Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. ‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. White Papers. Networking. News Channels White Papers.

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Storage Data Center Data Disaster Recovery 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. We must dispel a myth about storage costs, particularly for flash.

Storage 211

Storage Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise 211

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

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Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ). Servers/Hardware. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Bring on the content!

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. EMC NetWorker 8.1 Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp.

Data Center 190

Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

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.

Data Center 208

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting. White Papers.

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Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication.

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

colocation » Fortrust » White Papers. According to this white paper from FORTRUST, the key to making the right decision often depends on asking the right questions. At the end of the paper , FORTRUST provides a detailed workbook/checklist where you’ll find a list of evaluation questions. White Papers.

Data Center 201

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 201

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” 2) The size of an organization’s network. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 26th, 2013.

Data Center 207

Data Center Network Software Software 207

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. White Papers. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Government.

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HP Data Center Data Film 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

LoPoCo says it is using Intel Xeon “brawny core” chips and standard form factors, and gaining energy savings through its hardware design. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. A white paper goes into the math of this vs. some typical setups. White Papers.

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Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. White Papers. Networking. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

During a media event this week Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, set the stage for Intel’s approach to re-architect the data center and journey through periods of transformation that are changing from network-centric to human-centric models.

Data Center 221

Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

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. Riverbed and VMware Collaborate on Networks. Roundup: Riverbed, Force 10 Networks. White Papers. Networking. Government.

Enterprise 191

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

So the number of companies that really understand the network topology, the data center construction, the server requirements to build this public cloud infrastructure is very, very small.” White Papers. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Meeting Software 125

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. IT consumerization and BYOD are paving the way to conducting business in a new fashion and allowing users new level so of network access. In HP’s white paper , you are able to see how to more easily deliver data to any device. This includes: Onboarding.

Data Center 182

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. White Papers.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Management » White Papers. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. White Papers. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers. Infrastructure.

Data Center 195

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Google says the majority of its capital investments are for IT infrastructure, including data enters, servers, and networking equipment. White Papers. Networking. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

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Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

A look inside the network operating center for Akamai Technologies, which operates more than 127,000 servers around the globe. White Papers. Networking. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

Data Center 199

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Networking. To move into a hybrid packet-optical circuit switch network, optical circuit switches (or photonic switches) can be aided by SDN scripts to redirect data flows from one network to another. RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. White Papers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Interxion, known for its rich network of interconnects, recently announced it is housing the London Internet Exchange’s IT hosting infrastructure out of its London data center. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. White Papers. Networking.

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Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. RELATED POSTS: Instart Logic Launches Application Streaming Network. Instart Logic Gets $17M to Optimize Networks for Content. White Papers. Networking. News Channels White Papers. Government.

Cloud 188

Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

To address these demands, we needed our platform to reside on dedicated hardware managed by a secure, compliant, best-of-breed provider. White Papers. Networking. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

Data Center 179

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution. Intelligent replication and storage control mechanisms now allow for the distribution of cloud components. White Papers. Networking. News Channels White Papers.

Data Center 210

Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

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. CloudPSI – CloudVelocity: Launch apps to cloud with no change to code – Network World. White Papers. Networking. Government.

Tools 205

Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“One thing we’ve learned from these customers is that dedicated hardware (whether bare metal or with virtualization) isn’t going away. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. White Papers. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Comments (required).

Cloud 198

Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Content delivery provider EdgeCast Networks has secured $54 million in new financing. The company will use the funding to develop and launch new web acceleration, routing and security services, strengthening its IP portfolio, as well as expanding its global network behind its content delivery network (CDN). White Papers.

Data Center 181

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 181

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

“Amsterdam is ideally located at the heart of the demand we are seeing for today’s networked data centre requirements across Europe,” said Bernard Geoghegan, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa of Digital Realty. White Papers. Networking. News Channels White Papers.

Data Center 202

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 202

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Big Data » Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Scality Gets $22 Million for Scale-Out Storage. Storage and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.

Data Center 100

Data Center Storage Data Big Data 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The new data center offers re dundant application server hardware with instant local failover capability. White Papers. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers.

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Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. White Papers. Networking. By: John Rath July 17th, 2013.

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Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

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. White Papers. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers. Government.

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Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

” “Cisco’s acquisition of Sourcefire will help accelerate the realization of our vision for a new model of security across the extended network,” said Martin Roesch, founder and chief technology officer of Sourcefire. White Papers. Networking. News Channels White Papers. Government.

Data Center 195

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

colocation » Site Selection » White Papers. Rather, new demands require the data center to be a geographically distributed network of resources. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation. White Papers. Networking.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 100