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Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools » Data Center.

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The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting.

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Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC » Data Center.

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KVM Hardware Overcomes Connectivity Challenges, but Introduces Others. When early versions of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switches were introduced almost 30 years ago (initially supporting only keyboard and display functions), these hardware solutions simplified connections to managed infrastructure assets.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. We’re reducing the amount of hardware that we need, and increasing agility by using the cloud to replicate business processes. Utility Storage for Virtual and Cloud Computing.

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

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The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

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Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits? » Data Center.

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Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. A private cloud is your own virtualized environment, while a public cloud is one that another company provides for you. December 2008 (94). November 2008 (103).

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CloudFlare Shifts to Quanta for New Servers - Data Center Knowledge

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The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. December 2008 (94). November 2008 (103). October 2008 (156). September 2008 (139).

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Rackspace: AWS is Clouding the Picture on Dedicated Servers.

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That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. December 2008 (94).

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