Data Protection Diaries Fundamentals Who Is Doing What Toolbox Technology Tools

Data Protection Toolbox Whos Doing What Technology Tools

Updated 1/17/2018

Data protection toolbox is a companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017)

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By Greg Schulzwww.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017

This is Part 9 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics techniques terms technologies trends tradecraft tips as a follow-up to my Data Protection Diaries series, as well as a companion to my new book Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Server Storage I/O Fundamental tradecraft (CRC Press 2017).

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Click here to view the previous post Part 8 Walking The Data Protection Talk, and click here to view the next post Part 10 Data Protection Resources Where to Learn More.

Post in the series includes excerpts from Software Defined Data Infrastructure (SDDI) pertaining to data protection for legacy along with software defined data centers ( SDDC), data infrastructures in general along with related topics. In addition to excerpts, the posts also contain links to articles, tips, posts, videos, webinars, events and other companion material. Note that figure numbers in this series are those from the SDDI book and not in the order that they appear in the posts.

In this post the focus is around Data Protection who’s Doing What ( Toolbox Technology Tools).

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Figure 1.5 Data Infrastructures and other IT Infrastructure Layers

who’s Doing What (Toolbox Technology Tools)

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Data Protection Toolbox

Note that this post is evolving with additional tools, technologies, techniques, hardware, software, services being added over time along with applicable industry links.

The following are a sampling of some hardware, software, solution and component vendors along with service providers involved with data protection from RAID, Erasure Codes (EC) to snapshots, backup, BC, BR, DR, archive, security, cloud, bulk object storage, HDDs, SSD, tape among others including buzzword (and buzz term trends) bingo. Acronis, Actifio, Arcserve, ATTO, AWS, Backblaze, Barracuda, Broadcom, Caringo, Chelsio (offload), Code42/Crashplan, Cray, Ceph, Cisco, Cloudian, Cohesity, Compuverde, Commvault, Datadog, Datrium, Datos IO, DDN, Dell EMC, Druva, E8, Elastifile, Exagrid, Excelero, Fujifilm, Fujutsu, Google, HPE, Huawei, Hedvig, IBM, Intel, Iomega, Iron Mountain, IBM, Jungledisk, Kinetic key value drives (Seagate), Lenovo, LTO organization, Mangstor, Maxta, Mellanox (offload), Micron, Microsoft (Azure, Windows, Storage Spaces), Microsemi, Nakivo, NetApp, NooBaa, Nexsan, Nutanix, OpenIO, OpenStack (Swift), Oracle, Panasas, Panzura, Promise, Pure, Quantum, Quest, Qumulo, Retrospect, Riverbed, Rozo, Rubrik, Samsung, Scale, Scality, Seagate (DotHill), Sony, Solarwinds, Spectralogic, Starwind, Storpool, Strongbox, Sureline, Swiftstack, Synology, Toshiba, Tintri, Turbonomics, Unitrends, Unix and Linux platforms, Vantara, Veeam, VMware, Western Digital (Amplidata, Tegile and others), WekaIO, X-IO, Zadara and Zmanda among many others.

Note if you dont see yours, or your favorite, preferred or clients listed above or in the data Infrastructure industry related links send us a note for consideration to be included in future updates, or having a link, or sponsor spot pointing to your site added. Feel free to add a non sales marketing pitch to courteous comments to the comment section below.

View additional IT, data center and data Infrastructure along with data protection related vendors, services, tools, technologies links here.

Where To Learn More

Continue reading additional posts in this series of Data Infrastructure Data Protection fundamentals and companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press 2017) book, as well as the following links covering technology, trends, tools, techniques, tradecraft and tips.

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

Part of modernizing data protection for various data center and data infrastructure environments is to know the tools, technologies and trends that are part of your data protection toolbox. The other part of modernizing data is protection is knowing the techniques of how to use different tools, technologies to meet various application workload performance, availability, capacity economic (PACE) needs.

Also keep in mind that information services requires applications (e.g. programs) and that programs are a combination of algorithms (code, rules, policies) and data structures (e.g. data and how it is organized including unstructured). What this means is that data protection needs to address not only data, also the applications, configuration settings, metadata as well as protecting the protection tools and its data.

Get your copy of Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials here at Amazon.com, at CRC Press among other locations and learn more here. Meanwhile, continue reading with the next post in this series, Part 10 Data Protection Fundamental Resources Where to Learn More.

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 Protection Diaries Fundamental Resources Where to Learn More

Data Protection Diaries Fundamental Resources Where to Learn More

Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017)

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By Greg Schulzwww.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017

This is the last in a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics techniques terms technologies trends tradecraft tips as a follow-up to my Data Protection Diaries series, as well as a companion to my new book Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Server Storage I/O Fundamental tradecraft (CRC Press 2017).

Click here to view the previous post Part 9 – who’s Doing What ( Toolbox Technology Tools).

Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

Post in the series includes excerpts from Software Defined Data Infrastructure (SDDI) pertaining to data protection for legacy along with software defined data centers ( SDDC), data infrastructures in general along with related topics. In addition to excerpts, the posts also contain links to articles, tips, posts, videos, webinars, events and other companion material. Note that figure numbers in this series are those from the SDDI book and not in the order that they appear in the posts.

In this post the focus is around Data Protection Resources Where to Learn More.

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Figure 1.5 Data Infrastructures and other IT Infrastructure Layers

Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Table of Contents (TOC)

Here is a link (PDF) to the table of contents (TOC) for Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials.

The following is a Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book TOC summary:

Chapter 1: Server Storage I/O and Data Infrastructure Fundamentals
Chapter 2: Application and IT Environments
Chapter 3: Bits, Bytes, Blobs, and Software-Defined Building Blocks
Chapter 4: Servers: Physical, Virtual, Cloud, and Containers
Chapter 5: Server I/O and Networking
Chapter 6: Servers and Storage-Defined Networking
Chapter 7: Storage Mediums and Component Devices
Chapter 8: Data Infrastructure Services: Access and Performance
Chapter 9: Data Infrastructure Services: Availability, RAS, and RAID
Chapter 10: Data Infrastructure Services: Availability, Recovery-Point Objective, and Security
Chapter 11: Data Infrastructure Services: Capacity and Data Reduction
Chapter 12: Storage Systems and Solutions (Products and Cloud)
Chapter 13: Data Infrastructure and Software-Defined Management
Chapter 14: Data Infrastructure Deployment Considerations
Chapter 15: Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Futures, Wrap-up, and Summary
Appendix A: Learning Experiences
Appendix B: Additional Learning, Tools, and tradecraft Tricks
Appendix C: Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix D: Book Shelf and Recommended Reading
Appendix E: Tools and Technologies Used in Support of This Book
Appendix F: How to Use This Book for Various Audiences
Appendix G: Companion Website and Where to Learn More
Glossary
Index

Click here to view (PDF) table of contents (TOC).

Data Protection Resources Where To Learn More

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

The following are the various posts that are part of this data protection series:

  • Part 1Data Infrastructure Data Protection Fundamentals
  • Part 2 – Reliability, Availability, Serviceability ( RAS) Data Protection Fundamentals
  • Part 3 – Data Protection Access Availability RAID Erasure Codes ( EC) including LRC
  • Part 4 – Data Protection Recovery Points (Archive, Backup, Snapshots, Versions)
  • Part 5 – Point In Time Data Protection Granularity Points of Interest
  • Part 6 – Data Protection Security Logical Physical Software Defined
  • Part 7 – Data Protection Tools, Technologies, Toolbox, Buzzword Bingo Trends
  • Part 8 – Data Protection Diaries Walking Data Protection Talk
  • Part 9 – who’s Doing What ( Toolbox Technology Tools)
  • Part 10Data Protection Resources Where to Learn More

  • The following are various data protection blog posts:

  • Welcome to the Data Protection Diaries
  • Until the focus expands to data protection, backup is staying alive!
  • The blame game, Does cloud storage result in data loss?
  • Loss of data access vs. data loss
  • Revisiting RAID storage remains relevant and resources
  • Only you can prevent cloud (or other) data loss
  • Data protection is a shared responsibility
  • Time for CDP (Commonsense Data Protection)?
  • Data Infrastructure Server Storage I/O Tradecraft Trends (skills, experiences, knowledge)
  • My copies were corrupted: The [4] 3-2-1 rule and more about 4 3 2 1 as well as 3 2 1 here and here
  • The following are various data protection tips and articles:

  • Via Infostor Cloud Storage Concerns, Considerations and Trends
  • Via Network World What’s a data infrastructure?
  • Via Infostor Data Protection Gaps, Some Good, Some Not So Good
  • Via Infostor Object Storage is in your future
  • Via Iron Mountain Preventing Unexpected Disasters
  • Via InfoStor – The Many Variations of RAID Storage
  • Via InfoStor – RAID Remains Relevant, Really!
  • Via WservNews Cloud Storage Considerations (Microsoft Azure)
  • Via ComputerWeekly Time to restore from backup: Do you know where your data is?
  • Via Network World Ensure your data infrastructure remains available and resilient
  • The following are various data protection related webinars and events:

  • BrightTalk Webinar Data Protection Modernization – Protect, Preserve and Serve you Information
  • BrightTalk Webinar BCDR and Cloud Backup Protect Preserve and Secure Your Data Infrastructure
  • TechAdvisor Webinar (Free with registration) All You Need To Know about ROBO data protection
  • TechAdvisor Webinar (Free with registration) Tips for Moving from Backup to Full Disaster Recovery
  • The following are various data protection tools, technologies, services, vendor and industry resource links:

  • Various Data Infrastructure related news commentary, events, tips and articles
  • Data Center and Data Infrastructure industry links (vendors, services, tools, technologies, hardware, software)
  • Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading List Book Shelf
  • Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC 2017) Book
  • Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

    What This All Means

    Everything is not the same across environments, data centers, data infrastructures including SDDC, SDX and SDDI as well as applications along with their data.

    Likewise everything is and does not have to be the same when it comes to Data Protection.

    Since everything is not the same, various data protection approaches are needed to address various application performance, availability, capacity economic (PACE) needs, as well as SLO and SLAs.

    Data protection encompasses many different hardware, software, services including cloud technologies, tools, techniques, best practices, policies and tradecraft experience skills (e.g. knowing what to use when, where, why and how).

    Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

    Context is important as different terms have various meanings depending on what they are being discussed with. Likewise different technologies and topics such as object, blob, backup, replication, RAID, erasure code (EC), mirroring, gaps (good, bad, ugly), snapshot, checkpoint, availability, durability among others have various meanings depending on context, as well as implementation approach.

    In most cases there is no bad technology or tool, granted there are some poor or bad (even ugly) implementations, as well as deployment or configuration decisions. What this means is the best technology or approach for your needs may be different from somebody else’s and vice versa.

    Some other points include there is no such thing as an information recession with more data generated every day, granted, how that data is transformed or stored can be in a smaller footprint. Likewise there is an increase in the size of data including unstructured big data, as well as the volume (how much data), as well as velocity (speed at which it is created, moved, processed, stored). This also means there is an increased dependency on data being available, accessible and intact with consistency. Thus the fundamental role of data Infrastructures (e.g. what’s inside the data center or cloud) is to combine resources, technologies, tools, techniques, best practices, policies, people skill set, experiences (e.g. tradecraft) to protect, preserve, secure and serve information (applications and data).

    modernizing data protection including backup, availability and related topics means more than swapping out one hardware, software, service or cloud for whatever is new, and then using it in old ways.

    What this means is to start using new (and old) things in new ways, for example move beyond using SSD or HDDs like tape as targets for backup or other data protection approaches. Instead use SSD, HDDs or cloud as a tier, yet also to enable faster protection and recovery by stepping back and rethinking what to protect, when, where, why, how and apply applicable techniques, tools and technologies. Find a balance between knowing all about the tools and trends while not understanding how to use those toolbox items, as well as knowing all about the techniques of how to use the tools, yet not knowing what the tools are.

    Want to learn more, have questions about specific tools, technologies, trends, vendors, products, services or techniques discussed in this series, send a note (info at storageio dot com) or via our contact page. We can set up a time to discuss your questions or needs pertaining to Data Protection as well as data infrastructures related topics from legacy to software defined virtual, cloud, container among others. For example consulting, advisory services, architecture strategy design, technology selection and acquisition coaching, education knowledge transfer sessions, seminars, webinars, special projects, test drive lab reviews or audits, content generation, videos, podcasts, custom content, chapter excerpts, demand generation among many other things.

    Get your copy of Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials here at Amazon.com, at CRC Press among other locations and learn more here.

    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.

    AWS Announces New S3 Cloud Storage Security Encryption Features

    AWS Announces New S3 Cloud Storage Security Encryption Features

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    Updated 1/17/2018

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced new Simple Storage Service (S3) e.g. AWS S3 encryption and security enhancements including Default Encryption, Permission Checks, Cross-Region Replication ACL Overwrite, Cross-Region Replication with KMS and Detailed Inventory Report. Another recent announcement by AWS is for PrivateLinks endpoints within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

    AWS Dashboard
    AWS Service Dashboard

    Default Encryption

    Extending previous security features, now you can mandate all objects stored in a given S3 bucket be encrypted without specifying a bucket policy that rejects non-encrypted objects. There are three server-side encryption (SSE) options for S3 objects including keys managed by S3, AWS KMS and SSE Customer ( SSE-C) managed keys. These options provide more flexibility as well as control for different environments along with increased granularity. Note that encryption can be forced on all objects in a bucket by specifying a bucket encryption configuration. When an unencrypted object is stored in an encrypted bucket, it will inherit the same encryption as the bucket, or, alternately specified by a PUT required.

    AWS S3 Bucket Encryption
    AWS S3 Buckets

    Permission Checks

    There is now an indicator on the S3 console dashboard prominently indicating which S3 buckets are publicly accessible. In the above image, some of my AWS S3 buckets are shown including one that is public facing. Note in the image above how there is a notion next to buckets that are open to public.

    Cross-Region Replication ACL Overwrite and KMS

    AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys can be used for encrypting objects. Building on previous cross-region replication capabilities, now when you replicate objects across AWS accounts, a new ACL providing full access to the destination account can be specified.

    Detailed Inventory Report

    The S3 Inventory report ( which can also be encrypted) now includes the encryption status of each object.

    PrivateLink for AWS Services

    PrivateLinks enable AWS customers to access services from a VPC without using a public IP as well as traffic not having to go across the internet (e.g. keeps traffic within the AWS network. PrivateLink endpoints appear in Elastic Network Interface (ENI) with private IPs in your VPC and are highly available, resiliency and scalable. Besides scaling and resiliency, PrivateLink eliminates the need for white listing of public IPs as well as managing internet gateway, NAT and firewall proxies to connect to AWS services (Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Kinesis Streams, Service Catalog, EC2 Systems Manager). Learn more about AWS PrivateLink for services here including  VPC Endpoint Pricing here

    Where To Learn More

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

    What This All Means

    Common cloud concern considerations include privacy and security. AWS S3 among other industry cloud service and storage providers have had their share of not so pleasant news coverage involving security.

    Keep in mind that data protection including security is a shared responsibility (and only you can prevent data loss). This means that the vendor or service provider has to take care of their responsibility making sure their solutions have proper data protection and security features by default, as well as extensions, and making those capabilities known to consumers.

    The other part of shared responsibility is that consumers and users of cloud services need to know what the capabilities are, defaults and options as well as when to use various approaches. Ultimately it is up to the user of a cloud service to implement best practices to leverage cloud as well as their own on-premises technologies so that they can support data infrastructure that in turn protect, preserve, secure and serve information (along with their applications and data).

    These are good enhancements by AWS to make their S3 cloud storage security encryption features available as well as provide options and awareness for users on how to use those capabilities.

     

    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.

    Who Will Be At Top Of Storage World Next Decade?

    Who Will Be At Top Of Storage World Next Decade?

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    Data Storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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    Fundamental Data Infrastructure resources

    Data infrastructures include legacy along with 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
    Data Infrastructure and other IT Layers (stacks and altitude levels)

    Various data infrastructures resource components spanning server, storage, I/O networks, tools along with hardware, software, services get defined as well as composed into solutions or services which may in turn be further aggregated into more extensive higher altitude offerings (e.g. further up the stack).

    IT and Data Infrastructure Stack Layers
    Various IT and Data Infrastructure Stack Layers (Altitude Levels)

    Focus on Data Storage Present and Future Predictions

    Drew Robb (@Robbdrew) has a good piece over at Enterprise Storage Forum looking at the past, present and future of who will rule the data storage world that includes several perspective predictions comments from myself as well as others. Some of the perspectives and predictions by others are more generic and technology trend and buzzword bingo focus which should not be a surprise. For example including the usual performance, Cloud and Object Storage, DPDK, RDMA/RoCE, Software-Defined, NVM/Flash/SSD, CI/HCI, NVMe among others.

    Here are some excerpts from Drews piece along with my perspective and prediction comments of who may rule the data storage roost in a decade:

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) – AWS includes cloud and object storage in the form of S3. However, there is more to storage than object and S3 with AWS also having Elastic File Services (EFS), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), database, message queue and on-instance storage, among others. for traditional, emerging and storage for the Internet of Things (IoT).

    It is difficult to think of AWS not being a major player in a decade unless they totally screw up their execution in the future. Granted, some of their competitors might be working overtime putting pins and needles into Voodoo Dolls (perhaps bought via Amazon.com) while wishing for the demise of Amazon Web Services, just saying.

    Voodoo Dolls via Amazon.com
    Voodoo Dolls and image via Amazon.com

    Of course, Amazon and AWS could follow the likes of Sears (e.g. some may remember their catalog) and ignore the future ending up on the where are they now list. While talking about Amazon and AWS, one will have to wonder where Wall Mart will end up in a decade with or without a cloud of their own?

    Microsoft – With Windows, Hyper-V and Azure (including Azure Stack), if there is any company in the industry outside of AWS or VMware that has quietly expanded its reach and positioning into storage, it is Microsoft, said Schulz.

    Microsoft IMHO has many offerings and capabilities across different dimensions as well as playing fields. There is the installed base of Windows Servers (and desktops) that have the ability to leverage Software Defined Storage including Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), ReFS, cache and tiering among other features. In some ways I’m surprised by the number of people in the industry who are not aware of Microsoft’s capabilities from S2D and the ability to configure CI as well as HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) deployments, or of Hyper-V abilities, Azure Stack to Azure among others. On the other hand, I run into Microsoft people who are not aware of the full portfolio offerings or are just focused on Azure. Needless to say, there is a lot in the Microsoft storage related portfolio as well as bigger broader data infrastructure offerings.

    NetApp – Schulz thinks NetApp has the staying power to stay among the leading lights of data storage. Assuming it remains as a freestanding company and does not get acquired, he said, NetApp has the potential of expanding its portfolio with some new acquisitions. “NetApp can continue their transformation from a company with a strong focus on selling one or two products to learning how to sell the complete portfolio with diversity,” said Schulz.

    NetApp has been around and survived up to now including via various acquisitions, some of which have had mixed results vs. others. However assuming NetApp can continue to reinvent themselves, focusing on selling the entire solution portfolio vs. focus on specific products, along with good execution and some more acquisitions, they have the potential for being a top player through the next decade.

    Dell EMC – Dell EMC is another stalwart Schulz thinks will manage to stay on top. “Given their size and focus, Dell EMC should continue to grow, assuming execution goes well,” he said.

    There are some who I hear are or have predicted the demise of Dell EMC, granted some of those predicted the demise of Dell and or EMC years ago as well. Top companies can and have faded away over time, and while it is possible Dell EMC could be added to the where are they now list in the future, my bet is that at least while Michael Dell is still involved, they will be a top player through the next decade, unless they mess up on execution.

    Cloud and software defined storage data infrastructure
    Various Data Infrastructures and Resources involving Data Storage

    Huawei – Huawei is one of the emerging giants from China that are steadily gobbling up market share. It is now a top provider in many categories of storage, and its rapid ascendancy is unlikely to stop anytime soon. “Keep an eye on Huawei, particularly outside of the U.S. where they are starting to hit their stride,” said Schulz.

    In the US, you have to look or pay attention to see or hear what Huawei is doing involving data storage, however that is different in other parts of the world. For example, I see and hear more about them in Europe than in the US. Will Huawei do more in the US in the future? Good question, keep an eye on them.

    VMware – A decade ago, Storage Networking World (SNW) was by far the biggest event in data storage. Everyone who was anyone attended this twice yearly event. And then suddenly, it lost its luster. A new forum known as VMworld had emerged and took precedence. That was just one of the indicators of the disruption caused by VMware. And Schulz expects the company to continue to be a major force in storage. “VMware will remain a dominant player, expanding its role with software-defined storage,” said Schulz.

    VMware has a dominant role in data storage not just because of the relationship with Dell EMC, or because of VSAN which continues to gain in popularity, or the soon to be released VMware on AWS solution options among others. Sure all of those matters, however, keep in mind that VMware solutions also tie into and work with other legacies as well as software-defined storage solution, services as well as tools spanning block, file, object for virtual machines as well as containers.

    "Someday soon, people are going to wake up like they did with VMware and AWS," said Schulz. "That’s when they will be asking ‘When did Microsoft get into storage like this in such a big way.’"

    What the above means is that some environments may not be paying attention to what AWS, Microsoft, VMware among others are doing, perhaps discounting them as the old or existing while focusing on new, emerging what ever is trendy in the news this week. On the other hand, some environments may see the solution offerings from those mentioned as not relevant to their specific needs, or capable of scaling to their requirements.

    Keep in mind that it was not that long ago, just a few years that VMware entered the market with what by today’s standard (e.g. VSAN and others) was a relatively small virtual storage appliance offering, not to mention many people discounted and ignored VMware as a practical storage solution provider. Things and technology change, not to mention there are different needs and solution requirements for various environments. While a solution may not be applicable today, give it some time, keep an eye on them to avoid being surprised asking the question, how and when did a particular vendor get into storage in such a big way.

    Is Future Data Storage World All Cloud?

    Perhaps someday everything involving data storage will be in or part of the cloud.

    Does this mean everything is going to the cloud, or at least in the next ten years? IMHO the simple answer is no, even though I see more workloads, applications, and data residing in the cloud, there will also be an increase in hybrid deployments.

    Note that those hybrids will span local and on-premises or on-site if you prefer, as well as across different clouds or service providers. Granted some environments are or will become all in on clouds, while others are or will become a hybrid or some variation. Also when it comes to clouds, do not be scared, be prepared. Also keep an eye on what is going on with containers, orchestration, management among other related areas involving persistent storage, a good example is Dell EMCcode RexRay among others.

    Server Storage I/O resources
    Various data storage focus areas along with data infrastructures.

    What About Other Vendors, Solutions or Services?

    In addition to those mentioned above, there are plenty of other existing, new and emerging vendors, solutions, and services to keep an eye on, look into, test and conduct a proof of concept (PoC) trial as part of being an informed data infrastructure and data storage shopper (or seller).

    Keep in mind that component suppliers some of whom like Cisco also provides turnkey solutions that are also part of other vendors offerings (e.g. Dell EMC VxBlock, NetApp FlexPod among others), Broadcom (which includes Avago/LSI, Brocade Fibre Channel, among others), Intel (servers, I/O adapters, memory and SSDs), Mellanox, Micron, Samsung, Seagate and many others.

    E8, Excelero, Elastifile (software defined storage), Enmotus (micro-tiering, read Server StorageIOlab report here), Everspin (persistent and storage class memories including NVDIMM), Hedvig (software defined storage), NooBaa, Nutanix, Pivot3, Rozo (software defined storage), WekaIO (scale out elastic software defined storage, read Server StorageIO report here).

    Some other software defined management tools, services, solutions and components I’m keeping an eye on, exploring, digging deeper into (or plan to) include Blue Medora, Datadog, Dell EMCcode and RexRay docker container storage volume management, Google, HPE, IBM Bluemix Cloud aka IBM Softlayer, Kubernetes, Mangstor, OpenStack, Oracle, Retrospect, Rubrix, Quest, Starwind, Solarwinds, Storpool, Turbonomic, Virtuozzo (software defined storage) among many others

    What about those not mentioned? Good question, some of those I have mentioned in earlier Server StorageIO Update newsletters, as well as many others mentioned in my new book "Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials" (CRC Press). Then there are those that once I hear something interesting from on a regular basis will get more frequent mentions as well. Of course, there is also a list to be done someday that is basically where are they now, e.g. those that have disappeared, or never lived up to their full hype and marketing (or technology) promises, let’s leave that for another day.

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

    Where To Learn More

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

    Data Infrastructures and workloads
    Data Infrastructures Resources (Servers, Storage, I/O Networks) enabling various services

    Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

    What This All Means

    It is safe to say that each new year will bring new trends, techniques, technologies, tools, features, functionality as well as solutions involving data storage as well as data infrastructures. This means a usual safe bet is to say that the current year is the most exciting and has the most new things than in the past when it comes to data infrastructures along with resources such as data storage. Keep in mind that there are many aspects to data infrastructures as well as storage all of which are evolving. Who Will Be At Top Of Storage World Next Decade? What say you?

    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).

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    AWS S3 Storage Gateway Revisited (Part I)

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    AWS S3 Storage Gateway Revisited (Part I)

    This Amazon Web Service (AWS) Storage Gateway Revisited posts is a follow-up to the AWS Storage Gateway test drive and review I did a few years ago (thus why it’s called revisited). As part of a two-part series, the first post looks at what AWS Storage Gateway is, how it has improved since my last review of AWS Storage Gateway along with deployment options. The second post in the series looks at a sample test drive deployment and use.

    If you need an AWS primer and overview of various services such as Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic File Service (EFS), Simple Storage Service (S3), Availability Zones (AZ), Regions and other items check this multi-part series (Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part I) ).

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    As a quick refresher, S3 is the AWS bulk, high-capacity unstructured and object storage service along with its companion deep cold (e.g. inactive) Glacier. There are various S3 storage service classes including standard, reduced redundancy storage (RRS) along with infrequent access (IA) that have different availability durability, performance, service level and cost attributes.

    Note that S3 IA is not Glacier as your data always remains on-line accessible while Glacier data can be off-line. AWS S3 can be accessed via its API, as well as via HTTP rest calls, AWS tools along with those from third-party’s. Third party tools include NAS file access such as S3FS for Linux that I use for my Ubuntu systems to mount S3 buckets and use similar to other mount points. Other tools include Cloudberry, S3 Motion, S3 Browser as well as plug-ins available in most data protection (backup, snapshot, archive) software tools and storage systems today.

    AWS S3 Storage Gateway and What’s New

    The Storage Gateway is the AWS tool that you can use for accessing S3 buckets and objects via your block volume, NAS file or tape based applications. The Storage Gateway is intended to give S3 bucket and object access to on-premises applications and data infrastructures functions including data protection (backup/restore, business continuance (BC), business resiliency (BR), disaster recovery (DR) and archiving), along with storage tiering to cloud.

    Some of the things that have evolved with the S3 Storage Gateway include:

    • Easier, streamlined download, installation, deployment
    • Enhanced Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and Virtual Tape support
    • File serving and sharing (not to be confused with Elastic File Services (EFS))
    • Ability to define your own bucket and associated parameters
    • Bucket options including Infrequent Access (IA) or standard
    • Options for AWS EC2 hosted, or on-premises VMware as well as Hyper-V gateways (file only supports VMware and EC2)

    AWS Storage Gateway Three Functions

    AWS Storage Gateway can be deployed for three basic functions:

      AWS Storage Gateway File Architecture via AWS.com

    • File Gateway (NFS NAS) – Files, folders, objects and other items are stored in AWS S3 with a local cache for low latency access to most recently used data. With this option, you can create folders and subdirectory similar to a regular file system or NAS device as well as configure various security, permissions, access control policies. Data is stored in S3 buckets that you specify policies such as standard or Infrequent Access (IA) among other options. AWS hosted via EC2 as well as VMware Virtual Machine (VM) for on-premises file gateway.

      Also, note that AWS cautions on multiple concurrent writers to S3 buckets with Storage Gateway so check the AWS FAQs which may have changed by the time you read this. Current file share limits (subject to change) include 1 file gateway share per S3 bucket (e.g. a one to one mapping between file share and a bucket). There can be 10 file shares per gateway (e.g. multiple shares each with its own bucket per gateway) and a maximum file size of 5TB (same as maximum S3 object size). Note that you might hear about object storage systems supporting unlimited size objects which some may do, however generally there are some constraints either on their API front-end, or what is currently tested. View current AWS Storage Gateway resource and specification limits here.

    • AWS Storage Gateway Non-Cached Volume Architecture via AWS.com

      AWS Storage Gateway Cached Volume Architecture via AWS.com

    • Volume Gateway (Block iSCSI) – Leverages S3 with a point in time backup as an AWS EBS snapshot. Two options exist including Cached volumes with low-latency access to most recently used data (e.g. data is stored in AWS, with a local cache copy on disk or SSD). The other option is Stored Volumes (e.g. non-cached) where primary copy is local and periodic snapshot backups are sent to AWS. AWS provides EC2 hosted, as well as VMs for VMware and various Hyper-V Windows Server based VMs.

      Current Storage Gateway volume limits (subject to change) include maximum size of a cached volume 32TB, maximum size of a stored volume 16TB. Note that snapshots of cached volumes larger than 16TB can only be restored to a storage gateway volume, they can not be restored as an EBS volume (via EC2). There are a maximum of 32 volumes for a gateway with total size of all volumes for a gateway (cached) of 1,024TB (e.g. 1PB). The total size of all volumes for a gateway (stored volume) is 512TB. View current AWS Storage Gateway resource and specification limits here.

    • AWS Storage Gateway VTL Architecture via AWS.com

    • Virtual Tape Library Gateway (VTL) – Supports saving your data for backup/BC/DR/archiving into S3 and Glacier storage tiers. Being a Virtual Tape Library (e.g. VTL) you can specify emulation of tapes for compatibility with your existing backup, archiving and data protection software, management tools and processes.

      Storage Gateway limits for tape include minimum size of a virtual tape 100GB, maximum size of a virtual tape 2.5TB, maximum number of virtual tapes for a VTL is 1,500 and total size of all tapes in a VTL is 1PB. Note that the maximum number of virtual tapes in an archive is unlimited and total size of all tapes in an archive is also unlimited. View current AWS Storage Gateway resource and specification limits here.

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    Where To Learn More

    What This All Means

    As to which gateway function and mode (cached or non-cached for Volumes) depends on what it is that you are trying to do. Likewise choosing between EC2 (cloud hosted) or on-premises Hyper-V and VMware VMs depends on what your data infrastructure support requirements are. Overall I like the progress that AWS has put into evolving the Storage Gateway, granted it might not be applicable for all usage cases. Continue reading more and view images from the AWS Storage Gateway Revisited test drive in part two located here.

    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.

    Part II Revisting AWS S3 Storage Gateway (Test Drive Deployment)

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    Part II Revisiting AWS S3 Storage Gateway (Test Drive Deployment)

    This Amazon Web Service (AWS) Storage Gateway Revisited posts is a follow-up to the AWS Storage Gateway test drive and review I did a few years ago (thus why it’s called revisited). As part of a two-part series, the first post looks at what AWS Storage Gateway is, how it has improved since my last review of AWS Storage Gateway along with deployment options. The second post in the series looks at a sample test drive deployment and use.

    What About Storage Gateway Costs?

    Costs vary by region, type of storage being used (files stored in S3, Volume Storage, EBS Snapshots, Virtual Tape storage, Virtual Tape storage archive), as well as type of gateway host, along with how access and used. Request pricing varies including data written to AWS storage by gateway (up to maximum of $125.00 per month), snapshot/volume delete, virtual tape delete, (prorate fee for deletes within 90 days of being archived), virtual tape archival, virtual tape retrieval. Note that there are also various data transfer fees that also vary by region and gateway host. Learn more about pricing here.

    What Are Some Storage Gateway Alternatives

    AWS and S3 storage gateway access alternatives include those from various third-party (including that are in the AWS marketplace), as well as via data protection tools (e.g. backup/restore, archive, snapshot, replication) and more commonly storage systems. Some tools include Cloudberry, S3FS, S3 motion, S3 Browser among many others.

    Tip is when a vendor says they support S3, ask them if that is for their back-end (e.g. they can access and store data in S3), or front-end (e.g. they can be accessed by applications that speak S3 API). Also explore what format the application, tool or storage system stores data in AWS storage, for example, are files mapped one to one to S3 objects along with corresponding directory hierarchy, or are they stored in a save set or other entity.

    AWS Storage Gateway Deployment and Management Tips

    Once you have created your AWS account (if you did not already have one) and logging into the AWS console (note the link defaults to US East 1 Region), go to the AWS Services Dashboard and select Storage Gateway (or click here which goes to US East 1). You will be presented with three options (File, Volume or VTL) modes.

    What Does Storage Gateway and Install Look Like

    The following is what installing a AWS Storage Gateway for file and then volume looks like. First, access the AWS Storage Gateway main landing page (it might change by time you read this) to get started. Scroll down and click on the Get Started with AWS Storage Gateway button or click here.

    AWS Storage Gateway Landing Page

    Select type of gateway to create, in the following example File is chosen.

    Select type of AWS storage gateway

    Next select the type of file gateway host (EC2 cloud hosted, or on-premises VMware). If you choose VMware, an OVA will be downloaded (follow the onscreen instructions) that you deploy on your ESXi system or with vCenter. Note that there is a different VMware VM gateway OAV for File Gateway and another for Volume Gateway. In the following example VMware ESXi OVA is selected and downloaded, then accessed via VMware tools such as vSphere Web Client for deployment.

    AWS Storage Gateway select download

    Once your VMware OVA file is downloaded from AWS, install using your preferred VMware tool, in this case I used the vSphere Web Client.

    AWS Storage Gateway VM deploy

    Once you have deployed the VMware VM for File Storage Gateway, it is time to connect to the gateway using the IP address assigned (static or DHCP) for the VM. Note that you may need to allocate some extra VMware storage to the VM if prompted (this mainly applies to Volume Gateway). Also follow directions about setting NTP time, using paravirtual adapters, thick vs. thin provisioning along with IP settings. Also double-check to make sure your VM and host are set for high-performance power setting. Note that the default username is sguser and password is sgpassword for the gateway.

    AWS Storage Gateway Connect

    Once you successfully connect to the gateway, next step will be to configure file share settings.

    AWS Storage Gateway Configure File Share

    Configure file share by selecting which gateway to use (in case you have more than one), name of an S3 bucket name to create, type of storage (S3 Standard or IA), along with Access Management security controls.

    AWS Storage Gateway Create Share

    Next step is to complete file share creation, not the commands provided for Linux and Windows for accessing the file share.

    AWS Storage Gateway Review Share Settings

    Review file share settings

    AWS Storage Gateway access from Windows

    Now lets use the file share by accessing and mounting to a Windows system, then copy some files to the file share.

    AWS Storage Gateway verify Bucket Items

    Now let’s go to the AWS console (or in our example use S3 Browser or your favorite tool) and look at the S3 bucket for the file share and see what is there. Note that each file is an object, and the objects simply appear as a file. If there were sub-directory those would also exist. Note that there are other buckets that I have masked out as we are only interested in the one named awsgwydemo that is configured using S3 Standard storage.

    AWS Storage Gateway Volume

    Now lets look at using the S3 Storage Gateway for Volumes. Similar to deploying for File Gateway, start out at the AWS Storage Gateway page and select Volume Gateway, then select what type of host (EC2 cloud, VMware or Hyper-V (2008 R2 or 2012) for on-premises deployment). Lets use the VMware Gateway, however as mentioned above, this is a different OVA/OVF than the File Gateway.

    AWS Storage Gateway Configure Volume

    Download the VMware OVA/OVF from AWS, and then install using your preferred VMware tools making sure to configure the gateway per instructions. Note that the Volume Gateway needs a couple of storage devices allocated to it. This means you will need to make sure that a SCSI adapter exists (or add one) to the VM, along with the disks (HDD or SSD) for local storage. Refer to AWS documentation about how to size, for my deployment I added a couple of small 80GB drives (you can choose to put on HDD or SSD including NVMe). Note that when connecting to the gateway if you get an error similar to below, make sure that you are in fact using the Volume Gateway and not mistakenly using the File Gateway OVA (VM). Note that the default username is sguser and password is sgpassword for the gateway.

    AWS Storage Gateway Connect To Volume

    Now connect to the local Volume Storage Gateway and notice the two local disks allocated to it.

    AWS Storage Gateway Cached Volume Deploy

    Next its time to create the Gateway which are deploying a Volume Cached below.

    AWS Storage Gateway Volume Create

    Next up is creating a volume, along with its security and access information.

    AWS Storage Gateway Volume Settings

    Volume configuration continued.

    AWS Storage Gateway Volume CHAP

    And now some additional configuration of the volume including iSCSI CHAP security.

    AWS Storage Gateway Windows Access

    Which leads us up to some Windows related volume access and configuration.

    AWS Storage Gateway Using iSCSI Volume

    Now lets use the new iSCSI based AWS Storage Gateway Volume. On the left you can see various WIndows command line activity, along with corresponding configuration information on the right.

    AWS Storage Gateway Being Used by Windows

    And there you have it, a quick tour of AWS Storage Gateway, granted there are more options that you can try yourself.

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    Where To Learn More

    What This All Means

    Overall I like the improvements that AWS has made to the Storage Gateway along with the different options it provides. Something to keep in mind is that if you are planning to use the AWS Storage Gateway File serving sharing mode that there are caveats to multiple concurrent writers to the same bucket. I would not be surprised if some other gateway or software based tool vendors tried to throw some fud towards the Storage Gateway, however ask them then how they coordinate multiple concurrent updates to a bucket while preserving data integrity.

    Which Storage Gateway variant from AWS to use (e.g. File, Volume, VTL) depends on what your needs are, same with where the gateway is placed (Cloud hosted or on-premises with VMware or Hyper-V). Keep an eye on your costs, and more than just the storage space capacity. This means pay attention to your access and requests fees, as well as different service levels, along with data transfer fees.

    You might wonder what about EFS and why you would want to use AWS Storage Gateway? Good question, at the time of this post EFS has evolved from being internal (e.g. within AWS and across regions) to having an external facing end-point however there is a catch. That catch which might have changed by time you read this is that the end-point can only be accessed from AWS Direct Connect locations.

    This means that if your servers are not in a AWS Direct Connect location, without some creative configuration, EFS is not an option. Thus Storage Gateway File mode might be an option in place of EFS as well as using AWS storage access tools from others. For example I have some of my S3 buckets mounted on Linux systems using S3FS for doing rsync or other operations from local to cloud. In addition to S3FS, I also have various backup tools that place data into S3 buckets for backup, BC and DR as well as archiving.

    Check out AWS Storage Gateway yourself and see what it can do or if it is a fit for your environment.

    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.

    Dell EMC World 2017 Day One news announcement summary

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    Dell EMC World 2017 Day One news announcement summary

    This is the first day of the first combined Dell EMC World 2017 being held in Las Vegas Nevada. Last year’s event in Las Vegas was the end of the EMC World, while this being the first of the combined Dell EMC World events that succeeded its predecessors.

    What this means is an expanded focus because of the new Dell EMC that has added servers among other items to the event focus. Granted, EMC had been doing servers via its VCE and converged divisions, however with the Dell EMC integration completed as of last fall, the Dell Server group is now part of the Dell EMC organization.

    The central theme of this Dell EMC world is REALIZE with a focus on four pillars:

    • Digital Transformation (Pivotal focus) of applications
    • IT Transformation (Dell EMC, Virtustream, VMware) data center modernization
    • Workforce transformation (Dell Client Solutions) devices from mobile to IoT
    • Information Security (RSA and Secureworks)

    software defined data infrastructures SDDI and SDDC

    What Did Dell EMC Announce Today

    Note that while there are focus areas of the different Dell Technologies business units aligned to the pillars, there is also leveraging across those areas and groups. For example, VMware NSX spans into security, and  PowerEdge servers span into other pillars as a core data infrastructure building block.

    What Dell EMC and Dell Technologies announced today.

    • Wave of Innovations to help customers realize digital transformation
    • New 14th generation PowerEdge Servers that are core building blocks for data infrastructures
    • Flexible consumption models (financing and more) from desktop to data center
    • Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Converged (CI) and Cloud like systems
    • New All-Flash (ADA) SSD Storage Systems (VMAX, XtremIO X2, Unity, SC, Isilon)
    • Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) and Cloud Protection solutions
    • Using Gen14 servers several Software Defined Storage (SDS) enhancements
    • Open Networking and software-defined networks (SDN) with 25G
    • Last week Dell EMC announced Microsoft Azure Stack hybrid cloud solutions

    New 14th generation PowerEdge Servers that are core building blocks for data infrastructures

    Dell EMC has announced the 14th generation of Intel-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio systems. These includes servers that get defined with software for software-defined data centers (SDDC), software-defined data infrastructures (SDDI) for the cloud, virtual, the container as well as storage among other applications. Target application workloads and environments range from high-performance compute (HPC), and high-productivity (or profitability) compute (the other HPC), super compute (SC), little data and big data analytics, legacy and emerging business applications as well as cloud and beyond. Enhancements besides new Intel processor technology includes enhanced iDRAC, OpenManage, REST interface, QuickSync, Secure Boot among other management, automation, security, performance, and capacity updates.

    Other Dell EMC enhancements with Gen14 include support for various NVDIMM to enable persistent memory also known as storage class memories such as 3D Xpoint among others. Note at this time, Dell EMC is not saying much about speeds, feeds and other details, stay tuned for more information on these in the weeks and months to come.

    Dell EMC has also been leaders with deploying NVMe from PCIe flash cards to 8639 U.2 devices such as 2.5” drives. Thus it makes sense to see continued adoption and deployment of those devices along with SAS, SATA support. Note that Broadcom (formerly known as Avago) recently announced the release of their PCIe SAS, SATA and NVMe based adapters.

    The reason this is worth mentioning is that in the past Dell has OEM sourced Avago (formerly known as LSI) based adapters. Given Dell EMC use of NVMe drives, it only makes sense to put two and two together.

    Let’s wait a few months to see what the speeds, feeds, and specifications are to put the rest of the puzzle together. Speaking of NVMe, also look for Dell EMC to also supporting PCIe AIC and U.2 (8639) NVMe devices, also leverage M.2 Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF) aka Gum sticks as boot devices.

    While these are all Intel focused, I would expect Dell EMC not to sit back, instead, watch for what they do with other processors and servers including ARMs among others.

    Increased support for more GPUs to support VDI and other graphic intensive workloads such as video rendering, imaging among others. Part of enhanced GPU support is improvements (multi-vector cooling) to power and cooling including sensing the type of PCIe card, and then adjusting cooling fans and subsequent power draw accordingly. The benefit should be more proper cooling to reduce power to support more work and productivity.

    Flexible consumption models (financing and more) from desktop to data center

    Dell Technologies has announced several financing, procurement, and consumption models with cloud-like flexible options for different IT and data center, along with mobile device technologies. These range from licensing to deployment as a service, consumption and other options via Dell Financial Services (DFS).

    Highlights include:

    • DFS Flex on Demand is available now in select countries globally.
    • DFS Cloud Flex for HCI is available now for Dell EMC VxRail and Dell EMC XC Series and has planned availability for Q3 2017 in Dell EMC VxRack Systems.
    • PC as a Service is available now in select countries globally.
    • Dell EMC VDI Complete Solutions are available now in select countries globally.
    • DFS Flex on Demand is available now in select countries globally.
    • DFS Cloud Flex for HCI is available now for Dell EMC VxRail and Dell EMC XC Series and has planned VxRack systems in Q3 2017.
    • PC as a Service solution is available now in select countries globally.
    • Dell EMC VDI Complete Solutions are available now in select countries.
    • Dell Technologies transformation license agreement (TLA) is available now in select countries

    Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Converged (CI) and Cloud like systems

    Enhancements to VxRail system, VxRACK Systems, and XC Series leveraging Del EMC Gen14 PowerEdge servers along with other improvements. Note that this also includes continued support for VMware, Microsoft as well as Nutanix software-defined solutions.

    New All-Flash (ADA) SSD Storage Systems (VMAX, XtremIO X2, Unity, SC, Isilon)

    Storage system enhancements include from high-end (VMAX and XtremIO) to mid-range (Unity and SC) along with scale-out NAS (Isilon)

    Highlights of the announcements include:

    • New VMAX 950F all flash array (AFA)
    • New XtremIO X2 with enhanced software, more powerful hardware
    • New Unity AFA systems
    • New SC5020 midrange hybrid storage
    • New generation of Isilon storage with improved performance, capacity, density

    Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) and Cloud Protection solutions

    Data protection enhancement highlights include:

    • New Turnkey Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) with four models (DP5300, DP5800, DP8300, and DP8800) starting at 34 TB usable scaling up to 1PB usable. Data services including encryption, data footprint reduction such as dedupe, remote monitoring, Maintenance service dispatch, along with application integration. Application integration includes MongoDB, Hadoop, MySQL.

    • Enhanced cloud capabilities powered by Data Domain virtual edition (DD VE 3.1) along with data protection suite enable data to be protected too, and restored from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) as well as Microsoft Azure.

    Open Networking and software-defined networks (SDN) with 25G

    Dell EMC Open Networking highlights include:

    • Dell EMCs first 25GbE open networking top of rack (TOR) switch including S5100-ON series (With OS10 enterprise edition software) complimenting new PowerEdge Gen14 servers with native 25GbE support. Switches support 100GbE uplinks fabric connectivity for east-west (management) network traffic. Also announced is the S4100-ON series and N1100-ON series that are in addition to recently announce N3100-ON and N2100-ON switches.

    • Dell EMCs first optimized Open Networking platform for unified storage network switching including support for 16Gb/32GB Fibre Channel

    • New Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and IoT advisory consulting services

    Note that Dell EMC is announcing the availability of these networking solutions in Dell Technologies 2018 fiscal year which occurs before the traditional calendar year.

    Using Gen14 servers, several Software Defined Storage (SDS) enhancements

    Dell EMC announced enhancements to their Software Defined Storage (SDS) portfolio that leveraging the PowerEdge 14th generation server portfolio. These improvements include ScaleIO, Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), IsilonSD Edge and Preview of Project Nautilus.

    Where to learn more

    What this all means

    This is a summary of what has been announced so far on the first morning of the first day of the first new Dell EMC world. Needless to say, there is more detail to look at for the above announcements from speeds, feeds, functionality and related topics that will get addressed in subsequent posts. Overall this is a good set of announcements expanding capabilities of the combined Dell EMC while enhancing existing systems as well as well as solutions.

    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), 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.

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

    Cloud, Bulk, Scale-Out, Object Storage Fundamentals

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    Updated 1/21/2018

    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 Storage Fundamentals. Other resources pertaining to Software Defined, scale-out, Cloud, Bulk and Object Storage include:

  • www.objectstoragecenter.com
  • Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book (CRC Press)
  • Cloud, Software Defined, Scale-Out, Object Storage News Trends
  • 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.

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      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.

      Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

      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

      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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    • 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

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    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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    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.

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    • 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.

    Data Infrastructure IT Industry Related Resource Links K to O

    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.

    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.

    Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

    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

    • 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.

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

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    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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    Updated 2/20/2018

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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.

    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.