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. Fountainhead.

Cloud 216

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

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

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Simply implementing a tool (BTW, most of which are still only tenuously integrated with each other, as well as with hardware and networking platforms) wont solve the problem for you. Prediction 2009: The Future of Virtualization Fountainhead Blog.

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Data Center Financial Cloud Virtualization 200

Fountainhead

MARCH 6, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. but mostly online in the virtual world. Back in 1990s, AnnaLee Saxenian authored a prescient book, " Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128." Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Meeting Data Center Virtualization Cloud 154

Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. As Dell announced its new 11th-generation (11G) server product line, Egenera also announced PAN Manager support for Dell hardware, such as Dell m610 11G blades as well. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Very cool, guys.

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Dell Intel Data Center Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. N Apps that are inherently bound to hardware Such as physical instances of software for specific (e.g. high-performance) hardware, or physical instances remaining so for scale-out reasons. heard from customers is "What should I virtualize?"

Cloud 186

Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Rather, its all about using (and re-purposing) compute hardware more effectively. Its a fantastic complement to virtualization.

Energy 100

Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2001, Egenera has been selling its high-end hardware/software combination that unified re-purposing of physical and virtual servers. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31).

Dell 100

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 100

Fountainhead

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Given the tons of IT, cloud, and tech related trade shows, Im continually amazed at how 99% of floor exhibitors are hardware or software firms. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Virtual Geek.

Data Center 150

Data Center Change Management Cloud Virtualization 150

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). Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact.

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Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 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

MARCH 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A first joint customer was announced today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Center Operations (CDCO). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). Fountainhead. Syndications.

Dell 100

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 100

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. Think of this as provisioning hardware using software. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 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.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? Chock-full of great presentations, networking and predictions, topped-off with a closing keynote from Nick Carr on The Big Switch. Hardware consolidation. Big Data. (6).

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. What is IOV?

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Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Fountainhead

JULY 15, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A day doesn’t pass that I’m not asked (by a co-worker, partner or analyst) about whether hosted/virtual desktops delivered over the public Internet make sense. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtual Geek.

Cloud 194

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Mobile 194

Fountainhead

MARCH 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. For example, most clients will tend to use a common set of "Big Data" - ranging in size from Terabytes to Petabytes. If each tenant maintained their own instance of this data, it would be massively costly, inefficient and complex.

Examples 160

Examples Cloud Data Center Virtualization 160

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., The I/O would be "virtualized" into a logical (rather than physical) connection.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 20, 2018

March 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter Volume 18, Issue 3 (March 2018) Hello and welcome to the March 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter. If you are wondering where the January and February 2018 update newsletters are, they are rolled into this combined edition.

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Data Data Center Storage Resources 40

Fountainhead

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Fast-forward: We have Margo with an office full of client-provided hardware. Enter the concepts of "Mobile applications" and "Virtual desktops". She could install a virtual machine desktop on her laptop. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Data Center Virtualization Firewall Applications 246

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer 138

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. And other hardware. That's a, you know, virtual machine running in a year in Japan. I just need access to data to investigate it to see if it's a real threat and how do I mitigate it as soon as possible?

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Data Security 40

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. At the heart of each system is technology (sometimes HW, sometimes SW, sometimes mixed) that virtualizes I/O and leverages converged networking. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Big Data. (6).

Data Center 138

Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. When a new server (physical or virtual) is created, much of this infrastructure also has to be provisioned to support it. That is, I/O is virtualized, networking is frequently converged (i.e. are virtualized as well. Fountainhead.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And, through I/O virtualization , both data and storage transports can also be converged, further simplifying the physical network infrastructure down to a single wire. Converged Infrastructure and Software Virtualization. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Truth-be told, Egeneras own BladeFrame hardware already supports 128GB of memory, on 6-core, 4-way boards. In that way, administators have the option of provisioning a full physical blade, or dicing-it-up into many virtual blades. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100

Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Khanna is often quoted in leading business publications and her latest book is titled Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization. She has authored over 60 journal articles and book chapters, many with a focus on educational futures. Twitter: @ayeshakhanna1. Ivana Milojevi?. Professor Ivana Milojevi?

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Study Research Trends Education 148