DCJ Expert Blogs
Cloud conversations: AWS EBS Optimized Instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced global availability of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) optimized support for four extra Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instance types. The support enables optimized performance between standard and provisioned IOP EBS volumes and EC2 instances to ... Read More »
The Role of Physical Server Security in Data Center Management
The world today is connected through the many forms of information and communications technology. One person may be surfing on Facebook while sending business files over secure Wi-Fi links at a café down the street. Another one is a virtual ... Read More »
Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) BMW Private Cloud Strategy
If your organization like StorageIO is a member of the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) you may be aware of the resources they make available about cloud, virtualization, security and more. Unlike so many other industry associates or trade groups ... Read More »
Where has the FCoE hype and FUD gone? (with poll)
A couple of years ago I did this post about if Is FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a normal adoption course? Fast forward to today, has anybody else noticed that there seems to be less hype and fud ... Read More »
NetApp EF540, something familiar, something new
NetApp announced the other day a new all nand flash solid-state devices (SSD) storage system called the EF540 that is available now. The EF540 has something’s new and cool, along with some things familiar, tried, true and proven. What is ... Read More »
VCE revisited, now & zen
Yesterday VCE and their proud parents announced revenues had reached an annual run rate of a billion dollars. Today VCE announced some new products along with enhancements to others. Before going forward though, lets take go back for a moment ... Read More »
XtremIO, XtremSW and XtremSF EMC flash ssd portfolio redefined
EMC (@EMCflash) today announced some new, enhanced, renamed and a rebrand flash solid-state device (SSD) storage portfolio around theme of XtremIO. XtremIO was the startup company with a new all flash SSD storage array that EMC announced they were buying ... Read More »
Some things keep going around, Seagate ships 2 Billion HDD’s
Seagate (@Seagate) announced today that it reached a milestone of having shipped 2 Billion hard disk drives (HDD’s), something that is round stores data that keeps growing. As part of their announcement, Seagate has a good info graphics and facts ... Read More »
A Pivotal or cloudy moment for EMC and VMware?
EMC and VMware (who is majority owned by EMC) have announced a new joint initiative called Pivotal (read more here and here) as part of their software defined data center strategies and architecture. Is this a pivotal moment for both ... Read More »
Speaking of SSDs (with poll)
In the spirit of solid state devices (SSD) including DRAM and nand flash, not to mention emerging phase chance memory (PCM) among others that help to boost productivity and cut latency, here are a couple of quick notes and links. ... Read More »
