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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

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. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Networking.

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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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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

In the old days, IT departments had developed the tools and processes that they needed in order to deal with building large groups of new servers or handling a planned data center maintenance activity. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). Welcome to Technology Short Take #27! Networking.

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VMworld 2015 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog

Scott Lowe

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). What about iOS and Android devices?

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