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.
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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 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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Fountainhead: What's your "data center complexity factor"?
Fountainhead
AUGUST 17, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Whats your "data center complexity factor"? Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). What's your "data center complexity factor"? Data Center Design.
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113 Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)
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: 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. Fountainhead.
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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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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. Virtualization does not equal agility. Big Data. (6).
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Fountainhead: The next generation business: Data is the new platform
Fountainhead
JULY 5, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The next generation business: Data is the new platform. Labels: Big Data , Predictions. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). The next generation business: Data is the new plat.
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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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Fountainhead: The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail. Although Im not a Big Data aficionado, Id recently been struck by a few statistics from the IDC Digital Universe study: It is estimated that in 2011, 1.8 skip to main | skip to sidebar.
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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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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. And, in the context of the cloud computing operations model, my relationship to the physical location of data - and processing of that data - has shifted too. Now, enter the Virtual Machine.
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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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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step
Fountainhead
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step. 2010 will be an interesting year for virtualization - but not from the perspective youre probably thinking. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).
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100 Fountainhead: Infrastructure 2.0 ? A Virtual Analogy
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 27, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure 2.0 – A Virtual Analogy. Is OS virtualization an end in itself? To a degree, OS virtualization is the “shiny metal object” de jure in that it’s captivating everyone’s attention.
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Fountainhead: Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the.
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. Data Center Facilities Pro.
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Fountainhead: Your Next Computer? in the Cloud?
Fountainhead
JULY 23, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. For years, the “virtual PC” has been the dream of users and corporations alike. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog.
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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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Fountainhead: Egenera creates physical & virtual servers.
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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May 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructures Update Newsletter
Storage IO Blog
MAY 29, 2017
Over the past several months I have mentioned a new book that is due out this summer and which means its getting close to announcement time. A common question is will there be electronic versions of the book and the answer is yes (more on this in future newsletter).
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Fountainhead: The Beginning of the Non-Dedicated Device World?
Fountainhead
JANUARY 10, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The answer lies in two defining aspects of each device: The user’s data that is locally-stored, and the user’s personalization information. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31).
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Fountainhead: A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies
Fountainhead
MARCH 18, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Amazon Web Services recent (re) announcement of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functionality as it ventures into the enterprise ( on AWS Blog ) as well as their recent teaming with Equinix and Netapp. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.
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Application Data Availability 4 3 2 1 Data Protection
Storage IO Blog
MARCH 13, 2018
Application Data Availability 4 3 2 1 Data Protection Application Data Availability 4 3 2 1 Data Protection This is part two of a five-part mini-series looking at Application Data Value Characteristics everything is not the same as a companion excerpt from chapter 2 of my new book Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, […] (..)
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60 Fountainhead: The CIO as The (IT) Supply Chain Manager
Fountainhead
AUGUST 27, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. Data Center Facilities Pro.
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Fountainhead: Documenting IT Transformation Since 2005
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. While not all data points are completely audited, they tell a powerful story. In the conceptual 3-phase "Journey to Your Cloud" we speak about the trend toward increased virtualization - and how its applied. Durham Cloud Data Center.
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Fountainhead: Differentiate or Die: Why MSPs and Hosters Need to.
Fountainhead
JUNE 5, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. Data Center Facilities Pro.
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138 Fountainhead: How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market?
Fountainhead
JUNE 5, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. Data Center Facilities Pro.
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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.
Fountainhead
JANUARY 24, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Enter Virtualization.
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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 26, 2020
GeekWire
AUGUST 2, 2020
Where are the books? Seated in front of the world (virtually) during a House Judiciary Committee antitrust hearing, the CEOs of the richest technology companies on the planet offered a window into their “offices” on Wednesday. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Is he in a barn? … Read More. … Read More.
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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. Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.
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189 Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Microsegmentation brings three important things to the table: 1) support for network virtualization; 2) support for software defined networking; and 3) automation. The book provides a really good background on the problem and talks about all the new concepts used in Microsegmentation. Microsegmentation for Dummies. It’s a great read.
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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. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog.
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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. These factors will prevent some global companies from successfully deploying bandwidth-hungry enterprise IT strategies worldwide, such as virtualization and data center consolidation. – bg.
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273 Data Infrastructure Data Protection Diaries Fundamental Security Logical Physical
Storage IO Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2017
Data Infrastructure Data Protection Security Logical Physical Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part 6 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools (..)
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Fountainhead: The Rise of the Cloud Service Bus
Fountainhead
AUGUST 26, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. Data Center Facilities Pro.
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Data Protection Diaries Fundamentals Walking The Data Protection Talk
Storage IO Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2017
Data Protection Diaries Walking The Data Protection Talk Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part 8 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools (..)
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Data Protection Diaries Fundamental Topics Tools Techniques Technologies Tips
Storage IO Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2017
Data Protection Fundamental Topics Tools Techniques Technologies Tips Update 1/16/2018 Data protection fundamental ompanion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part I of (..)
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Fountainhead: Hosting/Cloud Index outperforms NASDAQ Nearly 4x
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 21, 2010
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The list included: Digital Realty Trust; DuPont Fabros; Equinix; Internap; Iomart; Macquarie Telecom; Navisite; Rackspace; Savvis; Switch & Data; Telecity; Terremark. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).
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183 Fountainhead: My Cloudy Nerdy Playlist for 2012
Fountainhead
JANUARY 2, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World. Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Virtual Enthusiasm.
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Fountainhead: Cloud Is Not The End - It's The Means.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 9, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And that is a whole lot more than just providing a virtualized cloud infrastructure. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog.
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253 Fountainhead: Cloud: What's a Service? Who Are SPs?
Fountainhead
MAY 14, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. apps, but it also houses a Big Data repository of historic exchange. Much like the example above, we have a business that turns itself inside-out to expose internal services (and data) creating an entirely new business model. Big Data.
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Fountainhead: A Morning With State Government. Talking IT.
Fountainhead
JULY 13, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. They knew that government agency data centers were siloed. They acknowledged how un-integrated inter-departmental state data was. How to go about merging and analyzing structured and semi-structured data from diverse sources?].
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154 Fountainhead: An Image Makeover for IT
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. Data Center Facilities Pro.
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