CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

Match your server components to your use case: For the software supporting your database to achieve the best real-time performance at scale, you need the right server hardware as well. Ideally, real-time data processing requires a database, hardware and software solution that can both scale up and scale out.

Data 109

Data Artificial Intelligence Intel Data Center 109

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. Dell – Closest & Top of Rack. F5 – Security/Load Balancing.

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Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0"

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 30, 2014

While Dell isn’t exactly the biggest player in networking, it’s still relevant to note how important their announcement of a bare metal switch is to Software Defined Networking (SDN). The Dell announcement helps bring to reality some of the advantages from a physical network perspective. Network Virtualization Dell SDN'

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Dell Load Balancer Virtualization Network 83

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Todays announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egeneras relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Thursday, September 10, 2009. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last week I posted a Blog outlining Dell & Egeneras latest Datacenter-in-a-Box offering. More than one person took note of how I compared its simplicity in contrast to other offerings in the same space, but failed to detail the specifics of Egeneras PAN Manager software and how it mapped to 13 common IT Service Management functions.

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Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Dell Data Center 100

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. This article on putting data in a volume in a Dockerfile is one example.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60