Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Cloud Computing » IBM. IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry. IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry. We look forward to growing and expanding an open Cloud Foundry community together with IBM.”. IBM is a governance shop. By: Rich Miller July 24th, 2013.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is an interesting deep dive by VMware’s Bruce Davie on what VMware labels the Software Defined Data Center. Microsoft calls it the Cloud based Datacenter but what ever the name it’s an interesting concept where the entire datacenter infrastructure is virtualized.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

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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 ). regardless of whether those applications are virtual, or native.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Cloud Computing » IBM. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. IBM acquires CSL International. As a strategic investment to further its System z portfolio, IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire CSL International. Add Your Comments.

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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. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. Fountainhead.

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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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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.

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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 Knowledge

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Product to combine Nutanix software with x86 hardware from Lenovo’s IBM System x acquisition Read More.

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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 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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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 19, 2009

These interactions have included among other topics, IT optimization, boosting server and storage efficiency, as well as the roll of tiering IT resources to boost efficiency, achieve better productivity while boosting performance in a cost-effective way during touch economic times, in other words, the other green IT ! " SAS 15.5K

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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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Gelsinger takes the stage again to shift the focus from end-user computing to cloud computing (albeit he focuses primarily on virtualization). The evolution of virtualization, according to Gelsinger, lead to the virtualization of the entire data center. In Gelsinger’s words, “Today all that changes.”

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 10, 2009

Likewise, I hear good things from friends who have used the services of Travis Pakonen and N’Compass for their data center projects. Ok, nuff said. Pingback: Happy Earth Day 2010! -

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56! Networking.

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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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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 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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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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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 29, 2017

Today’s businesses run in the virtual world. From virtual machines to chatbots to Bitcoin, physical has become last century’s modus operandi. Managing these virtual assets can be much more challenging than it was with traditional physical assets in your data center.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? It was all about unifying and consolidating the data center network, they said. Players: HP, IBM, Egenera Now, this progression doesnt have to be followed strictly.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 1, 2011

For IBM and HP, while storage is important, it will never dominate. Dell is now serious about storage. Disruptive trends in storage include flash (solid-state) memory. There never used to be I/O problems, but server virtualization exposes them. Everything in IT is solid state except for storage.

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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. The company releases Data Warehouse service called Redshift last February. Emil Sayegh.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Broadcom buying CA, Brilliant or a Brainbuster? Broadcom buying CA, Brilliant or a Brain buster? For some in the IT industry as well as financial markets, there is skepticism about Broadcom (formerly known as Avago) making an announcing that they are buying CA Technologies (CA) for USD 18.9 Billion (cash).

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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.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The post September 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog. With September being generally known as back to school month, the two September event bookends were VMware VMworld and Microsoft Ignite with many other things in between.

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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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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.

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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. They brought a virtual network company and got rid of their PaaS solutions. They brought not only virtual network support but support for ESXi and vCenter. Related Post.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems. The […] The post IBM announces new Power9 processor based E950 E980 server systems appeared first on StorageIOblog. An E980 system comprises up to four E950 based systems as a solution.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. While heavily IBM-focused (perfectly understandable, since he works for IBM), this post by Ronan Dalton shows how to use Docker, Bluemix, and the IBM Containers service together. This article on putting data in a volume in a Dockerfile is one example. Virtualization.

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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.

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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. NetApp buys Fylamynt for cloud ops automation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

But Kevin Young, senior data and analytics consultant at consulting firm SPR, says organizations can first share data by creating a data lake like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. Members across the organization can add their data to the lake for all departments to consume,” says Young.

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