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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

Scott Lowe

Using 1 GbE would have required too many ports, too many cables, and too many switches; 10 GbE offered Expedient a 23% reduction in cables and ports, a 14% reduction in infrastructure costs, and offered a significant bandwidth improvement (compared to the previous 1 GbE architecture). Similar Posts: IDF 2012 Day 2 Summary and Thoughts.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0" Blog Archive.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Fountainhead

As much as 3 years ago, the company was anticipating "virtualization sprawl", the need for automating VMs, the expectation that IT environments will have both physical and virtual machines, and the fact that "you shouldnt care what machines your software runs on, so long as you meet your SLA". ► 2012. (15). Virtualization. (31).

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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. So how does this work?

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful.

All Things Distributed

OpsWorks allows you to manage the complete application lifecycle, including resource provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, software updates, monitoring, and access control. OpsWorks is designed to support a wide variety of application architectures and can work with any software that has a scripted installation.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

Once again this comes back to Intel’s rack-scale architecture work.) takes the stage to talk about software-defined infrastructure (SDI), which is the vision that Intel has been talking about this week. A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.