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Should Data Centers Think?

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As cloud computing becomes the information technology mainstream, data center technology is accelerating at a breakneck speed. Concepts like software define infrastructure, data center analytics and Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics are changing the very nature of data center management.

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. It’s an industry that handles critical, private, and sensitive data so there’s a consistent demand for cybersecurity and data professionals.

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Industry Project Management Quality Assurance Engineering

Coldest Data Center in the World – Ice Cube Lab

Galido

MAY 30, 2016

Negative 40 degrees… So cold, they have to heat the air used to cool the data center. The Ice Cube Lab data center has over 1,200 computing cores and three petabytes of storage and tethered to the IceCube Observatory, a neutrino detector with strings of optical sensors buried a kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice.

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Data Center Data Airlines System

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday.

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage

DreamWorks "Turbo" Accelerated By HP » Data Center Knowledge

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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HP Data Center Data Film

Customer Wins for Equinix, Telx, and Internap » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Earlier this year, BrightRoll created an ultra-low-latency video advertising solution by building on Equinix’s Ad-IX platform instead of public networks for its ad exchange traffic. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. ” Telx selected by Blucora.

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Data Center Data Advertising Disaster Recovery

Cisco Acquires Sourcefire For $2.7 Billion » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

” “Cisco’s acquisition of Sourcefire will help accelerate the realization of our vision for a new model of security across the extended network,” said Martin Roesch, founder and chief technology officer of Sourcefire. Cisco Targets ‘Data Center 3.0′ Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage

Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory - Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Micron announces a super small 16-nanometer flash technology, and Violin Memory and Fujitsu partner for extreme scale Flash-memory based Microsoft SQL data warehouse solutions. ” Violin and Fujitsu partner for Flash Data Warehouses. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery

Calient Gets $27 Million To Take SDN At Light Speed » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Networking. Using 3D MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) and all optical switches in the data center means that without upgrading the switch, speeds can go from 10Gbps to 40Gbps and then 100 Gbps. RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage

Customer Wins for Internap and Peak 10 » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Internap Network Services (INAP) announced that Hiring Process Management (HPM) solutions provider TalentWise is leveraging Internap’s managed hosting and route-optimized IP connectivity services for the high-performance delivery of its cloud-based hiring solution, TalentWise Hire. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage

Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013 » Data Center.

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. Avatar, Hollywood and the Data Center. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge.

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Data Center Meeting Data Storage

Cedexis Now Tracks Performance for 50 Clouds » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The Cedexis Radar is an independent benchmark for companies providing intelligence about which clouds, CDNs and data centers are best for their online assets. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Cloud Data Windows

DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Networking.

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Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise

Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This post is Sponsored by – My Linked Profile.

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Vmware Virtualization Hardware Network

Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage provider Scality announced it has closed its series C funding round for $22 million, bringing the total invested capital since company inception to $35 million. Customer wins for Avere.

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Data Center Storage Data Big Data

IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The upgraded infrastructure includes HP 3PAR StoreServ T400 Storage System and HP ProLiant DL360 Servers. IBM Acquires BLADE Network Technologies. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

The admin had some ability to define and configure physical compute, storage and network resources for provisioning via the command line and scripts. This is foreign to the target administrator and is a completely different approach to consuming physical resources vs. the VMware model. But, again they don’t run the data center.

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Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization

At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Networking.

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Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution.

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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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage

Animal Logic Contemplates Cloud Options for VFX Rendering - Data.

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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Cloud Data Center Data Storage

ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Green Data Centers. ARM is installing sensors to automate the infrastructure that manages its meeting rooms, parking lots and HVAC systems. The company ARM will deploy network technology and more than 600 connected sensors across its UK campus in Cambridge, all controlled by smart ARM-based chips. Modular Data Centers.

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Internet Data Center Data Energy

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io Sets the Stage for the All-Flash Data Center.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery

IT Automation Provider Puppet Labs Acquires Cloudsmith

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications. About Jason Verge Jason Verge is an Editor/Industry Analyst on the Data Center Knowledge team with a strong background in the data center and Web hosting industries.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise

Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Among many other performance metrics, memory, storage and interconnect advances, vendor changes and other things, the evolution of gigaflops to teraflops and then petaflops has led many to speculate on what it will take to achieve exaflop levels of performance. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Networking.

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MapR Platform Now Available on Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Benchmark tests of M7 running on AWS High Storage instances have shown it delivering consistent performance of over 100,000 operations per second per node. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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HP Big Data Data Center Storage

EMC Strengthens Flash Portfolio With ScaleIO Acquisition

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Accelerating its strategy to deliver Flash across the enterprise server and storage EMC announced it will acquire privately-held ScaleIO. ScaleIO Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) software will become part of the EMC XtremSW Suite of Flash storage software. RELATED POSTS: EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. Networking.

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Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Virtualization

Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Healthcare?

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. Fountainhead.

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DreamWorks "Turbo" Accelerated By HP » Data Center Knowledge

Customer Wins for Equinix, Telx, and Internap » Data Center.

Cisco Acquires Sourcefire For $2.7 Billion » Data Center Knowledge

Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory - Data Center Knowledge

Calient Gets $27 Million To Take SDN At Light Speed » Data Center.

Customer Wins for Internap and Peak 10 » Data Center Knowledge

Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013 » Data Center.

Cedexis Now Tracks Performance for 50 Clouds » Data Center.

DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases » Data Center.

Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage » Data Center.

IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z » Data Center.

Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud » Data Center.

Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution.

Animal Logic Contemplates Cloud Options for VFX Rendering - Data.

ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus » Data.

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

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Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

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