David Byte, Author at SUSE Communities

December 15, 2016 1:20 pm

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SDS Appliance? SoftIron says YES!

While at the SC16 show in Salt Lake City, SoftIron, a storage startup and SUSE partner, launched their HyperDrive storage platform. There are several aspects of their offering that on which I would like to provide comment. The first is that SoftIron bridges a gap between the proprietary storage arrays from the traditional […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Integrated Systems, SUSE Software-defined Storage, Technical Solutions

By: David Byte

January 22, 2016 7:39 am

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Building Your Home Lab

Ok, I admit it, I am a geek. I have enough hardware in my home lab to run a fairly good sized business if I so desired. I thought others might appreciate having some of the information and ideas on how to build a lab on the cheap (or relatively so). First, we'll […]

Tags: Hardware, lab, Testing

Categories: SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Software-defined Storage, Technical Solutions

By: David Byte

June 29, 2015 11:53 am

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Why Free May Hurt Your Appliance or Cloud Business

In my role, I work with a lot of prospective partners who ask the question "Why should I pay for Linux when I can get XYZ distro for free?" My answer to this involves several facets. Security - When a major security issue comes along, the commercial distributions are on the embargo […]

Tags: appliance, free, OEM

Categories: Alliance Partners, Appliances, Expert Views, Integrated Systems, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: David Byte

June 5, 2015 8:37 am

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Software Defined Storage Trajectory and SUSE

All of the analysts are predicting big things from Software Defined Storage (SDS) over the next several years. In fact, some analysts are even predicting some very hard times for some of the traditional storage vendors. This is all based on the tremendous pushback that is occurring against expensive, proprietary hardware based arrays […]

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Enterprise Storage, Technical Solutions

By: David Byte

November 8, 2014 9:31 am

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SUSE at Super Compute 2014 in New Orleans

Once again, SUSE will be present at the Super Computing event of the year. This year we are focused on innovation and what SUSE is doing that provides a positive impact in the HPC community. We will have SUSE Labs personnel around all week to discuss some of the great new features and kernel […]

Categories: Events, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: David Byte

May 2, 2014 8:08 am

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Go Forward! with Mission Critical Consolidation

Unisys has been releasing some information around beta test participants using their Forward! platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP. The testing showed a clear distinction between the performance variability of a regular hypervisor and the Unisys s-Par™ technology. I know this may not sound like something to get excited about, but in […]

Tags: forward, SAP, unix to linux

Categories: Alliance Partners, Integrated Systems, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: David Byte

November 19, 2013 10:06 pm

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SC13 is going FAST

We just put the wraps on day two of SC13 here in Denver. Heading into the next 2 days, we still have a tremendous amount of information to deliver in our booth (#301) and in meetings. We have already had great mini-theater presentations from partners like Solarflare, SGI and Bright Computing and a […]

Tags: HPC, sc13, Supercomputing

Categories: Alliance Partners, Events, Free Tools, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: David Byte

June 14, 2013 3:25 pm

47,640 views

XFS: The Enterprise File System of Choice

Few things in the Linux world get as much of a heated debate as the choice and usage of file systems. This debate has been raging long and hard between supporters of the major enterprise distributions for some years, with the two positions staked out being XFS and Ext4. This conflict is about […]

Categories: Expert Views, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: David Byte

March 5, 2013 12:04 pm

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Special Project – Cisco UCS Plugin for SUSE Cloud

I have recently been involved with some special projects with a few of our Integrated Systems partners, and would like to mention one as an example of the ability of SUSE to work with our partners. The specific example in this case highlights how easy it is to create first level integration between SUSE Cloud […]

Tags: Cisco UCS Manager

Categories: Cloud Computing, Expert Views, Integrated Systems

Author: David Byte

SDS Appliance? SoftIron says YES!

Building Your Home Lab

Why Free May Hurt Your Appliance or Cloud Business

Software Defined Storage Trajectory and SUSE

SUSE at Super Compute 2014 in New Orleans

Go Forward! with Mission Critical Consolidation

SC13 is going FAST

XFS: The Enterprise File System of Choice

Special Project – Cisco UCS Plugin for SUSE Cloud

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