Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Yes, its true.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. We must dispel a myth about storage costs, particularly for flash.

Storage 211

Storage Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise 211

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

Storage 195

Storage Cloud Data Data Center 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. ‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

Storage 221

Storage Data Center Data Disaster Recovery 221

Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Rather, its all about using (and re-purposing) compute hardware more effectively. Its a fantastic complement to virtualization. Mobility.

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Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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

Industry 100

Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting.

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Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Virtualization does not equal agility. Virtualization does not equal simplification In many ways, virtualization simplifies sofware. But the reality is that not everything gets virtualized. Not everything is, or will, be virtual.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. NYSEs cloud now allows small firms (picture 3 hedge fund managers and their dog in a garage) to take advantage of enterprise-grade hardware and data. Virtualization. (31). ► 2006. (2). Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek.

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Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

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

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

Disaster Recovery 125

Disaster Recovery Data Center Meeting Software 125

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

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 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 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. Riverbed Evolves Steelhead, Adds Edge Virtualization. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. New Steelhead EX 1360.

Enterprise 191

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. December 2006 (43).

Cloud 198

Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). Networking.

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

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. December 2006 (43). Networking.

HP 221

HP Data Center Data Film 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

LoPoCo says it is using Intel Xeon “brawny core” chips and standard form factors, and gaining energy savings through its hardware design. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51).

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 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 258

Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Currently, Bill works as a cloud and virtualization architect at MTM Technologies, a Stamford, CT based consulting firm. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

Data Center 201

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 201

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The new data center offers re dundant application server hardware with instant local failover capability. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44).

Data Center 216

Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

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 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

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 13, 2013

Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution. Intelligent replication and storage control mechanisms now allow for the distribution of cloud components. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 210

Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Currently, Bill works as a cloud and virtualization architect at MTM Technologies, a Stamford, CT based consulting firm. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

Data Center 195

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 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. Networking.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

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. A private cloud is your own virtualized environment, while a public cloud is one that another company provides for you. Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits?

Data Center 242

Data Center Cloud Data Storage 242

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

KVM Hardware Overcomes Connectivity Challenges, but Introduces Others. When early versions of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switches were introduced almost 30 years ago (initially supporting only keyboard and display functions), these hardware solutions simplified connections to managed infrastructure assets.

Data Center 187

Data Center Data Hardware Virtualization 187

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. August 2006 (31).

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

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 25, 2013

Virtualization must be at least 40% – Virtualization is defined as a technology that allows multiple, software-based machines, with different operating systems, to run in isolation, side-by-side, on the same physical machine. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2006 (43).

Data Center 246

Data Center Government Data Storage 246

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

Tools 205

Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205