Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. Too frequently I&O says, “I got that application back online in 20 minutes”. Data Centers are increasingly complex. Rather, they expect you to get them back online.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have two new job listings from CBRE, which is seeking a Project Manager – Data Center and an Associate Project Manager – Data Center in Mountain View, California.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry has doubled capacity in its Midlands data center in Omaha, Nebraska, citing increased demand as the reason for expansion. The Midlands Data Center was given Energy Star Certification in 2012.

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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. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Fountainhead. Useful Post.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 23rd, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Blades » Green Data Centers. Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. “You really couldn’t buy enough CPU for common server applications in the past,” said Sharp. Photo: LowPower Company).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. Data is permeating everything we do. Photo: PureSense).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis , the cloud hosting unit of CenturyLink, announced global availability of an infrastructure as a service offering called Cloud Data Center. By: Jason Verge July 25th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. The need around the modern data center infrastructure continues to grow. The data center IT equipment space and environment. Access and connectivity.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. Colt has the largest enterprise-class cloud footprint in Europe, with 20 European data centers in 10 countries.

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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. ” RELATED POSTS: Big Data News: Intel, WalmartLabs, DataStax. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Micron announces a super small 16-nanometer flash technology, and Violin Memory and Fujitsu partner for extreme scale Flash-memory based Microsoft SQL data warehouse solutions. ” Violin and Fujitsu partner for Flash Data Warehouses. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colocation facilities like this Equinix data center are key components of many hybrid cloud infrastructures. ” “The majority of customer requirements and application workloads that are being deployed today are not utilizing a hybrid IT infrastructure,” said Cooney. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The Cedexis Radar is an independent benchmark for companies providing intelligence about which clouds, CDNs and data centers are best for their online assets. To help customers mine this wealth of data, a new Cedexis Radar Windows 8 app has been developed to providecontent presentation and analysis. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. 5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. This week’s Industry Perspectives represented an intersection of top-of-mind topics for data center professionals and executives. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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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.

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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. Companies may opt to do a mix of both, with their own proprietary applications in their private cloud, and additional applications in the public cloud. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Using 3D MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) and all optical switches in the data center means that without upgrading the switch, speeds can go from 10Gbps to 40Gbps and then 100 Gbps. RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Modular Data Centers.

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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. 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.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Actian announced its plans to leverage the assets from its recent acquisitions of ParAccel, Pervasive Software and Versant Corporation by offering two new platforms, the Actian DataCloud and ParAccel Big Data Analytics Platforms, to tackle the challenges of the Age of Data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage provider Scality announced it has closed its series C funding round for $22 million, bringing the total invested capital since company inception to $35 million. Customer wins for Avere.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). PATRICK HUBBARD. SolarWinds.

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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. The company seeks to provide seamless movement of apps between cloud platforms and data centers, as shown in this diagram. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Image: CloudVelocity).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

of its Data Center Infrastructure Management Suite today. 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. The data links are called DataView and LiveView. By: Jason Verge July 12th, 2013.

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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 17, 2013

Riverbed (RVBD) has introduced a new release of its Granite product family, delivering an enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation. 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.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io Sets the Stage for the All-Flash Data Center.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Many organizations already deploy some type of monitoring solution for their data centers. However, within today’s modern data center infrastructure – are you really getting the full benefits of DCIM? The performance of the data center has become intrinsically linked to an organization’s overall success.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Green Data Centers. 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.”

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“At Rackspace, we don’t charge a separate fee for each region or for each data center where you have a dedicated server. If anything, there’s a renewed need for it with the increased use of I/O-heavy applications such as databases and Big Data platforms. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

.” In 2012 the company made an upgrade to its system, which resides in a containerized data center from IBM, located outdoors next to offices at Fox Studios in Australia. It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The server hall of a data center operated by CoreSite, which reported second quarter revenues. We are pleased with the continued evolution we saw in our sales mix, recording an increasing number of leases bringing high-value applications to our platform,” said Tom Ray, CEO of CoreSite. By: Jason Verge July 25th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

In addition to the cost of operating from a rented data center, your failover solution will very likely fall short of the full resources you had at the home site, causing your company to operate below efficiency and losing business to competitors who managed to restore faster. Why is Planning for Home Site Restoration Critical?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” 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. Managed Data Becomes Latisys. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

MapR M7 is now available on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Fruit of the Loom implements a Teradata Data Warehouse, and HP updates its ArcSight Security Analytics portfolio using big data to protect critical information and mitigate risk. MapR M7 big data platform available on Amazon EMR. Modular Data Centers.

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