Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure - Agile programming of everything from applications to basic infrastructure is essential to enable organizations to deliver the flexibility required to make the digital business work. Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing. Jackson 2012 ).'

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Big Data Mobile Cloud Security 174

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Infrastructure will be software defined. F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. Bryant shifts the discussion to software-defined infrastructure (SDI). Bryant shifts the discussion to software-defined infrastructure (SDI).

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Thursday, December 20, 2012. 20, 2012 — NJVC ® , an information technology solutions provider headquartered in northern Virginia and supplier of Cloudcuity™ AppDeployer , and Virtual Global , a provider of cloud-enabled enterprise IT solutions based in northern. . Custom software will hit the cloud. at 4:39 PM.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. in Big Data Now: 2012 Edition by O’Reilly Media, and touches on the three primary characteristics of data [1]: Volume: The size of your data.

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Big Data Data Analysis Fractional CTO 286

The Verge

MAY 1, 2021

If either effort is successful, it would directly benefit Microsoft’s software business, as well as its ambitions for cloud gaming. Sweeney famously lashed out at Microsoft’s efforts to control the Windows software ecosystem with its store and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 2012. October 17, 2012 at 5:35 AM. November 12, 2012 at 10:46 PM. December 5, 2012 at 12:44 PM. Cloud Computing can be referred as a deployment model, designed to support for technology infrastructure in terms of cost, hi-tech hardware, storage capacity along with addressing scalability concerns.

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Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. This is a software-defined data center discussion—compute virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and management. But what is software-defined storage?

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 4, 2012

In the old days, when an IT department purchased some software disks would arrive in the mail, get installed on servers, and you’d be up and running. As long as you are getting more servers, you’ll also have to get more storage. © Dr. Jim Anderson for The Accidental Successful CIO , 2012. Oh, and one more item.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”. It was one of the first software startups in Austin and the U.S.,

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Transportation Windows Software Software 129

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The concept of the software-defined data center (SDDC) rose to prominence during VMworld 2012, with VMware touting it as the next big leap forward in information technology management. Industry Perspectives.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Meeting Software 125

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The first to take the stage is Doug Fisher, VP and General Manager of the Software and Services Group. Fisher sets the stage for people interacting with multiple devices, and devices that are highly mobile, supported by software and services delivered over a ubiquitous network connection. Naturally, a great CPU is key to success.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). OS virtualization has massively simplified complexity at the software level by abstracting-away the machine-level CPU commands, and has even contributed to simplifying networking between virtual machines. Host Bus Adaptors).

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Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” Naturally, a series of Intel ingredients underpin this: Intel CPUs, Intel NICs, switch silicon (the FM6700), Intel DPDK, and Open Networking Software.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

This leads into a discussion of the software-defined data center (SDDC). EVO is the SDDC packaged with hardware to provide the fastest way to realize the benefits of the SDDC. Hardware partners for EVO:RAIL include Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Inspur, Net One, and Supermicro. Similar Posts: VMworld 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Vmware Hardware Cloud Virtualization 79

Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Rather, its all about using (and re-purposing) compute hardware more effectively. One way to think about it is that VMs provide a logical way to create or re-configure new software server stacks. ► 2012. (15).

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Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Sean Daniel

AUGUST 8, 2012

Wednesday, August 08, 2012. about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. Before I joined Microsoft, I spent countless hours with my roommates with Windows NT4 server, Proxy Server, and more software, trying to share an Internet connection with my room mates. at 4:39 PM.

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Small Business SMB Windows Microsoft 78

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it). This post is from 2012, but is—to me—still as applicable today as ever.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Galido

MAY 10, 2019

The time comes when your PC starts to “slow down” and we are not referring to a software slowdown, in that case, formatting could be enough and the PC would come back as new. In this case, we are referring to hardware slowdown which could be remedied through computer repair or upgrades.

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Hardware Intel Energy Examples 81

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. PAN Manager is the "secret sauce" Egenera has been using to manage its own hardware for years, and recently OEMd to Dell as part of their Dell PAN System. ► 2012. (15). Virtualization. (31). Blog Archive.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. RELATED POSTS: EMC Launches Data Protection Suite, Software Enhancements. Networking.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” This naturally leads to a discussion of software-defined networking (SDN) as a means whereby the network can evolve to keep up the rapid pace of change and innovation in other areas of the data center.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Intel is offering a new Software Development Kit for data centers that complements its Data Center Manager (DCM) product, a key ingredient in more than 80 percent of today’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offerings. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting.

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Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 3, 2012

Tuesday, January 03, 2012. This application, called FingerPrint by Collobos Software , will share out any connected printer, as well as DropBox locations to the AirPrint service. 1/03/2012 9:24 PM. 1/03/2012 9:24 PM. 1/12/2012 7:04 AM. 4/09/2012 3:44 AM. 7/28/2012 11:41 AM. 9/10/2012 6:30 PM.

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How To Windows Small Business SMB 64

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. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Sean Daniel

MAY 30, 2011

Finding Add-ins for Small Business Server Essentials If you’re looking how you can extend your SBS Essentials software with add-ins designed specifically for the SBS space, then you want to point your browser over at the Microsoft Website to find the SBS Partners. Simply go here and you can search for the software you want.

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Small Business Windows SMB Microsoft 40

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

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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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

Software virutalization. Abstracting software from the underlying CPU yields mobility, consolidation, and degrees of scalability. As I recently outlined , this technology is a perfect complement to software virtualization -- it essentially gives "mobility" to infrastructure , rather than to software. No surprise here.

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Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Sean Daniel

JULY 16, 2012

Monday, July 16, 2012. You need to be also running the SkyDrive software for Windows. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |.

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How To SMB Windows Backup 53

Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

We invite everyone to check it out by downloading the software from the Microsoft Connect site. If you don’t have extra hardware, Vail installs flawlessly into Hyper-V based environments and one of our MVPS already has a blog post on how to install it into VMWare. The hardware requirements for Vail call for a 1.4

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Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Some highlights from the week included: Pixar celebrated the 25th anniversary of its RenderMan software, which has been used in 19 of the last 21 Academy Award-winners for Visual Effects. fxguide has an exclusive on Pixar’s RenderMan and the software’s co-founder Ed Catmull. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 63

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.

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Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Banking 130

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

But we also fail to notice the complexity it creates for managing I/O, storage connectivity and other physical-world management issues. Provisioning is assumed only for software. Everyone seems fixated on Provisioning = Software. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. ► 2012. (15).

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