This week in Server News, the Gestalt IT team takes a look at EMC Isilon’s new Nitro all-flash array, considers the future of HPE and scale-out computing, and looks at Tim Miller’s post on DriveScale. We’re also reading Justin Warren’s post on automation and autonomy and considering Kubernetes and Mesos with Eric Wright.
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How Kubernetes and Mesos are Solving the future of abstraction – Part 1 of 3
I’ve spent the last few weeks getting to know more about the container ecosystem. This has mostly focused on container deployment. I’ve also been looking into persistent networking and storage for these stateless constructs. But for the most part I haven’t really touched on container cluster management. Eric Wright has a nice piece introducing the […]
Manually Deploying a Jekyll Website to Amazon S3
Simple static website generation hosted on a cheap, stable platform? Eric Wright thinks he’s found that combination by using Amazon S3 and Jekyll, a ruby-based framework. Browsing around Jekyll’s documentation, it seems they’re emphasizing relative simplicity and overall elegance. And hosting on Amazon S3 makes it dirt cheap. I really like Eric’s walkthrough to get […]
A Quick Intro Screen on Linux
One of my “power tools” for Linux is screen, a do-it-all terminal interface. I use it constantly, keeping my session open as I log in and out and travel from place to place. So I was glad to see Eric Wright’s tutorial on the capabilities of this Swiss Army Command! For fans of RDP on […]
The Chuck E. Cheese Factor in Technology and Conferences
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse comments: There has been quite a bit of chatter around that I’ve noticed in the last couple of years. As many of us in the industry find ourselves going to our 4th, 5th and more of any particular event, there seems to be a turn in the way that some view […]
Monkeying with Infrastructure: How Netflix Dealt with EC2 Reboots
Eric Wright of Virtualization Software comments: As we’ve seen recently in the news, the shellshock vulnerability, also know as Bash bug, has become a new issue for servers around the world. Outside of that, there was also a Xen Security Announcement (XSA) that affected approximately 10% of Amazon EC2 instances worldwide. Amazon was quick to […]
Extra! Extra! See you at VMworld Tech Field Day!
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse comments: For those who know if the Tech Field Day event series already as I wrote here, you will know just how much I enjoy the events. Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth, and Claire Chaplais are the driving forces behind the Tech Field Day organization. I was so honored to be able […]
Atlantis Updates ILIO for VMware VSAN
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse writes: The Atlantis ILIO in-memory storage management, with its ability to aggregate disparate storage back-ends, provides a very interesting technical marriage of underlying storage architectures. VSAN already has an enticing VDI use-case, but with the added acceleration promised by the Atlantis ILIO offering, Feature lists like more capacity, accelerated performance, and […]
Taking on your storage situation with CloudPhysics — new Storage Analytics Beta release!
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse comments: What’s one of the most common things we see as virtualization admins is the classic performance issues which lead many to say “It must be a problem with the SAN”. The black-box feel of the storage layer can often be a blame destination when there undetermined performance problems. Great review […]
Tech Field Day is a community event for the community
Andrea Mauro of the vInfrastructure Blog writes: Tech Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived […]