Data Center Transformation Will Unfold in Four Steps
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 11, 2016
Brocade’s Tom Nadeau, who literally wrote the book on SDN, says data centers are transforming, and OpenStack is just the first step Read More.
Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
The problem I have with these statements is that every network engineer I know segments their network more than just at the subnet level and their segmentation is not limited to just north-south traffic. Zero trust in my mind doesn’t really mean “trust no one” because then you would have no traffic on your network.
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PCIe Server Storage I/O Network Fundamentals for Legacy and Software-Defined Data Infrastructures
IT Toolbox
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
PCIe is a fundamental resource for building legacy and software-defined data infrastructures (SDDI), software-defined infrastructures (SDI), data centers and other deployments from laptop to large scale, hyper-scale cloud service providers.
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Announcing Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book by Greg Schulz
Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 23, 2017
Software-defined data infrastructures are where hardware, software, server, storage, I/O networking and related services converge inside data centers or clouds to protect, preserve, secure and serve applications and data.
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Announcing My New Book Data Infrastructure Management Insight Strategies
Storage IO Blog
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Announcing My New Book Data Infrastructure Management Insight Strategies Announcing my new book Data Infrastructure Management Insight Strategies published via Auerbach/CRC Press is now available via CRC Press and Amazon.com among other global venues. the white book) is my fifth […].
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71 Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober
Storage IO Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.
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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
And it is the chain’s hefty multicloud architecture, anchored by Aviatrix’s cloud networking and Equinix’s interconnection technology, that enables Turner to bring the hotel empire much closer to its key customers — business and leisure guests, as well as hotel owners.
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PCIe Server Storage I/O Network Fundamentals #blogtober
Storage IO Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2017
PCIe Server Storage I/O Network Fundamentals #blogtober Peripheral Computer Interconnect Express aka PCIe is a Server, Storage, I/O networking fundamental component.
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45 Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)
Fountainhead
MARCH 18, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Prediction).
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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP
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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IDG Contributor Network: A night to remember: Engineering lessons from the Titanic
Network World
OCTOBER 12, 2016
The legend of its sinking has been retold many times in books and movies. What lessons might this famous disaster teach engineers in modern data centers? Some 31 years ago, the RMS Titanic was discovered resting on the ocean floor. One compelling aspect of the story is the safety claims made by its creators.
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Understanding the importance of low latency for cryptocurrency exchanges
Dataconomy
APRIL 22, 2024
Image credit ) Types of latency in crypto trading Latency can manifest in various forms within crypto trading: Data latency : This involves delays in receiving market data, such as price updates and order books from exchanges, which can hinder a trader’s ability to make timely decisions.
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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The CAO of SGI asked Lillie for his 45-day assessment, and Lillie reported that the Site IT group was a disaster, and they wouldn’t be able to successfully design the network infrastructure for the new campus. We had three employees, 50 contractors from five different companies, and no credibility.” This was innovation at its best.”
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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center
Fountainhead
MARCH 3, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. 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). Data Center efficiency. (1).
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Microsoft President Brad Smith warns that U.S. is repeating a key Sept. 11 mistake in digital era
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses his book, Tools and Weapons, at a 2019 event in Seattle. government agencies, Smith writes in a new update to his book, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age , originally published two years ago. A new paperback edition includes three new chapters. 11 attacks.
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3 things CIOs can do to make gen AI synch with sustainability
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 29, 2024
Sundberg knows about as much as anybody on Scope 3 reporting and covers the subject in his book Sustainable IT playbook for technology leaders. “None of this is clear yet, because Scope 3 reporting is new and so is gen AI,” says Niklas Sundberg, chief digital office and SVP at Swiss global transport and logistics company Kuehne+Nagel.
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Tulane University SoPA Selects "Architechting Cloud Computing Solutions"
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 16, 2019
Being an "Amazon Bestseller" cloud computing publications the book is doing well. Tom Thomas , of the Tulane University's School of Professional Advancement , said, "We selected "Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions" because of the book's practical approach to important business requirements."
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Fountainhead: It's All Just Data to Me
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. And then, the resulting data generally was transported back to its place of residence.
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Fountainhead: Steve Jobs in 1980. and Cloud + Big Data Today
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and Cloud + Big Data Today. In todays enterprise context, my interpretation of this is "What could be possible if all of that data center technology could be relegated to the background and made invisible?" Big Data. (6).
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Canada's Critical Infrastructure Hit by String of Ransomware Attacks
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Newfoundland and Labrador's healthcare system may have fallen victim to a ransomware attack, through a third party, which completely damaged the network's data center. Workers had to rely on an archaic paper-based system in place of the computer network. Toronto Transit Commission's network downed by cyberattack.
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Fed Tech News Roundup
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
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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?
Fountainhead
MARCH 25, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). skip to main | skip to sidebar.
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214 Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
These factors will prevent some global companies from successfully deploying bandwidth-hungry enterprise IT strategies worldwide, such as virtualization and data center consolidation. Deepak was the lead architect of Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, and prior to that was a program manager with the Windows NT Networking team.
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What legacy tech teaches IT leaders about projects that last
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 13, 2023
I’ve had a number of servers fail in my data centers, and then there’s our mainframe, running code that was written over 30 years ago,” he said. “It And if a system can process and book revenue for transactions faster and more reliably than other systems, why change? It has never failed.” This makes legacy systems very valuable.
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Fountainhead: It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World
Fountainhead
JANUARY 19, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World. (Or, In the context of data, applications and cloud computing, this question takes on a new perspective - and the role of Mohammed and the Mountain may soon reverse. skip to main | skip to sidebar.
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How CIOs Can Transform Data From a Cost to an Advantage
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 4, 2022
By leveraging its wealth of first-party data assets to set up a retail media network, Amazon was able to generate $31.1 The LiveRamp report also shares the experience of Boots, which went from 7 percent of media being booked using first-party data, to over 40 percent using data collaboration to unlock customer insights.
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Fountainhead: Why (and How) Low-Cost Servers Will Dominate
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. Theyre being replaced by volume servers and intelligent networks that "self heal". Fountainhead.
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Fountainhead: A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies
Fountainhead
MARCH 18, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. I see VMware pursuing 3 strategies to do so: VPC - Creating an extension of an enterprises network and data center within a virtual private cloud hosted on Amazons infrastructure. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).
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Fountainhead: What is Infrastructure Orchestration / Unified.
Fountainhead
MARCH 16, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Fountainhead. Monday, March 16, 2009.
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113 Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Expand and deepen data center networking fundamentals. Making progress on CCNP was one of my 2012 goals, but it didn’t really fit in with the rest of my focus areas (which were almost all centered in the data center). General Linux Networking Personal Automation CentOS Puppet RedHat'
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Fountainhead: My Cloudy Nerdy Playlist for 2012
Fountainhead
JANUARY 2, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Networking Tips – Don’ts - Sheryl Nicholson (a short Hip-Hop style interlude). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Fountainhead.
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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Consider the use case to deliver huge numbers of applications and desktops across hundreds, thousands, or tens-of-thousands of mobile clients – Challenging for IT due to configuration, set-up, monitoring, management, network optimization and scaling.
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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 11, 2022
Assess the impact for remote access, VPN, server, network capacity, and utilization thresholds. Continuously monitor utilization and uptime of applications, servers, and network resources. It’s not the case anymore that the data center is the only consideration to be addressed immediately.
Technology Short Take #85
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 16, 2017
This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Networking. Gareth Lewis walks through a vCNS 5.5.4 to VMware NSX 6.2.5
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Fountainhead: Meeting IRL: Why The Valley's So Cool
Fountainhead
MARCH 6, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. High-speed optical networking. I say that tongue-in-cheek, but in reality it is the social networking component to the valley that makes all of the difference - the talent fluidity, the idea fluidity. Big Data. (6). Data Center Design.
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Fountainhead: Real-World Financial Services Cloud
Fountainhead
JUNE 1, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. the CMCP is accessible to customers only via a highly-secure network and only to pre-validated users. 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.
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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side
Fountainhead
APRIL 24, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. in larger organizations) are specialized around applications, servers, networking, backup, etc. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Fountainhead.
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Fountainhead: Energy efficiency and dynamic infrastructures
Fountainhead
MARCH 11, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Big Data. (6). Green IT. (43).
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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.
Fountainhead
MAY 5, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One of those new technologies in the Enterprise Data Center space is what I call Infrastructure Orchestration (others term it fabric computing or unified computing ). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Green IT. (43).
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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 17, 2024
“For a CIO, or anyone in a senior position with responsibility for data, the best way to succeed is to make projects come to life,” says Caroline Carruthers, formerly a pioneering chief data officer at Network Rail, which manages train stations and infrastructure in the UK, and now CEO of data consultancy Carruthers and Jackson.
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120 Fountainhead: Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades
Fountainhead
MARCH 3, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. PAN stood for Processing Area Network, akin to a SAN in its ability to logically re-allocate CPUs, and its ability to provide ultra-high reliability. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). A data center trifecta?
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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
I don’t track or get involved in the consumer space; my focus is on the data center. There were no major data center-centric announcements yesterday (day 1), but I suspect there will be some today (day 2) in a mega-session with Diane Bryant (SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel).
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Fountainhead: Enablers for Transformed IT - Placing My Bets
Fountainhead
AUGUST 1, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In other words, I dont just mean a product that offers an automated virtualization (server, storage, networking) layer. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog.
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170 Fountainhead: My IT is Ready. My People Are Not.
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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). Data Center Design.
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