Network File System (NFS) News & Support Resources

February 13, 2018

In my previous blog post I did a short overview of the different cloud vendors, a bit about their focus areas and also a bit about strengths and weaknesses. The blogpost can be found here –>http://bit.ly/2CrBgZA .In this post I want to focus more on IaaS and the offerings surrounding it, first I want describe […]

VMware: Oracle on vSphere – Summary of Storage options

December 18, 2017

VMware

Storage – the final frontier. These are the voyages of any Business Critical Oracle database, its endless mission: to meet the business SLA, to sustain increasing workload demands and seek out new challenges, to boldly go where no database has gone before. Storage is one of the most important aspect of any IO intensive workloads, […]

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Software-Defined Cloud NAS/SAN for AWS EBS

November 22, 2017

SoftNAS

SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise and SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials for AWS extend the native storage capabilities of AWS and feature the POSIX-compliant and required storage access protocols needed to create a virtual cloud NAS, without having to re-engineer existing customer applications. SoftNAS Cloud products allow customers to migrate existing applications and data to AWS with NFS, CIFS/SMB, […]

How to Back Up VMs to Amazon S3 via Storage Gateway

October 31, 2017

NAKIVO

In our first post in the series on how to back up VMs to Amazon Web Services (AWS), we examined in detail How to Back Up VMs to Amazon EBS in EC2. In this blog post, we are going to describe another method of using Amazon storage services to create an offsite VM backup repository […]

NAKIVO at QNAP 2017 Partner Day in Budapest

October 13, 2017

NAKIVO

On September 27-29th, QNAP Systems, Inc. – a leading producer of Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers and provider of network surveillance systems – held its annual Partner Day in Budapest, Hungary. NAKIVO was among the long-term partners invited to the event, and we would like to share our impressions from this get-together with you. The […]

New VMware KB articles published for week ending 19th August 2017

August 23, 2017

VMware

VMware vRealize Automation Unable to view any groups in directory Sync Settings “Groups” tab after upgrading from vRA 7.2 to 7.3 Date Published: 2017/08/14 “The current data type SECURE_STRING for the ‘xxxxxxxxx’ field must be STRING with API operation” error when submitting a blueprint in vRA that contains encrypted properties Date Published: 2017/08/14 “Error getting […]

Chelsio Storage over IP and other Networks Enable Data Infrastructures

August 21, 2017

Greg Schulz

Chelsio and Storage over IP (SoIP) continue to enable Data Infrastructures from legacy to software defined virtual, container, cloud as well as converged. This past week I had a chance to visit with Chelsio to discuss data infrastructures, server storage I/O networking along with other related topics. More on Chelsio later in this post, however, […]

Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspectives Report WekaIO Matrix

August 14, 2017

Greg Schulz

Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspectives Report WekaIO MatrixWekaIO is a scale out software defined storage startup vendor whose solution is Matrix. This Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective report looks at common issues, trends, and how to address different application server storage I/O challenges. In this report, we look at WekaIO Matrix, an elastic, flexible, highly […]

AWS Storage Gateway Demo: File Storage on Amazon S3 with Access from Multiple Sites – #AWS Video

August 14, 2017

Amazon Web Services

This video discusses and demonstrates how the AWS Storage Gateway can be deployed to connect Windows and Linux clients in separate sites to files stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). AWS Storage Gateway is hybrid cloud storage service. It allows on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS storage services via a local appliance, which connects […]

Cohesity SpanFS: The Difference Maker in The Enterprise and Secondary Storage Architectures

August 3, 2017

PunchingClouds by Rawlinson Rivera

With the Orion 5.0 release, Cohesity announced the introduction of SpanFS, a new file system uniquely designed to consolidate and manage all secondary storage at scale. SpanFS and its architecture are the core of the Cohesity DataPlatform that enables enterprises to unify the control of their secondary data with web-scale capabilities. The emphasis on enterprise […]

The Next Level of Hyperconverged Secondary Storage

August 2, 2017

PunchingClouds by Rawlinson Rivera

Today we are announcing the release of Cohesity Orion 5.0, the latest version of our Hyperconverged secondary storage platform. This new release is packed with new features, improvements, and capabilities to all layers of the platform. Orion empowers enterprise organizations with a modern data platform with features to enable them to break away from the inefficient […]

New VMware KB articles published for week ending 22nd July 2017

July 28, 2017

VMware

VMware ESXi Guest Authentication Service is missing in open-vm -tools package 2:10.1.5-5055683-1ubuntu1 for Ubuntu 17.04 Date Published:2017/07/18 Enabling IOPS limit for one VM causes latencies on other VMs running on the same host and datastore (NFS datastore) Date Published:2017/07/18 Network becomes unavailable with ntg3 driver on ESXi 6.5 Date Published:2017/07/19 Recommendation for Driver/Firmware Date Published:2017/07/19 […]

How to Provide File Services for Object Storage in the Cloud – On-Demand Webinar

June 19, 2017

SoftNAS

Object storage provides a lower-cost, more durable and scalable alternative to block storage in the cloud. But most cloud platforms lack the key features needed to support existing enterprise applications. So how do you gain the benefits of file services for object storage in the cloud? In this webinar, we covered: Use Cases for object […]

Going Public with Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.3

June 8, 2017

Red Hat

You may not have heard a lot about Red Hat Ceph Storage, but that doesn’t mean the product hasn’t been active. News in conjunction with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 and 10, technology partners such as Rackspace and Micron, and customer adoption at places like Massachusetts Open Cloud, UKCloud, and CLIMB have reinforced the product’s […]