IT Toolbox

AUGUST 9, 2016

Learn how scaling of customized IT infrastructure for a hosting organization in a multi-tenant environment benefits from flexibility of modern storage, unified management, and elastic hardware licensing.

Storage 100

Storage Data Center Licensing Hardware 100

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. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. It provides consulting and product and solution support services.

Microsoft 150

Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise Licensing 150

The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion for the firm, placing a huge bet on the team’s talent and its focus on building next-generation CPUs for use in data centers, mobile, and other devices. Qualcomm is collecting tech and talent and taking aim at the data center industry at a time of significant change in the chip market.

Apple 120

Apple Engineering Data Center Intel 120

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Arm will operate as an division of Nvidia and will remain headquartered in the UK, and, will “continue to operate its open-licensing model, while maintaining its global customer neutrality,” the company said. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Arm will change its current licensing model.

Data Center 145

Data Center Licensing Mobile Apple 145

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.

Industry 98

Industry Data Center Energy .Net 98

GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Microsoft needs clean electricity to fuel the operations of its more than 200 energy-hungry data centers internationally. The new reactor will be the same size as Polaris, and include additional hardware and technology for putting energy on the grid. In the foreground are attendees of Seattle Fusion Week, held in October 2022.

Microsoft 142

Microsoft Energy Data Center CTO 142

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Other top concerns are data privacy and security challenges (31%) and lack of cloud security and cloud expertise (24%). After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

Strategy 140

Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 140

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The data processing unit, or DPU, is a new class of programmable processor that enables servers to more efficiently move data, freeing up valuable CPU cycles and allowing services to be statefully embedded in the data center network. Now IT organizations get accelerated performance and flexibility in a single package.

Data Center 98

Data Center Data Network Policies 98

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. Driven by reduced energy cost and a more tractable legal environment, onshore data centers will be downsized into regional "data caching centers".

Social 169

Social Mobile Cloud Data Center 169

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?

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

VMware Cloud Providers deliver sovereign cloud services that support data residency, high levels of compliance and other jurisdictional controls. One Simplified Business Model – All services offered by VCSPs will now be based on a per core subscription license.

Vmware 59

Vmware Cloud Programming Licensing 59

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s your customized environment with your data and personalization information – not to mention being protected by your security credentials. This environment is also traditionally run locally on your personal hardware (laptop, desktop, etc.). It runs on a server, but perhaps in a 3rd-party data center that is off-premesis.

Licensing 100

Licensing Virtualization Cloud Hardware 100

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. But now many are recognizing that data may be used in different ways and maybe access needs to be more regulated. Only you know when that moment might be for your tech stack.

Tools 145

Tools Development Software Development Airlines 145

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The first step is for your team to decide on a single vendor, then you should develop a plan to transition capabilities that compose SASE (see the list of key technologies above) to a single vendor based on current licensing. Because of this, it’s critical to choose a SASE vendor that has a strong SASE location network.

WAN 133

WAN Network Security Cloud 133

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

So, here you go—here’s your latest collection of links from around the internet focused on data center and cloud-related technologies. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me).

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Size / Temporality Y Apps that are very "big" in terms of compute need, but which "go away" after a period of time Such as classic "batch jobs", whether theyre daily trade reconciliations, data mining projects, scientific/computational, etc.

Cloud 186

Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

TM Forum

JUNE 13, 2022

But data from MTN Consulting shows there are signs that capex and opex worldwide are now declining slightly. When we look at the breakdown of the consolidated worldwide data for opex and how that spending falls into different categories, the past three years have seen something of a shift. Opex breakdowns shifting. Spectrum costs.

Cloud 130

Cloud Network B2B Architecture 130

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon announced new variations of its services for managing software containers , dubbed ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, saying that customers would be able to run them in their own data centers in addition to “any infrastructure.”

Web Services 141

Web Services Cloud Microsoft Virtualization 141

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The evolution of enterprise applications and rise of big data has eclipsed traditional database capabilities and provides an opening for a significant new market entrant,” said Andy Vitus, partner, Scale Venture Partners. ” RELATED POSTS: Big Data News: Intel, WalmartLabs, DataStax. DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases.

Data Center 184

Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

And the licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible. Flexible licensing programs that allow organizations to pay by usage have emerged as a solution to this challenge. Additionally, look for flexible licensing programs that offer a wide portfolio of solutions and services rather than one or two.

Licensing 52

Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 52

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A TCO analysis forces you to think about things such as data migration, employee training, and process re-engineering. Initial purchase, configuration, and installation Negotiating software license terms is a skill in itself that might require assistance from the company’s legal team or CFO.

Software 131

Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 131

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In the event of a security incident, such as a data breach or malware attack, the MSSP springs into action. An MSSP collects and analyzes security-related data from various sources, including network logs, endpoint logs, and other security tools.

Security 74

Security Information Security Data System 74

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. VMware is offering licenses for Log Insight to customers who already own NSX. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. are only available in all-flash configurations—this just underscores the growing importance/role of flash in modern data centers. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Server virtualization is just the beginning of their plan to virtualize the data center. VMware could come in with their ROI calculator and show even with a hefty license cost and hardware investment almost any organization would save money. VMware is not lacking for innovation.

Vmware 64

Vmware CTO Virtualization VOIP 64

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. We’re trying to hasten that process to make it easier for customers to actually move their entire data center workload into the cloud.”

Oracle 111

Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 111

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. Furthermore, there are some strictures emplaced by HCI vendors that limit the flavour of hypervisor or constrain hardware choices to approved kits. The latter trend is demand-led.

Cloud 109

Cloud CTO Open Source Data Center 109

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. And other hardware. Which creates some interesting challenges such as how do you respond to an incident when all the data can be cleared out of the cloud? It’s 3am and the call comes in. There are the servers you control.

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Data Security 40

The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I feel like maybe the frame of our conversation is a little different — Argo makes self-driving hardware and software for cars. You make hardware and software that allows cars to drive themselves. We have a lot of really important and valuable data in those cities now that helps us build the self-driving tech stack.

Meeting 119

Meeting Company Industry Data 119

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Given our data volumes, I would argue that we’re probably the biggest data user in Amazon [Web Services] in terms of simultaneous processing,” says Steve Randich, FINRA’s CIO. “We We spent about a year and a half going through several bottlenecks, taking them out one at a time with Amazon engineers.

Cloud 105

Cloud Data Center Data Web Services 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Innovations that were once found only in public cloud are now available in fully private clouds, providing organisations with the ability to spread workloads, software and data across multiple locations while meeting data sovereignty obligations. Owned hardware assets. Software licenses.

Cloud 98

Cloud Devops Data Center Strategy 98

CTOvision

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to the International Association for IT Asset Management ( IAITAM ), ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), Hardware Asset Management (HAM), and Asset Portfolio Management (APM). Special software (usually with agents) discovers the hardware and the software that is installed on it. IT hardware is no simple matter either.

Software 165

Software Software Data Center Hardware 165

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Innovations that were once found only in public cloud are now available in fully private clouds, providing organisations with the ability to spread workloads, software and data across multiple locations while meeting data sovereignty obligations. Owned hardware assets. Software licenses.

Cloud 94

Cloud Devops Data Center Strategy 94

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. Yes, you could run Docker on bare metal and achieve (the author’s words) “massive CapEx benefits” by “eliminating expensive licensing” for VMware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

JVC quickly licensed VHS, giving up control, while Sony didn’t take what the consumers wanted into account. 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. Modular Data Centers.

Google 199

Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199