CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Capitalizing on technology budgets presents a viable solution. Auctions have been conducted for four technology categories: managed voice, mobility, hardware, and security cameras. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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Budget Strategy Change Management Case Study 64

The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But Koduri quickly pours cold water on the idea that the metaverse is right around the corner: “our computing, storage and networking infrastructure today is simply not enough to enable this vision,” he writes. After all, Intel makes CPUs (and soon, GPUs) for consumer devices and data centers alike.

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Intel Hardware Virtualization Course 90

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy. They are also becoming more and more aware that their data center operations are a very large contributor to their overall carbon footprint.

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Vmware Cloud Energy Data Center 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Data Center Mega-Session. First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. Technical Sessions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

Although NLP is undeniably useful with its ability to compute words and text, the complexity of human language presents serious challenges. Conversational AI can be hosted in a public cloud service or in a company’s data center for control, compliance and security reasons.

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Financial Company Dell Artificial Intelligence 105

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. For individual presentations, Gartner had each presenter conclude their sessions with related research for deeper follow up. Data Centers are increasingly complex.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Determining the location of a data center is one of the crucial decisions for a company as it is based on strategy and goals of a company. Industry Perspectives. PRASHANT BAWEJA.

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Data Center Data Telecommunications Infosys 212

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. The article also has a link to a paper that Burns will present at HotCloud ‘16. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

The amount of money lost to card-not-present fraud in 2020 was six times greater than what merchants lost in 2019, according to the Nilson Report. The more use cases AI must accommodate, the more data is involved and the more complex the data pipeline can become. Scaling Transaction Processing to Fight Fraud.

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Artificial Intelligence Intel Dell Financial 59

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 108

Virtualized Greek

MAY 10, 2013

The topic of this particular post was about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). To have SDDC you need to have mature Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage (SDS) and even if it’s not a proper term let’s keep it rolling Software Defined Compute (SDC).

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Cloud Storage SMB Software 60

Virtualized Greek

MAY 9, 2013

Reblogged from GigaOM: The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn''t enough. As the interface into the hardware layer is open and standard. I have a difficult time seeing open compete at the entire data center fabric level.

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Open Source Hardware Data Center Operating Systems 40

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Last month Pixar announced the release of RenderMan Pro Server 18, a major version upgrade that presents core enhancements in lighting workflows. Its conference demo illustrated a 12GB/s Fusion powered pipeline, with ioControl Hybrid storage, HP Z820 ioTurbine Cache, and HP Z820 Artist workstations with ioFX 1.6TB. White Papers.

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Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

GovCloud Presentations. Major data centers will go undergo a “survival-of-the-fittest” scenario. Winners will emerge in the data center shakeout, as many large data. centers will close and sell assets, or become acquired and consolidate. number of data centers," said Landis.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 24, 2013

Done right, server virtualization can allow you to completely change the way you deliver and manage your compute and storage to an extent. You can record, pause and rewind your server operations since they are abstracted from the physical hardware. I like to say virtualization is like the DVR.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Applications 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Servers/Hardware. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. What effect might that have on modern data centers?

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 62

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. I hope that something in here is useful to you. Networking. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Security. Very good stuff!

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments. Networking.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The Cedexis Radar is an independent benchmark for companies providing intelligence about which clouds, CDNs and data centers are best for their online assets. To help customers mine this wealth of data, a new Cedexis Radar Windows 8 app has been developed to providecontent presentation and analysis. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Cloud Data Windows 191

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

If you’ve ever been in one of Brian’s presentations, you know he does a great job of really diving deep in some of this stuff. This naturally leads to a discussion of software-defined networking (SDN) as a means whereby the network can evolve to keep up the rapid pace of change and innovation in other areas of the data center.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As a result of their migration, provisioning time was reduced; power savings resulted; and Enel saw significant storage savings. Jassy picks up from the Enel presentation by focusing not only on AWS’ breadth of services, but the depth of features offered by these services. the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs.

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Vmware Cloud Storage Data 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

It’s Friday and that means it’s time for some laughs in the data center. So let’s get to our Data Center Knowledge caption contest, with a new cartoon drawn by Diane Alber, our favorite data center cartoonist! This week, we present “Everybody in the Pool” from Diane. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 190

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. Per RFC 1925 , every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation. Guido Diepen has a brief article on a script he wrote to clone Docker data volumes.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In his post on the unspoken benefits of open networking , Matt presents a similar argument: that the rise of open networking is something that offers benefits to all organizations, not just the web-scale companies. Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans reflects on how Amazon S3 appears to have become the de facto object storage API.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

What follows below is a collection of various links and articles about (mostly) data center-related technologies. Servers/Hardware. William Lam discusses the new MAC learning functionality present in vSphere 6.7 Welcome to Technology Short Take 99! Hopefully something I’ve included will be useful. Networking.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Cloud Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

One of the ways they deliver success is through ViON on Demand™ , which delivers highly secure compute, network and storage capabilities delivered through on-premise private clouds. Rob: Cloud computing in the US Government marketplace holds great promise, but yes, it also presents a demanding challenge. How is that going?

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Government Cloud Budget Storage 70

Cloud Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

One of the ways they deliver success is through ViON on Demand™ , which delivers highly secure compute, network and storage capabilities delivered through on-premise private clouds. Rob: Cloud computing in the US Government marketplace holds great promise, but yes, it also presents a demanding challenge. How is that going?

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Government Cloud Budget Storage 70

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #52, the latest collection of news, links, and articles from around the web on data center technologies. You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube.

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Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

A breakdown of power usage at Facebook’s data centers during 2012, from the company’s annual sustainability report. Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers.

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Data Center Energy Data Report 262

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

The logical progression from the virtualization of servers and storage in VSANs was hyperconvergence. By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. The concept of HCI was presented first and foremost as a data center technology.

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Cloud CTO Open Source Data Center 109

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I try to keep things related to the key technology areas you’ll see in today’s data centers, though I do stray from time to time. Servers/Hardware. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. I hope you find something useful. Networking.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Servers/Hardware. Here’s hoping you find something useful in this collection! Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Vijay Bhagavath, IDC research vice president for cloud and data center networks, cautions against overreacting. Forrester analyst Carlos Casanova says, “I think this acquisition presents a great opportunity for the combined company to excel in many directions and become legitimate leaders in multiple markets.”

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