All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? on-premises applications. s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication. This is where cloud storage can really help. Utility Storage for Virtual and Cloud Computing. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

With the new release IT managers can now extend the benefits of Granite to larger branch offices and data-intensive applications that previously were difficult or impossible to consolidate. Riverbed Evolves Steelhead, Adds Edge Virtualization. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Granite 2.5. Networking.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. The next demonstration shows a couple of different applications running on both Atom and Core CPUs; Perlmutter uses a couple of Windows 8 applications as his example. IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Data Center Knowledge

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: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Fieldview says its latest update focuses on addressing a critical gap in DCIM solutions: sharing data that is gathered, stored and analyzed with other applications. DataView is a non-compressed cache of data for a wide variety of applications to access or publish historical and trending data for asset management and capacity planning needs.

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Data Center Applications Disaster Recovery Data 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. CloudVelocity says more than 100 enterprise trials have conducted trials since the company emerged from stealth in December 2012. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

A high-availability data center or colocation service provider minimizes the chances of downtime occurring for critical applications and makes it easier to secure and manage a company’s IT infrastructure requirements. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation.

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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. A private cloud is your own virtualized environment, while a public cloud is one that another company provides for you. Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Privately held CSL is a leading provider of virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system. With the acquisition of CSL International, IBM expands its cloud virtualization capabilities, making it even easier for clients to take advantage of Linux on System z.” Modular Data Centers. Networking. Government.

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Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Thursday, October 11, 2012. Windows Server 2012 Essentials RTM!! Well, The product formerly known as Windows Small Business Server 2012, is finally at RTM! Purchase with confidence knowing that your technology investment can easily grow to Windows Server 2012 Standard if the needs of your business grow. and Eval today!).

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Windows Small Business Backup SMB 61

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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Internet Applications Oracle Database Administration 128

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

This is especially true if the majority of those addresses are assigned to virtual machines. What we’re seeing from vendors: In this arena, we can expect hypervisor/virtual machine (VM) vendors to rush to be the SDN controller, and push hardware vendors to expose rich Southbound SDN APIs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. Still, many users insist on utilizing their own devices to access applications, workloads and their data. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. December 2012 (151). July 2012 (134).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

The new benchmark being proposed is called the High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG), and should better correlate to computation and data access patterns found in many applications today. Designing for a Benchmark, or Applications? “Titan was the top ranked system in November 2012 using HPL. gigaflops performance.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

From centralizing data collection, managing physical capacity and assets, and integrating with critical IT management applications, DCIM unifies the processes, tools and raw data needed to provide an accurate view of data center performance across both IT and facilities. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Businesses are looking to migrate applications hosted on-premise into the cloud using a variety of hybrid solutions,” said Andrew Higginbotham, chief technology officer at Savvis. It’s completely new and rebuilt (when compared to previous offerings like Virtual Private Data Center). December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

” In 2012 the company made an upgrade to its system, which resides in a containerized data center from IBM, located outdoors next to offices at Fox Studios in Australia. It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Too frequently I&O says, “I got that application back online in 20 minutes”. Business services is the top level in a business, sitting above an application, in order to support a business service, you need to consider all the infrastructure involved. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The systems will be based on open internet standards and designed to help application developers mobilize connected assets of all kinds. ARM technology and its ecosystem create the bedrock of this smart intelligence that will enable others to build unique services and applications to help the IoT flourish.” December 2012 (151).

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Internet Data Center Data Energy 200

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). IDF 2014: Virtualizing the Network to Enable SDI.

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Virtualization Network Intel Cloud 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The new application is highly-interactive, makes comparative reports, and makes Radar Cloud and CDN performance data more accessible than ever. “As Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). Networking.

Data Center 191

Data Center Cloud Data Windows 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

QA/QC assistance- supervising consultants as needed, invoice / Payment, application processing, tracking and reporting, and tracking of all key project documents, including submittals, RFIs, change orders, invoices and payments, lien releases, etc. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center Data Project Management Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

MapR Technologies announced MapR M7, a Big Data platform for NoSQL and Apache Hadoop applications, now available through Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). Benchmark tests of M7 running on AWS High Storage instances have shown it delivering consistent performance of over 100,000 operations per second per node. December 2012 (151).

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HP Big Data Data Center Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). August 2012 (166).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, January 19, 2012. In the context of data, applications and cloud computing, this question takes on a new perspective - and the role of Mohammed and the Mountain may soon reverse. Fountainhead. It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World. (Or,

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Data Data Center Applications Cloud 218

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The new data center offers re dundant application server hardware with instant local failover capability. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182).

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Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” Brian starts the session with a review of how the data center has evolved over the last 10 years or so, driven by the widespread adoption of compute virtualization, increased CPU capacity, and the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

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 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

“You really couldn’t buy enough CPU for common server applications in the past,” said Sharp. Intel Outlines Low-Power Processor Roadmap at IDF 2012. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134).

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Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232