The document discusses how small to medium businesses have swung between using direct-attached storage (DAS) and storage area networks (SANs) for their VMware environments. It provides an example of a construction firm, Torcon, that converted their DAS setup into a SAN using ATTO technology to save costs and extend the usable life of their servers and storage. The conversion took less than three hours and provided benefits like isolated storage networking and easier expansion capacity. The document advocates that SAS-based SANs provide performance and flexibility comparable to fibre channel SANs at a lower cost that is suitable for cost-conscious small to medium businesses.
Data is being generated at rates never before encountered. The explosion of data threatens to consume all of our IT resources: People, budget, power, cooling and data center floor space. Are your systems coping with your data now? Will they continue to deliver as the stress on data centers increases and IT budgets dwindle?
Imagine if you could be ahead of the data explosion by being proactive about your storage instead of reactive. Now you can be, with NetApp's approach to the designs and deployment of storage systems. With it, you can take advantage of NetApp's latest storage enhancements and take control of your storage. This will allow you to focus on gathering more insights from your data and deliver more value to your business.
NetApp's most advanced storage solutions are NetApp Virtualization & scale out. By taking control of your existing storage platform with either solution, you get:
• Immortal Storage system
• Infinite scalability
• Best possible ROI from existing environment
One of the world's largest software companies needed secure and consistently high-performance storage for their business-critical data. Fibre Channel SANs met their requirements.
Data is being generated at rates never before encountered. The explosion of data threatens to consume all of our IT resources: People, budget, power, cooling and data center floor space. Are your systems coping with your data now? Will they continue to deliver as the stress on data centers increases and IT budgets dwindle?
Imagine if you could be ahead of the data explosion by being proactive about your storage instead of reactive. Now you can be, with NetApp's approach to the designs and deployment of storage systems. With it, you can take advantage of NetApp's latest storage enhancements and take control of your storage. This will allow you to focus on gathering more insights from your data and deliver more value to your business.
NetApp's most advanced storage solutions are NetApp Virtualization & scale out. By taking control of your existing storage platform with either solution, you get:
• Immortal Storage system
• Infinite scalability
• Best possible ROI from existing environment
One of the world's largest software companies needed secure and consistently high-performance storage for their business-critical data. Fibre Channel SANs met their requirements.
Blade Server I/O and Workloads of the Future (report)IT Brand Pulse
At the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 inflection point, this technology brief looks at how the latest Cisco UCS and HP BladeSystem blade servers match-up to workloads of the future.
EMC Isilon Multitenancy for Hadoop Big Data AnalyticsEMC
This white paper discusses the EMC Isilon scale-out storage platform, which provides multitenancy through access zones that segregate tenants and their data sets for a scalable, multitenant storage solution for Hadoop and other analytics applications.
This white paper provides a detailed overview of the EMC ViPR Services architecture, a geo-scale cloud storage platform that delivers cloud-scale storage services, global access, and operational efficiency at scale.
The Future of Storage : EMC Software Defined Solution RSD
EMC provides intelligent software-defined storage solutions that help organizations drastically reduce management overhead through automation across traditional storage silos and pave the way for rapid deployment of fully integrated next generation scale-out storage architectures.
Presentation of Executive Briefing, April 2015
A brief study on Storage Area Network (SAN), SAN architecture & its importance. It focuses on the techniques and the technologies that have evolved around SAN & its Security.
The combination of Lenovo Storage S3200 arrays and DataCore SANsymphony-V Software-defined Storage platform, certified under the rigorous DataCore Ready
Program, offers a flexible choice of capacity and performance-based storage upgrades while providing an easy method to migrate data from older devices.
EMC Isilon Best Practices for Hadoop Data StorageEMC
This white paper describes the best practices for setting up and managing the HDFS service on an Isilon cluster to optimize data storage for Hadoop analytics.
Storage giants NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) and EMC (NYSE:EMC) are making efforts to shift away from the tag of pure “storage companies”. In its Q2 earnings call last year, NetApp management pointed out that they are more of a “data management” vendor and not just a storage hardware company. [1] This statement signaled the company’s intention to evolve from being predominantly a hardware manufacturer to an end-to-end storage solution provider. A similar trend was highlighted when NetApp announced its agreement with VMware (NYSE:VMW) to integrate its Clustered ONTAP Drive with VMware’s vCloud suite last year. [2]
From the Austin 2016 OpenStack Summit. Covers ScaleIO integration with OpenStack and a demo. Video from session can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0H1-uCmbE
FC SAN vs iSCSI SAN: Which One is Right for Your Business?
.pdfMaryJWilliams2
FC SANs and iSCSI SANs are two of the most popular storage area network (SAN) technologies available. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, so it's important to choose the right one for your specific needs. In this blog post, we compare FC SANs and iSCSI SANs to help you make an informed decision.
For more information visit : https://stonefly.com/storage/nas-storage
Blade Server I/O and Workloads of the Future (report)IT Brand Pulse
At the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 inflection point, this technology brief looks at how the latest Cisco UCS and HP BladeSystem blade servers match-up to workloads of the future.
EMC Isilon Multitenancy for Hadoop Big Data AnalyticsEMC
This white paper discusses the EMC Isilon scale-out storage platform, which provides multitenancy through access zones that segregate tenants and their data sets for a scalable, multitenant storage solution for Hadoop and other analytics applications.
This white paper provides a detailed overview of the EMC ViPR Services architecture, a geo-scale cloud storage platform that delivers cloud-scale storage services, global access, and operational efficiency at scale.
The Future of Storage : EMC Software Defined Solution RSD
EMC provides intelligent software-defined storage solutions that help organizations drastically reduce management overhead through automation across traditional storage silos and pave the way for rapid deployment of fully integrated next generation scale-out storage architectures.
Presentation of Executive Briefing, April 2015
A brief study on Storage Area Network (SAN), SAN architecture & its importance. It focuses on the techniques and the technologies that have evolved around SAN & its Security.
The combination of Lenovo Storage S3200 arrays and DataCore SANsymphony-V Software-defined Storage platform, certified under the rigorous DataCore Ready
Program, offers a flexible choice of capacity and performance-based storage upgrades while providing an easy method to migrate data from older devices.
EMC Isilon Best Practices for Hadoop Data StorageEMC
This white paper describes the best practices for setting up and managing the HDFS service on an Isilon cluster to optimize data storage for Hadoop analytics.
Storage giants NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) and EMC (NYSE:EMC) are making efforts to shift away from the tag of pure “storage companies”. In its Q2 earnings call last year, NetApp management pointed out that they are more of a “data management” vendor and not just a storage hardware company. [1] This statement signaled the company’s intention to evolve from being predominantly a hardware manufacturer to an end-to-end storage solution provider. A similar trend was highlighted when NetApp announced its agreement with VMware (NYSE:VMW) to integrate its Clustered ONTAP Drive with VMware’s vCloud suite last year. [2]
From the Austin 2016 OpenStack Summit. Covers ScaleIO integration with OpenStack and a demo. Video from session can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0H1-uCmbE
FC SAN vs iSCSI SAN: Which One is Right for Your Business?
.pdfMaryJWilliams2
FC SANs and iSCSI SANs are two of the most popular storage area network (SAN) technologies available. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, so it's important to choose the right one for your specific needs. In this blog post, we compare FC SANs and iSCSI SANs to help you make an informed decision.
For more information visit : https://stonefly.com/storage/nas-storage
CD-adapco is the world’s largest independent CFD-focused provider of engineering simulation software, support, and services. The company’s STAR-CCM+ provides comprehensive simulation capability for solving problems involving flow of fluids and solids, heat transfer, and stress within a single integrated package. Obtaining results quickly requires extreme processing power matched to a big data storage solution that eliminates I/O bottlenecks.
Orange Business Services: A Telecom Business Reinvents Itself for the Cloud EraNetApp
When your industry’s revenue projections flatten, how can you break away and continue to grow? At Orange Business Services, we decided to reinvent the company by becoming a cloud services provider—entering a market still at the beginning of its growth trajectory.
Enterprise data-centers are straining to keep pace with dynamic business demands, as well as to incorporate advanced technologies and architectures that aim to improve infrastructure performance
Removing Storage Related Barriers to Server and Desktop VirtualizationDataCore Software
An IDC Viewpoint Paper: Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain the following benefits: Focus on efficiency and cost reduction, Simplify management and maintenance, and Improve availability and disaster recovery.
SAN vs NAS vs DAS: Decoding Data Storage SolutionsMaryJWilliams2
Discover the advantages and differences of SAN, NAS, and DAS storage solutions. With our detailed comparison and insights, you'll be able to determine which data storage system suits your needs best.
For more information visit: https://stonefly.com/blog/san-vs-nas-vs-das-a-closer-look/
Carlson Companies is one of the largest privately held compani.docxwendolynhalbert
Carlson Companies is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States,
with more than 180,000 employees in more than 140 countries. Carlson enterprises
include a presence in marketing, business and leisure travel, and hospitality industries.
Its Information Technology (IT) division, Carlson Shared Services, acts as a service
provider to its internal clients and consequently must support a spectrum of user
applications and services. The IT division uses a centralized data processing model to
meet business operational requirements. The central computing environment includes an
IBM mainframe and over 50 networked Hewlett-Packard and Sun servers
[KRAN04, CLAR02,HIGG02]. The mainframe supports a wide range of applications,
including Oracle financial database, e-mail, Microsoft Exchange, Web, PeopleSoft, and a
data warehouse application.
In 2002, the IT division established six goals for assuring that IT services continued to
meet the needs of a growing company with heavy reliance on data and applications:
1. Implement an enterprise data warehouse.
2. Build a global network.
3. Move to enterprise-wide architecture.
4. Established six-sigma quality for Carlson clients.
5. Facilitate outsourcing and exchange.
6. Leverage existing technology and resource.
The key to meeting these goals was to implement a storage area network (SAN) with a
consolidated, centralized database to support mainframe and server applications.
Carlson needed a SAN and data center approach that provided a reliable, highly scalable
facility to accommodate the increasing demand of its users.
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Storage Requirements
Until recently, the central DP shop included separate disc storage for each server, plus
that of the mainframe. This dispersed data storage scheme had the advantage of
responsiveness; that is, the access time from a server to its data was minimal. However,
the data management cost was high. There had to be backup procedures for the storage
on each server, as well as management controls to reconcile data distributed throughout
the system. The mainframe included an efficient disaster recovery plan to preserve data
in the event of major system crashes or other incidents and to get data back online with
little or no disruption to the users. No comparable plan existed for the many servers.
As Carlson’s databases grow beyond 10 terabytes (TB) of business-critical data, the IT
team determined that a comprehensive network storage strategy would be required to
manage future growth.
Solution
Concept
The existing Carlson server complex made use of Fibre Channel links to achieve
communication and backup capabilities among servers. Carlson considered extending
this capability to a full-blown Fibr ...
The benefits of having a “Virtual Infrastructure” – utilization, flexibility, hardware independence – and the savings that these benefits provide, are broadly understood and accepted in the server market. VMware claims millions of users worldwide. Citrix, Oracle and Microsoft have come out with their own virtual server offerings to join the fray, and a sub-industry of complementary vendors, resellers and service providers has grown up around the major server virtualization products. It is within this market that storage virtualization has quickly reemerged as a vital infrastructure for most enterprises. There are some very practical reasons why this is so.
The 2022 Flash brand leader surveys cover 9 Flash products.
This report includes the results of voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
The 2020 Storage Brand Leader Survey covers 14 Storage products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support.
The 2019 Servers Brand Leader Survey covers 11 server products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support.
The 2019 Storage brand leader surveys cover 14 storage products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support.
AWS #3 Storage Vendor in 2017 | #1 in 2020IT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse industry brief uses crowd-sourced data about storage and cloud revenues to estimate the size and ranking of the AWS storage business. The bottom line is AWS is the #3 ranked storage vendor in 2017 and will be #1 in 2020.
The 2018 IaaS brand leader surveys cover fourteen Infrastructure-as-a-Service products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
This IT Brand Pulse report includes data from the independent, non-sponsored annual survey on Scale-Out File Storage--voted on by IT professionals--covering six categories of brand leadership: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information on this or other technology product brand leader surveys.
2017 Servers for Software-Defined Storage Brand Leader ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse report includes data from the independent, non-sponsored annual survey on Servers for SDS--voted on by IT professionals--covering six categories of brand leadership: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information on this or other technology product brand leader surveys.
This IT Brand Pulse report includes data from the independent, non-sponsored annual survey on Enterprise HDDs--voted on by IT professionals--covering six categories of brand leadership: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information on this or other technology product brand leader surveys.
2017 Flash Storage and NVME Brand Leader Mini-ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership—Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation—for twelve Flash Storage and NVMe products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
2017 AI and Cloud Brand Leader Mini-ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership—Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation—for nine AI and Cloud products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey conducted in March 2017 covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for twelve Networking & Scale-out Storage products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...
Application Report
1. Where IT Perceptions are Reality
Application Report
The Pendulum
Swings Back to Shared Storage
for VMware ESXi
Featuring
VMware ESXi
ATTO XstreamCORE™
Torcon Implementation