Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 19, 2015

Firms partner to enable cloud-style object storage in enterprise data centers Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In case you missed it or did not hear, EMC is now Dell EMC and is future ready (one of their new tag lines). What this means is that EMC is no longer a publicly traded company instead now being privately held under the Dell Technologies umbrella. they sell Servers, Storage, I/O and Networking hardware, software and services).

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

There are various types of cloud, bulk and object storage including public services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), Google, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace among many others. The post Software Defined, Cloud, Bulk and Object Storage Fundamentals appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 2, 2016

Today’s EMCworld theme is modernize the data center which means a mix of hardware, software and services announcements spanning physical, virtual, cloud among others (e.g. how do you want your servers, storage and data infrastructure wrapped).

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Cloud, Gender Equality. DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

(Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products. “That is exactly what we’re going for,” he said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

Founded in 1998, iomart began providing cloud services as the new millennium arrived. s most successful and trusted providers of cloud services and solutions. Today, the Glasgow-based firm has customers in both the public and private sectors, including businesses in virtually every industry.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Cloud/Client Computing - The convergence of cloud and mobile computing will continue to promote the growth of centrally coordinated applications that can be delivered to any device. Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

With over 1,400 global customers, the company's products are widely used in scale-out server environments such as electronic trading, high performance computing, cloud, virtualization and big data. Solarflare's software and hardware are available from leading distributors and value-added resellers, as well as from Dell, HP and IBM.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Today, Dell as in Michael Dell and his corporation Dell along with partner Silver Lake investment announced a $67B USD deal that they are acquiring EMC along with their stake in VMware which will stay an independently public traded company.

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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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Storage IO Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Dell Technology World 2018 Announcement Summary This is part one of a five-part series about Dell Technology World 2018 announcement summary. Last week (April 30-May 3) I traveled to Las Vegas Nevada (LAS) to attend Dell Technology World 2018 (e.g., DTW 2018) as a guest of Dell (that is a disclosure btw).

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 23, 2014

Today Lenovo announced its plan to acquire the IBM x86 server storage business unit for $2.3B announcement big data Cloud Comment convergence I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics news perspective post server ssd Storage Architecture and Access virtualization Dell HP IBM Intel lenovo microsoft storage vmware'

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […].

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Part V Dell Technology World 2018 Server Converged Announcement Details This is Part V Dell Technology World 2018 Server Converged Announcement Details that is part of a five-post series (view part I here, part II here, part III here and part IV here).

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 21, 2018

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX 7000 Kinetic Based Data Infrastructure Architecture Dell EMC today announced with a tag line IT Unbound their new PowerEdge MX 7000 Kinetic Based Data Infrastructure Architecture slated for general availability September 21, 2018.

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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. Cloud Computing. (55). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Newer Post.

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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

MAY 9, 2018

Part II Dell Technology World 2018 Modern Data Center Announcement Details This is Part II Dell Technology World 2018 Modern Data Center Announcement Details that is part of a five-post series (view part I here, part III here, part IV here and part V here).

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Part IV Dell Technology World 2018 PowerEdge MX Gen-Z Composable Infrastructure This is Part IV Dell Technology World 2018 PowerEdge MX Gen-Z Composable Infrastructure that is part of a five-post series (view part I here, part II here, part III here and part V here).

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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

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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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

systems to use the Ubuntu Cloud Archive (which allows access to packaged versions of OpenStack for use with LTS releases of Ubuntu Server, like 12.04). As you may already know, I recently acquired two off-lease Dell PowerEdge C6100 systems. Using Puppet for Ubuntu Cloud Archive Support.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Private Clouds are Real and In Use. Many moons back in July 08 I wrote whether an "Internal Cloud" was an oxymoron , as well as a piece on how to build such internal architectures. Hence, the "cloud" model for IT operations fits the bill.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This is a pretty detailed write-up of a remote code execution vulnerability prsent on most Dell computers (courtesy of Dell SupportAssist). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. First, more server manufacturers are designing equipment as inherently dense - a packed Cisco UCS or Dell Blade enclosure can potentially pull 7kW or more. Apparently there were many examples of this co-located hybrid cloud approach at the SuperNAP.

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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. Cloud Computing. (55). Fountainhead.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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". Cloud Computing. (55).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Virtualization does not equal agility. Virtualization does not equal simplification In many ways, virtualization simplifies sofware. But the reality is that not everything gets virtualized. Not everything is, or will, be virtual.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Is the abstraction layer better served by being integrated into a cloud management platform, like OpenStack? Naturally, the argument then would be, “Not everyone will use a cloud management platform,” which is a valid argument. I’d love to hear others’ thoughts on this.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This is an interesting announcement from a few weeks ago that I missed—Dell EMC will offer Isilon on Google Cloud Platform.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2013

This session is led by Rob Hirschfeld of Dell and—as the session title implies—focuses on orchestrating OpenStack upgrades. The goal, of couse, is to enable upgrades while still enabling operators to keep their clouds up and running. Similar Posts: SFTS012: Designing a Trusted Cloud with OpenStack.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

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