Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. 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. Uptime and resiliency.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). ► 2012. (15). Data Center Design.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Networking.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. Managed Data Becomes Latisys. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). IDF 2012 Day 2 Summary and Thoughts. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

Load Balancer 61

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ? Networking. Virtualization.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109