Data Center Knowledge

JULY 27, 2013

The social network’s data center power usage grew 33 percent in 2012 as it added thousands of servers to support new users. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2009 (95). November 2009 (125).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Houston Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company – emphasizing the underpinning trends of cloud, mobility, big data and enterprise social. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. 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.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Wednesday, January 14, 2009. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages.

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Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Beware Social scammers that call pretending to be the Microsoft HelpDesk. On 9/21/2012, I received my first social engineering hacking attack. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Social Media.

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Sean Daniel

JUNE 5, 2010

Yours Truly at Worldwide Partner Conference 2009. Hey folks, I just found this video that I did at Worldwide Partner Conference 2009. Labels: SBS 2008 , Videos , WPC 2009. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials.

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. The WD Sentinel DX4000 looks pretty awesome from a hardware perspective as well.

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009. Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc.,

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Monday, September 7, 2009. Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.).

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day. September 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM. ▼ 2009. (50).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Rather, its all about using (and re-purposing) compute hardware more effectively. Rather, its all about using (and re-purposing) compute hardware more effectively. ▼ 2009. (50).

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 25, 2011

Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Subscribe to this feed.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

This blog is related to my 2009 installment on Fabric as an IT Enabler. In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. What is IOV? Marketing. (3).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Tuesday, April 7, 2009. PAN Manager is the "secret sauce" Egenera has been using to manage its own hardware for years, and recently OEMd to Dell as part of their Dell PAN System. That means that Egeneras own hardware -- as well as Dell Blades -- not only operates with a " unified computing " architecture (as some would call it!)

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). December 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM. Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009. Truth-be told, Egeneras own BladeFrame hardware already supports 128GB of memory, on 6-core, 4-way boards. These connections also give the blades very fast Ethernet access to both the network and storage devices and eliminate the need for a storage-area network (SAN). Fountainhead. Newer Post.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Thursday, March 5, 2009. Hardware consolidation. When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. But essentially its about converging data, storage, and even out-of-band management information along a single (high bandwidth, low-latency) wire. ▼ 2009. (50).

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This was the last version of SBS I had the pleasure of working on, owning the storage system from the ground up as well as the initial design of the Online Backup functionality. Labels: Awesomeness , Office 365 , Remote Web Access , SBS 2012 , Small Business Server , Storage Server Essentials , Training and Awareness , Windows Server.

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Windows Small Business Backup SMB 61

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 24, 2012

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Technology Tips, Tricks & News - featuring WHS, SBS and other Microsoft and Related Technology. Subscribe to this feed. Popular Posts on this Blog. Installing a GoDaddy Standard SSL Certificate on SBS 2008. Skydrive. (2).

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Small Business Backup Windows SMB 57

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. The result is a pooling of physical servers, network resources and storage resources that can be assigned on-demand. Because the physical CPU state (i.e. Converged Infrastructure and Software Virtualization.

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Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Social Media. Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentia. ► 2009. (91). Subscribe to this feed. Popular Posts on this Blog. SBS 2011 Essentials. (52).

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Small Business SMB Windows Backup 78

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Tuesday, March 3, 2009. But we also fail to notice the complexity it creates for managing I/O, storage connectivity and other physical-world management issues. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. ▼ 2009. (50). ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009. It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs. Think of this as provisioning hardware using software. March 19, 2009 at 8:05 AM. March 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM. ▼ 2009. (50).

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Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Sean Daniel

MARCH 26, 2012

as well as some other great hardware from HP (Printers and UPS devices!). How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Social Media. ► 2009. (91). Subscribe to this feed. Popular Posts on this Blog.

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HP SMB Small Business Windows 56

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Cloud Computing can be referred as a deployment model, designed to support for technology infrastructure in terms of cost, hi-tech hardware, storage capacity along with addressing scalability concerns. ► 2009. (50). February 15, 2013 at 6:04 AM. Cloud Hosting. Ecommerce Cloud Multi Cloud. February 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM.

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Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

It changes how availability is delivered: By manipulating IO addressing, networking and connectivity, Converged Infrastructure Management can re-provision failed hardware – either in the form of physical servers, or indeed, entire environments. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows.

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Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009. A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". October 7, 2009 at 6:43 AM.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 20, 2012

Are you a developer or developer firm that’s built an application for SBS 2011 Essentials , SBS 2011 Premium Add-on , Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials , and Windows Home Server 2011 ? How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). at 3:32 PM.

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Development How To Small Business Windows 51

Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Technical Content , Technical Experts The Cloud Experience track at SIC is for experienced developers who want to learn how to leverage the cloud for mobile, social and web app scenarios. Attend a full day of technical sessions and learn more about leveraging the cloud for mobile, web and social scenarios. Storage Server Essentials. (17).

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Conference Cloud SMB Windows 40

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The add-in should work fine on Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and also Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. Labels: 2011 Add-in , Aurora , Backup , Home Server , Mac , Macintosh , SBS 2011 Essentials , Small Business Server , Storage Server Essentials , Technology Timesavers. at 9:41 AM.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”. What did you learn from it? Maria Colacurcio , Syndio.

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Transportation Windows Software Software 132

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. Now the industry had its proof-point: There were times when full-up IT automation, without visibility into hardware implementation, worked and was useful. ► 2009. (50). Enter Virtualization. It was a no-brainer.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Monday, June 29, 2009. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task. ▼ 2009. (50).

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Sean Daniel

MARCH 29, 2011

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Social Media. ► 2009. (91). Technology Tips, Tricks & News - featuring WHS, SBS and other Microsoft and Related Technology. Subscribe to this feed. SBS 2011 Standard.

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Small Business Windows Backup SMB 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

NYSEs cloud now allows small firms (picture 3 hedge fund managers and their dog in a garage) to take advantage of enterprise-grade hardware and data. ► 2009. (50). Cloud enables new forms of business: For me, this is the most exciting aspect. say to test and run new trading algorithms. IT Financial Management. (4). Marketing. (3).

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Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

Sean Daniel

MAY 18, 2011

Video ] Key items talked about in the interview: SBS 2011 Essentials on an HP Proliant Microserver for under $1000, 25 CALs included Scale for greater users to an ML110 All the simplicity of Windows SBS 2011 Essentials on simple hardware. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Social Media.

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