Storage

From days of setting up internet in his dorm and almost being kicked out of college for it, Joe Arnold’s tech roots are strong, and his passion is contagious. In the latest OpenStack Podcast, join the founder and CEO of SwiftStack as he discusses: OpenStack Swift: What is it? How the Enterprise Sto…

In this episode, Matt Brender (@mjbrender) and Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) give us an overview of why you should let your IOPS tell the truth!  Ever wonder if your expectations for the modern Data Center match the reality?  Matt and Rick go through the math and thinking for what your storage systems…

MDS 9500 family has supported customers for more than a decade helping them  through FC speed transitions from 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G and 8G advanced without forklift upgrades. But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs.  Top four reasons for customers to upg…

In this episode of Engineers Unplugged, Tony Harvey (@tonyknowspower) and Craig Sullivan (@craigsullivan70) discuss the role of storage in SAP HANA. How does big data impact you? Watch and learn.   This is Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with…

In this episode of Engineers Unplugged, Nick Howell (@datacenterdude) and Gabriel Chapman (@bacon_is_king) discuss policy-based management and VVOLs. This is a storage deep-dive for the modern age, don’t miss it! Not only has storage evolved, so have the unicorns. This is Engineers Unplugged,…

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, John Griffith (@jdg_8) and Kenneth Hui (@hui_kenneth) discuss Cinder–a way to abstract and give you block storage services inside of OpenStack. Great info with practical applications in this second of our series on OpenStack leading up to Op…

This is the final part on the High Performance Data Center Design. We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure.  MDS 9710 capabilities are field proved with the wide…

Note: This is the third of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way.  Part 1 | Part 2 ] This week is exciting, had opportunity to sit on round table w…

Superior Platforms, Scale, and Operational Simplicity  Data Center trends like  Virtualization, Solid State Drives, DC consolidation and Data Explosion are putting a tremendous amount of strain on the infrastructure. These challenges need targeted and multifaceted approach. It has to be holistic sol…