Tag: software defined infrastructure

Ceph 13.2.0 Mimic released on June 1. Just in case you missed it on June 1st the Ceph open source project announced the release of Ceph 13.2.0 Mimic and the introduction of a new Ceph Manager Dashboard based on the concepts and architecture of openATTIC. Here are some excerpts. To see the full press release […]

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Multimodal OS lays the foundation for IT transformation in a multimodal IT world, where traditional infrastructure, software-defined infrastructure and application oriented architectures co-exist. How did we get here? Let’s take a look at how the “first” Enterprise Linux evolved over 25+ years. This will give us a glimpse into the general evolution of an operating […]

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The plethora of challenges confronting the retailers, in this post-Amazon era, have made it incumbent upon these retailers to transform their business models, in order to generate sustainable growth. Customer preferences and shopping behavior have been evolving at a frantic pace. This new channel-agnostic customer expects the shopping experience to be personalized and seamless across […]

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Multimodal IT is a consequence of organizations around the world transforming their enterprise systems to embrace modern and agile technologies. In order to ensure that traditional IT environments smoothly adapt to this new technology mix, multiple infrastructures for different workloads and applications are necessary. Often, this means integrating cloud-based platforms into your enterprise systems, or […]

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“If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.” Those words of wisdom from retired US Army General Eric Shinseki highlight the stark reality of life for the modern business. Organizations ignore the need to change, adapt and innovate at their peril. Household names like Blockbuster, Toys “R” Us or Kodak might easily […]

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The decline and fall of the enterprise array, and the open gate  for wider for SDS deployment? Here’s a few hard facts about the enterprise storage market from the bellwether of market share.    –          External storage – arrays – is the biggest segment at $5.4bn but fell 3.7% – a long term trend ODM […]

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6 Reasons Why Software Defined Storage Will Raise your Buying Power IT has traditionally worked out its storage requirements by looking at data growth levels and making a projection. It has generally paid for increases by replacing old arrays in an asset management life cycle and put new costs into specific projects, for example, paying […]

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Executive Overview: IRIS Professional Solutions wanted to bring the benefits of software-defined storage – high performance, resilience and flexibility – within the financial reach of all clients. By implementing SUSE® Enterprise Storage, based on open source Ceph technology, IRIS Professional Solutions gained a software-defined platform that supports massive scale with object oriented storage built on […]

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Creating a new computing platform is a colossal effort. It requires a new hardware architecture, processor design, processor fabrication, system design, operating system enablement and finally, application enablement. Historically, introducing a new computing platform was only attempted by large companies with the resources to attempt all of those tasks. Even then, most new platforms fail […]

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Blog by Michael Jores, SUSE Readers vote for SUSE as best DevOps solution, Gold and Silver Awards for Software Defined Infrastructure and Software Defined Storage Third year in a row, about 32.000 readers of the seven Insider-portals BigData-Insider, CloudComputing-Insider, DataCenter-Insider, Dev-Insider, IP-Insider, Security-Insider and Storage-Insider have voted for the best IT solutions in Germany.   […]

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