CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 194

Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

TM Forum

JUNE 13, 2022

The rise in CSPs moving services to the cloud has exacerbated this trend as the spending they make with cloud service providers is on a usage basis in an as-a-service model. The same is true of some of the cloud-native software that CSPs now regard as essential for moving to a techco model. Spectrum costs.

Cloud 130

Cloud Network B2B Architecture 130

CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. It provides consulting and product and solution support services.

Microsoft 150

Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise Licensing 150

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Rise of the "Cloud System Integrator" (a.k.a. Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the dinosaurs.

Social 169

Social Mobile Cloud Data Center 169

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Arm will operate as an division of Nvidia and will remain headquartered in the UK, and, will “continue to operate its open-licensing model, while maintaining its global customer neutrality,” the company said. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Arm will change its current licensing model.

Data Center 145

Data Center Licensing Mobile Apple 145

The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CIOs know that making more data available will be a clear game-changer. So what kind of data are we talking about? Companies can use data—produced by shop-floor scanners and other hardware tools—to more accurately measure and improve the performance of production-line machinery. What All Of This Means For You.

Data 223

Data Hardware Tools Artificial Intelligence 223

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My! I thought you were a Cloud guy?" and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9% Up to 25% of data center power is consumed by equipment that no longer performs useful work, [i] and only 10-30% of server capacity is used.

Industry 84

Industry Data Center Energy .Net 84

GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

.” Helion and Microsoft have signed a power purchase agreement in which the software and cloud computing giant agrees to buy electricity from the fusion startup once the facility is generating power. Microsoft needs clean electricity to fuel the operations of its more than 200 energy-hungry data centers internationally.

Microsoft 140

Microsoft Energy Data Center CTO 140

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Cloud 186

Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SASE supports multiple secure access use cases—such as private applications, cloud applications, and SaaS applications—with flexible connectivity options across any user, branch, campus, microbranch location. A SASE solution should empower customers with the flexibility to manage their solution across the cloud and on-premises.

WAN 130

WAN Network Security Cloud 130

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 5, 2017

What is a cloud-hosted desktop? It’s your customized environment with your data and personalization information – not to mention being protected by your security credentials. This environment is also traditionally run locally on your personal hardware (laptop, desktop, etc.). Why is Cloud-Hosted DaaS so new?

Licensing 100

Licensing Virtualization Cloud Hardware 100

GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Kicking off the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy pointed to a major milestone for the tech giant’s cloud division: AWS has officially surpassed $40 billion in annual revenue, and not at a leisurely pace. trillion in global IT spending that has yet to shift to the cloud. A recent U.S.

Web Services 139

Web Services Cloud Microsoft Virtualization 139

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

So, here you go—here’s your latest collection of links from around the internet focused on data center and cloud-related technologies. Exploiting cloud VMs via a remote serial/console service? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management I’ve long been a fan of Velero, the application formerly known as Heptio Ark.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

Incident response in the cloud. James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. And other hardware. There are the servers you control.

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Data Security 40

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “I claim there really are almost no companies in the world, just a handful, that are really investing in scaled public cloud infrastructure,” said Ballmer (see transcript ). 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

And the licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible. Flexible licensing programs that allow organizations to pay by usage have emerged as a solution to this challenge. Additionally, look for flexible licensing programs that offer a wide portfolio of solutions and services rather than one or two.

Licensing 52

Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. Similar attacks on the hardware found in desktops or laptops is starting to hit closer to home for IT departments. Only you know when that moment might be for your tech stack.

Tools 134

Tools Development Software Development Airlines 134

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Initial purchase, configuration, and installation Negotiating software license terms is a skill in itself that might require assistance from the company’s legal team or CFO. When performing a TCO analysis, it’s important to try to accurately estimate how many licenses you need today, as well as how many licenses you might need down the road.

Software 126

Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 126

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Welcome to Technology Short Take #69! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. Furthermore, there are some strictures emplaced by HCI vendors that limit the flavour of hypervisor or constrain hardware choices to approved kits. The latter trend is demand-led.

Cloud 88

Cloud CTO Open Source Data Center 88

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The CIO of a regulatory agency that reports to the US Securities and Exchange Commission — one of the biggest cloud consumers in the world — has made it his mission to help other CIOs — and Amazon Web Services itself — improve cloud computing. But for two years, we were testing limits within the public cloud.”

Cloud 105

Cloud Data Center Web Services Data 105

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

Data Center 184

Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Fewer than 11% of enterprises in APAC today use a single cloud. Instead, organizations are settling on multi-cloud, hybrid strategy with interoperability between cloud providers. New challenges from increased cloud adoption & technology. Avoiding cloud pitfalls. Owned hardware assets. Software licenses.

Cloud 80

Cloud Devops Data Center Strategy 80

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves. They have two options.

Cloud 130

Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 130

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Even the real value add of management is starting to be challenged by Openstack for Cloud based deployments. Server virtualization is just the beginning of their plan to virtualize the data center. Cloud Computing Virtualization vmworld' VMware is not lacking for innovation.

Vmware 64

Vmware CTO Virtualization VOIP 64

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Fewer than 11% of enterprises in APAC today use a single cloud. Instead, organizations are settling on multi-cloud, hybrid strategy with interoperability between cloud providers. New challenges from increased cloud adoption & technology. Avoiding cloud pitfalls. Owned hardware assets. Software licenses.

Cloud 68

Cloud Devops Data Center Strategy 68

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). on Azure VMs. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It provides a set of guidelines and protocols for service providers to ensure the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer data. SOC 2 is specifically designed for cloud service providers, data centers, and other technology companies that handle sensitive information. What is HIPAA?

Security 74

Security Information Security Data System 74

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Vijay Bhagavath, IDC research vice president for cloud and data center networks, cautions against overreacting. Gartner analyst Jon Forest adds, “They want to be much more than a networking company as far as selling boxes and licensing software. Cisco is not a new company. They’ve been around the block,” says Bhagavath.

Data Center 128

Data Center Network Security LAN 128

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. Ellison says the offering, dubbed Oracle Database@Azure, will help many of its customers fully migrate from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.

Oracle 110

Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 110

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I hope that you find something useful here! Networking. The comments on the article are also interesting.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

TM Forum

DECEMBER 10, 2021

M1 and Verizon are two of the most aggressive telco adopters of public cloud, while BT is a cloud-native enthusiast that continues to evaluate the benefits of public cloud. M1, which used a greenfield strategy, is now 90% cloud-native. M1 goes all in on public cloud. Now, the company is 90% cloud native.

Cloud 130

Cloud Infosys Applications Strategy 130

CTOvision

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to the International Association for IT Asset Management ( IAITAM ), ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), Hardware Asset Management (HAM), and Asset Portfolio Management (APM). Special software (usually with agents) discovers the hardware and the software that is installed on it. IT hardware is no simple matter either.

Software 165

Software Software Data Center Hardware 165

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Cloud Computing. Or should it make it easier to shift OpenStack clouds to Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine for companies that want to use both approaches in a hybrid infrastructure? If the future is hybrid, he argues, OpenStack must play with the dominant public clouds. Cloud APIs at Heart of Debate.

Google 199

Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

These challenges are exacerbated by exploding data growth, increasing SLA requirements, and an evolving threat and compliance landscape. Many IT organizations that have cobbled together data protection solutions over the years now find themselves saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup approach.

Backup 84

Backup Storage Cloud Vmware 84