Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Rather, its all about using (and re-purposing) compute hardware more effectively. In turn, infrastructure orchestration (the "fabric") is the way to provide a logical way to create or re-configure I/O, network and storage.

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Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.). Why is clustering inherently so complex?

Industry 100

Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage. ” (That’s a mouthful.)

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 61

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

More from Egenera was published today in the Wall Street Journals MarketWatch website. But we also fail to notice the complexity it creates for managing I/O, storage connectivity and other physical-world management issues. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. Cloud Computing Journal.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. Now the industry had its proof-point: There were times when full-up IT automation, without visibility into hardware implementation, worked and was useful. Cloud Computing Journal. Enter Virtualization. It was a no-brainer.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Cloud Computing can be referred as a deployment model, designed to support for technology infrastructure in terms of cost, hi-tech hardware, storage capacity along with addressing scalability concerns. Cloud Computing Journal. February 15, 2013 at 6:04 AM. Cloud Hosting. Ecommerce Cloud Multi Cloud. Cloud Hosting. Cloud Hosting.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

PAN Manager is the "secret sauce" Egenera has been using to manage its own hardware for years, and recently OEMd to Dell as part of their Dell PAN System. The software has always had the ability to provision physical and/or virtual servers with mission-critical levels of availability, including networking, I/O and storage configurations.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

NYSEs cloud now allows small firms (picture 3 hedge fund managers and their dog in a garage) to take advantage of enterprise-grade hardware and data. Cloud Computing Journal. Cloud enables new forms of business: For me, this is the most exciting aspect. say to test and run new trading algorithms. Peter Cochrane. Steve Wilson.

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Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task. Cloud Computing Journal. But really, how simple?

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs. It permits IT to "wire-once" and then create CPU configurations (virtual NICs, HBAs, networks/VLANs, storage connections) using a unified/consolidated networking fabric. Peter Cochrane.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

Note that the Playbook hardware was not updated for Playbook 2.0, so technically I should compare it to the iPad2 hardware wise, for it to be fair, although I’m not going to focus in on the hardware all that much, there are plenty of other sites that do hardware comparisons, like this one at PC Magazine. Newer Post.

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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In the last couple of generations, the first year has traditionally been the roughest for a new console, as both manufacturers and game developers work the unexpected bugs out of the hardware. Note that the PlayStation does not support cloud storage access without PlayStation Plus.

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System Storage Hardware Microsoft 93

Kitaboo

MARCH 27, 2024

Factors to Consider Before Choosing the Best eBook Reader Portability Storage Capacity Connection Utilization of Data Analytics Multi-Device Support Other Functionalities VI. Storage Capacity eReaders should have the capacity to store thousands of eBooks, offering readers a vast library at their fingertips. Connect with us now!

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eBook Education Budget Applications 78

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Ivan Velichko journals his journey of learning about containerization and orchestration in this blog post. Via this blog post by Myles Gray, VMware has announced Cloud Native Storage (CNS), powered by a new CSI (Container Storage Interface) driver for Kubernetes (and other orchestration platforms that use CSI).

Linux 60

Linux Storage Policies Network 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

” Wall Street Journal - “Offerings like Cloud Foundry, and competitors such as Salesforce.com’s Heroku and OpenShift backed by software firm Red Hat, are jockeying to win over developers working on cloud apps and other technologies for corporations. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

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. Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., An alternative model.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I feel like maybe the frame of our conversation is a little different — Argo makes self-driving hardware and software for cars. You make hardware and software that allows cars to drive themselves. Do you have any hardware demands? You see all the big tech companies are doing better than ever. You don’t make cars.

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Meeting Company Industry Data 119

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

54 MillionWall Street Journal (blog)EdgeCast Gets $54M For Content Delivery EffortssocalTech.comData Center Knowledge -GigaOM -IPTV Newsall 12 news [.]. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Posted July 19th, 2013. [.] $54

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 181

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Purkay Labs Featured in Boston Business Journal, Data Center Knowledge, and Others. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Posted July 18th, 2013. [.]

Data 214

Data Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage 214

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Linux Journal has a nice multi-page write-up on Docker containers that might be useful if you are still looking to understand Docker’s basic building blocks. Open vStorage compares itself to VMware VSAN, but supporting multiple storage backends and supporting multiple hypervisors.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Via Container Journal, tech journalist Bill Doerrfeld outlines how to use the open source Anchore Engine to perform Docker container image auditing. Here’s a quick primer on using OpenEBS for Kubernetes cluster storage. Nothing this time around, but I’ll stay alert for items to include next time.

Open Source 60

Open Source Virtualization Storage Cloud 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Hardware consolidation. When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. But essentially its about converging data, storage, and even out-of-band management information along a single (high bandwidth, low-latency) wire. and its very different from Hardware consolidation.

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

million vehicles in more than 75 countries with services like car locator, engine remote start, driving journal, heater start, and stolen vehicle tracking. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware. They support more than 3.3

Cloud 124

Cloud Real Estate Mobile Development 124

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. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Cloud Computing Journal.

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

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. Because the physical CPU state (i.e. Converged Infrastructure and Software Virtualization.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

It changes how availability is delivered: By manipulating IO addressing, networking and connectivity, Converged Infrastructure Management can re-provision failed hardware – either in the form of physical servers, or indeed, entire environments. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows.

Data Center 138

Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Truth-be told, Egeneras own BladeFrame hardware already supports 128GB of memory, on 6-core, 4-way boards. These connections also give the blades very fast Ethernet access to both the network and storage devices and eliminate the need for a storage-area network (SAN). Cloud Computing Journal. Ken Oestreich. Newer Post.

Data Center 100

Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

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. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches. Cloud Computing Journal.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). All I/O resources, including storage and network connections, QoS settings, and HA configurations, are contained within that profile. Cloud Computing Journal. Peter Cochrane. Steve Wilson.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". Cloud Computing Journal. Why is this important? Peter Cochrane.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100