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Some Server Storage I/O Benchmark Workload Scripts | Part 1
This is part one of a two-part series of posts about using some common server
storage I/O benchmark tools and workload scripts. View part II here which
includes the workload scripts and where to view sample results.
There are various tools and workloads for server I/O benchmark testing,
validation and exercising different storage devices (or systems and
appliances) such as Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) flash Solid State Devices
(SSDs) or Hard Disk Drives (HDD) among others.
Various NVM flash SSD including NVMe devices
For example, lets say you have an SSD such as an Intel 750 (here, here, and
here) or some other vendors NVMe PCIe Add in Card (AiC) installed into a
Microsoft Windows server and would like to see how it compares with expected
results. The following scripts allow you to validate your system with tho... (more)
The Blind Spot of the Security Industry: SSH User Keys
More than 95 percent of the world's enterprises rely on SSH user keys to
provide administrators and developers an effective means of gaining encrypted
access to critical infrastructure: operating systems, applications, payment
processing systems, databases, human resource and financial systems, routers,
switches, firewalls and other network devices. It is a lifeline of traffic
flow within our data centers, our cloud environments and how our third-party
vendors and supply chain access our environments. It has done its job quiet... (more)
Are you still pondering whether to integrate cloud computing services into
the structure of your IT network? You are not the only one. Most IT
professionals are very concerned about data security, so they aren’t that
willing to switch to cloud computing solutions that easily. It’s a fact
that even advanced services like Amazon’s EC2 aren’t ready to cater to
all privacy needs of data-sensitive companies.
Public cloud services are structured in such a way that the same server is
used to store data from several clients, via multiple instances. This means
you have little to no cont... (more)
Cognitive Business: When Cloud and Cognitive Computing Merge
Cloud computing has taken over the business world! With almost maniacal
focus, single proprietors and Board Directors of the world's largest
conglomerates see this new model as a "must do". This rapid shift is, in
fact, accelerating. As Jeff Bertolucci observes in "The Shift to Cloud
Services Is Happening Faster Than Expected":
"According to the sixth annual Uptime Institute Data Center Industry Survey,
which examines the big-picture trends shaping IT infrastructure delivery and
strategy, the move to cloud services is a... (more)
The next BriefingsDirect data and security transformation use-case scenario
describes how Tangerine Bank in Toronto has improved its speed to new
business initiatives by gaining data-security agility.
We'll now learn how improving end-user experiences for online banking and
making data more secure across its lifecycle has helped speed the delivery of
a new credit card offering.
Here to explore how compliance, data security technology, and banking
innovation come together to support a digital business success story is
Billy Lo, Head of Enterprise Architecture at Tangerine Bank in... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Venafi, the Immune System for the
InternetTM and the leading provider of Next Generation Trust Protection, will
exhibit at @DevOpsSummit at 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take
place on November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa
Clara, CA.
Venafi is the Immune System for the InternetTM that protects the foundation
of all cybersecurity - cryptographic keys and digital certificates - so they
can't be misused by bad guys in attacks. In today's connected world,
cybercriminals want to gain trusted status and remain ... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  Aspose.Total for .NET is the most complete package of all file format APIs for .NET as offered by Aspose. It empowers developers to create, edit, render, print and convert between a wide range of popular document formats within any .NET, C#, ASP.NET and VB.NET applications.
Aspose compiles all .NET APIs on a daily basis to ensure that it contains the most up to date versions of each of Aspose .NET APIs. If a new .NET API or a new version of existing APIs is released during the subscription peri... Jul. 30, 2016 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,047 | By Elizabeth White  Security, data privacy, reliability, and regulatory compliance are critical factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house, client-hosted environments to a cloud platform. Quality assurance plays a vital role in ensuring that the appropriate level of risk assessment, verification, and validation takes place to ensure business continuity during the migration to a new cloud platform. Jul. 30, 2016 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 507 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T;, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ... Jul. 30, 2016 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 967 | By Elizabeth White  Ovum, a leading technology analyst firm, has published an in-depth report, Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution, 2016–17. The report focuses on the automation aspects of DevOps, Release Management and compares solutions from the leading vendors. Jul. 30, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,853 | By Liz McMillan  Continuous testing helps bridge the gap between developing quickly and maintaining high quality products.
But to implement continuous testing, CTOs must take a strategic approach to building a testing infrastructure and toolset that empowers their team to move fast.
Download our guide to laying the groundwork for a scalable continuous testing strategy. Jul. 30, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,122 | By Elizabeth White  Adding public cloud resources to an existing application can be a daunting process. The tools that you currently use to manage the software and hardware outside the cloud aren’t always the best tools to efficiently grow into the cloud. All of the major configuration management tools have cloud orchestration plugins that can be leveraged, but there are also cloud-native tools that can dramatically improve the efficiency of managing your application lifecycle.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, ... Jul. 30, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,353 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA, a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. LeaseWeb is one of the world's largest hosting brands. The company helps customers define, develop and deploy IT infrastructure tailored to their exact business needs, by combining various kinds cloud solutions. Jul. 30, 2016 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,391 | By Liz McMillan  Qosmos has announced new milestones in the detection of encrypted traffic and in protocol signature coverage.
Qosmos latest software can accurately classify traffic encrypted with SSL/TLS (e.g., Google, Facebook, WhatsApp), P2P traffic (e.g., BitTorrent, MuTorrent, Vuze), and Skype, while preserving the privacy of communication content. These new classification techniques mean that traffic optimization, policy enforcement, and user experience are largely unaffected by encryption. In respect wit... Jul. 30, 2016 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 536 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today the Kubernetes and Google Container Engine Workshop, being held November 3, 2016, in conjunction with @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
This workshop led by Sebastian Scheele introduces participants to Kubernetes and Google Container Engine (GKE). Through a combination of instructor-led presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, students learn the key concepts and practices for deploying and maintainin... Jul. 30, 2016 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,047 | By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Venafi, the Immune System for the Internet™ and the leading provider of Next Generation Trust Protection, will exhibit at @DevOpsSummit at 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Venafi is the Immune System for the Internet™ that protects the foundation of all cybersecurity – cryptographic keys and digital certificates – so they can’t be misused by bad guys in attacks... Jul. 30, 2016 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,514 | By Pat Romanski  The cloud market growth today is largely in public clouds. While there is a lot of spend in IT departments in virtualization, these aren’t yet translating into a true “cloud” experience within the enterprise. What is stopping the growth of the “private cloud” market?
In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of Accelerite, explored the challenges in deploying, managing, and getting adoption for a private cloud within an enterprise. What are the key differences between wh... Jul. 30, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,182 | By Elizabeth White  ReadyTalk has expanded the capabilities of the FoxDen collaboration platform announced late last year to include FoxDen Connect, an in-room video collaboration experience that launches with a single touch.
With FoxDen Connect, users can now not only engage in HD video conferencing between iOS and Android mobile devices or Chrome browsers, but also set up in-person meeting rooms for video interactions. A host’s mobile device automatically recognizes the presence of a meeting room via beacon tech... Jul. 30, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 531 | By Elizabeth White  Deploying applications in hybrid cloud environments is hard work. Your team spends most of the time maintaining your infrastructure, configuring dev/test and production environments, and deploying applications across environments – which can be both time consuming and error prone. But what if you could automate provisioning and deployment to deliver error free environments faster? What could you do with your free time? Jul. 30, 2016 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 530 | By Liz McMillan  Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) has announced that NoviFlow Inc.has deployed IxNetwork® to validate the company’s designs and accelerate the delivery of its proven, reliable products.
Based in Montréal, NoviFlow Inc. supports network carriers, hyperscale data center operators, and enterprises seeking greater network control and flexibility, network scalability, and the capacity to handle extremely large numbers of flows, while maintaining maximum network performance. To meet these requirements, NoviFlow in... Jul. 30, 2016 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 830 | By Liz McMillan  Choosing the right cloud for your workloads is a balancing act that can cost your organization time, money and aggravation - unless you get it right the first time.
Economics, speed, performance, accessibility, administrative needs and security all play a vital role in dictating your approach to the cloud. Without knowing the right questions to ask, you could wind up paying for capacity you'll never need or underestimating the resources required to run your applications. Jul. 30, 2016 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 814 | By Elizabeth White  It’s 2016: buildings are smart, connected and the IoT is fundamentally altering how control and operating systems work and speak to each other. Platforms across the enterprise are networked via inexpensive sensors to collect massive amounts of data for analytics, information management, and insights that can be used to continuously improve operations.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Brian Chemel, Co-Founder and CTO of Digital Lumens, will explore:
The benefits sensor-networked systems bring to ... Jul. 30, 2016 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,659 | By Pat Romanski  Extreme Computing is the ability to leverage highly performant infrastructure and software to accelerate Big Data, machine learning, HPC, and Enterprise applications. High IOPS Storage, low-latency networks, in-memory databases, GPUs and other parallel accelerators are being used to achieve faster results and help businesses make better decisions.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at NVIDIA, focused on some of the unique ways extreme computing is... Jul. 30, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 627 | By Pat Romanski  On Dice.com, the number of job postings asking for skill in Amazon Web Services increased 76 percent between June 2015 and June 2016. Salesforce.com saw its own skill mentions increase 37 percent, while DevOps and Cloud rose 35 percent and 28 percent, respectively.
Even as they expand their presence in the cloud, companies are also looking for tech professionals who can manage projects, crunch data, and figure out how to make systems run more autonomously. Mentions of â?data scienceâ as a skill ... Jul. 30, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 612 | By Liz McMillan  Cloud analytics is dramatically altering business intelligence. Some businesses will capitalize on these promising new technologies and gain key insights thatâll help them gain competitive advantage. And others wonât.
Whether youâre a business leader, an IT manager, or an analyst, we want to help you and the people you need to influence with a free copy of âCloud Analytics for Dummies,â the essential guide to this explosive new space for business intelligence. Jul. 30, 2016 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,052 | By Pat Romanski  Manufacturers are embracing the Industrial Internet the same way consumers are leveraging Fitbits â to improve overall health and wellness. Both can provide consistent measurement, visibility, and suggest performance improvements customized to help reach goals. Fitbit users can view real-time data and make adjustments to increase their activity.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mark Bernardo Professional Services Leader, Americas, at GE Digital, discussed how leveraging the Industrial Internet a... Jul. 30, 2016 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 777 |
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Data is an unusual currency. Most currencies exhibit a one-to-one transactional relationship. For example, the quantifiable value of a dollar is considered to be finite â it can only be used to buy one item or service at a time, or a person can only do one paid job at a time. But measuring the value of data is not constrained by those transactional limitations. In fact, data currency exhibits a network effect, where data can be used at the same time across multiple use cases thereby increasing its value to the organization. This makes data a powerful currency in which to invest.
Apple CarPlay lets your car display a familiar, iOS-like interface. So too with Android Auto and its Google Now-ish display. But your new car has a built-in set of similar features that are ergonomically and technologically integrated. Should you plug your smartphone into the Apple CarPlay or Android Auto USB port and connect it to your carâs infotainment system, or just car-mount your smartphone, plug it into a charger and use it separately?
I recently picked up my new car, which features a very high-tech, dual-screen multimedia interface. I was forced to purchase the top-of-the-line ânavi...
After many years of research, misfires and frightening Hollywood plotlines, artificial intelligence (AI) is finally coming into its own and beginning to demonstrate significant business value. The combined forces of big data, human expertise and AI are being used across industries as diverse as healthcare and manufacturing, as well as within all aspects of business. IT operations is one area that AI is beginning to contribute to enormously.
IT infrastructures are changing rapidly today, particularly hybrid cloud environments.
While they are increasingly dynamic and agile, they are also ext...
Every time I call up any customer support and hear the familiar 'all our representatives are busy dealing with other customers,' that my call is very important to them and from the more technologically advanced ones that I am 'fourth in the queue and my approximate wait time is 23 minutes,' I wonder why can't they simply call me back when they are free? They already have my contact number. Some of them actually play some music while I wait - which is still better than those who actually take that opportunity to inform me about their new products.
Enterprises and service providers are moving to cloud. Cloud providers are expanding their infrastructure, reach and ease of adoption. Users are becoming mobile, they access their information and services on their personal mobile devices first. We have seen game changers like Netflix and AirBnB become vastly successful by using the power of public cloud as their infrastructure of choice. Service providers like Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle are quickly moving their services to cloud, offering them as a SaaS subscription. So why are we seeing this new "app store" model of development, deliver...
Iâve heard several clients complain about the curse of âorphaned analyticsâ; which are one-off analytics developed to address a specific business need but never âoperationalizedâ or packaged for re-use across the organization. Unfortunately, many analytic organizations lack a framework for ensuring that the analytics are not being developed in a void. Organizations lack an overarching model to ensure that the resulting analytics and associated organizational intellectual capital can be captured and re-used across multiple use cases.
When the Internet of Things (IoT) started to emerge as a popular topic, I had to stop and ask myself if I was once again going to provide commentary on this emerging field. I enjoy exploring new technology shifts and illustrating how they can benefit various industries and businesses. Itâs what Iâve done for the past 20 years through Java, XML, Web Services, SOA, Cloud and DevOps. However, every time I started writing on IoT I seemed to run into the same conundrum; am I commenting on this to jump on the hype bandwagon or because I see a need to represent the pragmatics of implementing and adop...
The Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Management, Elizabeth Davis, recently asked me to sit on a Big Data panel at the Direct Sales Association conference. I was given a 5-minute slot to âdemystifyâ Big Data to a non-technical group of about 1,000 people; to help them understand where and how this thing called âBig Dataâ could help them.
Well if you know me, I can barely introduce myself in 5 minutes. But this was particularly challenging for me, as Iâm used to talking about Big Data with organizations with at least some level of Big Data experience or understanding (maybe the...
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of companies in the world: data rich and data poor. The richest of the data rich are easy to name: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple. But you donât need to be at the top of this list to use data to create value. You need to have the tools in place to turn information (data) into action. Thatâs what the data rich do that the data poor and the data middle class do not.
There will be new vendors providing applications, middleware, and connected devices to support the thriving IoT ecosystem. This essentially means that electronic device manufacturers will also be in the software business. Many will be new to building embedded software or robust software. This creates an increased importance on software quality, particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things where business-critical applications are becoming dependent on products controlled by software. Quality is the central issue when safety, security or human life is at risk if software fails.
Competitors can't compete, and leaders can't lead if they don't know the rules of the game. Understanding how points are scored, and what is required to win is key to any competition. In the age of digital transformation there are key rules to learn:
Data is the modern commercial battlefield
Information dominance is the strategic goal
The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the development process, accelerating application delivery times, and ensuring that developers will become her...
Machine-to-machine (M2M) learning is an integral apart of the expanding world of Industrial IoT. Over the past few months we have given attention to manufacturing and its current digital disruption, but have failed to show the direct impact smart M2M and IoT technology is having on the industry. So, this week we are diving deeper into the term machine learning and how it connects to manufacturing both today and in the future.
With 2016 crossing the half way point, letâs take a look at some technology trends thus far.
Breaches: Well, many databases are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full with our personal information. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there have been 522 breaches thus far in 2016 exposing almost 13,000,000 records. Many are health care providers as our medical information is becoming the gold mine of stolen info. Not really surprising since the health care wearable market is set to explode in the coming years. Many of those weara...
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 19th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open.
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