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Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

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There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This post is Sponsored by – My Linked Profile.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

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The admin had some ability to define and configure physical compute, storage and network resources for provisioning via the command line and scripts. This is foreign to the target administrator and is a completely different approach to consuming physical resources vs. the VMware model. This is vCloud and vSphere.

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Coldest Data Center in the World – Ice Cube Lab

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The Ice Cube Lab data center has over 1,200 computing cores and three petabytes of storage and tethered to the IceCube Observatory, a neutrino detector with strings of optical sensors buried a kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice. Systems are monitored over a multiplexed Iridium satellite connection. National Science Foundation/F.

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Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

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Among many other performance metrics, memory, storage and interconnect advances, vendor changes and other things, the evolution of gigaflops to teraflops and then petaflops has led many to speculate on what it will take to achieve exaflop levels of performance. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.