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Volume 15, Issue V & VI

Hello and welcome to this joint May and June 2015Server StorageIO update newsletter. Here in thenorthern hemisphere its summer which means holidayvacations among other things.

There has been a lot going on this spring and so farthis summer with more in the wings. Summer can alsobe a time to get caught up on some things, preparingfor others while hopefully being able to enjoy sometime off as well.

In terms of what have I been working on (or with)?Clouds (OpenStack, vCloud Air, AWS, Azure, GCSamong others), virtual and containers, flash SSDdevices (drives, cards), software defining, contentservers, NVMe, databases, data protection items,servers, cache and microtiering among other things.

Speaking of getting caught up, back in early Mayamong many other conferences (Cisco, Docker, HP,IBM, OpenStack, Red Hat and many other events)was EMCworld. EMC covered my hotel andregistration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas(thanks EMC, that's a disclosure btw ;). View asummary StorageIOblog post covering EMCworld2015 here along with recent EMC announcementsincluding Acquisition of cloud services vendorVirtustream for $1.2B, and ECS 2.0.

Server and Storage I/O Wrappings

This months newsletter has a focus on software and

In This Issue

Industry Trends Perspectives NewsCommentary in the newsTips and ArticlesStorageIOblog postsEvents and WebinarsRecommended Reading ListStorageIOblog postsServer StorageIO Lab reportsResources and Links

Industry News and Activity

Recent Industry news and activity

AWS adds new M4 virtual machine instancesCisco provides FCoE proof of lifeGoogle new cloud storage pricingHP announces new data center servicesHDS announces new products & servicesIBM enhances storage portfolioIBTA announces RoCE initiativeInfiniteIO announces network/cloud cacheIntel buying FPGA specialist AlteraNetApp Changes CEO

View other recent and upcoming events here

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storage wrappings, that is, how your storage orsoftware is packaged, delivered or deployed. Forexample traditional physical storage systems,software defined storage as shrinkwrap or download,tinwrapped software as an appliance, virtual wrappedsuch as a virtual storage appliance or cloud wrappedamong others.

OpenStack software defined cloud

OpenStack (both the organization, community, eventand software) continue to gain momentum. The latestrelease known as Kilo (more Kilo info here) wasreleased in early April followed by the OpenStacksummit in May.

Some of you might be more involved with OpenStackvs. others, perhaps having already deployed into yourproduction environment. Perhaps you, like myselfhave OpenStack running in a lab for proof of concept,research, development or learning among otherthings.

You might even be using the services of a public cloudor managed service provider that is powered byOpenStack. On the other hand, you might be familiarwith OpenStack from reading up on it, watchingvideos, listening to podcast's or attending events tofigure out what it is, where it fits, as well as what canyour organization use it for.

Drew Robb (@Robbdrew) has a good overview pieceabout OpenStack and storage over at EnterpriseStorage Forum (here). OpenStack is a collection of

StorageIO Commentary in the news

Recent Server StorageIO commentary andindustry trends perspectives about news,activities and announcements.

BizTechMagazine: Comments on how tosimplify your data center with virtualizationEnterpriseStorageForum: Comments on OpenStack and CloudsEnterpriseStorageForum: Comments on TopTen Software Defined Storage Tips, Gotchasand CautionsEdTech: Comments on Harness Power withNew ProcessorsProcessor: Comments on Protecting YourServers & Networking equipmentEdTech: Comments on Harness Power withNew ProcessorsProcessor: Comments on Improve RemoteServer Management including KVMCyberTrend: Comments on Software DefinedData Center and virtualizationBizTechMagazine: Businesses Prepare asEndofLife for Windows Server 2003 NearsInformationWeek: Top 10 sessions fromInterop Las Vegas 2015CyberTrend: Comments on Software DefinedData Center and Virtualization

View more trends comments here

Vendors you may not heard of

This is a new section starting in this issuewhere various new or existing vendors as wellas service providers you may not have heardabout will be listed.

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tools or bundles for building private, hybrid and publicclouds. These various open source projects within theOpenStack umbrella include compute (Nova) andvirtual machine images (Glance). Other componentsinclude dashboard management (Horizon), securityand identity control (Keystone), network (Neutron),object storage (Swift), block storage (Cinder) and filebased storage (Manila) among others.

It’s up to the user to decide which pieces you will add.For example, you can use Swift without having virtualmachines and vice versa. Read Drew's completearticle here.

Btw, if you missed it, not only has OpenStack addedfile support (e.g. Manila), Amazon Web Services(AWS) also recently added Elastic File Services (EFS)complementing there Elastic Block Services (EBS).

Focus on Storage Wrappings

Software exists and gets deployed in various placesas shown in the following examples.

Cloud wrapped software software that can bedeployed in a cloud instance.Container wrapped software softwaredeployed in a docker or other containerFirmware wrapped software software that gets

CloudHQ Cloud management toolsEMCcode RexRay Container managementEnmotus FUZE Flash leveraged micro tieringRubrik Data protection managementSureline Data protection managementVirtunet systems VMware flash cachesoftwareInfiniteIO Cloud and NAS cache applianceServers Direct Server and storage platforms

Check out more vendors you may know, haveheard of, or that are perhaps new on theServer StorageIO Industry Links page here.There are over 1,000 entries (and growing)vendors on the links page.

StorageIO Tips and Articles

So you have a new storage device or system.How will you test or find its performance?Check out this quickread tip on storagebenchmark and testing fundamentals over atBizTech.

Check out these resources and links on serverstorage I/O performance and benchmarkingtools. View more tips and articles here

Webinars

BrightTalk Webinar June 23 2015 9AM PTServer Storage I/O Innovation v2.015: ProtectPreserve & Serve Your Information

Videos and Podcasts

VMware vCloud Air Server StorageIO LabTest Drive Ride along videos.

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packaged and deployed as firmware in aserver, storage, network device or adapterShrink wrapped software software that can bedownloaded and deployed where you wantTin wrapped software software that ispackaged or bundled with hardware (e.g. tin)such as an appliance or storage systemVirtual wrapped software

StorageIOblog postsData Protection DiariesModernizing Data ProtectionUsing new and old things in new ways

This is part of an ongoing series of posts that part ofwww.dataprotectiondiaries.com on data protectionincluding archiving, backup/restore, businesscontinuance (BC), business resiliency (BC), datafootprint reduction (DFR), disaster recovery (DR),High Availability (HA) along with related themes, tools,technologies, techniques, trends and strategies.

VMware vCloud Air test drive videos Part I & II

StorageIO podcasts are also available via

and at StorageIO.tv

Various Industry Events

VMworld August 30September 3 2015

Flash Memory Summit August 1113

Interop April 29 2015 Las Vegas (Voted oneof top ten sessions at Interop, more here)Smart Shopping for Your Storage Strategy

View other recent and upcoming events here

Webinars

BrightTalk Webinar June 23 2015 9AM PTServer Storage I/O Innovation v2.015: ProtectPreserve & Serve Your Information

From StorageIO LabsResearch, Reviews and Reports

VMware vCloud Air Test Drive

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Data protection is a broad topic that spans fromlogical and physical security to HA, BC, BR,DR, archiving(including life beyond compliance) alongwith various tools, technologies, techniques. Key isaligning those to the needs of the business ororganization for today’s as well as tomorrowsrequirements. Instead of doing things what has beendone in the past that may have been based on whatwas known or possible due to technology capabilities,why not start using new and old things in new ways.

Let’s start using all the tools in the data protectiontoolbox regardless of if they are new or old, cloud,virtual, physical, software defined product or service innew ways while keeping the requirements of thebusiness in focus. Read more from this post here.

In case you missed it:

EMCworld 2015 How Do You Want YourStorage Wrapped?VMware vCloud Air Server StorageIOlab TestDrive with videos

April 2015 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter

View other recent as well as past blog posts here

local and distributed NAS (NFS,CIFS, DFS) file data. Read morehere.

VMware vCloud Air provides a platform similarto those just mentioned among others for yourapplications and their underlying resourceneeds (compute, memory, storage,networking) to be fulfilled. In addition, it shouldnot be a surprise that VMware vCloud Airshares many common themes, philosophiesand user experiences with the traditional onpremise based VMware solutions you might befamiliar with.

View other StorageIO lab review reports here

Resources and Links

Check out these useful links and pages:

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storageio.com/linksobjectstoragecenter.comdataprotectiondiaries.comstorageperformance.usthessdplace.comstorageio.com/raidstorageio.com/ssd

Enjoy this edition of the Server StorageIO updatenewsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIOlab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcastsalong with in the news commentary appearing soon.

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