After previously writing about installing ESXi on Arm on a Raspberry Pi, Tom Fenton walks through the process of using a USB flash drive as a local datastore on the Pi. In my previous articles on ESXi ...

Do traditional storage architectures need to be updated? After all, nearly every enterprise storage system that's available today is fundamentally based on an architecture that is now decades old – ...

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Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...

Netflix detailed on Monday a framework it has open sourced, called Dynomite, that can convert non-distributed databases such as Redis or Memcached into distributed systems. With Dynomite, ...

Google is deprecating the Master/Slave Datastore used by its cloud platform App Engine in favor of the High-Replication Datastore (HRD), which offers better reliability, the company said in blog post ...

Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

There are some files left behind that I'm trying to delete, from a previous admin. When I try and 'delete from disk' the files from the datastore browser ...

The Mayor of London has called for a new vision around the use of data in the next decade as a crucial tool to solving the capital’s issues as the London Datastore marks its 10th anniversary. Building ...