With Release 2.0 OpenStack Swift Matures, adding Storage Policies
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 8, 2014
More efficient data redundancy controls, geographically defined data access policies now available Read More. Cloud Computing Storage'
Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 5, 2024
Data volumes continue to grow exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 A typical novel contains 1 MB of data and is about 12 mm thick, so 12.8 Right now, according to IDC, just under half (49%) of data is stored in a traditional data center.
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Zoom serves local data storage – but only for the rich
Dataconomy
JUNE 6, 2023
Zoom and other major American tech giants like Amazon, TikTok, Microsoft, and Google are responding to increased concerns about data safety and sovereignty, launching initiatives aimed at providing their customers with greater control over their data storage and processing.
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36 How to Manage a Storage Array
Galido
JUNE 27, 2018
Information Technology Blog - - How to Manage a Storage Array - Information Technology Blog. Storage arrays that you have bought for your business are very easy to manage, but you need to be certain that you have looked into the details. Futureproofing Storage Capacity. Most storage arrays can coexist with each other.
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Wasabi Hot Innovations Tour: How "Hot Cloud Storage" Changes Everything!
Cloud Musings
APRIL 8, 2018
Digital storage requirements are growing exponentially. Budgets simply can’t keep up and existing Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), “Cloud First” Policy, Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act challenges aren’t going away. Here’s how. Here’s how.
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Examining the Needs of a Policy Solution
Scott Lowe
JULY 14, 2014
In April of this year, we started a series of articles at Network Heresy on the topic of policy in the data center. The first of these articles, which I mentioned in this post , focused on the problem of policy in the data center. The language(s) used to express policy. Technology Short Take #35.
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Kicking the Policy Discussion Into High Gear
Scott Lowe
APRIL 22, 2014
Most IT vendors agree that more extensive use of automation and orchestration in today’s data centers are beneficial to customers. A recent post on the Network Heresy site discusses the need for policy in fully automated IT environments: However, fully automated IT management is a double-edged sword.
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Accelerate Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9% Up to 25% of data center power is consumed by equipment that no longer performs useful work, [i] and only 10-30% of server capacity is used.
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Green Clouds Ahead: Cloudist sees a new sustainable future ahead for the Nordic region’s managed service providers
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 7, 2023
We want our customers to be able to provide their clients with high-performance cloud services from the Nordic region’s most secure data centers with one click,” says Brink. “We Powered by 75% hydropower and 25% wind power, the data center Falun offers unparalleled security and is optimized for high-density applications.
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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 15, 2022
Cloud networking comprises three layers: first from on-premises data centers to the cloud, then within a cloud that has multiple accounts or virtual private clouds, and finally, between individual clouds in a multicloud environment. Now, we can set policy and have the entire network abide within 24 hours.”.
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Mobile operators need more reliable access to renewable energy
TM Forum
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
policy paper. Since July 2021, Vodafone’s entire European network, data centers and operations across 11 countries have. The mast is fitted with a wind turbine, solar panels and on-site battery storage. been powered by renewable electricity. Vodafone Group is looking for more solutions like this and launched a.
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4 Tips for Processing Real-Time Data
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 14, 2022
To comply with government regulations and/or internal security policies, organizations may find it necessary to secure sensitive data on-premises. Similarly, a company may decide to keep its most critical data – everything from financial records to engineering files – local where it can protect this data best.
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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
A growing number of IT leaders treat compute and storage as they would the utility grid. Your customers don’t care about your data centers,” says Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at online education company Pluralsight. Even if you have a cloud-first policy, you should always look at the alternatives. “We
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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
You’ve implemented robust security and privacy policies and outlined best practices. You’ve done everything a smart and responsible organization needs to do to safeguard your systems, networks, data, and other assets from cyber threats. Cloud storage is your best bet when it comes to accelerating the time to recovery.
How the Edge Is Changing Data-First Modernization
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 16, 2022
The advent of distributed workforces, smart devices, and internet-of-things (IoT) applications is creating a deluge of data generated and consumed outside of traditional centralized data warehouses. billion connected IoT devices by 2025, generating almost 80 billion zettabytes of data at the edge.
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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. Photo: Intel).
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Private 5G and edge computing: a perfect match for manufacturing
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 16, 2023
Edge computing brings out the real potential of private 5G Bringing managed private 5G together with managed edge computing enables businesses to analyze situations in the now – no more waiting for data to be collected (often a slow process) and sent to a data center to be processed first.
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Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 15, 2013
Stream Data Centers. Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market. Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market. A look at one of the dedicated utility yards at a Stream Data Center in Dallas. Photo: Stream Data Centers). By: Jason Verge July 15th, 2013.
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Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda
All Things Distributed
JUNE 10, 2016
The specific example application provided in this repository enables users to upload photos and notes using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon API Gateway respectively. Creates an IAM Role and Policy to allow the event processing Lambda function read from the Kinesis Stream and write to the DynamoDB table.
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Serverless Reference Architecture with AWS Lambda
All Things Distributed
MAY 10, 2016
The specific example application provided in this repository enables users to upload photos and notes using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon API Gateway respectively. Creates an IAM Role and Policy to allow the event processing Lambda function read from the Kinesis Stream and write to the DynamoDB table.
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5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 28, 2013
5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. 5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. It’s not easy to stay current on the many facets of data center technology and operations. This week’s Industry Perspectives explore five hot topics for data center professionals and executives. White Papers.
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232 Don’t fall behind when it comes to migrating to the cloud
CTOvision
OCTOBER 17, 2016
Cloud computing and cloud storage at one time was once viewed as a risky proposition for businesses; why trust an unknown virtual platform to handle business needs when everything could be safely handled onsite? Security is also a strong benefit of cloud storage. Bob Gourley. Why Cloud, Why Now. Preparing for the Shift.
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Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Determining the location of a data center is one of the crucial decisions for a company as it is based on strategy and goals of a company. Industry Perspectives. PRASHANT BAWEJA.
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212 Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 13, 2013
Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20 » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 20, 2013
Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20. Racks of servers housed inside the Microsoft data center in Dublin, Ireland. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.
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230 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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OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 22, 2013
Data Center Videos. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. Rows and rows of custom-built servers inside an OVH data center. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
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199 Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?
Fountainhead
MARCH 25, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, March 25, 2013. Because a complex.
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214 Data Center Jobs: CBRE » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 11, 2013
Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have two new job listings from CBRE, which is seeking a Project Manager – Data Center and an Associate Project Manager – Data Center in Mountain View, California.
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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. Disaster Recovery Plans Are like an Insurance Policy that Never Gets Used. One of the most common uses is as a migration plan template anytime a business switches data centers.Â
Overcome These 7 Challenges to Optimize Your Hybrid Multicloud Journey
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Your organization must make security as robust as possible across storage, network, compute, and people—essentially every layer. This means that if you’re operating under zero-trust policies, you need to understand how that impacts your hybrid multicloud model. You might add new approaches and tooling.
5 Sustainability concepts driving the data center of the future
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2023
It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.
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Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 16, 2013
Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry has doubled capacity in its Midlands data center in Omaha, Nebraska, citing increased demand as the reason for expansion. The Midlands Data Center was given Energy Star Certification in 2012.
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Best pathways to multi-cloud success
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 12, 2022
That should extend to policy-based, application-centric security in and between multi-cloud environments as well as the ability to deliver a secure software supply chain that ensures apps are compliant as they run across various disparate clouds.
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Google Spends $1.6 Billion in 3 Months on its Data Centers
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 19, 2013
Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Google’s extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 billion in its data centers in the second quarter of 2013.
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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. Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Seriously.). Servers/Hardware. Yes, please.
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Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18 - Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 18, 2013
Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. “We created some unique tax incentives, but as a data center power guy for nearly two decades negotiating power deals and developing power plants, I saw the real potential was for clean, ‘ controllable’ power.
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189 Five Key Trends in DCIM » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 19, 2013
From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. Data Centers are increasingly complex. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena.
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Accelerating VMware’s growth
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2023
Investing in VMware’s R&D With the right combination of compute, storage, and network virtualization technology, enterprises can build next-generation software-defined data centers of their own, on their premises (on-prem) or in private clouds, instead of being largely or exclusively dependent on a mixed cloud environment, as we see today.
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27 » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 27, 2013
Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Servers pack the racks in a Facebook data center. The social network’s data center power usage grew 33 percent in 2012 as it added thousands of servers to support new users. Photo: Facebook).
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Data Center Jobs: Cushman and Wakefield » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 17, 2013
Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: Cushman and Wakefield. Data Center Jobs: Cushman and Wakefield. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have a new job listings from Cushman and Wakefield, which is seeking a Project Engineer in Shelton, Connecticut. Are you hiring for your data center?
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176 Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 22, 2013
Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. Data is permeating everything we do. Photo: PureSense).
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Colt Adds 1.65MW to Netherlands Data Center » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 10, 2013
Modular Data Centers. Colt Adds 1.65MW to Netherlands Data Center. Colt Adds 1.65MW to Netherlands Data Center. The inside of Colt’s data center in the Netherlands, filled with double-stacked rows of modular data centers. Colt Sells Modular Data Center To Phoenix IT.
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