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Defining the New Data Center Operating System

Data Center Knowledge

The abstraction of the hardware layer within the data center means we are able to utilize new types of controls around our data center. New technologies are being deployed within the data center at a very fast pace. Bill Kleyman looks at how the future data center environment will be managed.

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Critical Xen hypervisor flaw endangers virtualized environments

Network World

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.

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NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference

Cloud Musings

NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference. enterprise management virtual storefront and platform-as-a-service. systems to market in weeks instead of years. – A virtual cloud brokerage that delivers comprehensive, easy-to-use. operations. Cloudcuity Management Portal.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

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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Technology Short Take 175

Scott Lowe

Here’s your weekend reading—a collection of links and articles from around the internet on a variety of data center- and cloud-related topics. Operating Systems/Applications Google has open sourced Magicka, an AI-powered file type identification library. Welcome to Technology Short Take #175!

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. These high performance Ethernet adapters has been designed for modern data centers that require scalability and performance. Marty Meehan. specification, with the addition of NC-SI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) manageability.

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Fed Forum 2013 Videos and Briefings Posted

CTOvision

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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