Fountainhead

MAY 29, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its All Just Data to Me. Now that I’ve been with EMC for a few months, my relationship to storage, computing, and networking has once again shifted. Cloud Infrastructure and Data Management. Big Data. (6). Ken Oestreich.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

With increased use of a virtualization layer, migration tools, shared storage, fat network pipes, and virtual I/O and switching, we are all now realizing that where the executable application code resides is becoming far less important. Everything is just data - and can be moved/migrated. Observation #2: Big Data is becoming bigger.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). That might mean continuous orchestration between specific apps and networking, storage, firewalls, IaaS, DBs and more. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

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. Picture aisles of million-dollar storage arrays pumping-out movies and live TV shows 24x7 across the country.

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Dataconomy

MAY 17, 2017

And The Wall Street Journal reported in June 2016 that. The post Dare to Share in The Cloud: How Secure Is Your Data? Even financial services firms, noted for their caution, are making headway. UK-based insurance intermediaryTowergate Insurance announced last year that it is moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

NYSEs cloud now allows small firms (picture 3 hedge fund managers and their dog in a garage) to take advantage of enterprise-grade hardware and data. The NYSE service means those IT organizations no longer have to struggle with integrating data dumps and feeds into their infrastructure and operations. Big Data. (6).

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 18, 2009

The other day, I had the pleasure of being a guest of Steve Bengston on wsradio (Internet Radio) during the Price Waterhouse Cooper Startup Show where our discussion was around the different facets of Green IT, efficiency, economic and environmental sustainment, closing the Green Gap and of course my new book. Listen in here when you get a chance.

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Internet Storage Journal Virtualization 40

Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2009

Infrastructure Orchestration and Unified Computing are both terms referring to a technology whereby server CPU, I/O, storage connectivity, and network, are all able to be defined and configured in software. And, by abstracting the I/O, both data and storage connections can be converged, further simplifying the network infrastructure.

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Data Center Storage Dell Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

I called these the " big blind spots ". More from Egenera was published today in the Wall Street Journals MarketWatch website. I arrived at these observations when I speak with data center managers who admit that they dont have solutions to these issues. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Cloud Computing can be referred as a deployment model, designed to support for technology infrastructure in terms of cost, hi-tech hardware, storage capacity along with addressing scalability concerns. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro.

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Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

A "unified fabric" is part of what we term " infrastructure orchestration " and "unified computing" - it is the abstraction of compute, I/O, storage and network infrastructure into a dynamically-configurable "fabric". The ability to re-purpose entire compute, network and storage systems on-the-fly, in response to compute demand.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

. ~ John Having looked into cloud computing solutions for our small investment firm over the past few months, we have learned a lot about the growing movement towards remote data storage and accessibility. In terms of data storage and backup – our current system is not ideal. Big Data. (6).

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Cloud Data Center Storage Google 113

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Increasingly huge storage needs, esp. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro. Significant "Shadow IT" (e.g. users turning to external web services w/out ITs knowledge). Inquiring into a VDI environment to increase manageability, reduce costs.

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Data Center Virtualization Cloud Mobile 173

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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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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Storage IBM Data Center Data 45

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

One may be within a Tier-I data center with a relatively low response rate requirement and allowing users only 500MB of storage per mailbox. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Syndications. Contrarian. (14).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Energy Data 113

Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

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. The system runs Egenera s cloud management software, PAN Manager, which manages I/O, networking, and storage for the servers as a logical set. Big Data. (6).

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Storage 100

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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Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Syndications.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro. Syndications. Contrarian.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

in order to provide enough performance for customers who were multi-tenant on hardware and storage, you had to make them non-multi-tenant. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro. Back during Cloud 1.0, And then he has to try and make money.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Syndications.

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Data Center Cloud Training Enterprise 220

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs. It permits IT to "wire-once" and then create CPU configurations (virtual NICs, HBAs, networks/VLANs, storage connections) using a unified/consolidated networking fabric. Big Data. (6).

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Here I was, in an organization that’s made billions on storage, and I was about to talk about cloud attributes solely from a compute perspective.Was I missing something? My re-think was that attributes of Compute, Storage, and yes, Network, all had to be reconsidered in the context of a holistic cloud-based infrastructure.

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Cloud Storage Data Center Virtualization 186

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. Issues having to do with I/O, storage connectivity, etc.

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

million vehicles in more than 75 countries with services like car locator, engine remote start, driving journal, heater start, and stolen vehicle tracking. The first platform is a real time, big data platform being used for analyzing traffic usage patterns to identify congestion and connectivity issues. They support more than 3.3

Cloud 124

Cloud Real Estate Mobile Development 124

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.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Converged Infrastructure is highly complementary to shared storage: the pervasiveness of SAN storage is a major enabler of a more virtual/flexible data center. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Syndications.

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Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal.

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

JULY 14, 2009

Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro. Three observations Ive recently made have driven this concept home to me. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Syndications. Follow @Fountnhead. Subscribe to this blog. Topic Shortcuts. Analyst updates. (26).

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Data Center Data Virtualization System 113

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

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). Instead, the blades would talk directly to the storage servers. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal.

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Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

But essentially its about converging data, storage, and even out-of-band management information along a single (high bandwidth, low-latency) wire. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal. Data Center Facilities Pro. This concept is an ideal complement to I/O consolidation.

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g. Big Data.

Disaster Recovery 100

Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Dell Data Center 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Thats essentially the idea behind the " Datacenter-in-a-Box :" Most common config uration: Blades + Networking + SAN Storage Most useful tools to manage VMs + physical servers + network + I/O + SW provisioning + workload automation + high availability Thats what Egeneras done with Dell. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

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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Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100