Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. as estimated for its legacy architecture. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

Many moons back in July 08 I wrote whether an "Internal Cloud" was an oxymoron , as well as a piece on how to build such internal architectures. The project, dubbed the Health Associated Infection and Influenza Surveillance System, was built on six standard blade servers with converged network and storage I/O. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

This got me thinking: when the boundaries between compute, storage and network begin to blur, so must the boundaries between traditional IT organizations. New Operational models : Architecturally and operationally, more of IT will become "horizontally" oriented, along the lines of business services and along the lines of customers.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.). Network Interface Cards) as well as with storage connectivity (e.g. And frankly, this is where fundamental “data center complexity” probably arose from.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

The software has always had the ability to provision physical and/or virtual servers with mission-critical levels of availability, including networking, I/O and storage configurations. That means that Egeneras own hardware -- as well as Dell Blades -- not only operates with a " unified computing " architecture (as some would call it!)

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 19, 2009

These interactions have included among other topics, IT optimization, boosting server and storage efficiency, as well as the roll of tiering IT resources to boost efficiency, achieve better productivity while boosting performance in a cost-effective way during touch economic times, in other words, the other green IT ! " SAS 15.5K

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Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

Because true converged infrastructure / unified computing has architectural, operational, and capital cost advantages over traditional IT approaches. simplifies traditional architectures and dramatically reduce the number of devices that must be purchased, cabled, configured, powered, cooled, and secured in the data center.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Right-on… Then there is a report by Gartner Research on fabric-based computing… which estimated that by the end of 2012, roughly 30% of the world’s top 2000 companies would have some form of fabric-based computing architecture. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Big Data. (6).

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Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. The result is a pooling of physical servers, network resources and storage resources that can be assigned on-demand. Because the physical CPU state (i.e. Because the physical CPU state (i.e.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

"The blades include a PCI-Express connection, allowing them to connect to Ciscos high-speed Unified Fabric architecture. These connections also give the blades very fast Ethernet access to both the network and storage devices and eliminate the need for a storage-area network (SAN). Big Data. (6). Syndications.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Syndications.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization. Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Gartner and others agree - this is the next wave in data center architecture. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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