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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

Scott Lowe

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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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. This, however, presents an issue; how do you provide outbound Internet access to these instances? Now, on to the content!

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

“This is the power of software”, according to Carl. Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc., IT management giving way to automation.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. The arrival of virtualization in the data center is going to screw all of this up. Be Sociable, Share! No related posts.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Fountainhead.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

takes the stage to talk about software-defined infrastructure (SDI), which is the vision that Intel has been talking about this week. Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). With respect to efficiency, Xeon versus Atom presents very interesting results. Gbps/watt versus 0.37

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Although automation of software (such as provisioning & manipulation of VMs/applications) usually captures attention, remember that there is a whole set of physical datacenter infrastructure layers that IT Ops has to deal with as well.