CTOvision

JUNE 12, 2014

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). One company that’s developed this approach is ThreatMetrix. This post first appeared on George Romas’ HP Blog.

Security 249

Security Storage Network Mobile 249

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments). Good friend Simon Seagrave is back to the online world again with this heads-up on a potential NIC issue with an HP Proliant firmware update. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

Vmware 63

Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 63

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Right-on… Then there is a report by Gartner Research on fabric-based computing… which estimated that by the end of 2012, roughly 30% of the world’s top 2000 companies would have some form of fabric-based computing architecture. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows.

Data Center 138

Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

Rackspace, Dell and HP are all Cloud providers that were looking for a Cloud OS. They brought a virtual network company and got rid of their PaaS solutions. OpenStack needs virtual network (and storage for that matter) and Nicira seems just as committed to OpenStack as they had prior to the acquisition.

Vmware 72

Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 72

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Note that the author apparently works for Mirantis, which is a company that provides OpenStack consulting services. Although these posts are storage-related, the real focus is on how the storage stack is implemented in a virtualization solution, which is why I’m putting them in this section. Virtualization.

Virtualization 101

Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 101

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

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. BTW, there is another nice resource -- a white paper commissioned by HP (!)

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This would improve container security and move Linux containers closer to the Bromium “microvisor” architecture. Intel is working with a few other companies (Dell, Emerson, and HP) on a hardware API specification; early work on the API can be found here. Coffee Chats. Closing Thoughts. Thanks for reading!

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

Because true converged infrastructure / unified computing has architectural, operational, and capital cost advantages over traditional IT approaches. simplifies traditional architectures and dramatically reduce the number of devices that must be purchased, cabled, configured, powered, cooled, and secured in the data center.

Disaster Recovery 145

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

Indeed, there are a number of similar technologies out there (Cisco with its UCS, and HP with its own offerings). The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization.

Disaster Recovery 100

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Banking 100

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. I've spent lots of time at early stage companies, as well as Sun Microsystems, Cassatt, Egenera, EMC.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Its the approach that HP (w/Matrix Orchestration Environment plugins), IBM (Open Fabric Environment) and Cisco (Unified Computing System or UCS) have entered into recently, and where firms like Egenera (with PAN Manager software and the Dell PAN System ) have been selling for some time. Whos using Infrastructure Orchestration in Healthcare?

Healthcare 100

Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100