Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and only 20% of data centers scoring better than 2.0 according to a Digital Realty Trust survey reported by the Data Center Journal. Traditional data centers take a "diffusive" approach to cooling equipment.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

Facebook Announces Fifth Data Center, Located In Fort Worth, Texas TechCrunch (Today) - Facebook just took the wraps off its fifth data center, with this one landing in Fort Worth, Texas. Like most things at Facebook, the center already has its own Facebook. Big data's $1.6B Big data's $1.6B

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Big Data 150

Fountainhead

MARCH 24, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Here is a brief, high-level overview of whats meant by Infrastructure Orchestration, including some messy annotations of mine while I speak: And heres another video of it in action: The Dell PAN system that you can buy today: Posted by. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. By using these resources more efficiently, data centers ultimately need fewer physical assets -- and those assests consume less power. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. When I asked my SEs how to describe using PAN Manager with the Dell PAN system to abstract data center infrastructure in software, they gave me back a surprisingly simple set of instructions. Big Data. (6). Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. A data center trifecta? First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In return, it offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. Finally, Infrastructure Orchestration (unified computing) is a central technology to creating highly-reliable, dynamic data center.

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Data Center Storage Dell Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

JULY 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Head nod to IBM for coining the term, but never following through) I pointed-out to my trainee that folks like Amazon and other mega-providers dont fill their data centers with high-end HP, Sun or IBM gear anymore. Big Data. (6).

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Data Center Hardware IBM Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4).

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The systems Dell blades and storage can be virtualized as a pooled resource in such a way that processing power can be devoted quickly to the VAs cloud, its highest-priority task. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. But in one session which focused on an up-and-coming trend in IT, the analyst only cited the major IT vendors (think: HP, CSCO, IBM, Dell etc.) Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Houston Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company – emphasizing the underpinning trends of cloud, mobility, big data and enterprise social. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2016

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Todays announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egeneras relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again. Fountainhead.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Chock-full of great presentations, networking and predictions, topped-off with a closing keynote from Nick Carr on The Big Switch. It was all about unifying and consolidating the data center network, they said. Big Data. (6).

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I posted a Blog outlining Dell & Egeneras latest Datacenter-in-a-Box offering. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. The 13th function if provided via the Dell Management Console.)

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Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Metavante Healthcare: With annual growth of 35 to 40 percent, Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions needed to upgrade data center infrastructure just to keep pace. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. This concept was initially productized around 2001 by Egenera, in the form of their BladeFrame hardware and PAN Manager software (short for Processing Area Network), and recently expanded to Dell hardware as well. Big Data. (6).

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Similarly, Egenera BladeFrame Frabric architecture inherently eliminated the need for NICs and HBAs, and permitted unified/consolidated I/O to travel between blades at 2.5GB, or out to data center switches and storage. Big Data. (6).

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