Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Following on from my IDF 2014 Day 1 recap , here’s a quick recap of day 2. First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Overall, another solid day at IDF 2014.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

This is a semi-liveblog of the day 2 keynote at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!), The hardware specification for EVO:RAIL is a 2U, four-node enclosure (think Dell C6100 or similar hardware form factor). VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 22, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 22, 2014 – MemSQL, a leader in distributed in-memory database technology for real-time Big Data analytics, today announced it has secured $35 million in Series B funding. Prominent Investors Enthusiastic about a $32.4 IDC study, Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2013-2017 Forecast (IDC #244979).

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

Needless to say there is plenty of SSD related hardware and software activity occurring in the StorageIO labs as well as StorageIO.com/SSD;). The post June 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog. The question remains how much, when, where, with what and from whom.

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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. Full production is planned for the fourth quarter of this year, with a new line of solid-state drive solutions expected to ship in 2014.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads. IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Construction is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2013, with the first two data halls to be delivered in mid-2014. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

One area of particular note is how they are innovating in micro-data centers, including servers in storage containers. 6] [7] Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems , Dell entered the market for IT services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s not uncommon for individual departments to house several vendors’ compute, storage, and network platforms under one roof. It’s no longer driven by hardware technology, which had a predictable life cycle to it. At times overwhelmed. As IT environments expand, managers find themselves dealing with cases of vendor sprawl.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2014

Cloudera also offers software for business critical data challenges including storage, access, management, analysis, security and search. Cloudera works with over 800 hardware, software and services partners to meet customers’ big data goals. – bg.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The company broke ground on the new development on July 1, 2013 and the facility will be fully-commissioned and ready for occupancy in April 2014. It also offers sales tax rebates on the purchase of computers and related equipment, including networking and storage systems, cooling and power infrastructure, software and even electrical power.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

megawatts first phase is expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2014. The 200,000 square foot first facility will come online late this year, with an additional 115,000 square foot building following by mid-2014. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

more than simply selling servers and networking hardware). Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O networking hardware software and virtualization (aka software defined) was the general announcement (GA) by VMware of Virtual SAN (VSAN).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. He shows off a demo of Skylake as well as a hardware reference platform for Skylake playing full 4K video. Dell also makes mention of new PowerEdge servers, including the R720XD, a 2U box with 36 cores, up to 1.5TB of RAM, and up to 100TB of storage.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 30, 2013

By putting this capability in the hardware platform instead of abstracting it via software customers could reap the benefits of SDN such as orchestration without giving up performance. The announced ACI product has some of these earlier traits but has been labeled a hardware (first) & software solution. So, let’s review.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Once the new NYC3 data center comes online in the second quarter of 2014, Telx will operate a total of 550,000 square feet of data center space in the greater New York market. 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 Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

In Virginia, first phase will be late Q1 in 2014. 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. NY2 remains on schedule, first phase in the fourth quarter.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. As can be expected given the very recent release of Juno, the fall 2014 release of OpenStack, a number of Juno-specific “how to install” pages are popping up.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Like the other M1 Macs, everything is soldered together now — so there’s no upgrading RAM or internal storage even if you do crack it open. Other iMacs like the 27-inch 5K iMac from 2014 or the 2018 iMac Pro fared better, thanks to their replaceable CPUs and RAM, but these are absent from the new machine.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2025

A new Department of Energy report tracking data center power use found that it increased 7% from 2014 to 2018 and then jumped 18% between 2018 and 2023. That includes advanced nuclear, next-generation geothermal, clean hydrogen, long-duration energy storage and other power options. Hydrogen also has potential as a power solution.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Although the market definition for converged infrastructure (also known as Unified Computing) was still forming, TWP felt that sales of Converged Infrastructure solutions could rise as high as $15 billion by the end of 2014. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Billion with a “b”?

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. Trusted Platform Module) support, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Windows 11 will require Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up, TPM 2.0

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. Games should also load quicker because both consoles now include fast solid-state storage, a big improvement over the mechanical hard drive included in the Xbox One.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is a quite old post (from 2014!), Rather than trying to curate my own list of storage-related links this time around, I’ll point you to this list instead , curated by none other than Dr. J Metz himself. Vincent Bernat provides some feedback on Cisco pyATS and Genie Parser. Thank you, Ben!

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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2021

When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker debuted in 2014, it was something of a novelty: A voice-activated natural language processing interface that could perform a number of simple tasks. Prasad : From the moment we introduced Echo and Alexa in 2014, our approach has combined processing in the cloud, on device, and at the edge.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. This is a software-defined data center discussion—compute virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and management. But what is software-defined storage?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Seattle company, founded in 2014 with a vision of driving cryptocurrency access, started with a small number of bitcoin ATMs, and has since grown to support thousands of crypto-enabled units around the country through a partnership with Coinstar. Qumulo is a data storage platform for multi-cloud environments. 78: Coinme.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Servers/Hardware. There was some noise this past week about Cisco UCS moving into the top x86 blade server spot for North America in Q1 2014. Open vStorage compares itself to VMware VSAN, but supporting multiple storage backends and supporting multiple hypervisors. Technology Short Take #42. Technology Short Take #41.

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2022

New Macs, including a Mac Mini with an M1 Pro / M1 Max processor update, could also get a showing, and new iMac and Mac Pro hardware are said to be in the works — but those will likely show up later in the year. Storage: 64/128/256GB. Whatever the case might be, we might see at least one of these new Macs on March 8th.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They started using AWS in 2014 after a decision to move away from outsourcing without having to build on-premises infrastructure, in an initiative to restart innovation in-house after a hiatus spanning several years. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is a part of one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies, Telenor.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Show Notes. Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Show Notes. Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

PC’s generally get slowed down due to slow storage devices, SSDs have eliminated this problem altogether with their high processing and transfer speeds. A sound storage device is the key to a perfectly operating PC. The SATAe interface was compatible with select motherboards which were manufactured in 2014. 2 interface.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. In 2014 will come Advanced LTE (A-LTE). They are doing that via Intel Identity Password, which embeds keys into the hardware to enable passwordless VPNs. Naturally, a great CPU is key to success.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2014, AWS said the cloud was the “new normal.” Not only is the business growing rapidly, but the platform is growing rapidly as well; Jassy indicates that AWS is on pace to launch about 1,000 new features in 2016 (up from 722 last year and 516 in 2014). the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

By the way, if you’re looking for a decent OpenFlow primer you could do worse than Matt Oswalt’s deep dive from July 2014. Servers/Hardware. Kenneth Hui has a couple of great articles on persistent storage with application containers (first one here , then this follow-up post ). ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release.

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