Fountainhead

AUGUST 1, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In other words, I dont just mean a product that offers an automated virtualization (server, storage, networking) layer. Too Sexy: Big Data Business Models. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Big Data Data Center Cloud Virtualization 170

Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World. (Or, In the context of data, applications and cloud computing, this question takes on a new perspective - and the role of Mohammed and the Mountain may soon reverse. Now thats big data.

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Data Data Center Applications Cloud 218

Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Big Data. (6).

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Applications Cloud Data Center Load Balancer 214

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Enter Virtualization.

Cloud 216

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. Data is permeating everything we do. Modular Data Centers.

Data Center 216

Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Yes, its true.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31).

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Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Picture aisles of million-dollar storage arrays pumping-out movies and live TV shows 24x7 across the country. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). ► 2006. (2). ► 2006. (2).

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Data Center Cloud Data Energy 272

Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure Orchestration and Unified Computing are both terms referring to a technology whereby server CPU, I/O, storage connectivity, and network, are all able to be defined and configured in software. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

Data Center 113

Data Center Storage Dell Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Increasingly huge storage needs, esp. Also, users (students) without their own personal "smart" devices will typically log into multiple alternative devices a number of times each day, requiring virtual display and authentication technologies.

Data Center 173

Data Center Virtualization Cloud Mobile 173

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. With the explosive growth of virtualization, this segment of technology is hotter than ever. In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A "unified fabric" is part of what we term " infrastructure orchestration " and "unified computing" - it is the abstraction of compute, I/O, storage and network infrastructure into a dynamically-configurable "fabric". Big Data. (6).

Energy 100

Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. I called these the " big blind spots ". Virtualization does not equal agility. Virtualization does not equal simplification In many ways, virtualization simplifies sofware. Big Data. (6).

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The project, dubbed the Health Associated Infection and Influenza Surveillance System, was built on six standard blade servers with converged network and storage I/O. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, April 13, 2009. More later.

Cloud 100

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Storage 100

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 10, 2009

Pingback: StorageIOblog » Blog Archive » Green Storage is Alive and Well: ENERGY STAR Enterprise Storage Stakeholder Meeting Details Pingback: StorageIOblog » Blog Archive » Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the greenest of them all? Ok, nuff said. Pingback: Happy Earth Day 2010! -

Journal 40

Journal Storage Data Center Energy 40

Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. Big Data. (6).

Disaster Recovery 100

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Banking 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.). Network Interface Cards) as well as with storage connectivity (e.g. Fountainhead.

Industry 100

Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

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). Labels: Infrastructure Orchestration , IT Ops , Unified Computing , Virtualization.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. John Having looked into cloud computing solutions for our small investment firm over the past few months, we have learned a lot about the growing movement towards remote data storage and accessibility. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

Cloud 113

Cloud Data Center Storage Google 113

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Big Data » Hewlett-Packard. 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. Teradata Enhances Big Data Analytics Platform.

HP 179

HP Big Data Data Center Storage 179

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

Data Center 113

Data Center Disaster Recovery Energy Data 113

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 18, 2009

Ok, nuff said. Follow @storageio on twitter.

Internet 40

Internet Storage Journal Virtualization 40

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. This got me thinking: when the boundaries between compute, storage and network begin to blur, so must the boundaries between traditional IT organizations. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31).

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Data Center Cloud Training Virtualization 220

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Dealing with this data volume, variety, velocity and complexity is really a “big data” problem for IT operations, forcing many traditional approaches in IT to change, ushering in IT Operations Analytics solutions to take on this challenge. IT Operations Analytics is better equipped to manage this kind of big data challenge.

Data Center 209

Data Center Big Data Data Analysis 209

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. The evolution of enterprise applications and rise of big data has eclipsed traditional database capabilities and provides an opening for a significant new market entrant,” said Andy Vitus, partner, Scale Venture Partners.

Data Center 184

Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It also simplifies automated management and portability of workloads, such as with virtual appliances / AMIs. And #3 is how the actual software (physical, virtual, appliances, AMIs, etc.) Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

It’s not easy to stay current on the many facets of data center technology and operations. This week’s Industry Perspectives explore five hot topics for data center professionals and executives. IT Operations Analytics is better equipped to manage this kind of big data challenge. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

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. ” Actian Launches DataCloud and big data analytics platforms.

Data Center 190

Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

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 provider Scality announced it has closed its series C funding round for $22 million, bringing the total invested capital since company inception to $35 million.

Data Center 100

Data Center Storage Data Big Data 100

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 19, 2009

These interactions have included among other topics, IT optimization, boosting server and storage efficiency, as well as the roll of tiering IT resources to boost efficiency, achieve better productivity while boosting performance in a cost-effective way during touch economic times, in other words, the other green IT ! " SAS 15.5K

Storage 45

Storage IBM Data Center Data 45

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. “Data centers are entering a new era of rapid service delivery,” said Bryant. Modular Data Centers.

Data Center 221

Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

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. Modular Data Centers. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51).

Data Center 210

Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. May 2006 (28).

Cloud 198

Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

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 Sets the Stage for the All-Flash Data Center. Networking.

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 184

Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 183

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 27, 2013

Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand – Those fields of crops you drive past out in the country could be generating data center demand. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 186

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Energy 186