Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 14, 2009

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 NAS Network Storage for the Home and Advice for Device Manufacturers. Startups and Enterprises.

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Storage Network Backup Agile 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

Products and data are built on a mobile strategy. VDI: Windows application delivery. View is basically a way to deliver Windows desktop environment to any device because just like roaches, Windows is never going anywhere. Unity Touch today enables a touch interface for Windows desktops and applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Windows Applications 49

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 Windows 8 Radar app is available immediately for free on the Windows App Store. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Cloud Data Windows 191

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

It’s very difficult to imagine an enterprise Cloud that both would co-exist. The drivers for a Cloud provider selecting a Cloud management platform are different from an Enterprise selecting a Cloud manager. So, it is a consideration but we are just looking at traditional enterprise public Clouds on this post.

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Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. So, it’s pretty cool that you’ll be able to run Windows-based containers (via Docker) on Windows Server 2016; here’s an article that discusses using Packer and Vagrant to try it out yourself. Networking.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Networking.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 108

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape. I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. Data tape is not dead; however, its purpose has changed. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 195

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).

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Banking 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Brian is a Solution Architect; Jim is a Windows Server Architect. Brian starts the session with a review of how the data center has evolved over the last 10 years or so, driven by the widespread adoption of compute virtualization, increased CPU capacity, and the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet. Can you tell I’m a fan?).

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. First, he provides a high-level overview of Mesos ; that’s followed up by a slightly deeper look at Mesos, then a discussion of persistent storage and fault tolerance. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

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. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Microsoft Cloud Data 178

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots. Networking. Technology Short Take #44.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments. Networking. See more details here. Check this out.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

All this leads to cloud and big data. Perlmutter now shifts his discussion from a broad look at the driving factors in the industry to a more specific look at the data center specifically. He then shows off several different form factors from various Intel OEMs (all of them are running Windows 8). IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Intel Hardware Data Center Video 101

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. What effect might that have on modern data centers?

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 62

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Networking. Might be worth checking out.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

A Screw's Loose

MARCH 5, 2013

They throw around words like secure containers, containerization (hmm…somebody went to marketing class and turned it into a verb), encryption, VPN, Secure Communication, EMM (Enterprise Mobile Management) and a whole host of other terms that of course make it okay to bring your device into work. What happened when you lost one of those?

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Mobile Security Enterprise Enterprise 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

As usual, here’s my random collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Nick Chapman over at CloudFlux shares his experience working with whitebox switches , and mulls on why the adoption of whitebox switches in the enterprise may be slower than some might expect (or hope). Networking.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I try to keep things related to the key technology areas you’ll see in today’s data centers, though I do stray from time to time. See this post by Ben Armstrong on faster live migration in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 (which is now generally available ). I hope you find something useful. Networking.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 62

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. If you find yourself needing to build a Windows image for OpenStack, check out creating a Windows image on OpenStack (via Gridcentric) and building a Windows image for OpenStack (via Brent Salisbury). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

In the old days, IT departments had developed the tools and processes that they needed in order to deal with building large groups of new servers or handling a planned data center maintenance activity. The problem is that often the VM management tools aren’t able to scale up to the size of enterprise operations.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 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. b) Look for fewer point products and less windowing.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. If any enterprise Puppet experts want to give it a go, I’d be happy to publish a guest blog post for you with full details on how it’s done. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ?

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As usual, I’ve gathered a collection of links to various articles pertaining to data center-related technologies for your enjoyment. The storage aspect of Docker isn’t typically discussed in a lot of detail, other than perhaps focusing on the need for persistent storage via Docker volumes. Networking.

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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Workspace Suite creates the magic of “enterprise computing with consumer simplicity.” It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. What about iOS and Android devices?

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). This amounts to $15 billion in data center investments.

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Virtualization Network Intel Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Networking.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As always, I have a list of links related to various data center technologies found below; hopefully something here proves useful. This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light on details, but the embedded video may be more informative (I didn’t watch it). Welcome to Technology Short Take #71! Networking.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

The second major pillar that Poonen discusses is enterprise mobility management. This means “anytime/anywhere” access, hybrid deployment, enterprise-grade functionality/support. beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!), This is a pretty cool announcement, IMHO.).

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 63

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Networking.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 60