Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Note that the merging of ONP Server and ONP Switch is something that I postulated last year after IDF 2012. Service orchestration is being addressed through a number of organizations with lots of opportunity for commercial and open source solutions. IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Servers/Hardware. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Banking 130

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

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. December 2012 (151). 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. release of the Embree open source project, as well as giving a demonstration of Autodesk Opticore Professional Studio running on Xeon Phi co-processors. .

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Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. 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 Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

. “We’re excited about the opportunities ahead to expand our footprint via Cisco’s global reach, as well as Cisco’s commitment to support our pace of innovation in both commercial markets and the open source community.” Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. July 2012 (134).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

With Switch Light, Big Switch Looks to Boost Open Source SDN. 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). July 2012 (134).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

It has been adding and developing open office productivity applications to its arsenal. The company acquired much of the talent behind OpenOffice, an open source competitor to Microsoft’s Office Suite. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Cloud Disaster Recovery Internet 186

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Dubbed in the media as “the cloud wars,” there are a handful of open source frameworks competing (or not, depending on who you ask). Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

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 Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

He shows off a demo of Skylake as well as a hardware reference platform for Skylake playing full 4K video. Fisher reinforces Krzanich’s mention of OIC and Intel’s participation in creating open, royalty-free standards for compatibility and interoperability among the billions of devices in the IoT. IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Intel Dell Data Center Fashion 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Extend Intel’s reach with non-IA hardware (FM6000 series, QuickAssist Server Acceleration Card [QASAC]. Use software, especially open source software, to drive more development toward Intel-based solutions. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

GeekWire

MAY 21, 2020

The company, co-located in Seattle and Silicon Valley, is building a combination of hardware and software to more accurately and efficiently quantify the human proteome. That’s where Patel’s experience at data storage Isilon comes in handy. Patel left EMC in 2012 and was thinking about his next move when Mallick called.

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Biotechnology Study Research Analysis 134