Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

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. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Google’s extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 It marked the third consecutive quarter, Google spent more than $1 billion on data centers and servers, reflecting the company’s latest wave of data center construction projects. 1Q 2012: $607 million.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. 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. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication.

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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 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. Oh, and the SSD solution costs less than disk, according to the company. RELATED POSTS: SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

“I claim there really are almost no companies in the world, just a handful, that are really investing in scaled public cloud infrastructure,” said Ballmer (see transcript ). But the company has never confirmed a number. How many servers do these companies have? Google is bigger than we are. You get Yahoo!

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Given that IBM strengthened its position with “born on cloud” companies through its acquisition of SoftLayer , it makes sense that Amazon would continue to try to push upmarket, towards the enterprise, given its strengths with startups. Both companies are targeting one another’s strongholds. Comments (required). Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. Additional HP converged infrastructure used in the making of “Turbo” included 3PAR StoreServ storage, archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage, simplified network management with HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and HP BladeSystem c7000. By: John Rath July 19th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The company deploys monitoring systems to gather data on soil moisture and the flow of irrigation systems. The company’s equipment provides real-time monitoring for more than 4,000 fields in the western United States. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

A look at the Lo Power Company’s LP-4240-10H Ultra server. Photo: LowPower Company). Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point.

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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 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

As a public company, it is under additional scrutiny from an investor community. Engates’ blog post goes into great detail in laying out the differences between the companies, both philosophically and from a cost perspective. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. The strategy worked well. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

megawatt data center, the company said today. Our state-of-the-art De President facility will provide an ecosystem unrivalled in terms of connectivity to support companies of all sizes in Amsterdam.” Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

The company announced the acquisition of the Evocative site on Thursday. 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.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

These are am,ong the company’s 1 million-plus servers. GI Partners Buys LA Telecom Hub One Wilshire – Private equity firm GI Partners has acquired One Wilshire, the leading carrier hotel in Los Angeles and one of the most wired buildings in the world, the company confirmed this week. December 2012 (151). Networking.

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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. 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 15, 2013

Award winning visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic is an Australia-based company behind many blockbuster movies. To accomplish rendering on movies and keep pace with rapidly growing compute demands, the company has had to constantly evaluate on-premise equipment upgrades or cloud opportunities. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Internet performance and control company Cedexis announced an extension to its Radar community services with the addition of many new clouds, and the availability of Radar reports as an app for Windows 8. The Cedexis Radar community now measures more than 50 cloud platforms, the company said. December 2012 (151). May 2012 (180).

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Data Center Knowledge

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. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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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. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The list includes companies that have publicly confirmed their server counts, with a separate section to discuss those that don’t disclose the data, but are likely large enough to merit discussion. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

This video provides an overview of the company’s manufacturing operation in Beauharnois, along with a look at the data center design, which features a peaked roof design similar to the Yahoo “chicken coop.” Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). July 2012 (134).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has signed a 2 megawatt lease at its COPT-DC 6 data center in Manassas, Virginia, the company said today. The new tenant was identified as a “Fortune 100 Global consumer electronics and technology company.” Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” ” The anticipated growth, as well as some initiatives that will move the company into other SaaS-based services around customer relationship management, prompted the company to seek out a provider that could accommodate its current and future needs. “It White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Optical Circuit switching company CALIENT Technologies announced it has raised a $27 million round of venture financing and named Jag Setlur, a 20-year finance professional, as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking. By: John Rath July 26th, 2013. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Companies rely on data centers or colocation service providers to support mission critical information technology (IT) infrastructure and maintain business continuity. Additionally, companies will collect and review information about: The data center’s location, facility, and risk mitigation features. Comments (required). White Papers.

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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 26, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Its conference demo illustrated a 12GB/s Fusion powered pipeline, with ioControl Hybrid storage, HP Z820 ioTurbine Cache, and HP Z820 Artist workstations with ioFX 1.6TB. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

The company will use the funding to develop and launch new web acceleration, routing and security services, strengthening its IP portfolio, as well as expanding its global network behind its content delivery network (CDN). Companies that use EdgeCast include Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu. CDN Provider EdgeCast Raises $54 Million.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. “Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth. By: John Rath July 24th, 2013. Photo: Intel).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

The company seeks to provide seamless movement of apps between cloud platforms and data centers, as shown in this diagram. company plans to use the funding to further accelerate its roadmap and growth. ” The company’s investors believe CloudVelocity can become a key enabler of enterprise cloud adoption.

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