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HPE Networking: Past, Present, and Future
Last week, I read a piece about HPE Discover by Enrico Signoretti. It did not paint a pretty picture for HPE’s future, relegating them to replying on a shrinking legacy server revenue stream, with an...
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Docker Acquires Storage Startup Infinit
Of course, just after my Docker post, we get some interesting Docker news! It looks like Docker has acquired storage startup Infinit. If you’re never heard of Infinit, don’t worry, the name was new to...
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I Accidentally Started a Blog with Amazon Lightsail
I was reviewing some of the announcements from AWS re:Invent 2016. The sheer number is kind of bewildering. It’s hard to look past the ridiculous 100PB on wheels, AWS Snowmobile, which brings together...
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StorPool: Truly Distributed Storage
A lot of vendors claim to have distributed storage. Certainly many of them will sell a solution marketed as distributed. The issue is that a lot of what is marketed as distributed relies on legacy...
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State of the Industry: Amazon Web Services
Welcome to the State of the Industry from Gestalt IT. This is a weekly series where our staff gets together, talks about what seems to be percolating within the enterprise IT space, and puts together a...
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Strong-ARMing the Server Market with Kaleao
Saying that next year will be when ARM-based servers take over the market is the new Linux on the desktop prediction. It seems like every year ARM makes some convincing advances, gaining in performance...
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SimpliVity in More Places
Following partnerships with many of the larger server vendors, including Cisco, Dell, and Lenovo, SimpliVity is now working Huawei. The partnership brings the company’s OmniStack technology to...
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ClearSky Data Represents Your Data
In this week’s State of the Industry, I looked at some of the announcements from AWS re:Invent. For me, the most interesting was the AWS Snowmobile, an insane 100PB SAN on wheels. This seems like the...
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Virtual Monitoring with Uila
Monitoring of the data center is critical in the enterprise. The problem isn’t necessarily that monitoring data is unavailable, but rather that it’s hard to manage. It’s hard to troubleshoot issues, or...
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Getting Served with a Raspberry Pi – An Introduction
Welcome to Getting Served with a Raspberry Pi, a series of posts where I attempt various projects with a Raspberry Pi. This idea was spurred by Western Digital sending us a PiDrive Foundation Edition....
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The Machine is Dead; Long Live The Machine
HPE Discover produced some pretty polarized reactions. Somewhere in the middle comes this piece by Matthew Leib. He ponders the great marketing hype surround HP’s highly covered The Machine. I’ve...
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Walkthrough: Building distributed Docker persistent storage platform for...
Persistent distributed storage for Docker is the focus of a lot of attention in the enterprise space. Heck, Docker bought Infinit to help them do it internally. But that solution is quite a bit down...
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State of the Industry: Container Storage
Welcome to the State of the Industry from Gestalt IT. This is a weekly series where our staff gets together, talks about what seems to be percolating within the enterprise IT space, and puts together a...
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Gestalt Server News 16.2
Here’s your regular look at what’s happening in servers. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured Stories Strong-ARMing the Server Market with...
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How an old Drawbridge helped Microsoft bring SQL Server to Linux
Hungry Microsoft is the best Microsoft. This is my first experience getting to know this leaner behemoth. By the time I became technologically aware, I remember Microsoft having such a tired sense of...
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The Server Graveyard
A little personal confession: I love browsing through the old stuff at GovDeals. It has all the thrill of browsing through eBay in the early 2000s. It hasn’t become completely commodified yet, so...
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Docker Toolbox, Docker Machine, Docker Compose, Docker WTF?
I’ve been playing around with Docker for Mac the last few weeks. Mostly this is out of curiosity. I’ve followed a couple of Docker provided tutorials, and since this has been mostly handholding, it’s...
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Docker Goes Native
I’ve said it before, this are fun times to watch Microsoft. The company is being forced into agility, and seeing their recent announcements with Docker is a perfect example. If containerization had...
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Cloud Migration Mitigation with Velostrata
There is some perception that if you knew you were going to start a large enterprise today, you’d just use the cloud. Unencumbered by hardware commitments, legacy applications, and training expenses,...
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2017 Predictions
There are two things you can count on whenever the New Year rolls around. One is lists of predictions. The other is an abundance of eyewear that stopped being fun circa 2002. Just stop So here are some...
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