Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The Peak Hosting deal is the latest in a series of announcements highlighting the expansion of Digital Realty’s operations in Ashburn, as well as the broader growth trends for the data center industry in Loudoun County. Phase two will feature 12 Turn-Key Flex data center PODs. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 206

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

This is a fully redundant, Tier IV datacenter facility constructed with environmentally friendly products and systems, utilizing the newest energy efficient technology and architectural design methodologies. The site won the Silicon Valley Power Energy Innovator Award for its energy efficient technologies and architecture.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). PATRICK HUBBARD. SolarWinds.

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Data Center Network Software Software 207

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

To win in the Age of Data, organizations must become action-enabled enterprises with access to unconstrained analytics and frictionless data integration. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Many organizations already deploy some type of monitoring solution for their data centers. However, within today’s modern data center infrastructure – are you really getting the full benefits of DCIM? The performance of the data center has become intrinsically linked to an organization’s overall success.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

They have demonstrated clear technological leadership with their patent pending QoS capabilities, and true scale-out architecture. The SF9010 really highlights SolidFire’s storage architecture in action,” said SolidFire Founder and CEO, Dave Wright. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

As FCW points out, the VA’s Deputy CIO for Architecture, Strategy and Design, Paul Tibbits, told an audience at 1105 Media’s Enterprise Architecture Conference that he questioned the cost-effectiveness of moving to the cloud. Labor Department Consolidating Data Centers Into ByteGrid Facility. August 2007 (99).

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Cloud Data Center HP Disaster Recovery 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

Keeping it at acceptable levels requires an underlying data architecture that can handle the demands of globally deployed real-time applications. Even as the world has gotten smaller, exactly where your data lives still makes a difference in terms of speed and latency.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

The all-SSD storage architecture provider has been promising service providers that it can provide premium storage with quality of service guarantees in a much more cost effective manner than traditional solutions. Colt has the largest enterprise-class cloud footprint in Europe, with 20 European data centers in 10 countries.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Software Defined Technologies Bring Data Centers Closer Together. About Bill Kleyman Bill Kleyman is a veteran, enthusiastic technologist with experience in data center design, management and deployment. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. December 2007 (95).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

In a recent RFI the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) noted that the general value of benchmarks were necessary metrics, but that HPC benchmarks have “constrained the technology and architecture options for HPC system designers.”. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Important Geographic and Risk Mitigation Factors in Selecting a Data Center Site. Important Geographic and Risk Mitigation Factors in Selecting a Data Center Site. The modern data center is no longer a singular location. regions is another factor by which companies can measure data center operations.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Architectural compatibility means that apps can move freely from private to public and back, when needed. “We About Jason Verge Jason Verge is an Editor/Industry Analyst on the Data Center Knowledge team with a strong background in the data center and Web hosting industries. Modular Data Centers.

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Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The structure, the architecture, the even the color scheme is all for a purpose - to communicate attention to detail. and only 20% of data centers scoring better than 2.0 Data Center Density. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Data Center Cloud Data Energy 272

Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Because true converged infrastructure / unified computing has architectural, operational, and capital cost advantages over traditional IT approaches. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33).

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Slowly, the unit of management in the data center is shifting away from the isolated IT component, and is moving toward the application service. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Data Center Cloud Training Enterprise 220

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In fact, using this new architecture, one could even burst (or fail-over) from a private cloud to a public instance. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33). Data Center Design.

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Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Right-on… Then there is a report by Gartner Research on fabric-based computing… which estimated that by the end of 2012, roughly 30% of the world’s top 2000 companies would have some form of fabric-based computing architecture.

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Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The blades include a PCI-Express connection, allowing them to connect to Ciscos high-speed Unified Fabric architecture. In other words, the compute and storage platform is architecturally unified with the network and the virtualization platform.

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Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. A converged infrastructure approach offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In return, it offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. Finally, Infrastructure Orchestration (unified computing) is a central technology to creating highly-reliable, dynamic data center.

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Data Center Storage Dell Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One of those new technologies in the Enterprise Data Center space is what I call Infrastructure Orchestration (others term it fabric computing or unified computing ). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

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Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I had the chance to speak with EMC Velocity Partner GreenPages – specifically with Trevor Williamson, their director of Solutions Architecture. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33).

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Data Center Virtualization Cloud Financial 159

Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Standard Chartered PLC: IT architects at Standard Chartered PLC decided to centralize data center ops for core retail-banking application, available to customers at 1,200 locations worldwide. as estimated for its legacy architecture.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Banking 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Gartner and others agree - this is the next wave in data center architecture. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. That means that Egeneras own hardware -- as well as Dell Blades -- not only operates with a " unified computing " architecture (as some would call it!), Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33).

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Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Many moons back in July 08 I wrote whether an "Internal Cloud" was an oxymoron , as well as a piece on how to build such internal architectures. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33). Fountainhead.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Storage 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Metavante Healthcare: With annual growth of 35 to 40 percent, Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions needed to upgrade data center infrastructure just to keep pace. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Fountainhead.

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Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33). Data Center Design.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

JUNE 2, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Finally, the coup the company had -- and what the industry still has to appreciate -- is that the product takes a "services-centric" view of the data center. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Load Balancer Virtualization Analysis 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And frankly, this is where fundamental “data center complexity” probably arose from. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33). Data Center Design. Fountainhead.

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Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. the automation SW automatically manipulates addresses and ports) this architecture will necessarily modify the security hierarchy, single-point-of-failure risks, etc. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2007. (33).

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 18, 2009

The other day, I had the pleasure of being a guest of Steve Bengston on wsradio (Internet Radio) during the Price Waterhouse Cooper Startup Show where our discussion was around the different facets of Green IT, efficiency, economic and environmental sustainment, closing the Green Gap and of course my new book. Listen in here when you get a chance.

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Internet Storage Journal Virtualization 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 10, 2009

Likewise, I hear good things from friends who have used the services of Travis Pakonen and N’Compass for their data center projects. Ok, nuff said.

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Journal Storage Data Center Energy 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 19, 2009

BTW, check out this popular (and its Free) StorageIO Industry Trends and Perspectives White Paper Report that looks at various data center performance bottlenecks and how to discuss them to transition towards becoming more efficient. " FC HDD, however other HDDs like the high performance 2.5" What say you? Ok, nuff said.

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Storage IBM Data Center Data 45