Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. WordPress.com Shifts Storage to Amazon S3. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. Riverbed Evolves Steelhead, Adds Edge Virtualization. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. New Steelhead EX 1360.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. A private cloud is your own virtualized environment, while a public cloud is one that another company provides for you. Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. Additional HP converged infrastructure used in the making of “Turbo” included 3PAR StoreServ storage, archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage, simplified network management with HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and HP BladeSystem c7000. December 2006 (43). Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. The company says that all-SSD now storage has crossed a major threshold, and now has a lower cost than disk. RELATED POSTS: SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

The latest price drops are for dedicated instances, which are different from regular EC2 instances in that they run on single-tenant hardware. They are isolated from other instances belonging to other customers at the host hardware level. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). Networking.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

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Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Currently, Bill works as a cloud and virtualization architect at MTM Technologies, a Stamford, CT based consulting firm. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Currently, Bill works as a cloud and virtualization architect at MTM Technologies, a Stamford, CT based consulting firm. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution. Intelligent replication and storage control mechanisms now allow for the distribution of cloud components. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Currently, Bill works as a cloud and virtualization architect at MTM Technologies, a Stamford, CT based consulting firm. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The potential exists for significant savings as SDN allows data centers to move away from single source hardware to the commodity-based pricing we see with servers. This is especially true if the majority of those addresses are assigned to virtual machines. 4) The number of virtual machines (VMs) within an organization’s network.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. August 2006 (31).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Microsoft 230

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Accelerating its strategy to deliver Flash across the enterprise server and storage EMC announced it will acquire privately-held ScaleIO. ScaleIO Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) software will become part of the EMC XtremSW Suite of Flash storage software. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. Modular Data Centers.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

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Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Privately held CSL is a leading provider of virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system. With the acquisition of CSL International, IBM expands its cloud virtualization capabilities, making it even easier for clients to take advantage of Linux on System z.” December 2006 (43). October 2006 (44).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The new data center offers re dundant application server hardware with instant local failover capability. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44).

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Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Advertising 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

It’s completely new and rebuilt (when compared to previous offerings like Virtual Private Data Center). Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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