All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage.

Agile 118

Agile Applications Comparison CTO Hire 118

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 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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Storage 221

Storage Data Center Data Disaster Recovery 221

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.

Storage 195

Storage Cloud Data Data Center 195

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kenneth Hui has a couple of great articles on persistent storage with application containers (first one here , then this follow-up post ). Kenneth Hui has a couple of great articles on persistent storage with application containers (first one here , then this follow-up post ). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

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. This news came out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015: Ericsson has announced a new “hyperscale” hardware platform based on Intel’s Rack Scale Architecture (RSA). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

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. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. EMC World: New Scale-out Storage and Software.

Data Center 190

Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

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.

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

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.

Data Center 192

Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

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 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.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

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. White Papers. News Channels White Papers.

Data Center 208

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. Additional HP converged infrastructure used in the making of “Turbo” included 3PAR StoreServ storage, archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage, simplified network management with HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and HP BladeSystem c7000. White Papers. Networking.

HP 221

HP Data Center Data Film 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers.

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

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.

Data Center 247

Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

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. White Papers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. By: John Rath July 17th, 2013. New Steelhead EX 1360.

Enterprise 191

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

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 11, 2013

Management » White Papers. White Papers. 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. News Channels White Papers.

Data Center 195

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

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.

Disaster Recovery 125

Disaster Recovery Data Center Meeting Software 125

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Convergence » Virtualization » White Papers. In HP’s white paper , you are able to see how to more easily deliver data to any device. Download this white paper to learn what you need to protect your environment and still deliver a powerful user experience. White Papers. Networking.

Data Center 182

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

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. News Channels White Papers.

Data Center 210

Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

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

Cloud 198

Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

White Papers. 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. News Channels White Papers. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge.

Data Center 258

Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

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. News Channels White Papers.

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. News Channels White Papers. Comments (required). Networking.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

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

Data Center 216

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. Micron Unveils 16 Nanometer Flash Memory.

Data Center 180

Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. White Papers. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. News Channels White Papers. Networking.

Data Center 184

Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth. The foundation of Intel’s software defined infrastructure will take on severs, storage and networking to help take data centers from static to dynamic, and manual to automated. White Papers. Comments (required).

Data Center 221

Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. White Papers. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. News Channels White Papers. Networking.

Data Center 183

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

White Papers. 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. News Channels White Papers. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge.

Data Center 199

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

White Papers. 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. News Channels White Papers. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge.

Data Center 230

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Microsoft 230

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

White Papers. 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. News Channels White Papers. ” This video runs about 2 minutes.

Data Center 199

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

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. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Infrastructure.

Data Center 179

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. White Papers. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. News Channels White Papers. Networking.

Cloud 188

Cloud Data Center Data Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. White Papers.

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. White Papers. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. News Channels White Papers. Networking.

Data Center 182

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Advertising 182