Nutanix Intros All-Flash Storage Appliance for Web-Scale Data Centers
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Previews upcoming metro-wide availability feature in next Nutanix Operating System release Read More. Storage nutanix'
Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 19, 2017
The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.
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NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference. speak on “Cloud Brokerage Services for Data Center Service Providers” on the afternoon of December 4. is a disruptive business model, and specifically for the data center. threaten traditional data center business models.
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 16, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1
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Riverbed Launches New Whitewater Appliances
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Riverbed (RVBD) announced new hardware models and upgrades to its operating system on the Whitewater cloud storage appliance family. Cloud Computing Storage riverbed RVBD'
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LEOcloud, Microsoft team up with Axiom Space to put cloud infrastructure in orbit
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Gatens has been working with partners including Ramon.Space on a line of radiation-hardened compute and data storage hardware that’s well-suited for the space environment. “Raw data is generally high-volume data that needs to be refined at a data center, basically,” he explained.
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NetApp Outlines Strategy For Data Management Across Clouds
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
With a vision for an enterprise data management solution, NetApp (NTAP) outlined its strategy to use its clustered Data ONTAP operating system and provide seamless cloud management across any blend of private and public cloud resources. Cloud Computing Storage Virtualization netapp NTAP'
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Fed Forum 2013 Videos and Briefings Posted
CTOvision
AUGUST 16, 2013
Lloyd underscored the importance of improving IT architecture to support today’s challenges and discussed a vision for data center networking. In every other area, from servers to operating systems to applications to storage have changed. I found out in personal discussions later some more of his background.
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WhatsApp is adding encrypted backups
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
“WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups, and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
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Number of US Government IT Facilities Rises to 7000 - Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
As it seeks to consolidate its IT infrastructure across dozens of agencies, the government has had trouble sorting out how many data centers it has, and even more trouble adding up all the server closets, which includes rooms smaller than 100 square feet. Now Over 7,000 Data Centers. New Focus on Optimization.
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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 15, 2013
The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?
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The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery : spf13.com
SPF13
OCTOBER 4, 2012
This myth largely stems from traditional manual data recovery because end-users had to deal with duplicate, silent infrastructures across multiple sites. Virtualization standardizes the disaster recovery process by encapsulating operating systems, applications, and servers. cloud storage. data center.
Technology Short Take #81
Scott Lowe
APRIL 6, 2017
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. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #81! Networking. A command-line client for Twitter ?
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Technology Short Take 152
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Ivan Pepelnjak does a great job of describing all the things you really shouldn’t do (or don’t really need to do) when trying to deal with migrating container hosts in a data center fabric. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications.
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Technology Short Take #78
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.
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Exploring the Advantages of Deploying DPUs in the Data Center
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 22, 2022
One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.
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Does VMware know Cloud is all about the Developers?
Virtualized Greek
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. Their software defined data center approach is coming together to be a great solution for those of us in the infrastructure arena. And that means applications and data always needs to be the focus.
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Technology Short Take 130
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 21, 2020
Mike Krieger shares some information on how rt.live (a site sharing updates of the COVID-19 R t ) handles their daily runs to update data. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Storage. Chris Evans examines how persistent memory in the data center plays out with existing storage technologies.
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The Symbiosis Between Automation and Engineering
Scott Lowe
JUNE 10, 2013
” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.
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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 4, 2024
Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. If the solution’s goal involves processing and storing data, the architect is constrained to place the pieces that will fulfill those tasks in the proper segments.
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Technology Short Take #59
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 14, 2016
This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016. Servers/Hardware.
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60 Technology Short Take #70
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 11, 2016
In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.
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Technology Short Take #69
Scott Lowe
JULY 21, 2016
In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. Operating Systems/Applications. The first article describes Hitchhiker itself, while the second article discusses the related topic of the network impact of recovery in erased coded storage environments. Networking.
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60 Technology Short Take #82
Scott Lowe
MAY 4, 2017
Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. YACOOS (Yet Another Container-Optimized Operating System) has gone GA; this time it’s Google’s (imaginatively-named) “Container-Optimized OS”. Virtualization.
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Technology Short Take 101
Scott Lowe
JUNE 8, 2018
I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Networking.
Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 20, 2012
services brokerages will blur into a conceptual operating system for the ‘Web as a platform’—providing tools to allow users to take advantage of multiple cloud solutions at once, and bringing the cloud closer to the. Major data centers will go undergo a “survival-of-the-fittest” scenario.
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Technology Short Take 96
Scott Lowe
MARCH 16, 2018
Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. So much for software-defined storage? Welcome to Technology Short Take 96! Browse if you dare…OK, so I’m being a bit melodramatic. Networking.
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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS).
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60 Technology Short Take #75
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.
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60 Technology Short Take #85
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 16, 2017
This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! Networking.
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Technology Short Take #73
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
In any case, enough of that—here’s some data center-related content that I hope you find useful! Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.
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Security News: @Invincea Raises $16 Million in C-Series Funding Led by Aeris Capital and Dell Ventures
CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2013
The fund will enable Dell to invest in early-to-growth-stage companies in emerging technology areas including storage, cloud computing, big data, next-generation data center, security and mobility.
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Technology Short Take #59
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 14, 2016
This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016. Servers/Hardware.
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Technology Short Take 98
Scott Lowe
APRIL 27, 2018
Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Your mileage may vary, of course.
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60 Technology Short Take 119
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content! Are you a (largely non-technical) manager seeking to better understand Kubernetes? (I’d
Technology Short Take #67
Scott Lowe
JUNE 2, 2016
Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Operating Systems/Applications. By the way, I alluded to this sort of architecture in December 2006 while discussing the future of the operating system; see this blog post.). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.
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Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Networking.
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Technology Short Take #31
Scott Lowe
APRIL 8, 2013
Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments.
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Heck yeah! Facebook's Open Compute Project is making an open source switch
Virtualized Greek
MAY 9, 2013
Reblogged from GigaOM: The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn''t enough. My reservation is the ability to innovate at the hardware layer at the same pace you can now with proprietary operating systems.
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40 Technology Short Take #46
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. Operating Systems/Applications. Linux Networking Security Storage Virtualization Docker Hardware NSX OpenStack VMware'
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69 The Symbiosis Between Automation and Engineering
Scott Lowe
JUNE 10, 2013
” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.
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The Biggest Threat to Cloud Security in 2021
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Because developers are leveraging the power of the cloud, you can literally stand up an entire data center with one script, one command, and you've got the equivalent of an entire data center up and running. So you only have to secure the OS and and the stack on top of that. And that's amazing. That's a simple mistake.
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Technology Short Take #34
Scott Lowe
JULY 22, 2013
Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.
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