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. White Papers. Name (required).

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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. White Papers. Add Your Comments. Networking.

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Data Center Cloud Disaster Recovery Internet 186

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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. Connect via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & RSS. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. also improves data protection with automated snapshots and simplified support for existing data-center class backup and recovery software.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

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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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. ” New Atom and Xeon processors.

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. Connect via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & RSS. Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. Management. IT Automation Provider Puppet Labs Acquires Cloudsmith. Networking.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Networking.

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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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. “Portal 2.0 Networking.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Data Storage 185

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

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. ScaleIO Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) software will become part of the EMC XtremSW Suite of Flash storage software.

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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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Internap Network Services (INAP) announced that software as a service marketing company Screendragon is using Internap’s bare-metal servers and managed hosting services to support the growth of clients’ multi-channel digital marketing campaigns. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Data Advertising Disaster Recovery 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Closer Look: FieldView Solutions DCIM Software. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. RELATED POSTS: CoreSite Now Using FieldView DCIM. What Lies Ahead for the Future of DCIM? DCIM and Big Data: FieldView, nlyte, Splunk. DCIM Assists Integration of Facilities and IT. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The partnership matches Univa’s distributed resource management software platform with the MapR enterprise-grade big data platform. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. ” RELATED POSTS: Big Data News: Intel, WalmartLabs, DataStax. Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

With 3,265 software piracy cases settled around the world in the past year Microsoft gladly embraces the cloud computing advantages that it can benefit its partners. Independent Software Vendors. Microsoft announced new partner agreements with four leading global independent software vendors (GISVs). White Papers.

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Data Center Microsoft Cloud Data 178

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

This allows the business to use their own developed software in a cloud that they personally handle the security of, while getting the cost saving benefits of the public cloud by avoiding upfront equipment costs and other overhead. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

” (Source: Market Share Analysis: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2012: by Laurie F. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. Wurster et al). percent and 0.9 percent respectively, but CA and HP declined 0.6 percent and 4.3 Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery.

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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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. ” Actian Launches DataCloud and big data analytics platforms. Networking.

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Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

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. White Papers. Networking.

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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.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Hardware KVM solutions have been replaced with software solutions and in many instances merged into holistic management consoles and platforms. Software solutions are more tightly integrated with the target systems. White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. Add Your Comments.

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Data Center Data Hardware Virtualization 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). White Papers. News Channels White Papers. Disaster Recovery. Connect via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & RSS. Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Customers deploy Scality’s software to provide large-scale storage for Cloud, Big Data, and Backup and Archive applications. The growth opportunity in the software storage market is very exciting for us,” said Doug Carlisle, managing director, Menlo Ventures. “The EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software. White Papers.

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. BTW, there is another nice resource -- a white paper commissioned by HP (!) Converged Infrastructure and Software Virtualization. executed by Michelle Bailey at IDC.

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