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.

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Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. DreamWorks “Turbo” Accelerated By HP.

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HP Data Center Data Film 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colocation centers are key components of many hybrid architectures, providing third-party space to securely host corporate infrastructure, as well as ultra-fast connections to public clouds like Amazon Web Services. “These customers are taking time to sort through what exactly hybrid architectures mean to them,” Myers continued.

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Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 12, 2011

No matter what platform or technology you choose to develop for, these sessions will provide you with a deeper understanding of cloud architecture, back end services and business models so you can scale for user demand and grow your business. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. PinPoint. (2).

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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. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95).

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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. Networking.

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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. They have demonstrated clear technological leadership with their patent pending QoS capabilities, and true scale-out architecture. SolidFire Rolls Out High-Performance SSD Cloud Storage.

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Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Cloud 226

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

architecture, a modular approach to building mechanical and electrical systems. 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 2007 (95).

Data Center 202

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 202

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 201

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

” The San Francisco-based comnpany provides dedicated, cloud, and hybrid enterprise-class architectures, promising to manage “everything but your code.” Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Networking.

Data Center 206

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 206

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87).

Data Center 195

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. ► 2007. (33). But really, how simple? ► August.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Storage Applications System 204

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Many data centers produce information about hardware reliability or facility security, but often geography as a measure of a facility’s ability to competently serve its clients is neglected. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. December 2007 (95).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The upgraded infrastructure includes HP 3PAR StoreServ T400 Storage System and HP ProLiant DL360 Servers. 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.

Data Center 190

Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87).

Data Center 182

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Architectural compatibility means that apps can move freely from private to public and back, when needed. “We 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.

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Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

“SoftLayer’s hosting platform features an innovative, three-tier network architecture: Every server in a SoftLayer data center is physically connected to public, private and out-of-band management networks. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Network 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

What we’re seeing from vendors: We can expect upstart vendors to produce commercial versions of open reference architectures, and hopefully, more standardization from established vendors as SDN matures. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). August 2007 (99).

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Data Center Network Software Software 207

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Truth-be told, Egeneras own BladeFrame hardware already supports 128GB of memory, on 6-core, 4-way boards. The blades include a PCI-Express connection, allowing them to connect to Ciscos high-speed Unified Fabric architecture. Instead, the blades would talk directly to the storage servers. ► 2007. (33). Newer Post.

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Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

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. Because the physical CPU state (i.e. Because the physical CPU state (i.e.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

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. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Newer Post.

Data Center 138

Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Gartner and others agree - this is the next wave in data center architecture. ► 2007. (33). In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". ► 2007. (33). Why is this important? ► September. (8).

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