Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Award winning visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic is an Australia-based company behind many blockbuster movies. 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. Comments (required).

Cloud 188

Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. “Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth. By: John Rath July 24th, 2013.

Data Center 221

Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

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). Jag Setlur joins CALIENT from July Systems where he served as chief operating officer and CFO. Networking. White Papers.

Data Center 173

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory. By: John Rath July 17th, 2013.

Data Center 180

Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. White Papers.

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment.

Data Center 195

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

ARM is installing sensors to automate the infrastructure that manages its meeting rooms, parking lots and HVAC systems. The company ARM will deploy network technology and more than 600 connected sensors across its UK campus in Cambridge, all controlled by smart ARM-based chips. Disaster Recovery. Comments (required).

Internet 200

Internet Data Center Data Energy 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Comments (required).

Data Center 192

Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Equinix (EQIX) and video advertising platform company Brightroll announced that Rocket Fuel is leveraging the BrightRoll VideoRTB+ solution on Platform Equinix to improve the ability of buyers to successfully bid on video ad inventory. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 183

Data Center Data Advertising Disaster Recovery 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Benchmark tests of M7 running on AWS High Storage instances have shown it delivering consistent performance of over 100,000 operations per second per node. Strong and competitive companies like Fruit of the Loom have embraced the benefits of driving their business on data analytics.”. Disaster Recovery. White Papers.

HP 179

HP Big Data Data Center Storage 179

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. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Accelerating its strategy to deliver Flash across the enterprise server and storage EMC announced it will acquire privately-held ScaleIO. ScaleIO Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) software will become part of the EMC XtremSW Suite of Flash storage software. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. Comments (required).

Data Center 100

Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Virtualization 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Among many other performance metrics, memory, storage and interconnect advances, vendor changes and other things, the evolution of gigaflops to teraflops and then petaflops has led many to speculate on what it will take to achieve exaflop levels of performance. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

Data Center 204

Data Center Storage Applications System 204

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment.

Data Center 184

Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

As a strategic investment to further its System z portfolio, IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire CSL International. Privately held CSL is a leading provider of virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. White Papers.

Data Center 190

Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Houston Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company – emphasizing the underpinning trends of cloud, mobility, big data and enterprise social. Microsoft: It’s the Era of the Cloud Operating System. Networking.

Data Center 178

Data Center Microsoft Cloud Data 178

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Its the approach that HP (w/Matrix Orchestration Environment plugins), IBM (Open Fabric Environment) and Cisco (Unified Computing System or UCS) have entered into recently, and where firms like Egenera (with PAN Manager software and the Dell PAN System ) have been selling for some time.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100