Container technologies like Docker are capturing a lot of headlines in IT circles right now. They provide a greater level of granularity than a virtual machine, creating a more portable and flexible environment. The problem is that most of the…
Blog Archives
Docker and Storage – Understanding Docker I/O
Designing a Docker Storage Infrastructure A recent Storage Switzerland report covered the basics of Docker and Storage; what Docker is and how it impacts storage. Container technology and Docker specifically places unique demands on the storage infrastructure that most legacy…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
SlideShare: Three Reasons SDS needs to go Back to School
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has fundamentally changed the way storage hardware is purchased by abstracting storage services from the physical hardware. But to reach its full potential SDS needs to go back to school. Watch this on demand webinar with…
Tagged with: Efficiency, ioFABRIC, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization Aware
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
Addressing the Docker to Production Storage Challenge
Briefing Note: Hedvig Storage Driver for Flocker Delivers Persistent Storage for Docker Containers Docker is a container technology that virtualizes at a finer level of granularity than a virtual machine (VM). This finer granularity is more lightweight than a VM,…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Integration, Shared Storage, Software Defined, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Storage Infrastructure for a Data Center in Transition
Cisco July 2015 Briefing Note The enterprise data center is in transition, moving from a variety of scale-up applications and architectures to one where they scale-out. Scale-up designs are typically fibre channel based, where scale-out designs are usually IP based.…
Is Software-Defined Storage Enough?
Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Fragmentation, Hyper-converged, NAS, Primary Data, SDS, SLO, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Virtualization
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
The Hard Disk Autopsy
The Violin Memory Systems “Disk is Dead” campaign says what needed to be said; disk, at least for the production use case, is dead or it least it should be. An autopsy done on the technology will find that it…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud
Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply…
Can HPC Storage Solve Enterprise Data Management Issues?
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure…
Tagged with: Backup, Clone, DataDirect Networks, DDN, HPC, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot, Virtualization
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 