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Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober

server storage I/O data infrastructure trends recommended reading list

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:

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

In addition to my own books including Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press 2017), the following are Server StorageIO recommended reading list items . The recommended reading list includes various IT, Data Infrastructure and related topics.

Intel Recommended Reading List (IRRL) for developers is a good resource to check out.

Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB), Frank Denneman (@FrankDenneman) and Neils Hagoort (@NHagoort) have released their VMware vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive book available at venues including Amazon.com. This is the latest in a series of Cluster and deep dive books from Frank and Duncan which if you are involved with VMware, SDDC and related software defined data infrastructures these should be on your bookshelf.

Check out the Blogtober list of check out some of the blogs and posts occurring during October 2017 here.

Preston De Guise aka @backupbear is Author of several books has an interesting new site Foolsrushin.info that looks at topics including Ethics in IT among others. Check out his new book Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability (CRC Press 2017) and available via Amazon.com here.

Brendan Gregg has a great site for Linux performance related topics here.

Greg Knieriemen has a must read weekly blog, post, column collection of whats going on in and around the IT and data infrastructure related industries, Check it out here.

Interested in file systems, CIFS, SMB, SAMBA and related topics then check out Chris Hertels book on implementing CIFS here at Amazon.com

For those involved with VMware, check out Frank Denneman VMware vSphere 6.5 host resource guide-book here at Amazon.com.

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production by Karl Matthias & Sean P. Kane via Amazon.com here.

Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN): Administrator’s Guide to VMware Virtual SAN,2nd ed. by Cormac Hogan & Duncan Epping via Amazon.com here.

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide: Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale by Tom White via Amazon.com here.

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud by Brendan Gregg Via Amazon.com here.

Implementing Cloud Storage with OpenStack Swift by Amar Kapadia, Sreedhar Varma, & Kris Rajana Via Amazon.com here.

The Human Face of Big Data by Rick Smolan & Jennifer Erwitt Via Amazon.com here.

VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive (Vol. 1) by Duncan Epping & Frank Denneman Via Amazon.com here. Note: This is an older title, but there are still good fundamentals in it.

Linux Administration: A Beginners Guide by Wale Soyinka Via Amazon.com here.

TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt Via Amazon.com here.

Cisco IOS Cookbook: Field tested solutions to Cisco Router Problems by Kevin Dooley and Ian Brown Via Amazon.com here.

I often mention in presentations a must have for anybody involved with software defined anything, or programming for that matter which is the Niklaus Wirth classic Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs that you can get on Amazon.com here.

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks including NoSQL

Another great book to have is Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (here is a book review) which not only provides an overview of popular NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Mongo, HBASE among others, lots of good examples and hands on guides. Get your copy here at Amazon.com.

Additional Data Infrastructure and related topic sites

In addition to those mentioned above, other sites, venues and data infrastructure related resources include:

aiim.com – Archiving and records management trade group

apache.org – Various open-source software

blog.scottlowe.org – Scott Lowe VMware Networking and topics

blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/virtual_pc_guy – Ben Armstrong Hyper-V blog

brendangregg.com – Linux performance-related topics

cablemap.info – Global network maps

CMG.org – Computer Measurement Group (CMG)

communities.vmware.com – VMware technical community and resources

comptia.org – Various IT, cloud, and data infrastructure certifications

cormachogan.com – Cormac Hogan VMware and vSAN related topics

csrc.nist.gov – U.S. government cloud specifications

dmtf.org – Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)

ethernetalliance.org – Ethernet industry trade group

fibrechannel.org – Fibre Channel trade group

github.com – Various open-source solutions and projects

Intel Reading List – recommended reading list for developers

ieee.org – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ietf.org – Internet Engineering Task Force

iso.org – International Standards Organizations

it.toolbox.com – Various IT and data infrastructure topics forums

labs.vmware.com/flings – VMware Fling additional tools and software

nist.gov – National Institute of Standards and Technology

nvmexpress.org – NVM Express (NVMe) industry trade group

objectstoragecenter.com – Various object and cloud storage items

opencompute.org – Open Compute Project (OCP) servers and related topics

opendatacenteralliance.org – Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA)

openfabrics.org – Open-fabric software industry group

opennetworking.org – Open Networking Foundation (ONF)

openstack.org – OpenStack resources

pcisig.com – Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) trade group

reddit.com – Various IT, cloud, and data infrastructure topics

scsita.org – SCSI trade association (SAS and others)

SNIA.org – Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA)

Speakingintech.com – Popular industry and data infrastructure podcast

Storage Bibliography – Collection of Dr. J. Metz storage related content

technet.microsoft.com – Microsoft TechNet data infrastructure–related topics

thenvmeplace.com – various NVMe and related tools, topics and links

thevpad.com – Collection of various virtualization and related sites

thessdplace.com – various NVM, SSD, flash, 3D XPoint related topics, tools, links

tpc.org – Transaction Performance Council benchmark site

vmug.org – VMware User Groups (VMUG)

wahlnetwork.com – Chris Whal Networking and related topics

yellow-bricks.com – Duncan Epping VMware and related topics

Additional Data Infrastructure Venues

Additional useful data infrastructure related information can be found at BizTechMagazine, BrightTalk, ChannelProNetwork, ChannelproSMB, ComputerWeekly, Computerworld, CRN, CruxialCIO, Data Center Journal (DCJ), Datacenterknowledge, and DZone. Other good sourses include Edtechmagazine, Enterprise Storage Forum, EnterpriseTech, Eweek.com, FedTech, Google+, HPCwire, InfoStor, ITKE, LinkedIn, NAB, Network Computing, Networkworld, and nextplatform. Also check out Reddit, Redmond Magazine and Webinars, Spiceworks Forums, StateTech, techcrunch.com, TechPageOne, TechTarget Venues (various Search sites, e.g., SearchStorage, SearchSSD, SearchAWS, and others), theregister.co.uk, TheVarGuy, Tom’s Hardware, and zdnet.com, among many others.

Where To Learn More

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

What This All Means

The above is an evolving collection of recommended reading including what I have on my physical and virtual bookshelves, as well as list of web sites, blogs and podcasts worth listening, reading or watching. Watch for more items to be added to the book shelf soon, and if you have a suggested recommendation, add it to the comments below.

By the way, if you have not heard, its #Blogtober, check out some of the other blogs and posts occurring during October here as part of your recommended reading list.

Ok, nuff said, for now.

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.

June 30, 2014November 26, 2023

June 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter

Server and StorageIO Update newsletter – June 2014

Welcome to the June 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. June has been busy on many fronts with lots of activities, not to mention spring and summer are finally here in the Stillwater MN area.

Speaking of busy, the spring rains came a month or two late, or the summer storms early as we will end up with one of the, if not rainiest Junes in history here in Stillwater MN area.

Greg Schulz @StorageIO

Industry and Technology Updates

There has also been plenty of activity in the Information Technology (IT) and in particular the data infrastructure sector (databases, file systems, operating systems, servers, storage, I/O networking, cloud, virtualization, SSD, data protection and DCIM among others). SANdisk announced their intention to buy SSD vendor Fusion IO for a $1.1 Billion dollars as part of a continued flash consolidation trend For example Cisco buys Whiptail, WD buys Virident, Seagate buys Avago/LSI Flash division among others (read more about flash SSD here). Even with flash SSD vendor and technology consolidation, this is in no way an indication of the health of the market. Quite the opposite in that flash SSD has a very bright future and we are still in the relative early phase or waves and flash will be in your future. The question remains how much, when, where, with what and from whom. Needless to say there is plenty of SSD related hardware and software activity occurring in the StorageIO labs as well as StorageIO.com/SSD;).

StorageIO Industry Trends and Perspectives

NetApp Updates

In early June I was invited by NetApp to attend their annual analyst summit along with many others from around the world for a series of briefings, NDA updates and other meetings. Disclosure NetApp has been a client in the past and covered travel and lodging expenses to attend their event.

While the material under NDA naturally can not be discussed, there was discussion around NetApp previously announced earnings, their continued relationship with IBM (for the E Series) along with the June product updates. Shortly after the NetApp event they announced enhancements to there ONTAP FAS based systems that followup to those released earlier this year. These recent enhancements NetApp claims as being their fastest FAS based systems ever.

Given the success NetApp has had with their ONTAP FAS based systems including with FlexPod, it should not be a surprise that they continue to focus on those as their flagship offerings. What was clear from listening to CEO Tom Georgens is that NetApp as a company needs to offer, promote and sell the entire portfolio including E Series (disk, hybrid and all flash EF), StorageGrid (bycast), FlexPod and FAS among other tools (software defined storage management) and services (for legacy, virtual and cloud). Watch for some interesting updates and enhancements for the above and other things from NetApp in the future.

Staying busy is a good thing

What have I been doing during June 2014 to stay busy besides getting ready for summer fun (as well as preparing for fall industry events) including in and around the water?

Presented several BrightTalk Webinars (see events below) with more coming up
Release of new ITP white paper and StorageIO lab proof points with more in the works
More videos and pod casts, technology reviews including servers among other things
Moderated a software defined panel discussion at MSP area VMUG
Providing industry commentary in different venues (see below)
Not to mention various client consulting projects

What’s in the works?

Several projects and things are in the works that will show themselves in the coming weeks or months if not sooner. Some of which are more proof points coming out of the StorageIO labs involving software defined, converged, cloud, virtual, SSD, data protection and more.

Speaking of Software Defined, join me for a free Spiceworks Webinar on July 2, Do More with Less Hardware Using Software Defined Storage Management (sponsored by Starwind Software). The webinar looks at the many faces and facets of virtualization and software defined storage and software defined storage management for Hyper-V environments. Learn more about the Hyper-V event here or here.

In addition to the upcoming July 2 Hyper-V software defined storage webinar ( a recording for replay will be posted to the StorageIO.com/events page after the event), I also did a webinar on BrightTalk a few weeks covering software defined storage management. View the BrightTalk webinar replays by clicking the following links The Changing Face and Landscape of Enterprise Storage (June 11), The Many Facets of Virtual Storage and Software Defined Storage Virtualization (June 12), Evolving from Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (BC) to Business Resiliency (BR) recorded Jun 19.

Watch for more StorageIO posts, commentary, perspectives, presentations, webinars, tips and events on information and data infrastructure topics, themes and trends. Data Infrastructure topics include among others cloud, virtual, legacy server, storage I/O networking, data protection, hardware and software.

Enjoy this edition of the StorageIO Update newsletter and look forward to catching up with you live or online while out and about this spring.

Ok, nuff said (for now)

Cheers gs

June 2014 Industry trend and perspectives

Tips, commentary, articles and blog posts

StorageIO Industry Trends and Perspectives

The following is a synopsis of some StorageIOblog posts, articles and comments in different venues on various industry trends, perspectives and related themes about clouds, virtualization, data and storage infrastructure topics among related themes.

StorageIO comments and perspectives in the news

StorageIO in the news

Toms Hardware: Comments on Selecting the Right Type, Amount and Location of Flash SSD to use
TechPageOne: Comments on best practices for virtual data protection
SearchAWS: Comments on Google vs. AWS SSD which is better
InfoStor: Comments on Cloud Appliance Buying Guide

StorageIO video and audio pod casts

StorageIOblog post
StorageIO audio podcasts are also available via
and at StorageIO.tv

StorageIOblog posts and perspectives

StorageIOblog post

Is there an information or data recession, are you using less storage (with polls)

April and May 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter

StorageIO White Papers, Solution Briefs and StorageIO Lab reports

New White Paper: StarWind Virtual SAN:
Hardware Agnostic Hyper-Convergence for Microsoft Hyper-V
Using less hardware with software defined storage management There is no such thing as an information recession with more data being generated, processed, moved, stored and retained longer. In addition, people and data are living longer as well as getting larger.

Key to support various types of business environments and their information technology (IT) / ITC applications are cost effective, flexible and resilient data infrastructures that support virtual machine (VM) centric solutions. This StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective thought leadership white paper looks at addressing the needs of Microsoft Hyper-V environments to address economic, service, growth, flexibility and technology challenges.

The focus is on how software defined storage management solutions unlock the full value of server-based storage for Hyper-V environments. Benefits include removing complexity to cut cost while enhancing flexibility, service and business systems resiliency along with disaster recovery without compromise. Primary audiences include Small Medium Business (SMB), Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) of larger organizations along with managed service providers (Cloud, Internet and Web) that are using Hyper-V as part of their solutions. Read more in this StorageIO Industry Trends and Perspective (ITP) white paper compliments of StarWind Software Virtual SAN (VSAN) for Microsoft Hyper-V.

Remember to check out our objectstoragecenter.com page where you will find a growing collection of information and links on cloud and object storage themes, technologies and trends from various sources.

If you are interested in data protection including Backup/Restore, BC, DR, BR and Archiving along with associated technologies, tools, techniques and trends visit our storageioblog.com/data-protection-diaries-main/ page.

StorageIO events and activities

Server and StorageIO seminars, conferences, web cats, events, activities

The StorageIO calendar continues to evolve, here are some recent and upcoming activities including live in-person seminars, conferences, keynote and speaking activities as well as on-line webinars, twitter chats, Google+ hangouts among others.

October 10, 2014		Seminar: Server, Storage and IO Data Center Virtualization Jumpstart	Nijkerk Holland Netherlands
October 9, 2014		Seminar: Data Infrastructure Industry Trends and Perspectives – Whats The Buzz	Nijkerk Holland Netherlands
October 8, 2014		Private Seminar – Contact Brouwer Storage Consultancy	Nijkerk Holland Netherlands
October 7, 2014		Seminar: Data Movement and Migration	Nijkerk Holland Netherlands
October 6, 2014		Seminar: From Backup and Disaster Recovery to Business Resiliency and Continuance	Nijkerk Holland Netherlands
August 25-28, 2014	VMworld	TBA	San Francisco
August 7, 2014	TBA	TBA	TBA
July 2, 2014	Starwind Software	Live webinar: Live Webinar: Do More with Less Hardware Using Software Defined Storage Management	Webinar 1PM CT
June 26, 2014	MSP VMUG	Moderate Live Panel Software Defined Discussion	Panel 12:45PM CT
June 17, 2014	Dell BackupU	Exploring the Data Protection Toolbox – Data Footprint Reduction	Dell BackupU Online Webinar
May 14, 2014		Seminar: Vendor Neutral Archiving for Healthcare	Nijkerk Holland Netherlands
May 5-7, 2014		EMC World	Las Vegas
April 23, 2014	SNIA DSI Event	Keynote: Enabling Data Infrastructure Return On Innovation – The Other ROI	backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving
April 22, 2014	SNIA DSI Event	The Cloud Hybrid “Homerun” – Life Beyond The Hype	backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving
April 16, 2014		Open Source and Cloud Storage – Enabling business, or a technology enabler?	Webinar 9AM PT
April 9, 2014		Storage Decision Making for Fast, Big and Very Big Data Environments	Webinar 9AM PT

Click here to view other upcoming along with earlier event activities. Watch for more 2014 events to be added soon to the StorageIO events calendar page. Topics include data protection modernization (backup/restore, HA, BC, DR, archive), data footprint reduction (archive, compression, dedupe), storage optimization, SSD, object storage, server and storage virtualization, big data, little data, cloud and object storage, performance and management trends among others.

Vendors, VAR’s and event organizers, give us a call or send an email to discuss having us involved in your upcoming pod cast, web cast, virtual seminar, conference or other events.

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Ok, nuff said (for now)

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)

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March 28, 2012March 7, 2022

Going dutch and other Spring 2012 StorageIO activities

Spring 2012 StorageIO traveling out and about events are underway with activities already having occurred in New York City along with several online live and recorded web casts that you can find here and backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving. Other upcoming events and traveling to various venues include Dallas (SNW), San Francisco, Washington DC, Nijkerk Netherlands and Las Vegas among others you can see here. Themes and topics of these and other events include data center convergence, infrastructure optimization, data protection modernization, data protection for virtual and cloud environments, performance and capacity planning, metrics that matter and strategy among others.

Greg in action Nijkerk Storage Seminar

For those of you in the Netherlands, or elsewhere in Europe, I’m going to be doing a two-day seminar for storage professionals along with for those involved in strategy, architecture and related data infrastructure topics on May 7 and 8. On May 9, I will be doing a deep dive companion seminar. You can learn more about these seminars being organized by Brouwer Consultancy in Nijkerk Netherlands by visiting their site here which includes agenda and related information.

Watch for more events, seminars, webinars and virtual trade shows by visiting the StorageIO events page.

Drop me a note if you would like to schedule or arrange for a seminar or event near you.

Ok, nuff said for now, see you out and about

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)

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Additional Data Infrastructure and related topic sites

Additional Data Infrastructure Venues

Where To Learn More

What This All Means

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Industry and Technology Updates

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Staying busy is a good thing

What’s in the works?

June 2014 Industry trend and perspectives

Tips, commentary, articles and blog posts

StorageIO comments and perspectives in the news

StorageIO video and audio pod casts

StorageIOblog posts and perspectives

StorageIO White Papers, Solution Briefs and StorageIO Lab reports

StorageIO events and activities

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