Microsoft Azure Storage through the lens of Microsoft's own hardware Microsoft Azure provides very compelling cloud storage services, Azure Storage offers a massively scalable object store for data objects (Blob), a file system service for the cloud (Files), a messaging store for reliable messaging (Queues), and a NoSQL store (Tables).
Containers Containers and persistent storage As containers continue to rise in popularity beyond the developer populous the way these constructs are being used becomes increasingly varied, especially (but not exclusively) in light of enterprise applications the questions of persistent storage comes up more and more.
Storage Erasure Coding – a primer Data also keeps growing, a corollary to Parkinson’s law is that data expands to fill the space available for storage, just like clutter around your house.
Intel Intel and Micron 3D XPoint 3D Xpoint, as the name implies, is a crosspoint structure, meaning 2 wires crossing each other, with “some material*” in between, it does not use transistors (like DRAM does) which makes it easier to stack (hence the 3D)
VMware VMware Horizon View – High Level Storage Caching Options Note that the feasibility of any of these techniques depends on the type of VDI environment you are architecting, and these are some examples of what is possible, the list is no way exhaustive.
VMware VMware’s Storage Portfolio I recently joined VMware as an SE, one of the reasons that motivated and influenced my decision to join is a thirst for technology, at VMware you get to work on such a broad and interesting technology stack that anyone is bound to find one or more things that are deeply interesting.
Riverbed Whitewater 3 – waves of innovation washing onto the shore Riverbed recently released the latest edition of it’s cloud storage gateway, both upgrading the software and providing new hardware options.
AWS Amazon Glacier and Backup economics In the summer of last year Amazon announced Amazon Glacier, an extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup.
Riverbed Boot from SAN? How about boot from WAN! With Granite we can use your consolidated infrastructure in the datacenter to power your branch remotely while still delivering on centralized management and provisioning.
Riverbed Riverbed Whitewater and Caringo CAStor One of the coolest, in my humble opinion of course, solutions I was able to work with when I was at Dell, was the CAStor Object Storage system from Caringo, OEM’ed as the Dell DX6000.
Storage File- and Block Storage over a WAN In this post I wanted to explore how you can accelerate file storage (using CIFS as an example) over a wide area network and why it traditionally does not work for block storage (using iSCSI as an example).
