Storage & Virtual Containers: Where Does The Data Go?
The IT industry is renowned for chasing the tail of the “next big thing” when it comes to technology. The current favorite du jour is containerization, with Docker leading the charge with its...
View ArticleWhat Software-Defined Storage Really Is
Buzzwords come and go in this industry and one particular bête noire of mine has been term “software-defined storage” or SDS. It’s not that I’m particularly against the idea of storage delivered from...
View ArticleStorage Evolution Produces Countless Options
There was a time when buying a storage array meant comparing products from one of the big four or five vendors and having to decide whether to go “enterprise” with something like Symmetrix or...
View Article3D NAND: The Hard Disk Drive Killer
For as long as most people can remember, the go-to media for storing data persistently has been the humble hard drive. Originally invented by IBM and released in 1956, the hard disk drive is about to...
View ArticleOvercoming Cloud Storage Challenges
As a use case, backup is probably the most obvious way to consume cloud storage. The nature of backup -- sequential access, less of a focus on performance, infrequent read access, not latency sensitive...
View ArticleObject Storage Comes Of Age
As a concept, object-based storage systems appear to be the closest to a pure data storage device as you could imagine. Instead of being constrained by artificial constructs like LUNs and file systems,...
View ArticleScaling Data Backup Beyond Data Protection
Probably the most unloved yet arguably most important part of infrastructure management is backup, or to be more precise, data protection. Look back at the mainframe days of the 80s and 90s and you’ll...
View ArticleDocker Containers And Persistent Storage: 4 Options
Part of the benefit of containers is their temporary or transient nature. A container can be spun up in seconds, used just as long as necessary and then terminated with the minimum overhead on system...
View ArticleDocker Containers: What Makes Them So Portable?
One of the main benefits in using Docker and container technology is the portability of applications. It’s possible to spin up an application on-site or in a public cloud environment in a matter of...
View ArticleUsing Containers For Persistent Storage
In my previous blog, I discussed how persistent storage is needed to ensure that data continues to exist after a container terminates. This persistent storage is expected to sit on a traditional...
View ArticleDocker Data Security Complications
More on Infrastructure Live at Interop ITX Docker containers provide a real sea change in the way applications are written, distributed and deployed. The aim of containers is to be flexible and allow...
View ArticleHow Spectre and Meltdown Impact Data Center Storage
IT news over the last few weeks has been dominated by stories of vulnerabilities found in Intel x86 chips and almost all modern processors. The two exposures, Spectre and Meltdown, are a result of the...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Object Storage
It’s a truism that the amount of data created every year continues to grow at exponential rates. Almost every business now dependends on technology and the information those businesses generate has...
View ArticleThe NVMe Transition
The buzzword of the moment in the storage industry is NVMe, otherwise known as Non-Volatile Memory Express. NVMe is a new storage protocol that vastly improves the performance of NAND flash and storage...
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