Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

But we also fail to notice the complexity it creates for managing I/O, storage connectivity and other physical-world management issues. Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

. ~ John Having looked into cloud computing solutions for our small investment firm over the past few months, we have learned a lot about the growing movement towards remote data storage and accessibility. In terms of data storage and backup – our current system is not ideal. Big Data. (6).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. The evolution of enterprise applications and rise of big data has eclipsed traditional database capabilities and provides an opening for a significant new market entrant,” said Andy Vitus, partner, Scale Venture Partners.

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JULY 22, 2013

Dealing with this data volume, variety, velocity and complexity is really a “big data” problem for IT operations, forcing many traditional approaches in IT to change, ushering in IT Operations Analytics solutions to take on this challenge. IT Operations Analytics is better equipped to manage this kind of big data challenge.

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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. Modular Data Centers. December 2008 (94). October 2008 (156).

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JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage provider Scality announced it has closed its series C funding round for $22 million, bringing the total invested capital since company inception to $35 million.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

With software defined infrastructure as the strategic foundation, Bryant explained plans for how Intel will invest in rack scale architecture, big data and high performance computing (HPC) technologies. “Data centers are entering a new era of rapid service delivery,” said Bryant. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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JULY 12, 2013

IBM boosts its System z portfolio by acquiring CSL International, Actian leverages previous acquisitions to launch new cloud and big data platforms and EastWest Bank selects HP to build a private cloud for updating its infrastructure. ” Actian Launches DataCloud and big data analytics platforms. Networking.

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JULY 19, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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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 Sets the Stage for the All-Flash Data Center. Networking.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

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JULY 11, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 27, 2013

Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand – Those fields of crops you drive past out in the country could be generating data center demand. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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JULY 22, 2013

. “ The new Windows 8 app and automated alerts provide IT decision makers with quicker access to the performance data of both existing and potential providers, so they can make well-informed decisions, in real time.” . RELATED POSTS: Cedexis Fusion Tames Big Data Flows for Traffic Shaping. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

If anything, there’s a renewed need for it with the increased use of I/O-heavy applications such as databases and Big Data platforms. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2008 (94). November 2008 (103).

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JULY 26, 2013

RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. With Switch Light, Big Switch Looks to Boost Open Source SDN. PMC Introduces 100G Optical Processor to Speed Big Data Networks. Silicon Photonics: The Data Center at Light Speed. Modular Data Centers. July 2008 (134).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

IT Asset Management Integration: Newly enhanced version now has a common format for importing and synchronizing data – making a simpler and deeper connection to asset management tools to automatically share information. DCIM and Big Data: FieldView, nlyte, Splunk. Modular Data Centers. December 2008 (94).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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JULY 12, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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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. Modular Data Centers. December 2008 (94). July 2008 (134).

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JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. PAUL SPECIALE.

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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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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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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. 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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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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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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. Big Data. (6).

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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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2008. (79). Syndications. Contrarian. (14).

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization. Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). In 2008 Xsigo announced the first stage of the Unified Management you describe in Step 4. Big Data. (6).

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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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2008. (79).

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