Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. Both were good sessions. The XL710 also supports offloads for VXLAN and NVGRE.)

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Fountainhead

JULY 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 2 weeks ago I was training a new Account Executive about the virtues of server automation, I/O virtualization, converged networking, etc. Theyre being replaced by volume servers and intelligent networks that "self heal". Tuesday, July 7, 2009.

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Data Center Hardware IBM Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Prior to the iPhone you couldn’t convince my wife that a smartphone could completely replace her MP3 player, HP IPAQ and Mobile Phone. SDN proponents have called the traditional approach to networking “a big bag of protocols.” The industry has traditionally taken a hardware first approach to solving protocol related issues.

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Industry Vmware Network Applications 66

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

DreamWorks “Turbo” Accelerated By HP. DreamWorks “Turbo” Accelerated By HP. HP’s advanced Converged Infrastructure portfolio enabled our artists and engineers to create the highest-quality picture possible.”. By: John Rath July 19th, 2013. 75 million render hours. Turbo-Charging Digital Render Farms.

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HP Data Center Data Film 221

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2001, Egenera has been selling its high-end hardware/software combination that unified re-purposing of physical and virtual servers. It also helps put Dells blade strategy square in the data center space - and able to take on HP and IBM.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Fisher sets the stage for people interacting with multiple devices, and devices that are highly mobile, supported by software and services delivered over a ubiquitous network connection. ” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. It also simplifies automated management and portability of workloads, such as with virtual appliances / AMIs. It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs.

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Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 1, 2013

So, you want to improve your knowledge of virtualization. Doesn’t matter if it’s Hyper-V, VMware, Xen or KVM the major decision of Physical vs. Virtual lab is the same. If you are new to virtualization your first thought may be to go out and purchase some dedicated hardware to run your lab sessions.

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Virtualization Vmware Storage Hardware 78

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Networking. Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Sean Daniel

JULY 19, 2010

Discovering Windows Server Codename “Aurora” HP has teamed up with Becky Och’s, one of our Senior Program managers on the team to talk about what’s in Windows Server Codename ”Aurora”, the new cloud integrated version of Small Business Server. Virtualization. Posted by Sean Daniel. at 9:21 AM.

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Windows Small Business SMB HP 43

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? Chock-full of great presentations, networking and predictions, topped-off with a closing keynote from Nick Carr on The Big Switch. Hardware consolidation. Fountainhead.

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Networking. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ).

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 63

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Networking. Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 60

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.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g.

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

MapR M7 is now available on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Fruit of the Loom implements a Teradata Data Warehouse, and HP updates its ArcSight Security Analytics portfolio using big data to protect critical information and mitigate risk. HP uses big data for unified security analytics. Networking. By: John Rath July 18th, 2013.

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HP Big Data Data Center Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

IBM boosts its System z portfolio by acquiring CSL International, Actian leverages previous acquisitions to launch new cloud and big data platforms and EastWest Bank selects HP to build a private cloud for updating its infrastructure. HP builds private cloud for EastWest Bank. IBM Acquires BLADE Network Technologies.

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Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

CTOvision

AUGUST 31, 2016

seconds, 288 HP, 200 ft. According to the International Association for IT Asset Management ( IAITAM ), ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), Hardware Asset Management (HAM), and Asset Portfolio Management (APM). Special software (usually with agents) discovers the hardware and the software that is installed on it.

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Software Software Data Center Hardware 165

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on the networking side, but I suppose that’s understandable given my recent job change. Networking. Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.)

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated a $36 million contract with HP Enterprise services, initially announced last November. This win was important not only for HP, the systems integrator, but for Microsoft’s Office 365. HP and U.S. Networking. Virtualization. By: Jason Verge July 18th, 2013.

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Cloud Data Center HP Disaster Recovery 190

Sean Daniel

APRIL 4, 2011

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Well, I’m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don’t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it’d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware. Power on the server.

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Windows How To HP Backup 92

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In the early eras of PCs, a number of new technologies arose: in particular there was the IP network, that allowed the CPU to talk to others, and external/networked storage, that externalized (or removed) the dedicated hard drive. Fountainhead.

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

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. Networking. Virtualization. .” Fusion-io (FIO) showcased a complete studio solution for visual effects acceleration. Comments (required).

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Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

(I’d contend that virtualization helps address most of this concern.) Again, I’d contend that the configurability of resources is mitigated somewhere by the extensive use of virtualization.) Intel’s Open Network Platform (ONP). improvement in network uplinks. 25x improvement in network downlinks.

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Architecture Cloud Intel Storage 60

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. HP Announces Cloud Design Service. CloudPSI – CloudVelocity: Launch apps to cloud with no change to code – Network World. Networking.

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Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

Rackspace, Dell and HP are all Cloud providers that were looking for a Cloud OS. They brought a virtual network company and got rid of their PaaS solutions. OpenStack needs virtual network (and storage for that matter) and Nicira seems just as committed to OpenStack as they had prior to the acquisition.

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Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 72

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. RELATED POSTS: Instart Logic Launches Application Streaming Network. Instart Logic Gets $17M to Optimize Networks for Content. Networking. Virtualization. Government.

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Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. First of all, what we’re talking about here are systems like Cisco UCS, Egenera PAN Manager, HP VirtualConnect, IBM Open Fabric Manager, and a few others. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Colbert next dives into more detail on Project Fargo, which enables vastly faster provisioning of virtual desktops by via cloning process. beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!), HP announced yesterday that HP Helion will support vSphere and NSX.).

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The company ARM will deploy network technology and more than 600 connected sensors across its UK campus in Cambridge, all controlled by smart ARM-based chips. Roundup: ARM, Dell, HP. Networking. Virtualization. ” RELATED POSTS: The Internet of Things: Buzzword or Big Business? New ARM-Based Server From ZT Systems.

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Internet Data Center Data Energy 200

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

HP 3PAR StoreServe has 1.6PB capacity with 2TB drives in RAID 6. Networking. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Virtualization. This means the SF9010 has greater capacity than traditional systems.

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Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery Cloud 226

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

By this point the demand for tape storage had grown so much, tape automation robots from manufactures including Exabyte, Sony, Quantum, HP, Compaq, IBM, and ADIC were used to move hundreds of tapes in and out of tape drives. Networking. Virtualization. This allowed the automation of moving tapes to span beyond their capacities.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 195