Items Tagged: OpenStack

Ten questions to help compare cloud storage services

So you've decided to pursue public cloud storage for a particular data set and use case. If you're a developer building a Web-enabled application, then you'll likely be interested in a cloud object store such as Amazon S3 or OpenStack Object Storage.

Many paths to the one cloud - IBM and VMware

IBM is riding a giant wave of cloud-buzz this week after announcing an official strategy of leveraging OpenStack for future private as well as public IBM cloud offerings - just today, March 5th, 2013. This is a significant announcement from IBM, as it declares a future architectural direction and will put OpenStack in the center of focus for a good portion of IBM's 400,000+ employees (a good chunk of who are developers) as well as IBM's tremendous development ecosystem (crossing such brands and products as Rational, InfoSphere, WebSphere, Informix, DB2, Lotus, Cognos, FileNet, etc.).

EMC World 2013: EMC ViPR has vendor on software-defined storage route

EMC World 2013 opened today with the launch of EMC ViPR, the company's software-defined storage technology that combines storage virtualization and cloud management.

Virtualizing Hadoop Impacts Big Data Storage

Hadoop is soon coming to enterprise IT in a big way. VMware’s new vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) commercializes its open source Project Serengeti to make it dead easy for enterprise admins to spin and up down virtual Hadoop clusters at will.

OpenStack Storage and the Future of the Storage Industry

It’s an increasingly open world, even in the storage industry. Major vendors such as RedHat and HP have joined the OpenStack project and it only continues to gain momentum. Does this amount to a revolution, a snooze, or something in between?

Join this 60 minute live roundtable as storage industry experts discuss the following questions:

*What are the implications of the OpenStack movement on the storage industry?
*What does it mean for IT decision makers right now and five years down the road?
*Will the future be open source, and how will vendors respond?

Moderator: Jeff Boles, Taneja Group

Panelists include: Ken Pepple, Solinea; Randy Bias, CloudScaling; Greg Kleiman, RedHat; Joe Arnold, SwiftStack

Jeff Boles joins Taneja Group from a broad background of hands-on operational IT management and infrastructure engineering, bringing to the group over 20 years of deep experience within the trenches of practicing IT. Jeff’s experience crosses the gamut of operational IT encompassing IT governance, operations management, project management, infrastructure architecture, SAN engineering, and process re-engineering in financial, healthcare, professional services, and government sectors.  For more info visit: http://tanejagroup.com/about/who-we-are

Keep Upgrading Your Data Center No Matter Where the Cloud Takes You

Improving the data center to keep up with advancing technologies has been the chief, perennial responsibility of CIOs over the years. These days, however, the job has taken on a new twist as new questions arise: Is the data center the best platform to boost enterprise productivity? Do we need a data center at all anymore?

Hot data storage technologies for 2014

Six data storage technologies -- nex-gen solid-state, primary storage dedupe, hyper-converged storage, backup appliances, OpenStack and cloud-integrated storage -- will impact your shop.

When and how to implement an object storage platform

When deciding whether to implement an object storage platform into your environment, it makes sense to first outline what kind of data you're storing and how it's typically used.

Atlantis ILIO moves into hyper-converged storage

Atlantis Computing Inc. aims to move beyond optimizing virtual desktop infrastructure storage with its latest software, which uses inline memory to deliver the startup's version of software-defined storage.

EMC upgrades Isilon NAS for file storage, Hadoop analytics

EMC today launched two new Isilon scale-out network-attached storage arrays and added the ability to use flash as a read cache for all Isilon systems.

New choices bring enterprise big data home

Enterprises recognize the tantalizing value of big data analytics, but traditional concerns about data management and security have held back deployments -- until now.

A Quick Peek Into VMware Integrated OpenStack

VMware has added a lot of value to the open source, private cloud platform.

VMware Releases Long-Awaited vSphere 6 Upgrade

It's been three years since VMware has upgraded its flagship hypervisor platform, but the company took the wraps off vSphere 6, which the company said offers at least double the performance over its predecessor vSphere 5.5.

Infinidat comes out of stealth with PB-scale InfiniBox, funding grab

Moshe Yanai's newest venture launches its InfiniBox hyperscale storage array and says it already has close to 100 customers.

OpenStack Releases Next Version, known as 'Kilo'

Its main new features revolve around greater scalability.

EMC Releases ViPR into the Wild - Storage Controllers for Everyone!

At EMC World 2015 this year EMC made a bunch of announcements, but one of the most discussed, and causing the most head-scratching, was the open sourcing of their ViPR storage controller as the new Project CoprHD. Why would EMC give away the core automation component to their much bandied about "Platform 3" strategy? According to the new projects FAQ - Making ViPR Controller available as the CoprHD project in the open source community allows customers, partners, service providers, systems integrators and even other storage vendors to download, expand and contribute to ViPR Controller's breadth and depth of features and functions. Some are of course judiciously skeptical. This is EMC's first foray into open source. One cynic suggested that open sourcing was the best way to kill off an unwanted product...

New scale-out NexentaEdge storage supports object, block

Nexenta's new scale-out object storage product supports object and block services and inline deduplication across a petabyte-scale cluster.

Load DynamiX adds workload modeling to storage performance tool

The Load DynamiX update adds built-in workload models to support OpenStack, Ceph, Amazon S3, NFSv 4.1 and steady-state VDI.

EMC's ViPR Slithers Into Open Source

EMC on Wednesday announced it will release its commercial ViPR software storage controller technology as an open source project called "CoprHD."