Browsing Posts published in Gennaio, 2016

Reading Time: 4 minutes Il problema è condividere tra più dispositivi o remotizzare un dispositivo USB è più frequente di quanto si creda, soprattutto in ambito virtualizzazione. Benché già con VMware vSphere 4.1 fosse possibile virtualizzare un dispositivo USB collegato fisicamente ad un host per “presentarlo” ad una VM, questo approccio ha delle limitazioni (ad esempio per l’HA) e in genere si privilegiano soluzioni USB to LAN. Anche perchè altri prodotti di virtualizzazione non sono in grado di gestire periferiche USB (in realtà con la prossima versione di Windows Server 2016, in Hyper-V sarà possibile).

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dopo il grande successo di pubblico del 2015, l’evento Technical Cloud Day si ripete anche nel 2016 e raddoppia, sia come contenuti, sia come location (non più solo Milano, ma anche Roma). La Technical Cloud Day è dal 2014 l’evento gratuito Business organizzato dalla Azure Community, dedicato a Microsoft Azure.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Qualche mese fa Rubrik aveva annunciato la disponibilità della versione 2.0 della loro soluzione Rubrik Converged Data Management orientata ad un nuovo approccio alla data protection (vedere anche il mio post precedente). Rubrik è la classica start-up americana nel mondo dello storage (anche se è riduttivo classificarla in questa area specifica), con un prodotto interessante, ma soprattutto un approccio abbastanza innovativo. La novità (in realtà non di Rubrik, ma è un vero e proprio trend recente del mercato) è nel modello utilizzato per risolvere il problema dei backup e in generale quella della data protection.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Storage is a cool topic, but in most cases we just see software product on commodity hardware, that it’s fine: you push all the tecnology in the software layer (using the SDS approach), but sometimes it’s nice think about at some low level improvement or innovation. This is the case of outpace.IO, a technology manufacturing company that want to continue customer success with AoE (ATA over Ethernet) technology- The company is based in the United States with the headquartered in Georgia and a technical and operational office in Paris, France.

Reading Time: 2 minutes OpenIO is a startup founded in 2015 by a team of 7 co-founders, experts in mail and data infrastructures. The headquarter is located in Lille, France, and there is also an OpenIO office in San Francisco. They start with the need to to store huge amounts of relatively small files produced by end-users like emails, eventually using a large storage capacity, but always accessed with the lowest latency. Also, there was the need for maximum availability as Service Level Agreements were stricts for these critical end-user services. Object storage can be a solution for the capacity […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Mangstor Inc is a storage company founded on 2012 and based at Austin (TX) with a deep expertise in storage and networking, especially in NVMe Flash Storage Solutions to accelerate application workloads in web-scale and enterprise data centers. They have an interesting storage appliance: the NX-Series is and NVMe over Fabric All Flash Storage Arrays (AFA) that can be deployed centrally and accessed by many servers connected via high-bandwidth, low-latency RDMA networks.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Atlantis Computing has announced the HyperScale CX-4 product targeted for distributed datacenters and also the ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office) scenarios. The CX-4 appliance is a two-node hyperconverged integrated system with compute, all-flash storage, networking and virtualization designed for ROBO and micro data centers. The hardware configuration include two nodes with 4 TB of effective storage capacity and 48 compute cores in a compact 2U footprint, available with different appliances brads: Atlantis (with Supermicro hardware), Dell (with the support of the FX2 platform), HP, Lenovo and Cisco (this partnership was added during the last VMworld):

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