Web Werks, the leading data center service provider in India, continues to expand its footprint by launching a new point-of-presence in Dubai. The prominent data center is headquartered in Mumbai and now has extended its reaches to the Middle East to help customers increase business efficiency and streamline…

As every market analysts and experts say, cloud is here to stay and it is the future technology. Given its advantage over the traditional technologies, many organizations have adopted cloud to enhance their business productivity. One of the major benefit of cloud technology is that it improves business efficiency. Unlike the…

In this Server StorageIO podcast episode, I am joined by Tom Becchetti (@tbecchetti) for a Friday afternoon conversation recorded live at Meisters in Scandia Minnesota (thanks to the Meisters crew!).…

In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Friday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day). The annual day is a to remember to make sure you are protecting your applications, data, information, configuration settings as well as data infrastructures. While the emphasis is on Backup, that also means recovery as well as testing to make sure everything is working…

VMware vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged (HCI) software defined data infrastructure

In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the…

Cisco Next Gen 32Gb Fibre Channel and NVMe SAN Updates

Cisco announced today next generation MDS storage area networking (SAN) Fibre Channel (FC) switches with 32Gb, along with NVMe over FC support. Cisco Fibre Channel (FC) Directors (Left) and Switches (Right) Highlights of the Cisco…

Slilly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB) Database Server I/O Podcast

In this Server StorageIO podcast episode, I am joined by @Kevinclosson who is an Oracle (along with other Databases) performance expert and creator of the Silly Little…

Although Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks remains as prevalent as ever, there are still some surprising myths that goes around them. Misleading information can not only misguide users, but also stand as a severe threat to business. Facts are not manipulated, but myths are being introduced and these myths can be risky…

Interwire Internet Services, owner and operator of the Mumbai Convergence Hub (Mumbai CH), India's largest open peering exchange hub hosted at Web Werks Data Center in India and DE-CIX, the world's leading Internet Exchange operator, have agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take their initiative a step…

IoT machines are capable of performing a wide line of duty which could be as easy as uploading images on social media or migrating more complex set of data to different hardware equipment. Whatever it is, these connected devices generate big amount of data in a day and data centers are playing its part to effectively manage this data deluge.…