Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. RELATED POSTS: EMC Launches Data Protection Suite, Software Enhancements. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software. December 2011 (126).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Some highlights from the week included: Pixar celebrated the 25th anniversary of its RenderMan software, which has been used in 19 of the last 21 Academy Award-winners for Visual Effects. fxguide has an exclusive on Pixar’s RenderMan and the software’s co-founder Ed Catmull. December 2011 (126). July 2011 (128).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

And, each will provide disaster recovery office space, redundant private telco rooms and 10,000 square feet of raised floor in a Private Data Hall. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Web-based communication, collaboration and office productivity software suite provider Open-Xchange has secured $20 million in Series C funding to grow its cloud office suite. The additional funds will support the company’s growth through investments into software development. By: Jason Verge July 18th, 2013. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

“We decided a year ago that given our growth, we needed to upgrade our data center to assure uninterrupted services in hosting our online data management and software services for our customers,” said David Termondt, CEO of PureSense. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). August 2011 (147).

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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. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135). August 2011 (147).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

an updated version of its SaaS-based data center performance and lifcycle management software suite. can be deployed and delivering value in days without disruptive and costly hardware or software agents. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135). Convergence.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. also improves data protection with automated snapshots and simplified support for existing data-center class backup and recovery software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Atomic writes are used in the popular MySQL databases for streamlining the software stack by replacing the need to write twice to maintain atomicty, or database ACID compliance. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

This allows the business to use their own developed software in a cloud that they personally handle the security of, while getting the cost saving benefits of the public cloud by avoiding upfront equipment costs and other overhead. Private clouds do require costs in development and deployment, since these are typically built from scratch.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Funding from new and existing investors will help the company advance its portfolio of 3D MEMS Optical Circuit Switching systems, extend its IP portfolio and provide working capital for its rapid production growth driven by new applications in software defined datacenter networking. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

IT automation software provider Puppet Labs has acquired Cloudsmith , a provider of development tools for rapidly building and testing infrastructure automation. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl , providers of software and services to the restaurant industry, has leveraged Latisys for a hybrid solution that encompasses colocation, managed services, and cloud. The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

” Vantage entered the highly-competitive Silicon Valley market in early 2011, quickly leasing nearly 20 megawatts of power capacity. The company’s portfolio includes technology industry leaders such as Avaya, Gartner, Interactive Data Corporation, the NASDAQ OMX Group, NetScout, Seagate Technology, Serena Software and Skype.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Internap Network Services (INAP) announced that software as a service marketing company Screendragon is using Internap’s bare-metal servers and managed hosting services to support the growth of clients’ multi-channel digital marketing campaigns. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Closer Look: FieldView Solutions DCIM Software. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135). August 2011 (147).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The partnership matches Univa’s distributed resource management software platform with the MapR enterprise-grade big data platform. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126). August 2011 (147).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Virtualization must be at least 40% – Virtualization is defined as a technology that allows multiple, software-based machines, with different operating systems, to run in isolation, side-by-side, on the same physical machine. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

” (Source: Market Share Analysis: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2012: by Laurie F. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Adding ScaleIO’s highly scalable server software with PCIe Flash cards to EMC XtremSF PCIe cards will increase EMC’s portfolio for Enterprise Private Cloud and Service Provider environments. ScaleIO Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) software will become part of the EMC XtremSW Suite of Flash storage software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

With 3,265 software piracy cases settled around the world in the past year Microsoft gladly embraces the cloud computing advantages that it can benefit its partners. Independent Software Vendors. Microsoft announced new partner agreements with four leading global independent software vendors (GISVs). December 2011 (126).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

However, modern day backup software can now also backup directly to disk storage via local disk, OST, NFS, and CIFS protocols. Backup software today can backup to disk storage with de-duplication, a compression technique used to get single instances of data on the storage, saving possibly 50-90% of capacity on repeated data segments.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Software Defined Technologies Bring Data Centers Closer Together. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

Pairing for Scalability: In-Memory Data Grids and the Cloud - By dramatically simplifying and enhancing the deployment of scalable applications within cloud infrastructures, in-memory data grids play a key role in delivering on the promise of cloud computing, writes William Bain of ScaleOut Software. December 2011 (126). Convergence.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2011 (126).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Customers deploy Scality’s software to provide large-scale storage for Cloud, Big Data, and Backup and Archive applications. The growth opportunity in the software storage market is very exciting for us,” said Doug Carlisle, managing director, Menlo Ventures. “The EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software. July 2011 (128).

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., These pieces of hardware were sometimes incorporated into the motherboard itself, or sometimes were additional plug-ins. Each had a software driver, usually tied to the O/S.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain. ► 2011. (22). HP VirtualConnect ). Posted by. .

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Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

other than managing your software stack). Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. The result: Buying, integrating and maintaining less software. See diagram below.

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. While a converged system may be constructed of modular components that can be swapped in and out as scaling requires, ultimately the entire system is integrated at either the hardware layer or the software layer.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. can all be simplified and accomplished via software as well. ► 2011. (22).

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