Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“Until today, cloud migration and cloud-enabled disaster recovery have not been viable for the vast majority of enterprise data center apps,” said Chawla. HP Announces Cloud Design Service. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. Modular Data Centers.

Tools 205

Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. .” WordPress.com Shifts Storage to Amazon S3. Disaster Recovery. Networking.

Data Center 208

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Its conference demo illustrated a 12GB/s Fusion powered pipeline, with ioControl Hybrid storage, HP Z820 ioTurbine Cache, and HP Z820 Artist workstations with ioFX 1.6TB. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The supercomputer was upgraded with 450 new HP blade servers with Intel CPUs (16 cores and 64GB memory), to bring total capacity up to 10,000 cores. It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

Cloud 188

Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. The company says that all-SSD now storage has crossed a major threshold, and now has a lower cost than disk. HP 3PAR StoreServe has 1.6PB capacity with 2TB drives in RAID 6.

Data Center 226

Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Cloud 226

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

Data Center 195

Data Center Data Backup Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Roundup: ARM, Dell, HP. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Disaster Recovery. .” RELATED POSTS: The Internet of Things: Buzzword or Big Business?

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Internet Data Center Data Energy 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Industry Perspectives: HP, Intel, Fieldview. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. View previously published Industry Perspectives in our Knowledge Library. Networking.

Data Center 100

Data Center Industry Data Disaster Recovery 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

percent respectively, but CA and HP declined 0.6 Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Disaster Recovery. percent and 0.9 percent and 4.3 percent to 45.5

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Data Center Big Data Data Analysis 209

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Cloud OS Accelerate is a new program for key partners Cisco, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, HP and Dell, where Microsoft will invest more than $100 million to help put thousands of new private and hybrid cloud solutions into the hands of customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 178

Data Center Microsoft Cloud Data 178

Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software.

Disaster Recovery 145

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. Issues having to do with I/O, storage connectivity, etc.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. The result is a pooling of physical servers, network resources and storage resources that can be assigned on-demand. BTW, there is another nice resource -- a white paper commissioned by HP (!)

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Its the approach that HP (w/Matrix Orchestration Environment plugins), IBM (Open Fabric Environment) and Cisco (Unified Computing System or UCS) have entered into recently, and where firms like Egenera (with PAN Manager software and the Dell PAN System ) have been selling for some time. Whos using Infrastructure Orchestration in Healthcare?

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Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. HP VirtualConnect ). Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc.

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157