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Problemi con ReFS e cluster a 4KB

20 Marzo 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesResilient File System (ReFS) è il nuovo filesystem Microsoft introdotto (al pubblico) per la prima volta in Windows Server 2012, con l’intendo di diventare il sostituto del vecchio NTFS (consideriamo che la prima versione di NTFS risale a Windows NT 3.1!). Per certi versi è un po’ come lo ZFS del mondo Windows, ma inizialmente non era consigliato sia per le limitazioni rispetto ad NTFS, sia per la sua giovane età. A partire da Windows Server 2016, ReFS inizia a diventare il filesystem consigliato per alcuni workload (vedasi Exchange, ad esempio) o quello di default […]

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SwiftStack v5

15 Marzo 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSwiftStack is a complete, enterprise-ready storage product with OpenStack Swift at the core. SwiftStack delivers needed and innovative functionality outside the datapath, while OpenStack Swift components are in the datapath. The core engine IS OpenStack Swift. It’s not forked, fattened, or watered down. SwiftStack is one of the lead contributor to the Swift project that has over 220 additional contributors. Swift is used to drive some of the storage clouds at companies like Comcast, Time Warner, and Wikipedia, to name a few. After the announce of version 4, they have announce SwiftStack 5 with several […]

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Excelero NVMesh 1.1

14 Marzo 2017
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Reading Time: 4 minutesExcelero, a new reality in software-defined block storage, is launching out of stealth and is announcing version 1.1 of its NVMesh® Server SAN software for exceptional Flash performance for web and enterprise applications at any scale. Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans (included Fusion-io’s founder David Flynn) and inspired by the Tech Giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has designed a Software-Defined Block Storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications based on the model of hardware-based hyperscale IT architectures of technology giants like Facebook, […]

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Permabit VDO 6 is available in GA

13 Marzo 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesPermabit provides data deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning for Linux systems. Their VDO (Virtual Disk Optimizer) product is a ready-to-run software package that delivers block-level deduplication, compression and thin provisioning capabilities to Linux. VDO operates inline at a 4 KB granularity, delivering the best possible balance of performance and data reduction rates. It leverages existing file systems, volume management and data protection to provide the fastest route to market for delivering superior data reduction solutions in Linux storage environments. Now Permabit announced General Availability (GA) of Permabit Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) Release 6 for its […]

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Addio Exchange 2007

10 Marzo 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesTra un mese, dopo più di 10 anni di attività va in pensione il servizio di posta di Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. L’11 aprile 2017, Exchange Server 2007 terminerà infatti il suo ciclo di vita ed uscirà dal supporto: non saranno più rilasciati aggiornamenti alle nuove funzionalità e soprattutto non verranno più forniti fix relative a bug e alla SICUREZZA.

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Top 50 VMware influencers

9 Marzo 2017
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Reading Time: 7 minutesL’ecosistema attorno al mondo VMware e, più in generale, al momento della virtualizzazione e del cloud è sicuramente uno dei più attivi e (ri)conosciuti dal mercato. Non si tratta solo di aziende e soluzioni, ma anchre di una grande community (VMTN e VMUG)  e un grande numero di blogger, spesso legati alle community, oppure dipendenti VMware, ma molto spesso semplici professionisti che utilizzano questi prodotti e soluzioni ogni giorno. Esistono diverse liste di questi blogger, a partire da quella manutenuta da VMware stessa (v12n/vExpert Blogs), ma anche tante liste indipendenti come la vLaunchPad blogger list […]

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HPE is buying Nimble Storage

8 Marzo 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the spin-off of HPE (see HPE will spin-off the software part) seems that the company is going to increase its storage portfolio and become a huge storage company. HPE already has the StorVirtual (aka LeftHand) solution (that is become quite old in the approach) but also the more interesting StoreServ (from the 3PAR acquisitition) that cover mostly the storage portfolio with great AFA and hybrid products. The hyperconverged area has been improved two months ago with SimpliVity products (see HPE and Simplivity: the deal is done) but now there is a big news.

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