Monday, October 30th, 2017
Updated 7/30/2018
The following is an evolving recommended reading list of data infrastructure topics including, server, storage I/O, networking, cloud, virtual, container, data protection and related topics that includes books, blogs, podcast's, events and industry links among other resources.
Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related links:
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2017 Who Will Be At Top Of Storage World Next Decade?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.
Fundamental ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 Software defined data infrastructure management insight toolsUpdated 1/17/2018
Managing data infrastructures involves using software defined management dashboards tools. Recently I found in my inbox a link to a piece 6 Dashboards for Managing Every Modern Data Center that caught my attention. I was hoping to see who the six ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2016 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Webinars and Fall 2016 eventsHere is the updated Server StorageIO fall 2016 webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, data infrastructure, virtual, cloud, containers, converged, hyper-converged server, storage, I/O network, performance and data protection among other topics.
December 7, 2016 - Webinar 11AM PT - ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 EMC is now Dell EMC and other server storage UpdatesIn case you missed it or did not hear, EMC is now Dell EMC and is future ready (one of their new tag lines).
What this means is that EMC is no longer a publicly traded company instead now being privately ...
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Sunday, September 11th, 2016 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Webinars and Fall 2016 eventsIts September and that means back to school time, and not just for the kids. Here is the preliminary Server StorageIO fall 2016 back to school, webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, data infrastructure, virtual, cloud, containers, converged, hyper-converged ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 NetApp Announces ONTAP 9 software defined storage managementNetApp has announced ONTAP 9 the latest version or generation of their storage software that defines and powers ONTAP storage systems and appliances (e.g. those known by some as FAS among others).
The major theme of ONTAP 9 is simple anywhere eluding ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2016 vSphere Beta, Something free from VMware (other than your time)Something free from VMware (other than time)
VMware is looking for candidate beta test sites and environments for an upcoming vSphere release. Target audience or environments are those who have deployed vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 in your environment and looking to test ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2016 Posted in backup, BC and DR, big data, Cloud, Comment, converged, convergence, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, database, Education, I/O Networking, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, Lab report, little data, metrics, object storage, Performance and Capacity, perspective, post, Power and Cooling, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | No Comments »
Sunday, September 20th, 2015 PACE your Server Storage I/O decision making, its about application requirementsUpdated 10/9/18PACE your Server Storage I/O decision-making, it's about application requirements. Regardless of if you are looking for physical, software-defined virtual, cloud or container storage, block, file or object, primary, secondary or protection copies, standalone, converged, hyper-converged, cluster in a ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015 Server Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd (Part I)This is part-one of a two-part post pertaining Microsoft Diskspd.that is also part of a broader series focused on server storage I/O benchmarking, performance, capacity planning, tools and related technologies. You can view part-two of this post here, along with ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015 Microsoft Diskspd (Part II): Server Storage I/O Benchmark ToolsThis is part-two of a two-part post pertaining Microsoft Diskspd.that is also part of a broader series focused on server storage I/O benchmarking, performance, capacity planning, tools and related technologies. You can view part-one of this post here, along with ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015 How well do you know good bad ugly I/O iops?Updated 2/10/2018There are many different types of server storage I/O iops associated with various environments, applications and workloads. Some I/Os activity are iops, others are transactions per second (TPS), files or messages per time (hour, minute, second), gets, puts or other ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2014 Is there an information or data recession? Are you using less storage? (With Polls)Is there an information recession where you are creating, processing, moving or saving less data?
Are you using less data storage than in the past either locally online, offline or remote including via clouds?
IMHO there is no such ...
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