Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Data Center Mega-Session. First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. Technical Sessions.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2022

The advent of distributed workforces, smart devices, and internet-of-things (IoT) applications is creating a deluge of data generated and consumed outside of traditional centralized data warehouses. billion connected IoT devices by 2025, generating almost 80 billion zettabytes of data at the edge. over last year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

The more use cases AI must accommodate, the more data is involved and the more complex the data pipeline can become. Today, 10% of data is processed outside of the data center and that figure is expected to rise to 75% by 2025. Intel® Technologies Move Analytics Forward.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs. Think of this as provisioning hardware using software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Intel » Management. Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools. Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting. The Intel Virtual Gateway can support up to 10,000 managed devices and 50 simultaneous sessions of remote access.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. I arrived at these observations when I speak with data center managers who admit that they dont have solutions to these issues. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Intel has a very large consumer presence: PCs, ultrabooks, tablets, phones, 2-in–1/convertibles, all-in–1 devices. I don’t track or get involved in the consumer space; my focus is on the data center.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The speakers are Brian Johnson from Intel and Alex Rodriguez with Expedient. Integrated I/O in the E5 CPUs has also allowed Intel to introduce something like Intel Data Direct I/O (DDIO).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. This is my first time attending IDF, and I appreciate the invitation to attend from Intel. At 9:01, David (Dadi) Perlmutter takes the stage after a short video about Intel. All this leads to cloud and big data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2022

Eni’s HPC5, rated 12 in the TOP500, leverages Dell PowerEdge C4140, Intel® Xeon® Gold 6252, 24C 2.1GHz, NVIDIA V100, and Mellanox® HDR InfiniBand®, with 669,760 total cores, 582,400 accelerator/co-processor cores, 35,450.00 Intel® Technologies Move Analytics Forward. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76 Rpeak (TFlop/s], and 860.32 HPCG [TFlop/s].

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Blades » Green Data Centers. Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. “In the current market today the Intel/AMD juggernaut is really hard to beat. LoPoCo Launches Low Power Server Line.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. Servers/Hardware. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. Welcome to Technology Short Take #101! Networking. release of Netmiko.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU. Networking. x86 marches on!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! Networking. and Gluster.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

.” The speakers are Brian Johnson (@thehevy on Twitter) from Intel and Jim Pinkerton from Microsoft. 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.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Big Data. (6). Green IT. (43).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Servers/Hardware. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Welcome to Technology Short Take #81! Networking.

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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. RELATED POSTS: OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers.

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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. ” Intel (INTC) was at SIGGRAPH highlighting high-fidelity ray-tracing from the upcoming 2.0 Avatar, Hollywood and the Data Center. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. 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. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Networking. Technology Short Take #44.

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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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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC. Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC. Jeff Klaus is general manager, Data Center Manager (DCM) Solutions , at Intel Corporation. Jeff leads a global team that is pioneering data center infrastructure management (DCIM) technologies.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

.” RELATED POSTS: Big Data News: Intel, WalmartLabs, DataStax. Univa Adds Intel Phi Support to Resource Management Platform. Guavus Raises $30 Million for Big Data Analytics. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Modular Data Centers.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Servers/Hardware. News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Nothing this time around.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. This is an idea that was discussed extensively a couple of weeks ago at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco, which I had the opportunity to attend. What’s the benefit to consumers?

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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: HP, Intel, Fieldview. Modular Data Centers.

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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. Servers/Hardware. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ).

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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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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There is no question, we are on the edge of the transformation of data center network technology. VMware has looked to both storage and networking as areas of growth. Cisco for its part has held on strong to its lead on the enterprise network hardware front. However, the market for network hardware is extremely mature.

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