So with Cisco and HP now accepting that HCI is now acceptable and with Cisco announcing their solution based upon Springpath last week and HP coming soon (already targeting Nutanix), and let us not forget VCE with the newly announced VXRAIL as well. It seems like everyone is jumping the boat for hyperconverged infrastructure these …
There is alot of fuzz these days around hyperconverged, software defined storage etc.. especially since VMware announced VSAN 6.2 earlier this week, that trigge alot of good old brawling on social media. Since VMware was clearly stating that they are the marked leader in the HCI marked, if that is true or not I don’t …
There is no denying that Microsoft Azure is a success story, from being the lame silverlight portal with limited capabilities that it was to become a global force to be reckoned with in the cloud marketspace. Later today Microsoft is releasing their first tech preview of their Azure Stack. Which allow us to bring the …
Windows Azure Stack–What about the infrastructure Story? Read More »
In a couple of weeks I am lucky enough to be presenting two sessions at NIC 2015, here in Norway. The first session I have is about Application virtualization vs Application layering. Where I will go a bit in-depth on how the differences are between the two technologies, and discuss a bit about the different …
So I have been on a job hunt for some time now, and I’m quite picky on what job to take because of a lot personal stuff happening which has put alot of strain on me, and that moving two hours away from Oslo to the middle of nowhere in Norway makes thing much more …
New job! Systems Engineer at Exclusive Networks (BigTec) Read More »
This is a step-by-step guide on how to setup a minimal Storage Spaces direct cluster on virtual machines running on Vmware workstation. It is also meant to enlighten people abit about the functionality which Microsoft is coming with and what it is lacking at the moment. Important thing to remember about Storage Spaces Direct it …
Setting up Storage Spaces Direct on Windows Server 2016 TP3 Read More »
As I see that Hyper-V gaining more and more traction, I also see that we are in the need for better storage solutions around it. Now Microsoft has Storage Spaces which came in 2012 and introduces features like Dedup as well. Problem with the deduplication feature is that it was mostly aimed at VDI enviroments …
It has been quite a year, as I look back at it at the end of the year, I see that there has been a lot of new interesting technology emerging. One of the hot topic that has been in my head for quite some time is SD (Software defined) and Converged infrastructure/hardware. Now there …
Software defined Storage and Converged infrastructure one-size fits all? Read More »
Earlier I’ve discucced a bit on Software defined storage and how this is an growing market with new vendors appearing all the time. Some of the concept behind SDS is the ability to move features that have previously only been available to the hardware solutions into the software stack. http://msandbu.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/software-defined-storage-and-delivering-performance/ Now as I mentioned there …
Software defined Storage? Dell’s got you covered Read More »
Yesterday, Dell annouced the launch of their next generation PowerEdge servers. This new generation contains a bunch of new servers. The new models can be seen here –> http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/w/wiki/7520.dell-13th-generation-poweredge-server-resources Now one of the most important new models is the PowerEdge R730xd server, now one of the nifty features here is that it supports the new …
