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.…

New technologies are invented to cut-down labor hours and improve efficiency. Where some tasks require us to invest ample of time and efforts, automating the workload has enabled us to perform effectively with accuracy. But with the digital world, comes a host of drawbacks and risk factors such as cyber threat. Nowadays, online businesses are highly…

We can't deny the fact that in the current digital age, a large audience are microchip driven and computer dependent. By the time people knew how to operate computer and related stuff, the market started to fill with new gadgets, devices and applications. But in a rush to feature new technology before the competitors did, enterprises often…

Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) recently launched a web portal designed by Web Werks to promote 'Ease of Doing…

Server Storage I/O Converged (CI) Hyper-converged (HCI) overview

This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources. CI, CIB and HCI can be complete data infrastructure for smaller environments, or component…

Leading cloud data center service provider, Web Werks has been awarded the Retailer of the Year for the category 'Cloud Data Centers' and 'Internet Exchange' by Times Ascent - Asia Retail Congress 2017, which was recently held at Taj, Bandra,Mumbai.…

This past week HPE continued buying into server storage I/O data infrastructure technologies…

Cloud data backup services is similar to traditional backup services, just that all the copies of data is stored over the Internet. Think about a disaster that caused irreversible damage to your data. All the years of efforts you put in to develop the amount of data goes in vain in no time. Not…

Previously, employees used to work on the devices issued by the company that was entirely encrypted by strict set of guidelines that limited the usage of the device. But now things have changed completely and employees want more flexible ways to work and this have led to the adoption of BYOD approach. With the growth in latest gadgets…

Data Infrastructure Server Storage I/O Tradecraft Trends

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Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network and associated tradecraft are your skills, experiences, insight as well as tricks of the trade, profession and job function…

Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network and associated tradecraft are your skills, experiences, insight as well as tricks of the trade, profession and job function (read more about what is a data infrastructure here). This is the first of a two-part series exploring data infrastructure along…

Data gravity is a term coined by Dave McCrory stating that data keeps accumulating (building mass) and with that increases the probabilities of additional services and applications being attracted to this data. This is similar to the Law of Gravity. The term was coined to describe the concept that as the mass of…

Did you want a side of SLBS with your software or hardware FUD?

Did you want a side of SLBS (serverless BS) with your software or hardware FUD?

A few years ago a popular industry buzzword term theme included server less and hardware less.

It turns out, serverless BS (SLBS) and hardware less…