Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Applications Cloud Data Center Load Balancer 214

Fountainhead

MAY 29, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its All Just Data to Me. Now that I’ve been with EMC for a few months, my relationship to storage, computing, and networking has once again shifted. VMDK) – in other words, just more data. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

Data 160

Data Data Center Virtualization Transportation 160

Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World. (Or, In the context of data, applications and cloud computing, this question takes on a new perspective - and the role of Mohammed and the Mountain may soon reverse. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data 218

Data Data Center Applications Cloud 218

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP). Fountainhead. Tuesday, September 22, 2009.

Data Center 113

Data Center Disaster Recovery Energy Data 113

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One of those new technologies in the Enterprise Data Center space is what I call Infrastructure Orchestration (others term it fabric computing or unified computing ). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Increasingly huge storage needs, esp. And they shocked me with their challenges, ones which I assumed only large enterprises had. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Fountainhead.

Data Center 173

Data Center Virtualization Cloud Mobile 173

Fountainhead

AUGUST 1, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. But recent conversations with start-ups, CEOs, CIOs and others have suggested areas in Enterprise IT that I bet will be "hot" over the near/medium term. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design.

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Big Data Data Center Cloud Virtualization 170

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Big Data. (6).

Cloud 216

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. By now you may know that I buy into the enterprise approach where cloud computing and its operational model are enablers for something bigger : The transformation to IT-as-a-Service. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Data Center Cloud Training Virtualization 220

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. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 113

Data Center Storage Dell Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. NYSEs cloud now allows small firms (picture 3 hedge fund managers and their dog in a garage) to take advantage of enterprise-grade hardware and data. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design.

Financial 172

Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. ” RELATED POSTS: Pivotal Launches Enterprise PaaS, Receives $105 Million From GE.

Data Center 197

Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

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". Big Data. (6). Green IT.

Energy 100

Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

About Jason Verge Jason Verge is an Editor/Industry Analyst on the Data Center Knowledge team with a strong background in the data center and Web hosting industries. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

Data Center 181

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 181

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. John Having looked into cloud computing solutions for our small investment firm over the past few months, we have learned a lot about the growing movement towards remote data storage and accessibility. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

Cloud 113

Cloud Data Center Storage Google 113

Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. Big Data. (6).

Disaster Recovery 100

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Banking 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The project, dubbed the Health Associated Infection and Influenza Surveillance System, was built on six standard blade servers with converged network and storage I/O. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design.

Cloud 100

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Storage 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.). Network Interface Cards) as well as with storage connectivity (e.g. Big Data. (6).

Industry 100

Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The software has always had the ability to provision physical and/or virtual servers with mission-critical levels of availability, including networking, I/O and storage configurations. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Dell Data Center Hardware 100

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 18, 2009

The other day, I had the pleasure of being a guest of Steve Bengston on wsradio (Internet Radio) during the Price Waterhouse Cooper Startup Show where our discussion was around the different facets of Green IT, efficiency, economic and environmental sustainment, closing the Green Gap and of course my new book. Listen in here when you get a chance.

Internet 40

Internet Storage Journal Virtualization 40

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Audit-Buddy Wants to Befriend Your Environmental Data. Audit-Buddy Wants to Befriend Your Environmental Data. Purkay Labs has a simple, elegant solution to figuring out data center temperature and humidity. It’s targeted to smaller deployments like server closets or data centers under 10,000 square feet.

Data 214

Data Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage 214

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” The speaker is Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam, a Principal Engineer in the Intel Data Center Group. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 68

Fountainhead

JULY 14, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Quantifying Data Center Simplification. Ever read that marketing fluff that says "blah blah simplifies your data center"? Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Quantifying Data Center Simplification.

Data Center 113

Data Center Data Virtualization System 113

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Here I was, in an organization that’s made billions on storage, and I was about to talk about cloud attributes solely from a compute perspective.Was I missing something? Attributes in a Storage Context. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Cloud 186

Cloud Storage Data Center Virtualization 186

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. The problem is that often the VM management tools aren’t able to scale up to the size of enterprise operations. No related posts.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. As brilliant as the first microcomputer architects were, there were some early design principles that, as the law of unintended consequences outlines, have seriously hamstrung enterprise computing for years. Monday, February 23, 2009.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. simplifies traditional architectures and dramatically reduce the number of devices that must be purchased, cabled, configured, powered, cooled, and secured in the data center. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

Disaster Recovery 145

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. This gives vendors a valuable set of new offerings, and can tie management of infrastructure to management of VMs – yielding end-to-end abstraction of the entire data center. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

Data Center 138

Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Over lunch, I was able to sit-in on a discussion with two IDC analysts discussing how virtualization is expanding the role of the network, and the steps IT operations were taking to simplify the data center. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Fountainhead.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. Big Data. (6).

Healthcare 100

Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Enterprise Efficiency. Green Data Center blog.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer 138

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Fountainhead.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #42, another installation in my ongoing series of irregularly published collections of news, items, thoughts, rants, raves, and tidbits from around the Internet, with a focus on data center-related technologies. Erik Smith at EMC has published a series of articles on “virtual storage networks.”

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 60

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. These connections also give the blades very fast Ethernet access to both the network and storage devices and eliminate the need for a storage-area network (SAN). Instead, the blades would talk directly to the storage servers. Big Data.

Data Center 100

Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100