Finding the perfect server size for your cloud deployment
Saturday, November 24, 2018 by Bill Supernor
Serving sizing in the cloud can be tricky. Unless you are about to do some massive high-performance computing project, super-sizing your cloud virtual machines/instances is probably not what you are thinking about when you log in to your favorite cloud service provider. But from looking at user data, it certainly does look like a lot of folks are walking up to their nei...
OneSignal hits 850,000+ push notifications per second
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
OneSignal set a new throughput record with their push notification service, delivering 850,000+ notifications per second - more than twice the competition.
OneSignal sends 4 billion push notifications per day, up 25% since September. OneSignal is used by 550,000+ developers and marketing teams including many Fortune 500 companies.
On election day, push notificatio...
VMKings launch a new VPS hosting program aimed at developers
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
VMKings, a cloud provider for developers, has launched its VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting solution. Due to the private nature of the VPS technology, developers can now be the administrators of their solution without having to worry about maintenance.While other cloud solution providers (CSPs) offer generalized services to all sectors, VMKings, created by a team of...
The ApplicationDriven Computing and Storage Platform Movement
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently had a visit with Sushil Kumar, CMO of Robin Systems, about the application-driven compute and storage platform movement within the application-defined data center era.ADM: What challenges are data centers, private clouds, and enterprise application users and administrators faced with today?Kumar: In modern data centers & private clouds, enterprise applic...
DigitalOcean New SSDBased Solution Helps Developers Add Disk Space to Cloud Servers
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
DigitalOcean has announced that it has released Block Storage, a highly available and scalable SSD-based offering that will allow developers to attach extra disk space to DigitalOcean Droplets (cloud servers). It provides developers with the ability to scale production workloads, add disk space, and build distributed applications without changing droplet size.Block Stor...
Portworx Releases PXEnterprise Platform for ContainerDefined Storage in Production Environments
Friday, June 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Portworx has released the PX-Enterprise platform offering a purpose-built, enterprise-class storage container-defined storage for containers used in production environments. The company says that by using PX-Enterprise, companies can cut the cost of traditional storage arrays and virtual machines by up to 70 percent. Portworx reports early success with application ...
ATTO Technology Announces New SAN Upgrade Kits
Saturday, May 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
ATTO Technology has announced the availability of a range of Fibre Channel SAN Kits providing the components needed to update existing direct-attached storage to a high-performance, low-latency storage area network providing the opportunity to centrally locate storage and improve overall performance by adding a storage area network (SAN) solution.The ATTO Fibre Channel ...
Micron Accelerated Solutions Launched with VMware, Supermicro and Nexenta
Monday, April 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Micron Technology had launched Micron Accelerated Solutions, a set of purpose-built, scale-out solutions for open source and software-defined data centers. The first suite of Micron Accelerated Solutions are designed and developed in collaboration with enterprising software and hardware companies including VMware, Supermicro and Nexenta.
Micron Accelerated Solu...
The Challenges of Legacy Storage Containers
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Gou Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, to discuss issues associated with legacy storage containers and the solution of container-defined storage. ADM: What challenges does legacy storage pose for containers?Rao: Most scale-out clouds have an intelligent storage fabric on commodity storage, which causes issues with scaling, cost and comple...
VMware Updates Its Virtual SAN HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) Software
Monday, February 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
VMware Updates Its Virtual SAN Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) SoftwareVMware has released the next edition of its VMware Virtual SAN hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software. The solution consists of VMware vSphere, Virtual SAN and vCenter Server which transforms x86 servers and direct-attached storage into HCI systems.VMware Virtual SAN is designed to be a s...
