Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. Companies may opt to do a mix of both, with their own proprietary applications in their private cloud, and additional applications in the public cloud. ALAN McMAHON. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Too frequently I&O says, “I got that application back online in 20 minutes”. Business services is the top level in a business, sitting above an application, in order to support a business service, you need to consider all the infrastructure involved. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. CloudVelocity says more than 100 enterprise trials have conducted trials since the company emerged from stealth in December 2012. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151).

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Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

The new benchmark being proposed is called the High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG), and should better correlate to computation and data access patterns found in many applications today. Designing for a Benchmark, or Applications? “Titan was the top ranked system in November 2012 using HPL. gigaflops performance.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

With the new release IT managers can now extend the benefits of Granite to larger branch offices and data-intensive applications that previously were difficult or impossible to consolidate. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Granite 2.5.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

“You really couldn’t buy enough CPU for common server applications in the past,” said Sharp. Intel Outlines Low-Power Processor Roadmap at IDF 2012. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134).

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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. Networking.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Fieldview says its latest update focuses on addressing a critical gap in DCIM solutions: sharing data that is gathered, stored and analyzed with other applications. DataView is a non-compressed cache of data for a wide variety of applications to access or publish historical and trending data for asset management and capacity planning needs.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2013

About a year ago, I posted a look at my planned projects for 2012. In my late June mid-year project update , I dropped the Perl scripting project simply because I had no practical applications driving the use of Perl. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

A high-availability data center or colocation service provider minimizes the chances of downtime occurring for critical applications and makes it easier to secure and manage a company’s IT infrastructure requirements. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 201

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

the DataCloud platform integrates cloud and on-premises applications while providing robust data quality and other data services. The upgraded infrastructure includes HP 3PAR StoreServ T400 Storage System and HP ProLiant DL360 Servers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151).

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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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182).

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Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The systems will be based on open internet standards and designed to help application developers mobilize connected assets of all kinds. ARM technology and its ecosystem create the bedrock of this smart intelligence that will enable others to build unique services and applications to help the IoT flourish.” December 2012 (151).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

” In 2012 the company made an upgrade to its system, which resides in a containerized data center from IBM, located outdoors next to offices at Fox Studios in Australia. It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Cloud Data Data Center Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

If anything, there’s a renewed need for it with the increased use of I/O-heavy applications such as databases and Big Data platforms. Customers want to run the cloud where they want (whether on premise or in a vendor’s datacenter), how they want, and in the combination that best fits their applications. December 2012 (151).

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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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Businesses are looking to migrate applications hosted on-premise into the cloud using a variety of hybrid solutions,” said Andrew Higginbotham, chief technology officer at Savvis. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). Networking.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. The next demonstration shows a couple of different applications running on both Atom and Core CPUs; Perlmutter uses a couple of Windows 8 applications as his example. IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The new application is highly-interactive, makes comparative reports, and makes Radar Cloud and CDN performance data more accessible than ever. “As Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). Networking.

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Data Center Cloud Data Windows 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

From centralizing data collection, managing physical capacity and assets, and integrating with critical IT management applications, DCIM unifies the processes, tools and raw data needed to provide an accurate view of data center performance across both IT and facilities. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

If you have planned well , your applications and databases will be safely backed up at a BCDR data center; a comprehensive primary site restoration plan should include ready candidates for a new permanent facility, as well as sources for all the necessary equipment to run your regular operations. December 2012 (151). August 2012 (166).

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup Business Continuity 202

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

3) The dynamic nature of an organization’s applications and workloads. 6) The organization’s need to simplify security measures and control access to applications. The application of best practices, policy-based management and routine auditing as it relates to network security and access are a challenge within traditional networks.

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Data Center Network Software Software 207

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). August 2012 (166).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

MapR Technologies announced MapR M7, a Big Data platform for NoSQL and Apache Hadoop applications, now available through Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). Benchmark tests of M7 running on AWS High Storage instances have shown it delivering consistent performance of over 100,000 operations per second per node. December 2012 (151).

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HP Big Data Data Center Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

QA/QC assistance- supervising consultants as needed, invoice / Payment, application processing, tracking and reporting, and tracking of all key project documents, including submittals, RFIs, change orders, invoices and payments, lien releases, etc. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center Data Project Management Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

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. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

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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Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012. 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. In the traditional application-centric (and static infrastructure) world, the Application is the immovable "mountain".

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Data Data Center Applications Cloud 218

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? on-premises applications. s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

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Storage Web Services Disaster Recovery Applications 97

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Still, many users insist on utilizing their own devices to access applications, workloads and their data. 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 2012 (151).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Policies 182

CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2014

As enterprises work to rapidly embrace the mobile revolution, both for their workforce and to engage more deeply with their customers, the pressure is on for IT to support the tools needed by their application developers. There’s no denying the massive growth in mobile applications within the enterprise.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

We are pleased with the continued evolution we saw in our sales mix, recording an increasing number of leases bringing high-value applications to our platform,” said Tom Ray, CEO of CoreSite. They’re seeing mobile applications as a key growth opportunity. RELATED POSTS: Digital Realty Sees Growth, Investment in 2012. Networking.

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Data Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage 193

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

Our customers are telling us that their business applications require data center solutions that offer assured availability and we have been able to deliver.”. The Midlands Data Center was given Energy Star Certification in 2012. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Funding from new and existing investors will help the company advance its portfolio of 3D MEMS Optical Circuit Switching systems, extend its IP portfolio and provide working capital for its rapid production growth driven by new applications in software defined datacenter networking. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 173

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

For IT Operations, change is a fact of life, taking place at every level of the application and infrastructure stack, with an impact on nearly every part of the business. ” (Source: Market Share Analysis: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2012: by Laurie F. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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