Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. HP VirtualConnect ). Fountainhead.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” Next, Jason dives a bit deeper on the relationship between network overlays and hardware , and shares his thoughts on where it does—and doesn’t—make sense to have hardware terminating overlay tunnels.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

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. HP uses big data for unified security analytics. By: John Rath July 18th, 2013. Modular Data Centers.

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HP Big Data Data Center Storage 179

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Servers/Hardware. Chris Wahl provides a quick overview of the HP Moonshot servers , HP’s new ARM-based offerings. Networking. In vSphere 5.1,

Vmware 109

Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 109

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. WordPress.com Shifts Storage to Amazon S3. Virtualization. Modular Data Centers.

Data Center 208

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated a $36 million contract with HP Enterprise services, initially announced last November. This win was important not only for HP, the systems integrator, but for Microsoft’s Office 365. HP and U.S. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization.

Cloud 190

Cloud Data Center HP Disaster Recovery 190

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” Next, Jason dives a bit deeper on the relationship between network overlays and hardware , and shares his thoughts on where it does—and doesn’t—make sense to have hardware terminating overlay tunnels.

HP 61

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? Hardware consolidation. When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Sean Daniel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

HP/Microsoft do an Extreme Make-Over of a Not For Profit Organization. Families For Effective Autism Treatment of Washington (or FEAT WA) , was the first winner of the HP & Microsoft Extreme technical make-over. HP also improved their networking infrastructure with the HP ProCurve 1810G-24 switch. at 1:20 PM.

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HP Microsoft SMB Small Business 53

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Servers/Hardware. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

Data Center 195

Data Center Data Backup Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

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. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. The company says that all-SSD now storage has crossed a major threshold, and now has a lower cost than disk. HP 3PAR StoreServe has 1.6PB capacity with 2TB drives in RAID 6.

Data Center 226

Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Cloud 226

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Virtualization 102

Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

(I’d contend that virtualization helps address most of this concern.) Again, I’d contend that the configurability of resources is mitigated somewhere by the extensive use of virtualization.) The ultimate goal of RSA is completely modularized servers with pooled CPUs, pooled RAM, pooled I/O, and pooled storage.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cloud Intel Storage 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The supercomputer was upgraded with 450 new HP blade servers with Intel CPUs (16 cores and 64GB memory), to bring total capacity up to 10,000 cores. It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization.

Cloud 188

Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

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. Related Post.

Vmware 72

Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 72

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 25, 2011

Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. as he talks about small business server solutions coming from Microsoft and HP. Skydrive.

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Small Business HP SMB Windows 96

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

.” CloudVelocity was founded by a team of experts in distributed systems, storage, virtualization and networking in 2010 and emerged out of stealth mode in December 2012. HP Announces Cloud Design Service. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization. Modular Data Centers.

Tools 205

Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. Both were good sessions. The XL710 also supports offloads for VXLAN and NVGRE.) That’s cool.

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. First of all, what we’re talking about here are systems like Cisco UCS, Egenera PAN Manager, HP VirtualConnect, IBM Open Fabric Manager, and a few others. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows.

Data Center 138

Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Roundup: ARM, Dell, HP. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization. ARM Unveils A Speedier Interconnect for Server Builders.

Internet 200

Internet Data Center Data Energy 200

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

. “In the manic highs and lows of the startup world, Manny was always a calm, stabilizing voice,” said Barry Crist , the CEO of Seattle technology company Chef who was the CEO of the former Likewise Software, an identity, security and storage startup where Vellon was CTO and co-founder.

Engineering 144

Engineering CTO Hire CTO Microsoft 144

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Colbert next dives into more detail on Project Fargo, which enables vastly faster provisioning of virtual desktops by via cloning process. beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!), HP announced yesterday that HP Helion will support vSphere and NSX.).

Vmware 65

Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Sean Daniel

MARCH 26, 2012

Well, Microsoft and HP are at it once again, performing an extreme make-over of a not-for-profit company. Once again, Microsoft came together with HP lots of awesome technology including Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials running on an HP Proliant Microserver and Windows MultiPoint Server running on an HP ML110.

HP 56

HP SMB Small Business Windows 56

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Cloud OS Accelerate is a new program for key partners Cisco, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, HP and Dell, where Microsoft will invest more than $100 million to help put thousands of new private and hybrid cloud solutions into the hands of customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization.

Data Center 178

Data Center Microsoft Cloud Data 178

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Industry Perspectives: HP, Intel, Fieldview. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Virtualization. Networking.

Data Center 100

Data Center Industry Data Disaster Recovery 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Sean Daniel

MARCH 8, 2010

Microsoft and HP have been bringing technology solutions to small business customers since before most people ever heard of a latte. Learn about HP’s Small business offerings directly from the engineers at HP. We have a collection of short videos on all of the Windows Server family of products and HP hardware solutions.

HP 56

HP Small Business SMB Windows 56

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

percent respectively, but CA and HP declined 0.6 Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization. percent and 0.9 percent and 4.3

Data Center 209

Data Center Big Data Data Analysis 209

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. Molina takes us through a quasi-live demo about virtual shopping software that leverages 3-D avatars and your personal measurements. Naturally, a great CPU is key to success.

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

If that doesn’t work for your office’s Windows-only programs, you can always keep running Windows 7, with a lot less danger, on a virtual machine (VM) on Linux. Another advantage, which Mint shares with other Linux distros, is it runs on low-power hardware. For this job, I recommend Oracle’s great free VirtualBox VM program.

Linux 106

Linux Windows How To Operating Systems 106

Sean Daniel

APRIL 4, 2011

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Well, I’m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don’t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it’d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware. ConfigDisk=1. CheckReqs=0.

Windows 92

Windows How To HP Backup 92

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. It also simplifies automated management and portability of workloads, such as with virtual appliances / AMIs. It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100