Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Prior to joining Nlyte, Matt worked at IBM for more than ten years, helping to launch multiple products in their Information Management and SMB groups. From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. Data Centers are increasingly complex.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

The new owner, a long-time player in data center real estate, acquired the building from Hines Property Trust. The 30-story building in downtown Los Angeles has more than 300 tenants, including dozens of data center firms and telecom carriers. ” The Data Center Premium. . Longtime Partners in Sector.

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Data Center Real Estate Data Storage 205

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). Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact.

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Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

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.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

DH Capital is well known in the Internet infrastructure space, specializing and advising in some high-profile deals in the space, including SoftLayer’s sale to IBM. “Tom and his team have built a first class data center business and facility.” Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. 5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. This week’s Industry Perspectives represented an intersection of top-of-mind topics for data center professionals and executives. Industry Perspectives: SEPATON, MTM, Crossbeam, Visual Data. White Papers.

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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

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Gal and Liran Schour from IBM are slated to do a talk on this at the OVS conference this week.). Servers/Hardware. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere?

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Estimating IT costs in the data center is a headache Romonet is looking to relieve with Portal 2.0, an updated version of its SaaS-based data center performance and lifcycle management software suite. Businesses have an immediate view into how efficiently it is managing and utilizing its data center infrastructure spend.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Data Storage 185

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Riverbed (RVBD) has introduced a new release of its Granite product family, delivering an enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation. software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

.” In 2012 the company made an upgrade to its system, which resides in a containerized data center from IBM, located outdoors next to offices at Fox Studios in Australia. It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. Modular Data Centers.

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Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

According to this Gartner report, two of the leading providers in the sector, IBM and BMC, did show modest year-on-year growth in 2012 of 0.8 This is driving a transition to a new S-curve, shifted to the right and upward of the original one, delivering better data center performance. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Big Data Data Analysis 209

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Given that IBM strengthened its position with “born on cloud” companies through its acquisition of SoftLayer , it makes sense that Amazon would continue to try to push upmarket, towards the enterprise, given its strengths with startups. They are isolated from other instances belonging to other customers at the host hardware level.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 207

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

SPF13

JUNE 4, 2015

Linux has become the foundation for infrastructure everywhere as it defined application portability from the desktop to the phone and from to the data center to the cloud. OS Provides Portability 
 (same app runs on different hardware). The Docker Mission Build Ship Run Anywhere Any Application Local Cloud Data Center.

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Operating Systems System Disaster Recovery Case Study 100

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. Hardware consolidation.

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

That way the group that added too many fancy features that need too much storage and server time will have to account for their profligacy. The tool can be customized to generate accurate cost estimates of private installations by taking into account heating and cooling costs, hardware, and data center rent.

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Tools Cloud Budget Artificial Intelligence 116

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware. This article on putting data in a volume in a Dockerfile is one example.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. First of all, what we’re talking about here are systems like Cisco UCS, Egenera PAN Manager, HP VirtualConnect, IBM Open Fabric Manager, and a few others. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows.

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Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

While players like IBM may or may not use the code to provide a Cloud service but will take every consulting opportunity as a result of the project. OpenStack needs virtual network (and storage for that matter) and Nicira seems just as committed to OpenStack as they had prior to the acquisition. This is where OpenStack comes into play.

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Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 72

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Truth-be told, Egeneras own BladeFrame hardware already supports 128GB of memory, on 6-core, 4-way boards. Instead, the blades would talk directly to the storage servers. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Friday, February 13, 2009.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Equinix buys West African data center company for $320 million. Global data center operator Equinix expanded its capability and connectivity in West Africa in early April with the $320 million acquisition of MainOne, which offers services in Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire. IBM buys Salesforce specialist 7Summits.

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Enterprise Enterprise Oracle SAP 143