CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

One of the federal government’s key procurement arms, the General Services Administration (GSA), has released a survey to the tech community in the form of a request for information asking a few simple questions regarding the experience of their vendor base. By Bob Gourley. Here is how they describe them: Autonomic Computing.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

According to Edd Dumbill, a well respected thought leader and VP of Strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science, a big data and data science consulting company, Big Data is “data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. What is Big Data? At these prices, a one PB system can cost tens of millions of dollars.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Consolidation » Government. Government IT Facilities Rises to 7,000. Government IT Facilities Rises to 7,000. government wants its servers to come out of the closets. ” In a sense, the number has been growing along with the government’s ambitions. Number of U.S. Number of U.S.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

Oracle on Tuesday said it is opening its EU Sovereign Cloud for enterprises and government bodies to help them meet evolving data residency and privacy regulations — such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — while moving to the cloud. The two data centers have been put in place to manage disaster recovery, the company said.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration - Following your initial Emergency Response Plan items, you should prioritize your Home Site Restoration, writes Michelle Ziperstein of Cervalis. With site selection factors and process in place, it will lay a strong foundation for a company to succeed.

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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. In the end, we settled on the network cards from a company called Solarflare. (It

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting. Government.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

A “catastrophic failure” in the state of Oregon’s government data center has delayed unemployment payments to residents, the state said Tuesday. A “catastrophic failure” typically refers to a total failure of a system, which leaves little or no option for recovery. Government. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Internap will host TalentWise from its Dallas data center with its Santa Clara data center used as a disaster recovery site. To address these demands, we needed our platform to reside on dedicated hardware managed by a secure, compliant, best-of-breed provider. Government. Disaster Recovery. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

The company seeks to provide seamless movement of apps between cloud platforms and data centers, as shown in this diagram. company plans to use the funding to further accelerate its roadmap and growth. ” The company’s investors believe CloudVelocity can become a key enabler of enterprise cloud adoption.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

“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 ). But the company has never confirmed a number. How many servers do these companies have? Google is bigger than we are. You get Yahoo!

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

A look at the Lo Power Company’s LP-4240-10H Ultra server. Photo: LowPower Company). Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Google’s extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 It marked the third consecutive quarter, Google spent more than $1 billion on data centers and servers, reflecting the company’s latest wave of data center construction projects. Government.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

A breakdown of power usage at Facebook’s data centers during 2012, from the company’s annual sustainability report. Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers. 000294 MT of CO2e (294 grams) in 2012.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Cloud Computing » Government. The VA is the second largest government agency—the Department of Defense is largest – so this was a big win for all involved, beyond the contract size. It has strong footing in verticals like education, but government is highly sought after. Government. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The company broke ground on the new development on July 1, 2013 and the facility will be fully-commissioned and ready for occupancy in April 2014. And, each will provide disaster recovery office space, redundant private telco rooms and 10,000 square feet of raised floor in a Private Data Hall. The company has.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The company deploys monitoring systems to gather data on soil moisture and the flow of irrigation systems. The company’s equipment provides real-time monitoring for more than 4,000 fields in the western United States. Government.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. IBM is a governance shop. Government. Mirantis Forms OpenStack Contributions Team. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Determining the location of a data center is one of the crucial decisions for a company as it is based on strategy and goals of a company. which will help company to become greener. Methodology/process for a site selection needs to customize as per company’s requirement. Government. PRASHANT BAWEJA. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

As a public company, it is under additional scrutiny from an investor community. Engates’ blog post goes into great detail in laying out the differences between the companies, both philosophically and from a cost perspective. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. Government. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has signed a 2 megawatt lease at its COPT-DC 6 data center in Manassas, Virginia, the company said today. The new tenant was identified as a “Fortune 100 Global consumer electronics and technology company.” Government. Disaster Recovery. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

government issues potentially market-moving reports. Government. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Disaster Recovery. By: Rich Miller July 12th, 2013. Email (will not be published). White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. The new products cut across the company’s market leading Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy product lines. Government. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. Government.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

megawatt data center, the company said today. Our state-of-the-art De President facility will provide an ecosystem unrivalled in terms of connectivity to support companies of all sizes in Amsterdam.” Government. Disaster Recovery. By: Rich Miller July 23rd, 2013. Email (will not be published). White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Phase 1 will be the 5 tiers, with all new volumes place on SolidFire infrastructure, and current application volumes migrated over as hardware depreciates. The first companies to dip their toes into Solidfire were Viawest and Calligo. Government. Disaster Recovery. The SolidFire rollout will occur in two phases.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Internet performance and control company Cedexis announced an extension to its Radar community services with the addition of many new clouds, and the availability of Radar reports as an app for Windows 8. The Cedexis Radar community now measures more than 50 cloud platforms, the company said. Government. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

A private cloud is your own virtualized environment, while a public cloud is one that another company provides for you. Companies may opt to do a mix of both, with their own proprietary applications in their private cloud, and additional applications in the public cloud. Government. Shared Resources. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

RELATED POSTS: 80 Million Hours of Digital Rendering Produce “The Croods” HP Hardware, DreamWorks Animators Team On “Rise of the Guardians” 60 Million Render Hours Help “Puss in Boots” Purr at the Box Office. Government. Disaster Recovery. Turbo-Charging Digital Render Farms.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

These are am,ong the company’s 1 million-plus servers. GI Partners Buys LA Telecom Hub One Wilshire – Private equity firm GI Partners has acquired One Wilshire, the leading carrier hotel in Los Angeles and one of the most wired buildings in the world, the company confirmed this week. Government. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

The company will use the funding to develop and launch new web acceleration, routing and security services, strengthening its IP portfolio, as well as expanding its global network behind its content delivery network (CDN). Companies that use EdgeCast include Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu. Government. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Optical Circuit switching company CALIENT Technologies announced it has raised a $27 million round of venture financing and named Jag Setlur, a 20-year finance professional, as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Government. Networking. Calient Gets $27 Million To Take SDN At Light Speed. By: John Rath July 26th, 2013. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Vantage Data Centers has appointed Sureel Choksi as President and Chief Executive Officer, the company said Thursday. The company also expanded its credit line last year. The company has experience in the data center sector, having led a consortium of firms in acquiring SunGard Data Systems. Government. Photo: Vantage).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The list includes companies that have publicly confirmed their server counts, with a separate section to discuss those that don’t disclose the data, but are likely large enough to merit discussion. Government. Disaster Recovery. to reflect the official Microsoft number. Email (will not be published). White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

” The anticipated growth, as well as some initiatives that will move the company into other SaaS-based services around customer relationship management, prompted the company to seek out a provider that could accommodate its current and future needs. The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The AMD FirePro professional graphics demonstrations featured unique animation, display, simulation and other creative hardware and software collaborations for attendees from around the world. Government. IO has created a modular data center for LexisNexis within a short drive of the company’s global headquarters in Dayton, Ohio.

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