Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. It’s nice to see that work on OpenStack Barbican is progressing nicely; see this article for a quick overview of the project and an update on the status.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. His follow-up article on disaster recovery of DCE VM with vCHS is also pretty good.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

This definition was published in an article entitled “What is Big Data?” Hadoop is comprised of two major components: the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce, a framework for writing applications to process large amounts of content over multiple nodes (servers). Let us examine Hadoop’s use cases for process offloading.

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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. This solution would hold workloads, files, desktops, applications and everything else needed to run an organization’s day-to-day business activities. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. One Hybrid Cloud can “clone” existing cloud applications, making it easier to replicate a deployment in a new cloud environment or create a failover solution that keeps an app online when your public cloud crashes.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Fieldview says its latest update focuses on addressing a critical gap in DCIM solutions: sharing data that is gathered, stored and analyzed with other applications. DataView is a non-compressed cache of data for a wide variety of applications to access or publish historical and trending data for asset management and capacity planning needs.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My list of links and articles from around the web seems to be a bit heavy on security-related topics this time. Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. Featured Cloud Articles. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

A high-availability data center or colocation service provider minimizes the chances of downtime occurring for critical applications and makes it easier to secure and manage a company’s IT infrastructure requirements. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Cloud Application Management.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

With the new release IT managers can now extend the benefits of Granite to larger branch offices and data-intensive applications that previously were difficult or impossible to consolidate. also improves data protection with automated snapshots and simplified support for existing data-center class backup and recovery software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io is contributing its NVMKV (nonvolatile memory key-value) interface to flash and is also posting the first flash-aware Linux kernel virtual memory Demand Paging Extension to GitHub for community testing. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. and Percona Server 5.5.31.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

We now make it possible for our customers to deploy a far greater number of business critical applications utilizing the most predictable and efficient enterprise class cloud across Europe.” Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. The SolidFire rollout will occur in two phases.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

The new benchmark being proposed is called the High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG), and should better correlate to computation and data access patterns found in many applications today. Designing for a Benchmark, or Applications? Performance for Real-World Applications. gigaflops performance.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

From centralizing data collection, managing physical capacity and assets, and integrating with critical IT management applications, DCIM unifies the processes, tools and raw data needed to provide an accurate view of data center performance across both IT and facilities. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Businesses are looking to migrate applications hosted on-premise into the cloud using a variety of hybrid solutions,” said Andrew Higginbotham, chief technology officer at Savvis. It’s completely new and rebuilt (when compared to previous offerings like Virtual Private Data Center). Featured Cloud Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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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. Interesting article. ALAN McMAHON. Flexibility.

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Galido

JUNE 27, 2018

Email clients and office application software suites are required to be installed locally in order for anything to function. Cloud Services can change all of these classic methods with the capability to access all your files and applications, housed or installed on servers on the cloud, with a simple Internet connection.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

With multi-core processors and IO-hungry applications in today’s enterprise and web-scale organizations, the performance bottleneck has moved from the server to storage. Since the goal of flash is to deliver application acceleration through low latencies and high IOPs, perhaps we should consider the cost/IOP as a more relevant metric.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As usual, I’ve gathered a collection of links to various articles pertaining to data center-related technologies for your enjoyment. Let’s be real—the ability for an application to protect itself (and its data) from rogue software (including a compromised or untrusted operating system) is huge. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Too frequently I&O says, “I got that application back online in 20 minutes”. Business services is the top level in a business, sitting above an application, in order to support a business service, you need to consider all the infrastructure involved. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. Select Month.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The systems will be based on open internet standards and designed to help application developers mobilize connected assets of all kinds. ARM technology and its ecosystem create the bedrock of this smart intelligence that will enable others to build unique services and applications to help the IoT flourish.” ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Privately held CSL is a leading provider of virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system. With the acquisition of CSL International, IBM expands its cloud virtualization capabilities, making it even easier for clients to take advantage of Linux on System z.” Featured Cloud Articles. Select Month.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The evolution of enterprise applications and rise of big data has eclipsed traditional database capabilities and provides an opening for a significant new market entrant,” said Andy Vitus, partner, Scale Venture Partners. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Select Month. May 2013 (165).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

QA/QC assistance- supervising consultants as needed, invoice / Payment, application processing, tracking and reporting, and tracking of all key project documents, including submittals, RFIs, change orders, invoices and payments, lien releases, etc. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The new application is highly-interactive, makes comparative reports, and makes Radar Cloud and CDN performance data more accessible than ever. “As Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Virtualization. Disaster Recovery. Get daily email alerts direct to your inbox.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

“You really couldn’t buy enough CPU for common server applications in the past,” said Sharp. Read the full article at Data Center Knowledge. [.]. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. “It was a limiting factor.” Posted July 22nd, 2013. [.] Add Your Comments.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The new data center offers re dundant application server hardware with instant local failover capability. Is this article trying to brag about 14TB datastores, sub300ms query latencies and 99.7% The article is about one small example of how data is being generated all around us. Featured Cloud Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

MapR Technologies announced MapR M7, a Big Data platform for NoSQL and Apache Hadoop applications, now available through Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Virtualization. Disaster Recovery. Select Month. July 2013 (144). Convergence.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Virtualization. Disaster Recovery. Select Month.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

RELATED POSTS: Instart Logic Launches Application Streaming Network. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Virtualization. Disaster Recovery. The Great Gatsby VFX from Chris Godfrey on Vimeo. Instart Logic Gets $17M to Optimize Networks for Content. Select Month.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. Still, many users insist on utilizing their own devices to access applications, workloads and their data. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Funding from new and existing investors will help the company advance its portfolio of 3D MEMS Optical Circuit Switching systems, extend its IP portfolio and provide working capital for its rapid production growth driven by new applications in software defined datacenter networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Virtualization. Disaster Recovery.

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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. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Virtualization. Disaster Recovery.

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