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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. I arrived at these observations when I speak with data center managers who admit that they dont have solutions to these issues. Virtualization does not equal agility. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It also simplifies automated management and portability of workloads, such as with virtual appliances / AMIs. And #3 is how the actual software (physical, virtual, appliances, AMIs, etc.)

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and only 20% of data centers scoring better than 2.0 according to a Digital Realty Trust survey reported by the Data Center Journal. Traditional data centers take a "diffusive" approach to cooling equipment.

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Fountainhead: Egenera creates physical & virtual servers.

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail. Although Im not a Big Data aficionado, Id recently been struck by a few statistics from the IDC Digital Universe study: It is estimated that in 2011, 1.8 Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Enter Virtualization.

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