Items Tagged: OpenStack
Working with the Taneja Group on the Customer Validation report was a true pleasure. We are very happy with how it turned out and have received numerous glowing praises on the quality of the work and value of the customer research findings. Many thanks for creating such an excellent demand generation resource, and for the webinar where you presented the findings of the report. Both assets have become very valuable tools for our demand generation efforts.
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.
- Premiered: 01/24/13
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: TechTarget: SearchCloudStorage.com
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.).
Are You Making Money With Your Object Storage?
Object storage has long been pigeon-holed as a necessary overhead expense for long-term archive storage, a data purgatory one step before tape or deletion. In our experience, we have seen many IT shops view object storage more as something exotic they have to implement to meet government regulations rather than as a competitive strategic asset that can help their businesses make money.
Normally when companies invest in high-end IT assets like enterprise-class storage, they hope to re-coup those investments in big ways like accelerating the performance of market competitive applica-tions or efficiently consolidating data centers. Maybe they are even starting to analyze big data to find better ways to run the business. There are far more opportunities to be sure, but these kinds of “money-making” initiatives have been mainly associated with “file” and “block” types of storage – the primary storage commonly used to power databases, host office productivity applications, and build pools of shared resources for virtualization projects. But that’s about to change. If you’ve intentionally dismissed or just over-looked object storage it is time to take deeper look. Today’s object storage provides brilliant capabilities for enhancing productivity, creating global platforms and developing new revenue streams.
Object storage has been evolving from its historical second tier data dumping ground into a value-building primary storage platform for content and collaboration. And the latest high performance cloud storage solutions could transform the whole nature of enterprise data storage. To really exploit this new generation of object storage, it is important to understand not only what it is and how it has evolved, but to start thinking about how to harness its emerging capabilities in building net new business.
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.
- Premiered: 05/06/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Storage
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.
- Premiered: 07/17/13
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Enterprise Storage Forum
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
- Premiered: 08/20/13 at 2pm ET (11am PT)
- Location: Live and OnDemand
- Speaker(s): Moderator: Jeff Boles
- Sponsor(s): BrightTALK, Taneja Group
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?
- Premiered: 09/30/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: IT Business Edge
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.
- Premiered: 12/12/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Storage
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.
- Premiered: 02/04/14
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: Tech Target: Search Cloud Storage
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.
- Premiered: 02/28/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Virtual 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.
- Premiered: 07/08/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Storage
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.
- Premiered: 12/02/14
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Tech Target: Search Data Center
A Quick Peek Into VMware Integrated OpenStack
VMware has added a lot of value to the open source, private cloud platform.
- Premiered: 02/03/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Virtualization Review
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.
- Premiered: 02/05/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Redmond Magazine
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.
- Premiered: 04/29/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Storage
OpenStack Releases Next Version, known as 'Kilo'
Its main new features revolve around greater scalability.
- Premiered: 05/01/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Virtualization Review
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.
- Premiered: 05/18/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Storage
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.
- Premiered: 05/22/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Storage
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."
- Premiered: 05/06/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: LinuxInsider