Long post alert ;)
During the recent EMCworld event in Las Vegas among other things, EMC
announced ViPR (read announcement here) formerly known as project Bond. Note
that this ViPR is not the same EMC Viper project from a few years ago that
was focused on data footprint reduction (DFR) including dedupe. Bond (excuse
me ViPR) has been in the works for a couple of years taking a step back
rethinking how storage is can be used going forward.
ViPR is not a technology creation developed in a vacuum instead includes
customer feedback, wants and needs. Its core themes are extensible, open and
scalable.
On the other hand, ViPR addresses plenty of buzzword bingo themes including:
Agility, flexibility, multi-tenancy, orchestration Virtual appliance and
control plane Data services and storage management IT as a Service (ITaaS)
and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Scaling w... (more)
EMC ViPR software defined object storage part III
By Greg Schulz
This is part III in a series of posts pertaining to EMC ViPR software defined
storage and object storage. You can read part I here and part II here.
More on the object opportunity
Other object access includes OpenStack storage part Swift, AWS S3 HTTP and
REST API access. This also includes ViPR supporting EMC Atmos, VNX and Isilon
arrays as southbound persistent storage in addition.
Object (and cloud) storage access example
EMC is claiming that over 250 VNX systems can be abstracted to support
scaling with stabil... (more)
Riding the current software defined data center (SDC) wave being led by the
likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by
VMware via their acquisition of Nicera last year, Software Defined Marketing
(SDM) is in full force. HP being a player in providing the core building
blocks for traditional little data and big data, along with physical,
virtual, converged, cloud and software defined has announced a new compute,
processor or server platform called the Moonshot 1500.
Software defined marketing aside, there are some real and interesting things
from a ... (more)
May 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter
By Greg Schulz
May 2013 News letter
Welcome to the May 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition has
announcement analysis of EMC ViPR, Software Defined Storage (including a
video here), server, storage and I/O metrics that matter for example how many
IOPS can a HDD do (it depends). SSD including nand flash remains a popular
topic, both in terms of industry adoption and customer deployment. Also
included are my perspectives on the SSD vendor FusionIO CEO leaving in a
flash. Speaking of nand flash, have you thought about h... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced global availability of Elastic
Block Storage (EBS) optimized support for four additional Elastic Cloud
Computing (EC2) instance types. The support enables optimized performance
between standard and provisioned IOP EBS volumes and EC2 instances to meet
different bandwidth or throughput needs (learn more about AWS EBS, EC2, S3
and Glacier here).
The four EBS optimized instance types are m3.xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m2.2xlarge
and c1.xlarge for dedicated bandwidth or throughput between the EC2 instances
and EBS volumes. The performance or ban... (more)
Greg Schulz is founder of the Server and StorageIO (StorageIO) Group, an IT industry analyst and consultancy firm. Greg has worked with various server operating systems along with storage and networking software tools, hardware and services. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and storage and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO.
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