Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Riverbed (RVBD) has introduced a new release of its Granite product family, delivering an enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation. Disaster Recovery. Convergence.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Some argue that tight integration is required; others point to streaming video services and VoIP running across the Internet and insist that no integration or interaction is needed. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Technology Short Take #44.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. CloudVelocity says its software will make it easier to seamlessly move complex cloud deployments between data centers and multiple public clouds. Image: CloudVelocity). That is why we’re excited to partner with CloudVelocity.”.

Tools 205

Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Agile Software Development. Today’s top trend with software development leaders is continuous development. Through heavy use of automation, flexible infrastructure and modular architecture, software development leaders have come to the point where each code change is its own deployment. Augmented Reality.

Government 301

Government Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Big Data 301

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations – Moving to software defined networking is not a matter of “when” but “how,” and there are seven main factors IT administrators should consider when determining whether SDN is right for their network, says Patrick Hubbard of SolarWinds. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 207

Data Center Network Software Software 207

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

This purpose-built data center will serve their enterprise IT and data center needs and give them access to Chaska’s robust power and fiber infrastructure.” And, each will provide disaster recovery office space, redundant private telco rooms and 10,000 square feet of raised floor in a Private Data Hall.

Data Center 200

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop. ” Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management. DataStax raises $45 million.

Data Center 184

Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

IT automation software provider Puppet Labs has acquired Cloudsmith , a provider of development tools for rapidly building and testing infrastructure automation. The acquisition will integrate the Cloudsmith engineering team and products into Puppet in a bid to accelerate enterprise adoption of IT automation. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 192

Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Intel is offering a new Software Development Kit for data centers that complements its Data Center Manager (DCM) product, a key ingredient in more than 80 percent of today’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offerings. Intel Launches Data Center Manager Software. Disaster Recovery. Data Center Videos.

Data Center 192

Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. ” RELATED POSTS: Pivotal Launches Enterprise PaaS, Receives $105 Million From GE.

Data Center 197

Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Web-based communication, collaboration and office productivity software suite provider Open-Xchange has secured $20 million in Series C funding to grow its cloud office suite. The additional funds will support the company’s growth through investments into software development. By: Jason Verge July 18th, 2013.

Data Center 186

Data Center Cloud Disaster Recovery Internet 186

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Equinix (EQIX) and video advertising platform company Brightroll announced that Rocket Fuel is leveraging the BrightRoll VideoRTB+ solution on Platform Equinix to improve the ability of buyers to successfully bid on video ad inventory. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 183

Data Center Data Advertising Disaster Recovery 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. RELATED POSTS: EMC Launches Data Protection Suite, Software Enhancements. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 190

Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Accelerating its strategy to deliver Flash across the enterprise server and storage EMC announced it will acquire privately-held ScaleIO. Adding ScaleIO’s highly scalable server software with PCIe Flash cards to EMC XtremSF PCIe cards will increase EMC’s portfolio for Enterprise Private Cloud and Service Provider environments.

Data Center 100

Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Virtualization 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Some highlights from the week included: Pixar celebrated the 25th anniversary of its RenderMan software, which has been used in 19 of the last 21 Academy Award-winners for Visual Effects. fxguide has an exclusive on Pixar’s RenderMan and the software’s co-founder Ed Catmull. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Atomic writes are used in the popular MySQL databases for streamlining the software stack by replacing the need to write twice to maintain atomicty, or database ACID compliance. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery. Data Center Videos. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Funding from new and existing investors will help the company advance its portfolio of 3D MEMS Optical Circuit Switching systems, extend its IP portfolio and provide working capital for its rapid production growth driven by new applications in software defined datacenter networking. Disaster Recovery. Data Center Videos.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

With software defined infrastructure as the strategic foundation, Bryant explained plans for how Intel will invest in rack scale architecture, big data and high performance computing (HPC) technologies. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery. Data Center Videos.

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl , providers of software and services to the restaurant industry, has leveraged Latisys for a hybrid solution that encompasses colocation, managed services, and cloud. The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

The company’s portfolio includes technology industry leaders such as Avaya, Gartner, Interactive Data Corporation, the NASDAQ OMX Group, NetScout, Seagate Technology, Serena Software and Skype. Video: CEO Jim Trout on Vantage’s Strategy. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Convergence.

Data Center 189

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

an updated version of its SaaS-based data center performance and lifcycle management software suite. can be deployed and delivering value in days without disruptive and costly hardware or software agents. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery. Data Center Videos.

Data Center 185

Data Center Disaster Recovery Data Storage 185

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

“We decided a year ago that given our growth, we needed to upgrade our data center to assure uninterrupted services in hosting our online data management and software services for our customers,” said David Termondt, CEO of PureSense. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 216

Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Closer Look: FieldView Solutions DCIM Software. In the past he’s covered all things Internet Infrastructure, including cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), mass market hosting, managed hosting, enterprise IT spending trends and M&A. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 180

Data Center Disaster Recovery Applications Data 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Houston Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company – emphasizing the underpinning trends of cloud, mobility, big data and enterprise social. Independent Software Vendors. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 178

Data Center Microsoft Cloud Data 178

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. You may have to spend some time training your employees to get used to the cloud, but it’s not going to be any bigger time investment than other types of software. ALAN McMAHON.

Data Center 242

Data Center Cloud Data Storage 242

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

” (Source: Market Share Analysis: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2012: by Laurie F. During the last 15-20 years in IT operations, enterprises have made huge investments in IT management tools. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery. Wurster et al).

Data Center 209

Data Center Big Data Data Analysis 209

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. To win in the Age of Data, organizations must become action-enabled enterprises with access to unconstrained analytics and frictionless data integration. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 190

Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

When early versions of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switches were introduced almost 30 years ago (initially supporting only keyboard and display functions), these hardware solutions simplified connections to managed infrastructure assets. Software solutions are more tightly integrated with the target systems.

Data Center 187

Data Center Data Hardware Virtualization 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The need for application management tools is particularly critical when applications go beyond typical single server Web sites into the more complex category of multi-tier enterprise applications. It is implicitly driven by the enterprise shift of moving more and more application workloads to cloud style deployments. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Securing the Mobile Enterprise. Software Defined Technologies Bring Data Centers Closer Together. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

Data Center 182

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Virtualization must be at least 40% – Virtualization is defined as a technology that allows multiple, software-based machines, with different operating systems, to run in isolation, side-by-side, on the same physical machine. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 246

Data Center Government Data Storage 246

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

Pairing for Scalability: In-Memory Data Grids and the Cloud - By dramatically simplifying and enhancing the deployment of scalable applications within cloud infrastructures, in-memory data grids play a key role in delivering on the promise of cloud computing, writes William Bain of ScaleOut Software. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 100

Data Center Industry Data Disaster Recovery 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

However, modern day backup software can now also backup directly to disk storage via local disk, OST, NFS, and CIFS protocols. Backup software today can backup to disk storage with de-duplication, a compression technique used to get single instances of data on the storage, saving possibly 50-90% of capacity on repeated data segments.

Data Center 195

Data Center Data Backup Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

With funding led by Menlo Ventures and Iris Capital, the investment will be used to strengthen its worldwide sales & marketing initiatives targeting enterprise and service provider markets, and to increase investment in its world-class R&D team. Scality is leading the disruption in software defined storage technology.

Data Center 100

Data Center Storage Data Big Data 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

IO Virtualization is an approach whereby physical IO components such as Network Interface Cards (NICs) Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs) and Keyboard/video/Mouse ports (KVM) are reproduced logically rather than physically. However, to be clear, IOV is not a software layer as-is the hypervisor). Enterprise Efficiency. Cloud Computing.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. can all be simplified and accomplished via software as well. Virtual networking.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113