Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Advertising 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM and Pivotal have been working together since March, and early fruits of the collaboration is a preview version of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core, IBM’s lightweight version of the WebSphere Application Server, which simplifies development and deployment of web, mobile, social and analytic applications. December 2007 (95).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 27, 2013

The social network’s data center power usage grew 33 percent in 2012 as it added thousands of servers to support new users. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Energy 186

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.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 190

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112). September 2007 (82). Networking.

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Data Center Cloud Data Storage 242

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 112

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Houston Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company – emphasizing the underpinning trends of cloud, mobility, big data and enterprise social. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. Issues having to do with I/O, storage connectivity, etc.

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. ► 2007. (33). The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13).

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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.

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Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc. ► 2007. (33).

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. ► 2007. (33). So this technical approach is gaining greater installed-base every day. IT Transformation. (13).

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Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

And, if you can now logically re-define server and infrastructure profiles, you can also create simplified Disaster recovery tools too. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches. ► 2007. (33). Now: What’s the impact on costs? IT Financial Management. (4).

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Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113