Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

. ~ John Having looked into cloud computing solutions for our small investment firm over the past few months, we have learned a lot about the growing movement towards remote data storage and accessibility. In terms of data storage and backup – our current system is not ideal. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network.

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Fountainhead

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. Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. Big Data. (6).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

It’s not easy to stay current on the many facets of data center technology and operations. This week’s Industry Perspectives explore five hot topics for data center professionals and executives. With site selection factors and process in place, it will lay a strong foundation for a company to succeed. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage provider Scality announced it has closed its series C funding round for $22 million, bringing the total invested capital since company inception to $35 million.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Big Data » Hewlett-Packard. MapR M7 is now available on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Fruit of the Loom implements a Teradata Data Warehouse, and HP updates its ArcSight Security Analytics portfolio using big data to protect critical information and mitigate risk. Teradata Enhances Big Data Analytics Platform.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Big data is an evolving term that describes any voluminous amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information. Although big data doesn’t refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Dealing with this data volume, variety, velocity and complexity is really a “big data” problem for IT operations, forcing many traditional approaches in IT to change, ushering in IT Operations Analytics solutions to take on this challenge. IT Operations Analytics is better equipped to manage this kind of big data challenge.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. The evolution of enterprise applications and rise of big data has eclipsed traditional database capabilities and provides an opening for a significant new market entrant,” said Andy Vitus, partner, Scale Venture Partners.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

IBM boosts its System z portfolio by acquiring CSL International, Actian leverages previous acquisitions to launch new cloud and big data platforms and EastWest Bank selects HP to build a private cloud for updating its infrastructure. ” Actian Launches DataCloud and big data analytics platforms.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif. The company announced the acquisition of the Evocative site on Thursday. This includes user information, workload replication and of course – big data.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Internet performance and control company Cedexis announced an extension to its Radar community services with the addition of many new clouds, and the availability of Radar reports as an app for Windows 8. The Cedexis Radar community now measures more than 50 cloud platforms, the company said. Modular Data Centers. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. “Data centers are entering a new era of rapid service delivery,” said Bryant.

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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. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Optical Circuit switching company CALIENT Technologies announced it has raised a $27 million round of venture financing and named Jag Setlur, a 20-year finance professional, as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

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 Sets the Stage for the All-Flash Data Center. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 27, 2013

Equinix Testing Fuel Cell for Use in Fire Suppression – Equinix has become the latest provider to test drive the use of fuel cells, installing a 100-kilowatt system to generate energy for its FR4 data center in Frankfurt, Germany, the company said. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Energy 186

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

As a public company, it is under additional scrutiny from an investor community. Engates’ blog post goes into great detail in laying out the differences between the companies, both philosophically and from a cost perspective. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

IT Asset Management Integration: Newly enhanced version now has a common format for importing and synchronizing data – making a simpler and deeper connection to asset management tools to automatically share information. DCIM and Big Data: FieldView, nlyte, Splunk. Modular Data Centers. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Applications Disaster Recovery Data 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 190

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. Modular Data Centers. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Yes, Kip, our company decided to move our DataCenter to the Cloud … but I’m not sure it should be interpreted so literally. Disaster Recovery.

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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. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software.

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Fountainhead

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. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. Issues having to do with I/O, storage connectivity, etc.

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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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.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

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. The company chose PAN Manager as an Infrastructure Orchestration approach for its unique virtualization capabilities.

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Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization. Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

And, if you can now logically re-define server and infrastructure profiles, you can also create simplified Disaster recovery tools too. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Syndications. Contrarian. (14).

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Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113