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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

. ~ John Having looked into cloud computing solutions for our small investment firm over the past few months, we have learned a lot about the growing movement towards remote data storage and accessibility. In terms of data storage and backup – our current system is not ideal. IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13).

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

But we also fail to notice the complexity it creates for managing I/O, storage connectivity and other physical-world management issues. Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. cmon folks. Marketing. (3).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Interxion, known for its rich network of interconnects, recently announced it is housing the London Internet Exchange’s IT hosting infrastructure out of its London data center. About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Networking. Disaster Recovery. Video runs 4:14.

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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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JULY 19, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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JULY 11, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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JULY 27, 2013

The social network’s data center power usage grew 33 percent in 2012 as it added thousands of servers to support new users. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. By: Rich Miller July 27th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM and Pivotal have been working together since March, and early fruits of the collaboration is a preview version of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core, IBM’s lightweight version of the WebSphere Application Server, which simplifies development and deployment of web, mobile, social and analytic applications. Networking.

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JULY 26, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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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. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits? ALAN McMAHON.

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JULY 12, 2013

About Colleen Miller Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Houston Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company – emphasizing the underpinning trends of cloud, mobility, big data and enterprise social. Networking. Disaster Recovery. White Papers. Government.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., An alternative model.

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MAY 6, 2010

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. The 13th function if provided via the Dell Management Console.) Mobility.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

IO Virtualization is an approach whereby physical IO components such as Network Interface Cards (NICs) Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs) and Keyboard/video/Mouse ports (KVM) are reproduced logically rather than physically. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. This blog is related to my 2009 installment on Fabric as an IT Enabler. What is IOV?

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Virtual networking. This permits physically flatter networks. Unified (or Converged) Computing.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

In the same way that the software domain has been virtualized by the hypervisor, the infrastructure world can be virtualized with I/O virtualization and converged networking. And, once the I/O and network are now virtualized, they can be composed/recomposed on demand. Now: What’s the impact on costs? See diagram below.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. So this technical approach is gaining greater installed-base every day. IT Financial Management. (4). Mobility.

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