VMworld2013 is going on in San Francisco this week. The big news is the roll out of network virtualization in NSX and vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) but there were a few tidbits in the storage arena worth discussing. Virtual SAN … Continue reading →
, , StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select VMworld 2013 Vmware , server , storage I O and networking update Day 1 August 27, 2013 1:06 am Print PDF Congratulations to VMware on 10 years of VMworld With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance , there were also many announcements today e.g . Monday and many more slated for out the week . Here are a synopsis of some of those . announcements Software Defined Data Center SDDC and Software Defined Networks SDN VMware made a series of announcements today that set the stage for many others . Not surprisingly , these involved SDDC , SDN , SDS vSphere 5.5 and other management tool enhancements , or the other SDM Software Defined Management Here is a synopsis of what was
If thumb drives were made 100 years ago it would look something like this steam punk version over at Jeff Avery’s Blog. Jeff built this with his son who wanted a cool and unique thumb drive. Nice thing about this one is you will never be stuck in the situation where someone else thinks [...]
Attended HP Tech Field Day late last month in Disneyland. Must say the venue was the best ever for HP, and getting in on Nth Generation Conference was a plus. Sorry it has taken so long for me to get … Continue reading →
“The future is already here – just not evenly distributed”, W. Gibson It starts as it always does outside the enterprise data center. In the line of businesses, in the development teams, in the small business organizations that don’t know … Continue reading →
: StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Viking SATADIMM : Nand flash SATA SSD in DDR3 DIMM slot August 12, 2013 7:46 pm Print PDF Today computer and data storage memory vendor Viking announced that SSD vendor Solidfire has deployed their SATADIMM modules in DDR3 DIMM e.g . Random Access Memory RAM main memory slots of their SF SSD based storage . solution Solidfire SD solution with SATADIMM via Viking Nand flash SATA SSD in a DDR3 DIMM slot Per Viking , Solidfire uses the SATADIMM as boot devices and cache to complement the normal SSD drives used in their SF SSD storage grid or cluster . For those not familiar , Solidfire SF storage systems or appliances are based on industry standard servers that are populated with SSD devices which
: StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Server and Storage IO Memory : DRAM and nand flash August 12, 2013 7:46 pm Print PDF DRAM , DIMM , DDR3, nand flash memory , SSD , stating what’s often assumed Often what’s assumed is not always the case . For example in along with around server , storage and IO networking circles including virtual as well as cloud environments terms such as nand Negated AND or NOT And flash memory aka Solid State Device or SSD DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory DDR3 Double Data Rate 3 not to mention DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module get tossed around with the assumption everybody must know what they . mean On the other hand , I find plenty of people who are not sure what those among other terms or things are ,