Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Cloud Computing. Animal Logic Contemplates Cloud Options for VFX Rendering. Animal Logic Contemplates Cloud Options for VFX Rendering. To accomplish rendering on movies and keep pace with rapidly growing compute demands, the company has had to constantly evaluate on-premise equipment upgrades or cloud opportunities.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Acer, Asus, Dell, Dynabook, Lenovo, HP, and JP.IK It’s designed to really take on Chromebooks in education, and is optimized for Microsoft Edge, Office, and Microsoft’s cloud-based services. In terms of hardware, a variety of laptops will be available in the coming weeks. HP has one of the only larger Windows 11 SE laptops.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

MapR M7 is now available on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Fruit of the Loom implements a Teradata Data Warehouse, and HP updates its ArcSight Security Analytics portfolio using big data to protect critical information and mitigate risk. HP uses big data for unified security analytics. By: John Rath July 18th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. With 3,265 software piracy cases settled around the world in the past year Microsoft gladly embraces the cloud computing advantages that it can benefit its partners. By: John Rath July 10th, 2013. Most won’t be.”.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. WordPress.com Shifts Storage to Amazon S3. Cloud Computing. Featured Cloud Articles.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

One area of particular note is how they are innovating in micro-data centers, including servers in storage containers. 6] [7] Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems , Dell entered the market for IT services. The Roots of Cloud Computing (coloradotech.edu).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. We feel that SolidFire is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the rapid growth in both public and private cloud computing markets,” said Jay Chong, Senior Director at Samsung Ventures.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week at VMworld , I had the opportunity to meet with Lightbits Labs , a relatively new startup working on what they called “disaggregated storage.” So what is “disaggregated storage”? Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Its conference demo illustrated a 12GB/s Fusion powered pipeline, with ioControl Hybrid storage, HP Z820 ioTurbine Cache, and HP Z820 Artist workstations with ioFX 1.6TB. Hollywood’s Render Farms Move to the Cloud. Cloud Computing. Featured Cloud Articles. SIGGRAPH Roundup: EMC, Dell, Fusion-io.

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Sean Daniel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

HP/Microsoft do an Extreme Make-Over of a Not For Profit Organization. Families For Effective Autism Treatment of Washington (or FEAT WA) , was the first winner of the HP & Microsoft Extreme technical make-over. HP also improved their networking infrastructure with the HP ProCurve 1810G-24 switch. Cloud Computing. (10).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

Cloud Computing. CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. The company seeks to provide seamless movement of apps between cloud platforms and data centers, as shown in this diagram. CloudVelocity Announces $13M Funding, New Tools for AWS. Image: CloudVelocity).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is IDF 2013 session CLDS001, titled “Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud.” The ultimate goal of RSA is completely modularized servers with pooled CPUs, pooled RAM, pooled I/O, and pooled storage. Storage technologies, like PCIe SSD and caching. With RSA, a rack becomes the unit of scaling in a cloud environment.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Servers/Hardware. Chris Wahl provides a quick overview of the HP Moonshot servers , HP’s new ARM-based offerings. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Today, most applications are now on the cloud, meaning, you don’t need much to run many applications, as all the processing is done on the server in the cloud. Today you can get a $200 laptop and get useful functions and hardware like an HD display, Windows 10, HDMI port, a decent hard drive, and sometimes even touch screen.

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 25, 2011

Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. as he talks about small business server solutions coming from Microsoft and HP. Skydrive.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Roundup: ARM, Dell, HP. Cloud Computing. Featured Cloud Articles. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking. Government.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 14, 2009

NAS Network Storage for the Home and Advice for Device Manufacturers. I expect that there will be a boom in storage device and services for the home market over the next couple of years. With larger storage needs, backing up onto CDs or DVDs becomes more cumbersome. In my case, I just needed more storage. about me. (33).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. As far as I can tell, Anthony is up to 4 posts in the series so far. Virtualization.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits? - It’s going to take some time for the entire IT world to get on board with cloud computing, but the benefits are well worth it. A mix of private and public cloud services is a great compromise for companies who are worried about security issues, writes Alan McMahon of Dell.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. Rackspace, Dell and HP are all Cloud providers that were looking for a Cloud OS. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate. So what’s the play?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Schuberg Philis has a nice write-up of their CloudStack+NVP deployment here.

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Sean Daniel

MARCH 26, 2012

Well, Microsoft and HP are at it once again, performing an extreme make-over of a not-for-profit company. Once again, Microsoft came together with HP lots of awesome technology including Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials running on an HP Proliant Microserver and Windows MultiPoint Server running on an HP ML110.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. First of all, what we’re talking about here are systems like Cisco UCS, Egenera PAN Manager, HP VirtualConnect, IBM Open Fabric Manager, and a few others. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0" skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

percent respectively, but CA and HP declined 0.6 Cloud Computing. Featured Cloud Articles. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. HP VirtualConnect ).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Poonen uses an example of a rooftop infinity pool in Singapore as a metaphor for the “three foundations” of EUC: SDDC, workspace services (authentication and content collaboration, for example), and then the desktop/mobile/cloud experience. beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!),

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel' Both were good sessions.

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Sean Daniel

MARCH 8, 2010

Microsoft and HP have been bringing technology solutions to small business customers since before most people ever heard of a latte. Learn about HP’s Small business offerings directly from the engineers at HP. We have a collection of short videos on all of the Windows Server family of products and HP hardware solutions.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day.

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Hardware consolidation. When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. and its very different from Hardware consolidation. Cloud Computing. (55). skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Sean Daniel

APRIL 4, 2011

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Well, I’m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don’t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it’d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware. ConfigDisk=1. CheckReqs=0.

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