Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Content delivery and security specialist CloudFlare has been growing rapidly as it builds out a global network of data centers. The updates feature Intel SSD drives and SandyBridge Xeon 2630L processors, adjustments to caching, and a shift in network cards. In the end, we settled on the network cards from a company called Solarflare.

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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. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. It also means the person managing the data center can more efficiently utilize resources while providing better service to the company. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to SSC public officials, it includes products and services related to: Network, security and infrastructure products and capacity, ethernet, fiber optics, lease dark fibre, switches, routers, security threat technologies, and satellite services. IT hardware: desktops, microcomputers, peripherals, printers, scanners.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

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. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Networking. 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). RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Networking.

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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 19, 2013

Content delivery provider EdgeCast Networks has secured $54 million in new financing. 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).

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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. Networking.

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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 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. EMC NetWorker 8.1

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations – Moving to software defined networking is not a matter of “when” but “how,” and there are seven main factors IT administrators should consider when determining whether SDN is right for their network, says Patrick Hubbard of SolarWinds. Networking.

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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. Shared Resources. Posted July 26th, 2013. [.]

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. Networking. 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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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 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. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

KVM Hardware Overcomes Connectivity Challenges, but Introduces Others. When early versions of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switches were introduced almost 30 years ago (initially supporting only keyboard and display functions), these hardware solutions simplified connections to managed infrastructure assets.

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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. Networking.

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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. Photo: Intel).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

megawatt data center, the company said today. “Amsterdam is ideally located at the heart of the demand we are seeing for today’s networked data centre requirements across Europe,” said Bernard Geoghegan, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa of Digital Realty. Networking. Add Your Comments.

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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 25, 2013

CoreSite Realty raised its projections for earnings, citing solid customer growth and an increase in revenue from interconnections, a key strategic focus for the company. The company raised and narrowed its guidance, to $1.76 Market demand remains healthy, with performance little changed from Q1,” the company said on the earnings call.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

A look inside the network operating center for Akamai Technologies, which operates more than 127,000 servers around the globe. 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.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Companies rely on data centers or colocation service providers to support mission critical information technology (IT) infrastructure and maintain business continuity. Additionally, companies will collect and review information about: The data center’s location, facility, and risk mitigation features. Networking. 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.”. Networking. Add Your Comments.

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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. Networking.

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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 19, 2013

To address these demands, we needed our platform to reside on dedicated hardware managed by a secure, compliant, best-of-breed provider. Networking. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Add Your Comments.

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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. Networking. By: John Rath July 11th, 2013. ” Telx selected by Blucora. Add Your Comments.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. Networking. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Add Your Comments. Name (required). 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. Networking. The SolidFire rollout will occur in two phases. Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

United Internet, Josef Lamberti, and existing shareholders have made the investment to support further growth of the company. The company’s roots are in providing an open email platform to service providers, but it has long expanded its offerings to become a platform for all things office in the cloud. Major Presence in Hosting.

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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. Networking. Add Your Comments.

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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. Networking. PRASHANT BAWEJA. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Rather, new demands require the data center to be a geographically distributed network of resources. Many data centers produce information about hardware reliability or facility security, but often geography as a measure of a facility’s ability to competently serve its clients is neglected. Networking. Add Your Comments.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Interxion, known for its rich network of interconnects, recently announced it is housing the London Internet Exchange’s IT hosting infrastructure out of its London data center. Networking. 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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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. Networking. Photo: Vantage).

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