Storage Networking

Storage Networking focuses upon virtualizing the storage and the SAN while collapsing and simplifying the management and performance of storage.

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    VMTurbo Breaks New Ground for Free vSphere Monitoring Tools

    May 5, 2011
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    VMTurbo has delivered a new free vSphere performance and capacity management solution that is neither time nor size of environment limited, and that breaks new ground in terms of capacity management functionality delivered in a free solution. The automatically generated VM Rightsizing Recommendations should prove to be of particular value to vSphere administrators.

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    Reinventing the Infrastructure for Virtualization and the Cloud

    April 27, 2011
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    Running VMware on legacy infrastructure is like driving a Ferrari on a gravel road. If you look at what is run in most production VMware environments today, the only really new things in the environment is VMware vSphere, and possibly some new monitoring, security and backup tools. We have barely started to reinvent everything that…

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    Cloud Outages or What I learned at Disney/InfoSec World

    April 26, 2011
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    At the InfoSec World 2011 conference, in the sessions I attended, there was quite a bit of discussion about moving to the cloud as well as cloud outages.

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    A Perfect Storm in Availability and Performance Monitoring

    February 25, 2011
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    The right approach to monitoring a virtual or cloud based environment is to start with a clean sheet of paper, determine your requirements, and assemble a horizontally layered solution out of best of class vendor solutions that address each layer. Vendors should be evaluated on their mastery of one or more layers, their ability to…

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    Getting SASy, the other shared storage option

    February 24, 2011
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    Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is better known as an interface for connecting hard disk drives (HDD) to servers and storage systems; however it is also widely used for attaching storage systems to physical as well as virtual servers. An important storage requirement for virtual machine (VM) environments with more than one physical machine (PM) server…

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    The Beginning of the the End of the Era of Windows?

    February 16, 2011
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    While we may well be on the road towards VMware becoming the layer of software that talks to the hardware in the data center - removing Microsoft from that role, this is not the end of Windows. If Windows were just an OS, it would be severely threatened VMware insertion into the data center stack.…

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    Self Encrypting Disks (SEDs)

    February 14, 2011
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    The next true IT industry revolutionary product will be software, virtualization and cloud technology that does not require underlying physical hardware resources (servers, network and disk storage). While we wait for that revolutionary technology to appear outside of marketing or computer generated animations, there remains the need to protect cloud and virtual environments and their…

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    VMware Executive Management Team Changes – The Implications

    February 7, 2011
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    Todd Nielsen has already succeeded twice at what he is now being asked to do at VMware - once at Microsoft and once at BEA. This time what hangs in the wind is VMware's ultimate destiny. Will VMware be the device driver to the dynamic data center (vSphere), or will VMware be that and the…

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    EMC VNXe Spurs Thinking Outside the Box

    January 21, 2011
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    Chad Sakac mentions on his blog that VNXe "uses a completely homegrown EMC innovation (C4LX and CSX) to virtualize, encapsulate whole kernels and other multiple high performance storage services into a tight, integrated package." Well this has gotten me to thinking about other uses of VNXe. If EMC could manage to "refactor" or encapsulate a…

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