Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 197

Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain. Cloud Computing Journal. HP VirtualConnect ).

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

More from Egenera was published today in the Wall Street Journals MarketWatch website. Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. Provisioning is assumed only for software. Everyone seems fixated on Provisioning = Software. Cloud Computing Journal. Prediction).

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

other than managing your software stack). Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. The result: Buying, integrating and maintaining less software. See diagram below.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., These pieces of hardware were sometimes incorporated into the motherboard itself, or sometimes were additional plug-ins. Each had a software driver, usually tied to the O/S.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

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. Cloud Computing Journal.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. While a converged system may be constructed of modular components that can be swapped in and out as scaling requires, ultimately the entire system is integrated at either the hardware layer or the software layer.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100