Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today.

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JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. Photo: Intel).

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JULY 13, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To make virtualization predictable for tier-one apps and end-user desktops and enable mixing and matching workloads, storage should be intelligent, writes Sachin Chheda of Tintri. Also, data reduction techniques to maximize the usage of expensive storage, such as flash, as complements to QoS, and. Industry Perspectives'

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JULY 25, 2013

As it seeks to consolidate its IT infrastructure across dozens of agencies, the government has had trouble sorting out how many data centers it has, and even more trouble adding up all the server closets, which includes rooms smaller than 100 square feet. Now Over 7,000 Data Centers. New Focus on Optimization.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

SGI announced that it has acquired big data storage virtualization provider FileTek, for an undisclosed amount. SGI Storage filetek'

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JULY 22, 2013

Data Center Videos. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. Rows and rows of custom-built servers inside an OVH data center. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.

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JULY 24, 2013

Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Determining the location of a data center is one of the crucial decisions for a company as it is based on strategy and goals of a company. Industry Perspectives. PRASHANT BAWEJA.

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JULY 11, 2013

Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC. Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC. Jeff Klaus is general manager, Data Center Manager (DCM) Solutions , at Intel Corporation. Jeff leads a global team that is pioneering data center infrastructure management (DCIM) technologies.

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JULY 15, 2013

Stream Data Centers. Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market. Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market. A look at one of the dedicated utility yards at a Stream Data Center in Dallas. Photo: Stream Data Centers). By: Jason Verge July 15th, 2013.

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JULY 12, 2013

Intel is offering a new Software Development Kit for data centers that complements its Data Center Manager (DCM) product, a key ingredient in more than 80 percent of today’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offerings. By: Jason Verge July 12th, 2013.

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JUNE 18, 2014

Traditional storage systems designed before the advent of virtualization are difficult to administer and scale, writes Saradhi Sreegiriraju of Tintri. As virtualization storage needs change, organizations need better options for building and scaling virtualized environments. Industry Perspectives'

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. Data Centers are increasingly complex. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena.

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JULY 11, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have two new job listings from CBRE, which is seeking a Project Manager – Data Center and an Associate Project Manager – Data Center in Mountain View, California.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Enterprise organizations are continuing to look to the cloud to take advantage of the benefits available with virtual data center infrastructures, writes Hemant Gaidhani of SanDisk. And while this shift enables performance optimization, it isn''t free of challenges. Industry Perspectives'

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

As the IT department is constantly faced with the challenge of running a lean, optimized environment, a large part of any modern-day infrastructure will be the storage component because it is one of the central pieces behind a cloud and virtualization environment. Learn more about optimizing your.

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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. A private cloud is your own virtualized environment, while a public cloud is one that another company provides for you. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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JULY 16, 2013

‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. ‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. A “catastrophic failure” in the state of Oregon’s government data center has delayed unemployment payments to residents, the state said Tuesday. White Papers.

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JULY 10, 2014

valuation and numerous heavyweight customers on the roster, the five-year-old startup is convincing users and investors that its copy data virtualization technology is the best way to tame duplicate data sprawl.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. “We created some unique tax incentives, but as a data center power guy for nearly two decades negotiating power deals and developing power plants, I saw the real potential was for clean, ‘ controllable’ power.

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JULY 19, 2013

Hewlett-Packard » Storage. Additional HP converged infrastructure used in the making of “Turbo” included 3PAR StoreServ storage, archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage, simplified network management with HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and HP BladeSystem c7000. Modular Data Centers.

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JULY 22, 2013

Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. Data is permeating everything we do. Photo: PureSense).

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JULY 26, 2013

The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). PATRICK HUBBARD. SolarWinds.

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JULY 23, 2013

A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. The need around the modern data center infrastructure continues to grow. The data center IT equipment space and environment. Access and connectivity.

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JULY 23, 2013

Data center developer Digital Realty Trust has purchased a 5.3 megawatt data center, the company said today. The 15,900 square meter development at De President, Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer will feature six data halls, each capable of supporting 1.92 Digital Realty Acquires Two Data Centers in Europe.

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JULY 17, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: Cushman and Wakefield. Data Center Jobs: Cushman and Wakefield. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have a new job listings from Cushman and Wakefield, which is seeking a Project Engineer in Shelton, Connecticut. Are you hiring for your data center?

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JUNE 26, 2014

Startup plans to use funding to grow SaaS product, announces new release of predictive analytics software for storage management Read More. Management Storage'

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JULY 22, 2013

Blades » Green Data Centers. Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. On Data Center Knowledge: LoPoCo Launches Low Power Server Line.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry has doubled capacity in its Midlands data center in Omaha, Nebraska, citing increased demand as the reason for expansion. The Midlands Data Center was given Energy Star Certification in 2012.

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JULY 9, 2014

Latest VMAX³ arrays enable delivery of cloud, mobility, data protection services on the arrays themselves via Hypermax storage hypervisor Read More. Storage Virtualization EMC twinstrata'

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JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures.

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MARCH 12, 2014

Nutanix is granted a patent for its storage architecture for virtualized data centers, Nimble Storage advances its Infosight analytics with new forensic capabilities, and Avere Systems launches the FXT 4800 edge filer for enterprise storage. Storage avere systems nimble storage nutanix'

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JULY 25, 2013

Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 25th. Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 25th. “SoftLayer’s hosting platform features an innovative, three-tier network architecture: Every server in a SoftLayer data center is physically connected to public, private and out-of-band management networks.

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JULY 18, 2013

Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape. I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. Data tape is not dead; however, its purpose has changed. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology.

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JULY 27, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Servers pack the racks in a Facebook data center. The social network’s data center power usage grew 33 percent in 2012 as it added thousands of servers to support new users. Photo: Facebook).

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JULY 10, 2013

Modular Data Centers. Colt Adds 1.65MW to Netherlands Data Center. Colt Adds 1.65MW to Netherlands Data Center. The inside of Colt’s data center in the Netherlands, filled with double-stacked rows of modular data centers. Colt Sells Modular Data Center To Phoenix IT.

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