SGI Acquires FileTek for Storage Virtualization
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 2, 2013
SGI announced that it has acquired big data storage virtualization provider FileTek, for an undisclosed amount. SGI Storage filetek'
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Storage Partners Support VMware at VMworld 2013
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 29, 2013
VMware storage partners are out in force at VMworld 2013 this week in San Francisco. EMC, NetApp, Nimble Storage and Kingston Digital made announcements in support of VMware software and solutions. Big Data Enterprise Storage Virtualization VMware EMC kingston netapp nimble storage'
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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Its a common skill for developers, software engineers, full-stack developers, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, mobile app developers, backend developers, and big data engineers. Azure skills are common for cloud engineers, solutions architects, azure administrators, data engineers, full-stack developers, and cybersecurity analysts.
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CIOs Start To Deal With The Problem Of Big Data Backup
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 14, 2013
It’s How The CIO puts the pieces together that makes big data valuable Image Credit. The era of big data has arrived. CIOs everywhere are swimming in a sea of data and only now are they starting to get the tools that will allow them to make sense of what they have. Solutions To Your Big Data Backup Problem.
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Alluxio: A virtual distributed storage system orders of magnitude faster than others
CTOvision
AUGUST 13, 2016
The world's first memory-centric distributed storage system bridges applications and underlying storage systems providing unified data access orders of magnitudes faster than existing solutions. Alluxio is a memory speed virtual distributed storage system. Research Team. Alluxio, Inc.
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Fountainhead: Steve Jobs in 1980. and Cloud + Big Data Today
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and Cloud + Big Data Today. In todays enterprise context, my interpretation of this is "What could be possible if all of that data center technology could be relegated to the background and made invisible?" Big Data. (6).
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Technology News and Hot Topics
CTOvision
OCTOBER 27, 2014
Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). Big Data Product Watch 10/17/14: Big Three Make Big Moves. Big Data Product Watch 10/17/14: Big Three Make Big Moves.
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Thriving in a Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Security World
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics - Analytics will take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data inside and outside the enterprise are analyzed. Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing.
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FinOps breaks out of the cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 12, 2025
And with 70-plus AWS services, 150,000 compute instances, and an exabyte of data, theres a lot to manage. When you process big data, it gets really expensive really fast, so we had to form a team right away. CloudHealth has strong ties to virtualization and IT automation found in VMWare Cloud Foundation.
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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Big data is an evolving term that describes any voluminous amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information. Although big data doesn’t refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data.
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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. What is IOV?
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Ascent Index: Big Data
The Investing Edge
JULY 18, 2012
Big data is a hot topic, especially here in Massachusetts – arguably the Big Data capital of the world with 12,000 people employed in big data jobs in more than 100 companies across the state, an unmatched talent pool from top universities, and home to EMC Corp.
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DATS002: Big Data Meets High Performance Computing
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
This is session DATS002, titled “Big Data Meets High Performance Computing.” Hengeveld starts the session by reminding attendees that Big Data is really about the insights that are gained from the data. Big Data isn’t about the data, it’s about the insight and understanding.
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103 Cloud, Virtual, Server, Storage I/O and other technology tiering
Storage IO Blog
JULY 29, 2013
Tiering technology and the right data center tool for a given task Depending on who or what is your sphere of influence, or your sources of information and insight are, there will be different views of tiering, particular when it comes to tiered storage and storage tiering for cloud, virtual and traditional environments.
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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.
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Nand flash SSD server storage I/O conversations
Storage IO Blog
MARCH 30, 2014
Also keep in mind that a bit of SSD as storage or cache in the right place can go a long way, while a lot of SSD will give you a benefit however also cost a lot of cash. The post Nand flash SSD server storage I/O conversations appeared first on StorageIOblog.
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91 The Data Storage Explosion
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity. The business reason behind this marketplace reality is the proliferation of real-time data from the web, mobile devices, social media, sensors, log files, and transactional applications.
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Fountainhead: The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail. Although Im not a Big Data aficionado, Id recently been struck by a few statistics from the IDC Digital Universe study: It is estimated that in 2011, 1.8 Labels: Big Data.
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VMware Cisco EMC VCE Zen and now server storage I/O convergence
Storage IO Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2014
For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.
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DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget using Lenovo TS140
Storage IO Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.
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Fountainhead: Cloud Attributes Apply Across the Stack
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Here I was, in an organization that’s made billions on storage, and I was about to talk about cloud attributes solely from a compute perspective.Was I missing something? Attributes in a Storage Context. Saturday, February 19, 2011.
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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 16, 2023
Big Data collection at scale is increasing across industries, presenting opportunities for companies to develop AI models and leverage insights from that data. Data Storage: Computer scientists and programmers assert that blockchain offers certain advantages for data storage compared to alternatives.
Enterprise SSHD and Flash SSD Part of an Enterprise Tiered Storage Strategy
Storage IO Blog
APRIL 24, 2014
The post Enterprise SSHD and Flash SSD Part of an Enterprise Tiered Storage Strategy appeared first on StorageIOblog.
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85 Server Storage I/O Cables Connectors Chargers & other Geek Gifts
Storage IO Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2014
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12 data science certifications that will pay off
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 19, 2024
Whether you’re looking to earn a certification from an accredited university, gain experience as a new grad, hone vendor-specific skills, or demonstrate your knowledge of data analytics, the following certifications (presented in alphabetical order) will work for you. Check out our list of top big data and data analytics certifications.)
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313 Fountainhead: It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World
Fountainhead
JANUARY 19, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World. (Or, In the context of data, applications and cloud computing, this question takes on a new perspective - and the role of Mohammed and the Mountain may soon reverse. Now thats big data.
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Security News: @Invincea Raises $16 Million in C-Series Funding Led by Aeris Capital and Dell Ventures
CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2013
By Bob Gourley Announces Acquisition of Sandboxie to Expand Global Reach, Small Business Footprint and Consolidate the Two Leading Brands in Burgeoning Virtualized Containment Solutions Market. Sandboxie is a globally deployed and widely respected competitor in the virtualized containment solutions market. About Invincea, Inc.
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Data Storage Innovation Chat with SNIA Wayne Adams and David
Storage IO Blog
APRIL 24, 2014
Listen in to our podcast conversation here as we cover cloud, convergence, software defined and more pertaining to data storage. The post Data Storage Innovation Chat with SNIA Wayne Adams and David appeared first on StorageIOblog.
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Seagate Kinetic Cloud and Object Storage I/O platform (and Ethernet HDD)
Storage IO Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2013
Seagate Kinetic Cloud and Object Storage I/O platform Seagate announced today their Kinetic platform and drive designed for use by object API accessed storage including for cloud deployments.
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74 Fed Forum 2013 Videos and Briefings Posted
CTOvision
AUGUST 16, 2013
In every other area, from servers to operating systems to applications to storage have changed. He also provided info on how organizations are leveraging the rise in processing power and decrease in memory cost to improve data center performance through virtualized data center resources. Find his presentation here.
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Server Storage I/O Network Benchmark Winter Olympic Games
Storage IO Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
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USENIX FAST (File and Storage Technologies) 2014 Conference Proceedings
Storage IO Blog
MARCH 2, 2014
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Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage by Microsoft/Storsimple Marc Farley
Storage IO Blog
JANUARY 13, 2014
Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley The O’Reilly @oreillymedia media folks (oops, excuse me, Microsoft Press) sent me out (that’s a disclosure btw) an real soft cover print copy of Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley aka @MicroFarley of Microsoft/Storsimple (..)
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Can we get a side of context with them IOPS and other storage metrics?
Storage IO Blog
JULY 16, 2013
Server, storage and IO metrics that matter need context There is an old saying that the best I/O (Input/Output) is the one that you do not have to do. In the meantime, let’s get a side of some context with them IOPS from vendors, marketers and their pundits who are tossing them around for server, [.].
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Is there an information or data recession? Are you using less storage? (With Polls)
Storage IO Blog
MAY 31, 2014
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? Are you using less storage? With Polls) appeared first on StorageIOblog.
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68 DriveScale Says Big Data Needs a New Kind of Data Center Infrastructure
Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 16, 2016
Startup founded by Cisco and Sun veterans has built a rack-scale architecture specifically for scale-out Big Data environments Read More.
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100 VMware VVOLs and storage I/O fundementals (Part 2)
Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 24, 2014
VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points. Likewise VVOL’s are not accessed using any of the various object storage access methods mentioned above (e.g.
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65 Docker for Smarties (e.g. non-dummies) from VMworld 2014
Storage IO Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.
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Fountainhead: It's All Just Data to Me
Fountainhead
MAY 29, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its All Just Data to Me. Now that I’ve been with EMC for a few months, my relationship to storage, computing, and networking has once again shifted. And then, the resulting data generally was transported back to its place of residence.
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Solarflare: Revolutionizing the way enterprises scale, manage and secure data centers
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
With over 1,400 global customers, the company's products are widely used in scale-out server environments such as electronic trading, high performance computing, cloud, virtualization and big data.
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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?
Fountainhead
MARCH 25, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Big Data. (6).
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214 Application-Defined Networking Basics: Definitions and reasons to think ADN vs. alternatives
CTOvision
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Virtualization first hit compute in a big way in the late 1990s, fueling VMware’s growth. In a somewhat overlapping timeline, virtualized storage gave administrators the ability to chunk up disks in a similar way. But networking hung in there.
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152 Fountainhead: Enablers for Transformed IT - Placing My Bets
Fountainhead
AUGUST 1, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In other words, I dont just mean a product that offers an automated virtualization (server, storage, networking) layer. Too Sexy: Big Data Business Models. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).
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