GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Gatens has been working with partners including Ramon.Space on a line of radiation-hardened compute and data storage hardware that’s well-suited for the space environment. “Raw data is generally high-volume data that needs to be refined at a data center, basically,” he explained.

Microsoft 111

Microsoft Cloud Storage Hardware 111

Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

With a vision for an enterprise data management solution, NetApp (NTAP) outlined its strategy to use its clustered Data ONTAP operating system and provide seamless cloud management across any blend of private and public cloud resources. Cloud Computing Storage Virtualization netapp NTAP'

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Data Operating Systems 182

CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2013

Lloyd underscored the importance of improving IT architecture to support today’s challenges and discussed a vision for data center networking. In every other area, from servers to operating systems to applications to storage have changed. I found out in personal discussions later some more of his background.

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Video Data Center Network Big Data 222

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

“WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups, and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.

Backup 58

Backup Apple Storage Hardware 58

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

As it seeks to consolidate its IT infrastructure across dozens of agencies, the government has had trouble sorting out how many data centers it has, and even more trouble adding up all the server closets, which includes rooms smaller than 100 square feet. Now Over 7,000 Data Centers. New Focus on Optimization.

Data Center 246

Data Center Government Data Storage 246

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

SPF13

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This myth largely stems from traditional manual data recovery because end-users had to deal with duplicate, silent infrastructures across multiple sites. Virtualization standardizes the disaster recovery process by encapsulating operating systems, applications, and servers. cloud storage. data center.

Disaster Recovery 191

Disaster Recovery Insurance Virtualization Data Center 191

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #81! Networking. A command-line client for Twitter ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ivan Pepelnjak does a great job of describing all the things you really shouldn’t do (or don’t really need to do) when trying to deal with migrating container hosts in a data center fabric. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.

Data Center 134

Data Center Data Fractional CTO Architecture 134

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. Their software defined data center approach is coming together to be a great solution for those of us in the infrastructure arena. And that means applications and data always needs to be the focus.

Vmware 65

Vmware Development Cloud Data Center 65

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

Mike Krieger shares some information on how rt.live (a site sharing updates of the COVID-19 R t ) handles their daily runs to update data. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Storage. Chris Evans examines how persistent memory in the data center plays out with existing storage technologies.

Handbook 60

Handbook Linux Storage Windows 60

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) package aimed at easing edge, data center, and cloud operations.

Data Center 168

Data Center Network Enterprise Enterprise 168

Scott Lowe

JUNE 10, 2013

” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.

Engineering 112

Engineering Data Center Meeting Tools 112

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. Operating Systems/Applications. The first article describes Hitchhiker itself, while the second article discusses the related topic of the network impact of recovery in erased coded storage environments. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. If the solution’s goal involves processing and storing data, the architect is constrained to place the pieces that will fulfill those tasks in the proper segments.

Financial 105

Financial Architecture Resources Security 105

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. YACOOS (Yet Another Container-Optimized Operating System) has gone GA; this time it’s Google’s (imaginatively-named) “Container-Optimized OS”. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Networking.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

services brokerages will blur into a conceptual operating system for the ‘Web as a platform’—providing tools to allow users to take advantage of multiple cloud solutions at once, and bringing the cloud closer to the. Major data centers will go undergo a “survival-of-the-fittest” scenario.

Cloud 162

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. So much for software-defined storage? Welcome to Technology Short Take 96! Browse if you dare…OK, so I’m being a bit melodramatic. Networking.

Architecture 60

Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

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. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS).

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. 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). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In any case, enough of that—here’s some data center-related content that I hope you find useful! Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The fund will enable Dell to invest in early-to-growth-stage companies in emerging technology areas including storage, cloud computing, big data, next-generation data center, security and mobility.

Dell 249

Dell Small Business Security Malware 249

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016. Servers/Hardware.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Your mileage may vary, of course.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content! Are you a (largely non-technical) manager seeking to better understand Kubernetes? (I’d

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Operating Systems/Applications. By the way, I alluded to this sort of architecture in December 2006 while discussing the future of the operating system; see this blog post.). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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. My reservation is the ability to innovate at the hardware layer at the same pace you can now with proprietary operating systems.

Open Source 40

Open Source Hardware Data Center Operating Systems 40

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Because developers are leveraging the power of the cloud, you can literally stand up an entire data center with one script, one command, and you've got the equivalent of an entire data center up and running. So you only have to secure the OS and and the stack on top of that. And that's amazing. That's a simple mistake.

Cloud 63

Cloud Security Education Storage 63

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. Operating Systems/Applications. Linux Networking Security Storage Virtualization Docker Hardware NSX OpenStack VMware'

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69