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Azure Storage through the lens of Microsoft's own hardware

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 and persistent storage

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.

Erasure Coding – a primer

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 and Micron 3D XPoint

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 Horizon View – High Level Storage Caching Options

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’s Storage Portfolio

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.

Whitewater 3 – waves of innovation washing onto the shore

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.

Amazon Glacier and Backup economics

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.

Boot from SAN? How about boot from WAN!

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 Whitewater and Caringo CAStor

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.

File- and Block Storage over a WAN

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).