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.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

“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.

Vmware 67

Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 67

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. Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Now, on to the content!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl , providers of software and services to the restaurant industry, has leveraged Latisys for a hybrid solution that encompasses colocation, managed services, and cloud. Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

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. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. However, to be clear, IOV is not a software layer as-is the hypervisor). Fountainhead.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. More than one person took note of how I compared its simplicity in contrast to other offerings in the same space, but failed to detail the specifics of Egeneras PAN Manager software and how it mapped to 13 common IT Service Management functions.

Disaster Recovery 100

Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Dell Data Center 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Fountainhead.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. Since they can be provisioned and configured by software means that they can now be automated using vCAC and vCD.

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

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.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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). IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session. A new speaker (Christian?)

Load Balancer 61

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. Networking.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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. This article on putting data in a volume in a Dockerfile is one example.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again. Big Data. (6).

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. other than managing your software stack). And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). Applications are now truly distributed systems.

Vmware 60

Vmware Applications Network Video 60