Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. Servers/Hardware. If you’re looking to get some storage geek on, this is worth a read. x86 marches on!

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. Now the industry had its proof-point: There were times when full-up IT automation, without visibility into hardware implementation, worked and was useful.

Cloud 216

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

Sean Daniel

MAY 31, 2010

How Developers “Extended” the Vail Launchpad. If you’re a developer and you’re interested in writing something for Windows sHome Server , our Lead Developer Dileep has another tip for you on how to extend the Vail launch pad. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials.

Development 45

Development Windows SMB Backup 45

The Verge

JUNE 20, 2020

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 22nd, but in a very different form than usual, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is still expected to unveil the first look at the future of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — the various suites of software that power all of Apple’s hardware.

Hardware 136

Hardware Apple Intel Conference 136

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. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Subscribe to this feed.

Small Business 96

Small Business HP SMB Windows 96

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.). Why is clustering inherently so complex?

Industry 100

Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software.

Data Center 190

Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. Additional HP converged infrastructure used in the making of “Turbo” included 3PAR StoreServ storage, archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage, simplified network management with HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and HP BladeSystem c7000. By: John Rath July 19th, 2013.

HP 221

HP Data Center Data Film 221

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 208

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. Amazon and Google have a big head start on developer loyalty.

Data Center 197

Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

PAN Manager is the "secret sauce" Egenera has been using to manage its own hardware for years, and recently OEMd to Dell as part of their Dell PAN System. The software has always had the ability to provision physical and/or virtual servers with mission-critical levels of availability, including networking, I/O and storage configurations.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 24, 2012

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Technology Tips, Tricks & News - featuring WHS, SBS and other Microsoft and Related Technology. Subscribe to this feed. Popular Posts on this Blog. Installing a GoDaddy Standard SSL Certificate on SBS 2008. Skydrive. (2).

Small Business 57

Small Business Backup Windows SMB 57

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth. The foundation of Intel’s software defined infrastructure will take on severs, storage and networking to help take data centers from static to dynamic, and manual to automated. ” New Atom and Xeon processors. Networking.

Data Center 221

Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Modular Data Centers.

Enterprise 191

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Dongarra and his colleague Michael Heroux from Sandia National Laboratories are developing a new benchmark that is expected to be released in time for the next TOP500 list release in November. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Networking.

Data Center 204

Data Center Storage Applications System 204

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Using your Home Server for more than Storage, Backup and Remote Access. Back in 2006, I was without power for 4 days in November. However, there are certain things that I don’t trust the cloud for, and hence I want my own cloud storage that I run and have total control over. Storage Server Essentials. (17).

Small Business 59

Small Business Windows SMB Backup 59

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The most recent is Texas-based Stream Data Centers , which is launching in the Minneapolis market with plans to develop a purpose-built, 75,675 square foot data center in Chaska, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. Known as The Stream Private Data Center, the Chaska greenfield development sits on 11.76 acres of acquired land.

Data Center 200

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Data center developer Digital Realty Trust has purchased a 5.3 The 15,900 square meter development at De President, Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer will feature six data halls, each capable of supporting 1.92 Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51).

Data Center 202

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 202

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. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

IT automation software provider Puppet Labs has acquired Cloudsmith , a provider of development tools for rapidly building and testing infrastructure automation. Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications.

Data Center 192

Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Additionally, TalentWise will use the Internap Seattle data center for development. To address these demands, we needed our platform to reside on dedicated hardware managed by a secure, compliant, best-of-breed provider. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51).

Data Center 179

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 179

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: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Digital Realty will invest at least $150 million in the new facility by 2015 and create 50 new jobs, allowing it to qualify for tax exemptions under Virginia’s newly beefed-up incentives for data center development. DuPont Fabros Technology recently began development of ACC7, a 41 megawatt data center on its huge campus in Ashburn.

Data Center 197

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 197

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory. By: John Rath July 17th, 2013.

Data Center 180

Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

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 and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.

Data Center 100

Data Center Storage Data Big Data 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop. DataStax will use the investment to further its international expansion, channel growth and product development. Networking.

Data Center 184

Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

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. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). Networking.

Data Center 189

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 189

Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

If you don’t have extra hardware, Vail installs flawlessly into Hyper-V based environments and one of our MVPS already has a blog post on how to install it into VMWare. The hardware requirements for Vail call for a 1.4 How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. What’s new?

Windows 72

Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. Private clouds do require costs in development and deployment, since these are typically built from scratch. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 242

Data Center Cloud Data Storage 242

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

It has been adding and developing open office productivity applications to its arsenal. The additional funds will support the company’s growth through investments into software development. The funding will help further these developments. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

Data Center 186

Data Center Cloud Disaster Recovery Internet 186

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

To help customers mine this wealth of data, a new Cedexis Radar Windows 8 app has been developed to providecontent presentation and analysis. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 191

Data Center Cloud Data Windows 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The systems will be based on open internet standards and designed to help application developers mobilize connected assets of all kinds. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Internet 200

Internet Data Center Data Energy 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). Networking.

Cloud 188

Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Just a day after announcing a new project in Amsterdam , the data center developer said it will partner Dutch telecom provider KPN to build a data center in Groningen. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. July 2006 (26).

Data Center 203

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

In conjunction with the FDCCI Task Force, the GSA developed a tool to help agencies identify and select their core data centers. The GSA has also developed a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44).

Data Center 246

Data Center Government Data Storage 246

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

It shows us that the fuel cell to many years of development work has arrived in the market. 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. December 2006 (43).

Data Center 216

Data Center Data Energy Disaster Recovery 216