Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Industry Perspectives. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. By: Industry Perspectives July 12th, 2013. The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Industry Perspectives. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. By: Industry Perspectives July 25th, 2013. Neglect this aspect of disaster recovery at your peril. Networking.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2018

How do we keep up with an industry that is changing every day? Regardless of which industry we are in, or the position we hold, cloud computing is changing everything; how we work, how we play, and how we communicate. What do we need to stay relevant? Cloud computing is changing strategies and enabling innovation at every turn.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 4, 2023

The adoption of cloud technology brings forth cost efficiency Cloud computing offers a significant advantage by reducing hardware costs. Additionally, they had to purchase on-premises hardware to establish their own data centers before developing, testing, and launching digital products or services successfully.

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Resources Agile 36

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

There is a significant talent gap in the industry right now, so upskilling, retraining, and hiring must have a deliberate plan associated with it.”. With a traditional data center, companies buy and install hardware with workload peaks in mind, Hon says. Change the organizational mindset.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Networking. To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter. Servers/Hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

At a Australian Senate inquiry last week, Lambo Kanagaratnam, the telco’s managing director of networks, told lawmakers that Optus “didn’t have a plan in place for that specific scale of outage.” And industry analysis finds the cost of such outages is increasing, according to Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Report 2023.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

Data has mass, and there is a cost to moving it around the network. When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Variety: The differences in structure between all the types of data within an enterprise.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

Depending on network connectivity, this might not get published until after the keynote is finished. This is a software-defined data center discussion—compute virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and management. Next, Pat moves into a discussion of extending virtualization to networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A managed service provider (MSP) is an outsourcer contracted to remotely manage or deliver IT services such as network, application, infrastructure, or security management to a client company by assuming full responsibility for those services, determining proactively what technologies and services are needed to fulfill the client’s needs.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

One more critical example lies in the healthcare industry where PACS [picture archiving and communication system] systems store images derived from MRIs. Another crucial industry vertical that is feeling the data storage squeeze is law enforcement. In most cases, law or by policy requires retention of this data for up to 30 years.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

A few weeks ago I wrote about where IT Ops might be missing-the-boat regarding implicit assumptions were making as an industry. Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. cmon folks.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

This week’s Industry Perspectives explore five hot topics for data center professionals and executives. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration - Following your initial Emergency Response Plan items, you should prioritize your Home Site Restoration, writes Michelle Ziperstein of Cervalis.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Industry Perspectives. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. By: Industry Perspectives July 26th, 2013. The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” PATRICK HUBBARD. SolarWinds.

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Data Center Network Software Software 207

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. 5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. This week’s Industry Perspectives represented an intersection of top-of-mind topics for data center professionals and executives. View previously published Industry Perspectives in our Knowledge Library. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Content delivery and security specialist CloudFlare has been growing rapidly as it builds out a global network of data centers. The updates feature Intel SSD drives and SandyBridge Xeon 2630L processors, adjustments to caching, and a shift in network cards. In the end, we settled on the network cards from a company called Solarflare.

Data Center 208

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Even though early platforms did little more than consolidate compute, storage, and networking components in a single chassis, the resulting hyperconverged node was revolutionary. Powerful and efficient, the new technology is driving better business outcomes across multiple industries. The right HCI for your environment.

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Disaster Recovery Storage Backup Resources 98

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Internap Network Services (INAP) announced that Hiring Process Management (HPM) solutions provider TalentWise is leveraging Internap’s managed hosting and route-optimized IP connectivity services for the high-performance delivery of its cloud-based hiring solution, TalentWise Hire. Networking. Industry Perspectives.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 19th, 2013. Comparative metrics are key, to you, versus benchmarking to some “industry averages” as no one is satisfied with being average. For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. Networking. Industry Perspectives.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“We automate five sets of critical processes and extend authentication and other network services into the cloud, making the cloud a seamless extension of the data center. “We spoke with numerous CloudVelocity customers, target customers, partners and other industry participants as a part of our lengthy due diligence process. .

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Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Dataconomy

MAY 19, 2023

This eliminates the need for organizations to manage and maintain their own physical desktop hardware and infrastructure. DaaS aims to decouple the desktop infrastructure from physical hardware by hosting and managing virtual desktops in the cloud. What is the purpose of DaaS?

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Virtualization Hardware 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 11th, 2013. Today’s monitoring and management solutions have to “speak” the latest protocols and keep up with rapidly changing industry standards for connectivity. KVM Hardware Overcomes Connectivity Challenges, but Introduces Others.

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Data Center Data Hardware Virtualization 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“The real conflict lies in the way that AWS defines dedicated computing, which is at odds with the view of the rest of the industry, including Rackspace,” writes Engates. “One thing we’ve learned from these customers is that dedicated hardware (whether bare metal or with virtualization) isn’t going away. Networking.

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Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

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. 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.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

LoPoCo says it is using Intel Xeon “brawny core” chips and standard form factors, and gaining energy savings through its hardware design. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. LoPoCo counts a number of enterprises as customers, including Light and Motion Industries. “We Networking.

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Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

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. The new products cut across the company’s market leading Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy product lines. EMC NetWorker 8.1 Networking.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. Networking. Industry Perspectives. Disaster Recovery. 75 million render hours. Turbo-Charging Digital Render Farms. White Papers.

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HP Data Center Data Film 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Content delivery provider EdgeCast Networks has secured $54 million in new financing. The company will use the funding to develop and launch new web acceleration, routing and security services, strengthening its IP portfolio, as well as expanding its global network behind its content delivery network (CDN). Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 181

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Colt is a forward-thinking kind of telecom, different in an industry typically identified as cumbersome and slow to evolve. Phase 1 will be the 5 tiers, with all new volumes place on SolidFire infrastructure, and current application volumes migrated over as hardware depreciates. Networking. Industry Perspectives.

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Storage Cloud Data Data Center 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Networking. To move into a hybrid packet-optical circuit switch network, optical circuit switches (or photonic switches) can be aided by SDN scripts to redirect data flows from one network to another. RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Networking.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Interxion, known for its rich network of interconnects, recently announced it is housing the London Internet Exchange’s IT hosting infrastructure out of its London data center. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Networking. Industry Perspectives.

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Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

So the number of companies that really understand the network topology, the data center construction, the server requirements to build this public cloud infrastructure is very, very small.” Networking. Industry Perspectives. Disaster Recovery. Amazon is a little bit smaller. You get Yahoo! White Papers.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

A look inside the network operating center for Akamai Technologies, which operates more than 127,000 servers around the globe. Networking. Industry Perspectives. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 15th, 2013. These resources are shared with many users, and the hardware the cloud computing company provides is built on a system that makes the most efficient use of it. View previously published Industry Perspectives in our Knowledge Library. Networking.

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Data Center Cloud Data Storage 242

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

A “catastrophic failure” typically refers to a total failure of a system, which leaves little or no option for recovery. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. Networking. Industry Perspectives. Disaster Recovery. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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Storage Data Center Data Disaster Recovery 221