Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Mobile: Leveraging HTML5, FieldView 6.0 Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). FieldView 6.0

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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.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Houston Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company – emphasizing the underpinning trends of cloud, mobility, big data and enterprise social. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

RELATED POSTS: Network News: Juniper Targets Mobile Services. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). July 2006 (26).

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Here I was, in an organization that’s made billions on storage, and I was about to talk about cloud attributes solely from a compute perspective.Was I missing something? My re-think was that attributes of Compute, Storage, and yes, Network, all had to be reconsidered in the context of a holistic cloud-based infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2024

The company’s offerings provide services and tools for organizations to enable data storage and hybrid multicloud solutions, including cloud management tools, data mobility solutions, hybrid cloud data protection solutions, and cloud services.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

from towers) created and tracked by the carrier; phone log files; data created and stored by multiple mobile apps and their own hosting infrastructures. I browse the web: Site tracking; clickstream storage; site analytics; Email storage, including replication on devices as well as replication in geographical-mirrored data centers.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. in order to provide enough performance for customers who were multi-tenant on hardware and storage, you had to make them non-multi-tenant. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Monday, January 24, 2011. Back during Cloud 1.0,

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud. Mobility: A Perfect Use Case for the Cloud. Serving-up mobile apps – and even entire virtual desktops – out of a cloud infrastructure is a natural. Yes, its true.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). That might mean continuous orchestration between specific apps and networking, storage, firewalls, IaaS, DBs and more. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2).

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

They recognized that trying to apply desktop computing paradigms to mobile devices wouldn’t work well. iOS wasn’t designed for laptops and workstations; it was designed for mobile devices. OS X wasn’t designed for mobile devices; it was designed for laptops and workstations. The only constant is change.

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Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

Picture aisles of million-dollar storage arrays pumping-out movies and live TV shows 24x7 across the country. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Today at Citrix I'm helping others understand opportunities and pathways for mobility and cloud infrastructure. / /. Infrastructure Orchestration. (31).

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

Observation #1: Apps are becoming mobile. With increased use of a virtualization layer, migration tools, shared storage, fat network pipes, and virtual I/O and switching, we are all now realizing that where the executable application code resides is becoming far less important. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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Fountainhead

MAY 29, 2011

Now that I’ve been with EMC for a few months, my relationship to storage, computing, and networking has once again shifted. From where I sit, the importance of data storage, data management and data portability suddenly becomes paramount. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Marketing. (3).

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Increasingly huge storage needs, esp. The student base requires support for "any device, any time", and doesnt hesitate to use external commercial services rather than IT (think: kids using DropBox, Evernote, Mobile Me, etc.). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Significant "Shadow IT" (e.g.

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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. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Infrastructure Orchestration. (31).

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Converged Infrastructure is highly complementary to shared storage: the pervasiveness of SAN storage is a major enabler of a more virtual/flexible data center. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Infrastucture 2.0.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2009

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. And, by abstracting the I/O, both data and storage connections can be converged, further simplifying the network infrastructure.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

For hedge funds and other buy-side firms, their value isnt in integrating compute, storage, networks and security -- its in analytics, trading strategies, algorithms, application strategies and other proprietary expertise. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Infrastructure Orchestration. (31). Marketing.

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Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software.

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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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2).

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Fountainhead

AUGUST 1, 2012

In other words, I dont just mean a product that offers an automated virtualization (server, storage, networking) layer. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Today at Citrix I'm helping others understand opportunities and pathways for mobility and cloud infrastructure. / /. Infrastucture 2.0. (11).

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

This got me thinking: when the boundaries between compute, storage and network begin to blur, so must the boundaries between traditional IT organizations. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). They made the observation that "to use a converged infrastructure to its fullest, you need a converged organization."

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Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

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". The ability to re-purpose entire compute, network and storage systems on-the-fly, in response to compute demand.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

. ~ 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. In terms of data storage and backup – our current system is not ideal. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

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). Instead, the blades would talk directly to the storage servers. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Infrastructure Orchestration.

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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.

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. Labels: Backup , NAS , SBS 2011 Essentials , Storage Server Essentials , Training and Awareness.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 6, 2008

See also the Future of Media Strategic Framework from 2006 and Key Elements of Media Business Models from 2007). Our personal cloud will increasingly be used for storage of our music, video and other media collections, making it available whenever and wherever we want - we can shift the time and place of media access as we choose.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Thats essentially the idea behind the " Datacenter-in-a-Box :" Most common config uration: Blades + Networking + SAN Storage Most useful tools to manage VMs + physical servers + network + I/O + SW provisioning + workload automation + high availability Thats what Egeneras done with Dell. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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Galido

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud services platform that offers you computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help your business scale and grow; besides being much more secure than a physical server. Millions of companies around the world already take advantage of AWS cloud products and solutions.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

One may be within a Tier-I data center with a relatively low response rate requirement and allowing users only 500MB of storage per mailbox. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Today at Citrix I'm helping others understand opportunities and pathways for mobility and cloud infrastructure. / /.

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network.

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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. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. Issues having to do with I/O, storage connectivity, etc.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). Implicitly assumed in the market is that VMs are the panacea.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 13, 2009

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. The system runs Egenera s cloud management software, PAN Manager, which manages I/O, networking, and storage for the servers as a logical set. Mobile Work. (4).

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