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Reading Time: 2 minutesEach quarter, Backblaze realize an “hard disk stat” blog post with detailed information on (spinning) hard disk durability. Those reviews look at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models in operation in Backblaze’s data centers. As of September 30, 2018 Backblaze had 99,636 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,866 boot drives and 97,770 data drives. A lot to have some interesting data.
Reading Time: 3 minutesViolin Systems has announced it has signed a Letter of Intent with X-IO Technologies to acquire X-IO Storage, the division of X-IO Technologies that developed the popular Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) flash and hybrid storage array product lines. Financial terms were not disclosed but the transaction is executed to be completed within 30 days. This announce cames after few days the announce of the new Violing product XVS 8, confirming that the company is not only reborn, but is tring to get also back to the storage market.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome weeks ago, VMware has discover a possible issue in all VMware vSAN 6.6 and 6.7 cluster, related to hot (or also cold) disk-extend operations. Applications such as databases report in-guest data inconsistency on a VMDK that has been extended while residing on VMware vSAN 6.6 and later. More information of this issue are provided in the VMware KB 58715 (Virtual Machines running on VMware vSAN 6.6 and later report guest data consistency concerns following a disk extend operation).
Reading Time: 4 minutesNon ci sono dubbi che l’automazione sia una componente sempre più necessaria per buona parte dei processi IT e la “digital transformation” passa anche da lì. Che l’automazione possa essere fondamentale nell’ambito della sicurezza è qualcosa che molti stanno promuovendo a diversi livelli. Ad esempio, Red Hat ha mostrato in anteprima alcune integrazioni relative all’automazione di Ansible che consentiranno ai clienti di automatizzare ed orchestrare soluzioni di sicurezza enterprise, estendendo ulteriormente la propria leadership in ambito security.
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou can easily move hard drives from one QNAP NAS to another for seamless system migration while retaining all existing data. But this usually works if you are moving from an old to a new model. For example, users can migrate their QNAP NAS to another Turbo NAS model with all the data and configuration retained by simply installing all the hard drives of the original (source) NAS on the new (destination) NAS according to its original hard drive order and restart the NAS. What it’s nice is that this procedure can also migrate between […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesVMware NSX-T Data Center is the next generation product that provides a scalable network virtualization and micro-segmentation platform for multi-hypervisor environments, container deployments, and native workloads. It has not yet become features parity with NSX-v, but the gap is closing faster and there are also several new features and capabilities available ONLY on NSX-T. And the product is growing faster: on June was release the NSX-T Data Center 2.2.0 and now there is the new NSX-T Data Center 2.3.0 release (see the release notes).
Reading Time: 4 minutesDell EMC ha probabilmente un portafoglio di storage probabilmente troppo ricco e con alcune sovrapposizioni, a causa dell’acquisizione EMC, ed ero abbastanza sicuro che la serie di storage Dell PowerVault MD era destinata all’obsolescenza precoce per essere sostituita dalla serie Compellent, come del resto sta accadendo alla serie EqualLogic. Ma evidentemente mi sbagliavo. Dell EMC ha da poco annunciato una nuova linea PowerVault: Dell EMC PowerVault ME4. Come la precedente serie PowerVault MD, anche il nuovo PowerVault ME4 (nome molto strano) è destinato al mercato specifico delle PMI.
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