Cloud Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Its partners include Gannett Company Inc., Applications and services to be provided include high speed, hosted voice/video/data, content delivery, virtual machine and storage provisioning and disaster recovery services. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L.

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JUNE 3, 2014

For example, companies that are weighing the value of putting workloads in public cloud environments against security concerns will now be able to move forward by putting in place additional process-based access controls. Existing customers will benefit immediately as the new products become part of the company’s existing offering.

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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. I tend not to link to TechTarget posts any more than I have to, because invariably the articles end up going behind a login requirement just to read them. Networking.

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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. This definition was published in an article entitled “What is Big Data?” Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc).

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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. I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter. Networking. Impressive.

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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. We must dispel a myth about storage costs, particularly for flash.

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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. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. ‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. A “catastrophic failure” typically refers to a total failure of a system, which leaves little or no option for recovery. Featured Cloud Articles. Comments (required).

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The company’s cloud brokerage, cyber analytics, IT. data center disciplines – servers, operating systems, storage, business. continuity and disaster recovery. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L.

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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. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

The company seeks to provide seamless movement of apps between cloud platforms and data centers, as shown in this diagram. company plans to use the funding to further accelerate its roadmap and growth. ” The company’s investors believe CloudVelocity can become a key enabler of enterprise cloud adoption.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Google’s extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 It marked the third consecutive quarter, Google spent more than $1 billion on data centers and servers, reflecting the company’s latest wave of data center construction projects. Featured Cloud Articles.

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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. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software.

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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 and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The company broke ground on the new development on July 1, 2013 and the facility will be fully-commissioned and ready for occupancy in April 2014. And, each will provide disaster recovery office space, redundant private telco rooms and 10,000 square feet of raised floor in a Private Data Hall. The company has.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

A breakdown of power usage at Facebook’s data centers during 2012, from the company’s annual sustainability report. Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers. 000294 MT of CO2e (294 grams) in 2012.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The company deploys monitoring systems to gather data on soil moisture and the flow of irrigation systems. The company’s equipment provides real-time monitoring for more than 4,000 fields in the western United States. Jason Verge.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Internap will host TalentWise from its Dallas data center with its Santa Clara data center used as a disaster recovery site. Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Disaster Recovery. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

“I claim there really are almost no companies in the world, just a handful, that are really investing in scaled public cloud infrastructure,” said Ballmer (see transcript ). But the company has never confirmed a number. How many servers do these companies have? Google is bigger than we are. You get Yahoo! Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. In the end, we settled on the network cards from a company called Solarflare. (It White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

The company announced the acquisition of the Evocative site on Thursday. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution. Intelligent replication and storage control mechanisms now allow for the distribution of cloud components.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

A look at the Lo Power Company’s LP-4240-10H Ultra server. Photo: LowPower Company). Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. The company offers four types of servers: micro, 4,8, and 12-core. GHz quad thread.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. Additional HP converged infrastructure used in the making of “Turbo” included 3PAR StoreServ storage, archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage, simplified network management with HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and HP BladeSystem c7000. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. 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

megawatt data center, the company said today. Our state-of-the-art De President facility will provide an ecosystem unrivalled in terms of connectivity to support companies of all sizes in Amsterdam.” Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Featured Modular Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Award winning visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic is an Australia-based company behind many blockbuster movies. To accomplish rendering on movies and keep pace with rapidly growing compute demands, the company has had to constantly evaluate on-premise equipment upgrades or cloud opportunities. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Internet performance and control company Cedexis announced an extension to its Radar community services with the addition of many new clouds, and the availability of Radar reports as an app for Windows 8. The Cedexis Radar community now measures more than 50 cloud platforms, the company said. Featured Cloud Articles. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

These are am,ong the company’s 1 million-plus servers. GI Partners Buys LA Telecom Hub One Wilshire – Private equity firm GI Partners has acquired One Wilshire, the leading carrier hotel in Los Angeles and one of the most wired buildings in the world, the company confirmed this week. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” ” The anticipated growth, as well as some initiatives that will move the company into other SaaS-based services around customer relationship management, prompted the company to seek out a provider that could accommodate its current and future needs. “It White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

An article over at CNBC looks at the growing importance of the Washington, D.C. Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. “Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth. By: John Rath July 24th, 2013. Photo: Intel).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Determining the location of a data center is one of the crucial decisions for a company as it is based on strategy and goals of a company. which will help company to become greener. Methodology/process for a site selection needs to customize as per company’s requirement. Featured Cloud Articles. PRASHANT BAWEJA.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

The company will use the funding to develop and launch new web acceleration, routing and security services, strengthening its IP portfolio, as well as expanding its global network behind its content delivery network (CDN). Companies that use EdgeCast include Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu. CDN Provider EdgeCast Raises $54 Million.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has signed a 2 megawatt lease at its COPT-DC 6 data center in Manassas, Virginia, the company said today. The new tenant was identified as a “Fortune 100 Global consumer electronics and technology company.” Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Vantage Data Centers has appointed Sureel Choksi as President and Chief Executive Officer, the company said Thursday. The company also expanded its credit line last year. The company has experience in the data center sector, having led a consortium of firms in acquiring SunGard Data Systems. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The list includes companies that have publicly confirmed their server counts, with a separate section to discuss those that don’t disclose the data, but are likely large enough to merit discussion. Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Featured Modular Articles.

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