
  • softricity.com    Virtualization management tools (Bought by Microsoft)
  • Sogeti.com    Data management tools
  • solarflare.com    10Gb Ethernet networking
  • solarwinds.com    IT management tools (Bought TekTools, Hyper9 and others)
  • solidaccess.com    Solid state storage (SSD) solutions
  • soliddata.com    Solid State Disk solutions
  • solidfire.com    iSCSI SSD optimized for hosting and cloud providers
  • Solix.com    Database archiving software
  • solutiontechnology.co.uk    Storage networking training
  • sonasoft.com    Email archiving, backup and data protection
  • sonnettech.com    External storage solutions
  • sony.com    Storage devices
  • sophos.com    Data protection and security tools
  • sorrento.com    Optical networking
  • sparebackup.com    Backup data protection solutions
  • sparkweave.com    Private cloud archive and file sharing
  • spec.org    SPEC benchmarks
  • spectralogic.com    Tape library and disk based backup solutions
  • spiceworks.com    Online community and management software tools
  • spirent.com    Storage networking test equipment
  • Spiron.com  Data discovery, classification, lifecycle management (formerly Identity Finder)
  • Splice Communications   Splice Communications    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • splunk.com    DCIM and log management tools
  • spotcloud.com    Cloud services clearing house
  • spraycool.com    IT Data center and component cooling
  • springsoft.com    Bought by Synopsys
  • spsoftglobal.com    Software development
  • spyrus.com    Security tools
  • ssswg.org    IEEE Storage Systems Standards Work Group
  • starboardstorage.com    Unified storage solutions (Formerly Reldata, now ceased operations)
  • startech.com    IT/AV technolgie equipment from enclosures to KVM and more
  • starwindsoftware.com    iSCSI storage management solutions
  • stcroixsolutions.com    VAR
  • stec-inc.com    SSD storage (Bought by WD)
  • Steeleye.com    HA software
  • Stellar    Data Protection tools
  • storagetek.com    Disk, tape, data management software (Bought by Sun)
  • stonebranch.com    File transfer tools
  • stonefly.com    Storage networking routers (Aka DNF)
  • storability.com    Storage management software (Bought by STK)
  • storactive.com    Data protection solutions
  • storagecraft.com    Data protection tools
  • storagefusion.com    Storage resource analysis (SRA) tools
  • storageio.net    Alternate URL for the StorageIO Group
  • storageiogroup.com    Alternate URL for the StorageIO Group
  • storagemadeeasy.com    Hybrid and personal cloud management tools and dashboards
  • Storagemonkeys.com    Storage community site
  • storagenetworking.org    Storage Networking Users Groups also known as SNUGs
  • storageperformance.org    Storage Performance Council information
  • www.storagesearch.com    Venue for information about various storage and related topics
  • storcase.com    Data Archive solutions (Bought by Crudata)
  • store-age.com    Storage management software (Bought by LSI)
  • storediq.com    eDiscovery, search, indexing, classification (Bought by IBM)
  • Storewize.com    Real time data compression (Bought by IBM)
  • Storix.com    Data backup solutions
  • storlife.com    CAS object archive storage
  • stormagic.com    Storage virtualization and data movement software
  • storserver.com    Backup and data protection solutions
  • storsimple.com    Cloud storage access solutions (Bought by Microsoft)
  • storspeed.com    NAS/NFS optimization solutions (Missing in action)
  • stratascale.com    Cloud, hosting and management solutions
  • stratus.com    High availability storage and servers
  • sugarsync.com    Backup and data protection solutions
  • sun.com    Storage networking hardware and software (Bought by Oracle)
  • sunbeltsoftware.com    End point data protection security tools
  • sungard.com    Data protection and cloud services
  • superlumin.com    Application caching tools
  • supermicro.com    Server and storage solutions
  • surdoc.com    Cloud storage and backup
  • surgient.com    Cloud computing solutions
  • svlg.net    Silicon Valley Leadership Group
  • Swiftstack    Private cloud solutions
  • swifttest.com    NFS and CIFS storage testing solutions
  • sybase.com    Database solutions
  • sycamorenetworks.com    Networking solutions
  • Symantec.com    Data and storage management software
  • symbolicio.com    stealth startup
  • symform.com    Cloud storage and backup
  • syncsort.com    Information Management tools
  • synnex.com    Distributor
  • Synnex   IT Solutions
  • synology.com    SMB storage solutions
  • synopsys.com    Computer technology development and manufacturing
  • SysAid    Data center, DCIM and ITSM tools
  • t10.orgscsi-3.htm    ANSI T10 (SCSI information) site
  • t11.org    ANSI T11 page for Fibre Channel information
  • t3media.com    Cloud storage and video platform tools
  • tableausoftware.com    Data analytics software tools
  • tacit.com    WAN file system accelerator (Bought by Packeteer)
  • tacitnetworks.com    Wide area file access acceleration solution (Bought by Packeteer)
  • tandberg.com    Data management solutions (Bought by Cisco)
  • tapeandmedia.com    Information about magnetic tape media
  • tapepower.com    Site for tape topics
  • tarmin.com        Archiving solutions
  • teamdrive.com    Cloud storage
  • teamquest.com    IRM management and capacity management tools
  • TeamViewer.com    Remote support and Online meeting software
  • techdata.com    Distributor
  • tegile.com    Storage system solutions
  • tehutinetworks.net    High speed iSCSI adapters
  • tek-tools.com    SRM storage management software (Bought by Solarwinds)
  • TelecityGroup    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • tellabs.com    Networking components
  • Telx    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • teneros.com    Email archiving and management solutions
  • teracloud.com    Capacity planning and resource management software
  • teradata.com    Large scale database and data warehouse systems
  • teradici.com    PC over IP technologies
  • teranetics.com    Ethernet chips
  • Terascala    Data analytics and management solutions
  • ter.de    Optical storage libraries
  • terracloudinc.com    Cloud services
  • TerraScale.com    Scalable storage and server solutions
  • Verizon/Terremark   Cloud, hosting and managed services
  • Tevron   Application Response Time Monitoring
  • texmemsys.com    Solid State Disk storage
  • thebci.org    Business Continuity Institute
  • thecus.com    Multi-protocol storage
  • thegreengrid.org    Industry Trade Group
  • The Padcaster    Apple iPad tools
  • thepluggllc.com    Data center energy efficient floor tiles
  • theq3.com    Data storage security solutions
  • thinkaheadit.com aka Ahead    Value added reseller
  • thinkaheadit.com    Value added reseller (VAR)
  • thirdbrigade.com    Intrusion detection security tools (Bought by Trend Micro)
  • thirdio.com    SSD solutions
  • tiaonline.org    Telecommunications Industry Association
  • tidalsoftware.com    IT Management software tools (Bought by Cisco)
  • timespring.com    Continuous data protection solutions
  • tintri.com    NFS and NAS storage optimized for VMware
  • tivoli.com    Data management software
  • Softbank Telecom Corp.    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • Primary Data and Tonian    Stealth data virtualization startup

  • topgun-tech.com    Data Infrastructure Resource (Server, Storage, SANs)

  • top500.org    Top 500 super compute sites
  • topio.com    Data protection software (Bought by NetApp)
  • topspin.com    InfiniBand Technology (Bought by Cisco)(
  • Toshiba.com    Server and storage solutions
  • tpc.org    Transaction processing performance council
  • translattice.com    Distributed and elastic database and automation tools
  • Tredent.com    WAN optimization solutions
  • TrendMicro.com    Security and anti virus tools
  • trianz.com    VAR
  • tributary.com   Datra protection soultion tools including virtual, disk and tape-
  • trilogytechnologies.ie    Managed services provider
  • tritondata.com    IT services and VAR
  • trunkbow.com    Cloud, mobile and networking services
  • trustedcomputinggroup.org    Trusted computing industry trade group
  • trusteddatasolutions.com    VAR
  • trustedid.com    ID theft protection
  • trustware.com    Internet and data protection security tools
  • turnkeylinux.org   Turnkey Linux appliance –
  • tusc.com    VAR
  • twinstrata.com    BC/DR analysis and cloud access software
  • tw telecom   tw telecom    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • TSO logic    DCIM and data center power energy management tools
  • tzolkin.com    DNS and High Availability solutions

Where To Learn More

View additional NAS, NVMe, SSD, NVM, SCM, Data Infrastructure and HDD related topics via the following links.

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Ok, nuff said, for now.

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IT Data Center and Data Infrastructure Industry Resources

Updated 2/20/2018

Following are some useful Data Infrastructure IT Industry Resource Links U to Z to cloud, virtual and traditional IT data infrastructure related web sites. The data infrastructure environment (servers, storage, IO and networking, hardware, software, services, virtual, container and cloud) is rapidly changing. You may encounter a missing URL, or a URL that has changed. This list is updated on a regular basis to reflect changes (additions, changes, and retirement).

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Best effort has been made to validate and verify the data infrastructure URLs that appear on this page and web site however they are subject to change. The author and/or maintainer(s) of this page and web site make no endorsement to and assume no responsibility for the URLs and their content that are listed on this page.

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  • ubuntu.com    Opensource Linux software and cloud tools
  • unisys.com    Server, storage and managed services
  • unitedlayer.com    Collocation and hosting services
  • unitrends.com    Data protection solutions
  • updraftplus.com/    WordPress Updraft Cloud Backup Plugin
  • uptimeinstitute.org    Uptime Institute
  • uptimesoftware.com    Capacity management tools
  • Logicalis   IT solutions and managed services
  • us.logicalis.com    Cloud, managed and data center services
  • usb.org    USB trade association
  • uscolo.com    Co-location facility and hosting service
  • usenix.org    LISA and data center forums
  • usgbc.org    United States Green Building Council
  • v3sys.com    VDI and desktop cloud solutions
  • vadiumtech.com    Security and encryption tools
  • varonis.com    Unstructured data management and protection
  • vaultive.com    Cloud encryption for hosted exchange
  • vaultize.com    Cloud backup, file and data sharing
  • vaultstor.com    Data protection and cloud storage services
  • vaultus.com   Cloud, colo and manged service hosting –
  • vbridges.com    Virtual desktop management tools
  • vce.com    Converged infrastructure solutions
  • vdbench     vdbench storage testing/workload generation tool
  • veeam.com    Virtual server data protection, reporting, monitoring, cap planning
  • vellosystems.com   Cloud infrastructure technology solutoins –
  • velobit.com    SSD cache software (Bought by WD)
  • veloxum.com   VM performance management tools Added 11/30/10
  • vembu.com    Backup data protection tools
  • Venus   Venus    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • venyu.com    Cloud hosting
  • verari.com    Blade servers and blade storage
  • verdiem.com    Infrastructure Resource Management (IRM) and energy reporting tools
  • vericept.com    Network monitoring software
  • Veritest.com    Third party testing service

  • verity.com    Data search, discovery, classification
  • versant.com    Object database management solutions
  • vertinsys.com    Server I/O virtualization
  • Vibe    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • victorinox.com    Swiss army knife and USB thumb drive
  • viewfinity.com    Rights management, audit and compliance
  • vigitrust.com    Security management tools
  • vikingmodular.com    FLASH SSD storage solutions
  • violin-memory.com    FLASH SSD storage solutions
  • vion.com    Value added reseller
  • vipreantivirus.com    Security, data loss, data leak prevention
  • virident.com    SSD based database management solutions (Bought by WD)
  • viridity.com    Data center and infrastructure resource management (IRM) tools
  • virsto.com    Server virtualization management tools (Bought by VMware)
  • virtensys.com    Virtual I/O and I/O virtualization (IOV)
  • virtualinstruments.com    SAN probes/analyzers (Formerly Finisar Analyzer tools)
  • VirtualIron.com    Server virtualization (Bought by Oracle)
  • VirtunetSystems    Storage I/O acceleration and cache tools for VMware
  • virtuon-inc.com    Cloud, virtualization IT consulting and staffing
  • visi.com    Managed service provider, cloud and hosting service
  • VisionSolutions.com    BC, DR and data protection solutions
  • visualstorageintelligence.com    Cross vendor cloud storage reporting and srmprovider
  • vitesse.com    Storage networking component supplier
  • vivisimo.com    eDiscovery and search
  • vizoncore.com    Virtualization tools and data protection for virtual servers
  • vizrt.com    Video management software tools
  • vkernel.com    VM performance tools (Bought by Quest, bought by Dell)
  • vmc.com    Cloud consulting and outsourcing
  • vmturbo.com    Cloud and virtualization workload management
  • vmware.com    Server virtualization software (Bought by EMC)
  • Vocus   Vocus    AWS connect parter, Hosting/cloud/access services
  • voltaire.com    InfiniBand Technology
  • vontu.com    Data loss prevention tools (Bought by Symantec)
  • Vormetric   Data security solutions
  • votela.com    Specialized network service provider
  • vscalesystems.com    Virtual and converged networking and consulting
  • vssmonitoring.com    Network monitoring
  • vwsolutions.com    Backup and data protection solutions
  • vyatta.com    Cloud and virtual networking, IOV
  • wanova.com    Desktop management solutions
  • wasabisystems.com    iSCSI storage
  • wdc.com    Western Digital Disk drives
  • WedgeNetworks.com    Security solutions
  • whiptailtech.com    Flash SSD solutions (Bought by Cisco)
  • Microsoft Skydrive   Cloud storage
  • windspring.com    Data management and DFR for mobile access
  • wipro.com    Business services
  • workscomputing.com    VAR
  • wovensystems.com    High speed networking switches
  • wwt.com    VAR/Systems integrator
  • wysdm.com    SRA and DPM management tools (Bought by EMC)
  • Xencode.com    Various open tools
  • XenData   Digital Archive solutions
  • xenos.com    Archive and data footprint reduction solutions
  • xfpmsa.org    10Gb multi-source trade group
  • xiotech.com    Renamed XIO: Storage sub-systems and software
  • xirin.com    Storage adapter (iSCSI) and chip vendor
  • xosoft.com    BC/DR and data protection replication tools (Bought by CA)
  • xsigo.com    I/O virtualization and service oriented connectivity – (Bought by Oracle)
  • xtreemfs.org    scaleout filesystem
  • xtremio.com    SSD startup – Bought by EMC
  • xyratex.com    Storage enclosures, subsystems, test equipmen, Lustre software (Bought by Seagate)t
  • xyxel.com    Networking technologies for cloud and consumer
  • yorktel.com    video solutions
  • Yosemitetech.com    Backup software (Bought by Barracuda)
  • yousendit.com    Cloud backup, storage and file sharing
  • zadarastorage.com    iSCSI cloud storage
  • zenoss.com    Converged, Virtual systems and cloud monitoring, DCIM
  • Zentera   Private cloud and IaaS solutions
  • zerto.com    Data protection for virtual environments
  • Zetera.com    Storage over IP alternative to iSCSI
  • zetta.net    Cloud storage solutions
  • zettapoint.com    Database management tools
  • zintrus.com    Systems development
  • zirtu.com    VDI management tools and platform
  • zlti.com    Email archive and management solutions
  • zmanda.com    Open source data backup
  • zoho.com    Online and cloud management solutions
  • zyrion.com    Network and systems monitoring and management

Where To Learn More

View additional NAS, NVMe, SSD, NVM, SCM, Data Infrastructure and HDD related topics via the following links.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

What This All Means

Visit the following additional data infrastructure and IT data center related links.

Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). 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. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

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Data Infrastructure IT Industry Related Resource Links to Others

Data Infrastructure IT Industry Related Resource Links to Others

IT Data Center and Data Infrastructure Industry Resources

Updated 2/20/2018

Following are some useful Data Infrastructure IT Industry Resource Links to cloud, virtual and traditional IT data infrastructure related web sites. The data infrastructure environment (servers, storage, IO and networking, hardware, software, services, virtual, container and cloud) is rapidly changing. You may encounter a missing URL, or a URL that has changed. This list is updated on a regular basis to reflect changes (additions, changes, and retirement).

Disclaimer and note: URL’s submitted for inclusion on this site will be reviewed for consideration and to be in generally accepted good taste in regards to the theme of this site.

Best effort has been made to validate and verify the data infrastructure URLs that appear on this page and web site however they are subject to change. The author and/or maintainer(s) of this page and web site make no endorsement to and assume no responsibility for the URLs and their content that are listed on this page.

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Send an email note to info at storageio dot com that includes company name, URL, contact name, title and phone number along with a brief 40 character description to be considered for addition to the above data infrastructure list, or, to be removed. Note that Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO LLC (e.g. StorageIO) does not sell, trade, barter, borrow or share your contact information per our Privacy and Disclosure policy. View related data infrastructure Server StorageIO content here, and signup for our free newsletter here.

Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

  • www.10gea.org    10Gb Ethernet industry trade organization
  • www.1394ta.org    1394 (Firewire) trade association
  • www.3com.com    Networking equipment (Bought by HP)
  • www.3leafnetworks.com    I/O virtualization
  • www.3par.com    Clustered storage systems (Bought by HP)
  • www.3tera.com    IT Cloud management tools (Bought by CA)
  • www.4blox.com    Data center design services
  • www.4blox.com    Linux iSCSI target optimization stack
  • www.4bridgeworks.com aka Bridgeworks    SAN networking and connectivity solutions
  • www.80plus.org    Energy efficient power supply trade group

Where To Learn More

View additional NAS, NVMe, SSD, NVM, SCM, Data Infrastructure and HDD related topics via the following links.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

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What This All Means

Visit the following additional data infrastructure and IT data center related links.

Links A-E
Links F-J
Links K-O
Links P-T
Links U-Z
Other Links

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). 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. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2024 Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved. StorageIO is a registered Trade Mark (TM) of Server StorageIO.

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Some popular 2016 storageioblog posts

Some popular 2016 storageioblog posts

server storage I/O trends

Big Files and Lots of Little File Processing and Benchmarking with Vdbench – Need to test, validate, compare, contrast or simply apply workload to file systems, NAS or other file-based access? Want the flexibility and simplicity to software define your benchmark workload to meet various needs? For example, millions of small files or thousands of large 5GB, 10GB, 15GB (or larger) files with various read, write size and access patterns spanning a single directory, or many with various depths? Do you want the flexibility for different platforms including Windows, *NIX, bare metal, container, virtual or cloud without a bulk tool using simple scripts that produce lots of insightful results? Then you will want to check this post out.

Breaking the VMware ESXi 5.5 ACPI boot loop on Lenovo TD350 – Ever have a VMware host server go into a boot loop and purple screen of death (PSD) then displaying a message about ACPI or similar? After spending time searching and applying many filters to sift through the noise of false positive matches, finally found the simple fix (e.g. a BIOS setting) to break the VMware ESXi vSphere boot loop, or at least on a Lenovo server.

Cloud and Object Storage

Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part I) – This is one of the perennial favorites that while new features have been added with others extended, the post series still provides a good overview, primer or refresher of various Amazon Web Services (AWS) services including how they work. Interesting in learning more about Microsoft and Azure, then check out this, this, this and this.

Cloud Conversations: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) – This is a companion to the above AWS as well as other cloud post series that looks at AWS Elastic File System. Note that other cloud service providers have also added NAS file access support, some are intra (e.g. inside AWS cloud), others are inter-cloud (e.g. inside and outside cloud) such as Azure (can work with external Windows Servers using SMB3). Even OpenStack has added NAS file with Manila folders and Ceph with CephFS among others. So when some people tell you that NAS and file access are dead particular for cloud, remind them of the increasing number of services and software stacks that are adding new services to allow their solution to be compatible with existing environments or applications.

Server Storage I/O performance

Collecting Transaction Per Minute from SQL Server and HammerDB – If you have used the free tool HammerDB (e.g. Hammora) for driving database workloads, simulations or benchmarks you should recall that the resulting statistics are rather lacking. Sure there is a nice GUI chart that shows current executing transactions per second (TPS) along with some very simple counters in the log. However compared to some other tools such as sysbench, Quest Benchmark Factory and YCSB among others, the Hammer metrics are rather lacking. In this post I show how you can collect some more metrics from SQL Server if you have to use HammerDB. View more server storage I/O performance benchmark and monitoring tools resources here.

Windows Server 2016

Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016 – Microsoft released into general availability Windows Server 2016 and this post looks at some of the new features along with functionality including Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Storage Replica (SR) as well as other enhancements. With these new and enhanced features Windows Servers increase their interoperability with Azure, as well as supporting aggregated hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), disaggregated converged (CI) as well as traditional workloads along with Hyper-V (and containers). One of the other new enhancements in Windows Server 2016 which now uses ReFS (Reliable File System) as its default file system that you can read more about here. RIP Windows SIS (Single Instance Storage), or at least in Server 2016 With Windows Server 2016 Microsoft removed single instance storage replacing with new capabilities that you can read more about in the this post.

Garbage data in garbage data out

Garbage data in, garbage information out, big data or big garbage? There is a classic IT expression of garbage data in results in garbage data (or information out) in that your algorithms and data structures (which equals programs e.g. Niklaus Wirth) are only as good as the data they work on. What this means then is that if there is a large amount of big data then there can also be a big garbage in and garbage out problem unless addressed.

Hard product vs. soft product – Hard product refers to something such as hardware, software or a service resource that is obtained and then joined with other resources in a particular way to create a soft product. Not to be confused with software, the soft product is the result or how resources get defined that give some ability or benefit. Think of a soft product as for how airlines can use the same airplane, serve the same coca cola, have same seats, yet their soft product is the service experience of how those are delivered, as well as how you find and buy or use them. Another way of thinking about it is hard products are the ingredients for a recipe, the recipe defines how those ingredients result in some food dish.

how many IOPs can an HDD or SSD do

Part II: How many IOPS can a HDD, HHDD or SSD do with VMware? – This is part of a multi-post series looking at how many IOPs (or bandwidth) various HDD and SSDs can do handling different workloads. Of course, your results will vary with configuration settings, tools among other considerations. However, some of the older rules of thumb (RUT) about RPM and other considerations for HDDs have changed and continue to do so. As an example of how HDDs continue to evolve check out this popular post from the 2016 list Which Enterprise HDDs to use for a Content Server Platform.

Part II: What I did with Lenovo TS140 in my Server and Storage I/O Review – This is a popular post series of some things I have done with a Lenovo TS140 including defining with various software as well as hardware. This is a great price performer value system that several years ago after testing one Lenovo sent me, I returned that to Lenovo and bought several of them to join my other systems.

Server and Storage I/O Benchmarking and Performance Resources – This is a collection of various server, storage I/O and networking hardware, software as well as services tools, techniques as well as tips for benchmarking, comparing, simulation, testing, gaining insight across cloud, virtual, container and legacy resources. Server and Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd (Part I) – This is one of the tools found on the server, storage I/O benchmarking and performance resources page. Diskspd is a tool developed by Microsoft as an alternative to using Iometer, vdbench, fio.exe, SQLIO among many others, plus, it is on github.

server storage I/O nvme and ssd

The NVM (Non Volatile Memory) and NVMe Place – Interesting and adoption in nand flash, nvram, 3D XPoint among other SSD and Non-volatile Memory (NVM) continues. Another popular post that you can find at thenvmeplace.com is this NVMe overview and primer – Part I. There is a growing interest, awareness and deployment adoption around NVM Express (NVMe) the new protocol for accessing NVMs and SSDs. Some of the common conversations and questions I encounter is confusion between NVM and NVMe, too which the answer is one (the former) are the media or devices, the other is the access method alternative to using AHCI/SATA or SCSI (e.g. SAS, iSCSI, FCP, SRP) among others.

VMware VVOLs and storage I/O fundamentals (Part 1) – VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOL) continue to gain adoption and this post is part of an overview and primer. If you want to go deeper into VVOL as well as see some adoption insights check out Eric Sieberts post here over at vsphere-land.com

Welcome to the Object Storage Center page – This is a micro site that has a primer and overview of cloud as well as object storage along with an expanding list of links to various resources, tips, technologies, tools, trends and industry activity.

Where To Learn More

www.storageio.com particular if you have not been there for awhile to check out the new streamlined look and navigation to various content including Server StorageIO update newsletters (free subscription) among other resources.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

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What this all means and wrapping up

Some of the popular posts for 2016 are perennial favorites and based on experience will probably appear on the 2017 list. However there are also several new posts that appeared in 2016 that I suspect will also appear on the 2017 version of the above list, along with new content from 2017.

Thank you to all of you who frequent StorageIOblog.com as well as StorageIO.com along with our various micro sites including server storage I/O performance and benchmarking resources, thenvmeplace.com, thessdplace.com, cloud and objectstoragecenter.com, data protection diaries among others.

Also thank you for viewing various partner venues and syndicates with extra ones appearing throughout 2017. Watch for more content in the coming weeks, months and throughout 2017 on software defined data infrastructures (SDDI) along with server, storage I/O, networking, hardware, software, cloud, container, data protection and related topics, trends, technologies, tools and tips.

Again, thank you

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). 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. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to their owners/posters, Other content (C) Copyright 2006-2024 Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO. All Rights Reserved. StorageIO is a registered Trade Mark (TM) of Server StorageIO.