All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity says more than 100 enterprise trials have conducted trials since the company emerged from stealth in December 2012. It can then provision cloud resources, replicating and synchronizing the entire app stack (including operating system, kernel, app software stack, and app data) in the cloud site. December 2012 (151).

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Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? August 2012 (166).

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The data centers are so sprawling that it’s hard to get a figure, as DCK noted late 2012. Federal agencies have closed 484 data centers as of May 2013, up from 381 closures last time DCK checked in, last November, 2012. Agency must have sufficient information to calculate a cost of operating system per hour (COSH) score.

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Data Center Government Data Storage 246

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Microsoft: It’s the Era of the Cloud Operating System. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134).

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Data Center Microsoft Cloud Data 178