Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 12, 2015

The Cloudline family of servers are intended to maximize data center efficiency and increase cloud service agility for providers running hyperscale architectures.

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HP Data Center Agile Architecture 100

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Right-on… Then there is a report by Gartner Research on fabric-based computing… which estimated that by the end of 2012, roughly 30% of the world’s top 2000 companies would have some form of fabric-based computing architecture.

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Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

CTOvision

JUNE 11, 2015

Speakers include the Federal Government's CIO, the CIOs from DHS, DoD, HHS, Commerce, Transportation, plus senior executives from AT&T, HP, Intel, ImmixGroup, FedScoop, and of course Brocade. The New IP for the Data Center of the Future. Breakout Sessions: The Building Blocks of the Data Center of the Future.

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Data Center CTO HP Network 150

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). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0" Big Data. (6).

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Because true converged infrastructure / unified computing has architectural, operational, and capital cost advantages over traditional IT approaches. HPs Definition. "HP Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s a form of rightsizing, trying to balance around cost effectiveness, capability, regulation, and privacy,” says Musser, whose team found it more cost effective to run some workloads on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in the company’s data center than on the cloud.

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Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 144

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is IDF 2013 session CLDS001, titled “Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud.” This means there will be tremendous need for servers in data centers to support this vast number of connected devices. However, the current architectures aren’t sufficient. Reference architectures and orchestration software.

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Architecture Cloud Intel Storage 60

Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […]. With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance, there were also many announcements today (e.g. Monday) and many more slated for out the week. Here are a synopsis of some of those announcements.

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Vmware Storage Network HP 64

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x. I hope that you find something useful here.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One of those new technologies in the Enterprise Data Center space is what I call Infrastructure Orchestration (others term it fabric computing or unified computing ). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

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Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Indeed, there are a number of similar technologies out there (Cisco with its UCS, and HP with its own offerings). as estimated for its legacy architecture. as estimated for its legacy architecture. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Banking 100

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. A converged infrastructure approach offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Metavante Healthcare: With annual growth of 35 to 40 percent, Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions needed to upgrade data center infrastructure just to keep pace. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Fountainhead.

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Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Juniper – Data Center Core. HP – Top of Rack. I predict environments where customers will have hardware designed to take full advantage of Cisco’s ACI architecture but will just be managed by some other SDN solution that integrates with multiple network hardware solutions. Arista – Top of Rack.

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Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 79

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x. I hope that you find something useful here.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

Rackspace, Dell and HP are all Cloud providers that were looking for a Cloud OS. This gives further strength to my guess that VMware wants to use the relatively cheap investment in OpenStack to further their Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategy. Why not an open project such as OpenStack?

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Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 72

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t track or get involved in the consumer space; my focus is on the data center. There were no major data center-centric announcements yesterday (day 1), but I suspect there will be some today (day 2) in a mega-session with Diane Bryant (SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel). Coffee Chats.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments). Good friend Simon Seagrave is back to the online world again with this heads-up on a potential NIC issue with an HP Proliant firmware update. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Krzanich talks about how this migration to the “Internet of Things” drives Intel away from CPU-centric architectures into integrated (i.e., system-centric or System-on-Chip [SoC]) architectures, and he believes this is why Intel will win and drive marketshare in this transition.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Krzanich talks about how this migration to the “Internet of Things” drives Intel away from CPU-centric architectures into integrated (i.e., system-centric or System-on-Chip [SoC]) architectures, and he believes this is why Intel will win and drive marketshare in this transition.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 60

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

HP’s Touchpad and (maybe) WebOS were given up to an existence someplace between the living and the dead (tech Zombiedom?) And companies like Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) , once the #2 computer company worldwide, fell into the dustbin of tech history, being purchased by Compaq which in turn was gobbled up by HP.

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Windows HP Government System 31

The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

And if cloud computing is about computers far away from you in data centers, the edge is about the computers closest to you — like Windows PCs. The billion-plus users of Windows, for sure, we think of from a distributed computing architecture perspective as the edge of Azure. So that’s, I think, absolutely right. Last question.

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Windows Microsoft Operating Systems System 80