Fountainhead

MARCH 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal. I t appears the Egenera/Dell deal is moving forward with velocity. A first joint customer was announced today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Center Operations (CDCO).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades. Since about 2001, Egenera has been selling its high-end hardware/software combination that unified re-purposing of physical and virtual servers. Big Data. (6). Virtualization. (31).

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

Dell EMC have announced their Microsoft Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform solutions. This announcement builds upon previous statements of support and intention by Dell EMC to be part of the Microsoft Azure Stack community. The post Dell EMC Announce Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Solution appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 8, 2017

What this means is an expanded focus because of the new Dell EMC that has added servers among other items to the event focus. Granted, EMC had been doing servers via its VCE and converged divisions, however with the Dell EMC integration completed as of last fall, the Dell Server group is now part of the Dell EMC organization.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. I called these the " big blind spots ". I arrived at these observations when I speak with data center managers who admit that they dont have solutions to these issues. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It also simplifies automated management and portability of workloads, such as with virtual appliances / AMIs. And #3 is how the actual software (physical, virtual, appliances, AMIs, etc.)

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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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Storage IO Blog

JULY 29, 2014

Server and StorageIO Update newsletter – July 2014 Welcome to the July 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. For some of you it is mid summer (e.g. in the northern hemisphere) while for others it mid-winter (southern hemisphere).

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 2, 2018

Dell Technologies Announces Class V VMware Tracking Stock exchange for stock or cash Dell Technologies Announces Class V VMware Tracking Stock exchange for stock or cash. Image via Dell Technologies Summary of Dell transaction announcement includes: VMware declares an $11 Billion USD cash dividend pro rata to all VMware stock holders.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […]. With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance, there were also many announcements today (e.g. Monday) and many more slated for out the week. Here are a synopsis of some of those announcements.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month including VMworld in Las Vegas that featured many Dell EMC VMware (among other) software defined data infrastructure updates and announcements. The post Dell EMC VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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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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.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its a fantastic complement to virtualization. By using these resources more efficiently, data centers ultimately need fewer physical assets -- and those assests consume less power. Big Data. (6). Virtualization. (31).

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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. Infrastructure Orchestration is very different from – but highly complementary to – hypervisor-based virtualization.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its really about my experiences of how enterprises and SPs alike have been approaching building a foundational "Infrastructure-as-a-Service" -- regardless of whether theyre planning a virtual, physical, or mixed environment. Big Data. (6).

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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).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. 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. Photo: Intel).

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Fountainhead

JULY 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 2 weeks ago I was training a new Account Executive about the virtues of server automation, I/O virtualization, converged networking, etc. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The CPUs can be managed individually or as a virtualized whole, with workloads shifted and capacity summoned as necessary. Ive spoken with the VAs CIO; theyre running both physical and virtual applications (i.e. Fountainhead. More later.

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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). Labels: Infrastructure Orchestration , IT Ops , Unified Computing , Virtualization.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

IBM boosts its System z portfolio by acquiring CSL International, Actian leverages previous acquisitions to launch new cloud and big data platforms and EastWest Bank selects HP to build a private cloud for updating its infrastructure. ” Actian Launches DataCloud and big data analytics platforms. Add Your Comments.

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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). Virtualization. (31).

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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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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? Chock-full of great presentations, networking and predictions, topped-off with a closing keynote from Nick Carr on The Big Switch. Big Data. (6). Virtualization. (31).

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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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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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part one of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack providing an overview, preview and review. Read part two here that looks at my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3). For those who are not aware, Azure Stack is a private on-premise extension of the Azure public cloud environment.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The I/O would be "virtualized" into a logical (rather than physical) connection. In the way that LUNs are mapped to physical drives, logical nodes would be mapped to physical (or virtual) CPUs. Not very "virtual," are they?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The line-up today includes talks from Diane Bryant (data center), Kirk Skaugen (clients), Doug Fisher (software and services), and a live Q&A by Krzanich. At this point Krzanich hands it off to Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel. billion x86-based devices today. There are 1.9

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read part one here that provides a general overview of Azure Stack.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 11, 2017

Overall this is a good set of announcements by Intel and what we can also expect to be a flood of enhancements from their partners who will use the new family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors in their products to enable software-defined data infrastructures (SDDI) and SDDC.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The post September 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog. With September being generally known as back to school month, the two September event bookends were VMware VMworld and Microsoft Ignite with many other things in between.

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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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