Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

KVM Hardware Overcomes Connectivity Challenges, but Introduces Others. When early versions of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switches were introduced almost 30 years ago (initially supporting only keyboard and display functions), these hardware solutions simplified connections to managed infrastructure assets.

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Data Center Data Hardware Virtualization 187

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

For CIOs deploying a simple AI chatbot or an AI that provides summaries of Zoom meetings, for example, Blackwell and NIM may not be groundbreaking developments, because lower powered GPUs, as well as CPUs, are already available to run small AI workloads. The case for Blackwell is clear, adds Shane Rau, research VP for semiconductors at IDC.

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Hardware Training Enterprise Enterprise 98

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With server virtualization, you can easily create, move, and delete virtual servers as needed, without the need for expensive hardware upgrades or complex reconfigurations. One of the key benefits of server virtualization is that it allows for more efficient use of hardware resources.

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Virtualization Storage Disaster Recovery Hardware 78

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The “Internet of things” and “big data” are oft-used term these days, but PureSense is a specific example of how data is being generated all around us. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 195

Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

One of the best examples of flexibility as a feature can be found in cloud computing. When I need more storage, again…I push a button. The same is true for storage…you may have plenty of storage today, but what about next year? How will you add storage to your already full data center?

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Storage Data Center Hardware Groups 140

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

LoPoCo says it is using Intel Xeon “brawny core” chips and standard form factors, and gaining energy savings through its hardware design. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. It was a lot engineering work.”

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Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“Across network, storage and servers we continue to see significant opportunities for growth. The foundation of Intel’s software defined infrastructure will take on severs, storage and networking to help take data centers from static to dynamic, and manual to automated. ” New Atom and Xeon processors. Networking.

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. What I came away with from that discussion is that Intel RSA is really about three related but not interdependent initiatives: Disaggregating server hardware. Establishing hardware-level APIs.

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Intel Architecture Hardware Data Center 111

CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

As a result, there is now a need for managing data movement between disks to solid state storage to non-volatile memory to random-access memory. Cray’s DataWarp products are a few examples of attempts to combine software and hardware innovation around data-tiering. The Coherence of Analytics and Supercomputing.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Intel Google 150

The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Not all those ports were effective — Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor , for example, had an infamously watered down version of the Xbox One / PS4 game, a hint that developers were already starting to hit the wall of what the older consoles could do. It’s the kind of feature that the PS5’s ultra-fast hardware should theoretically solve.

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Hardware Microsoft Virtualization Software 105

CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Mobile and embedded Agile environments – Proliferation of new device types, form factors, firmware and OS versions, and native hardware all present new complications for testers. This is accomplished using virtualisation software to create a layer of abstraction between workloads and the underlying physical hardware. Robotics.

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Government Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Big Data 301

CTOvision

JANUARY 22, 2014

By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: we have met and had discussions with the leadership of MemSQL and are excited for the virtuous capabilities they bring to enterprise IT (see, for example, our interview with Eric Frenkiel and their position on our Top Enterprise Big Data Tech List ).

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Enterprise Enterprise Big Data Company 277

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles. Speaking of Puppet and hardware, I also saw a mention on Twitter about a Puppet module that will manage the configuration of a NetApp filer. Now, you can also automate UCS with Chef.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 134

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2016

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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Storage Data Dell Architecture 70

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. After studying the bandwidth profile, the suggestion from Latisys was to use blended network, as another example of the cooperative process.”. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Hadoop offers petabytes of data storage and can handle multiple workloads. Data security segregates data from privileged user accounts including system administrators and protects storage from theft or improper disposal. With Garcia’s final remarks, he debuted Intel’s hardware acceleration figures.

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Big Data Security Data Authentication 150

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2022

Modernizing primary storage is key to transformation. In powering a transformation journey with an edge-to-cloud, cloud operational model, finding the right solution for primary storage is critical. What’s needed is STaaS — for all. That’s what will unlock the benefits of the cloud operational model on-prem.

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Storage Agile Cloud Applications 83

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Computational requirements, such as the type of GenAI models, number of users, and data storage capacity, will affect this choice. An example is Dell Technologies Enterprise Data Management. In particular, Dell PowerScale provides a scalable storage platform for driving faster AI innovations.

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Strategy Data Dell Storage 141

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

That package combines Cisco’s SaaS-managed compute and networking gear with Nutanix’s Cloud Platform, which includes Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Manager, Nutanix Unified Storage, and Nutanix Desktop Services. For example, customers can now tie together systems via Cisco’s ACI package.

Data Center 187

Data Center Network Enterprise Enterprise 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Meeting Software 125

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

One Wilshire is an iconic 30-story, 663,000 square feet building housing data center, office, storage and retail space with a five-level subterranean parking garage. One Wilshire is a prime example of this strategy, as the building is filled with tenants, with about 60 percent of its space occupied by telecom ro data center firms.

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Data Center Real Estate Data Storage 205

GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2024

I’ve had a lot of conversations with industry insiders who predict that the next Xbox won’t have physical hardware at all. The new Series X, codenamed “Brooklin,” may ship without a disc drive, but would feature improved download speeds, power draw, and internal storage.

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Industry Microsoft Examples Analysis 84

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Let’s look at 3 prime examples: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) SaaS is defined as any software application delivered and accessed via the cloud in a subscription-based offering. Examples include Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Network 91

Network Storage Hardware Telecommunications 91

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Inflexible Process: The use of ITIL and ITSM procedures were designed to govern manual IT control, and had no way to incorporate automatic approaches to (for example) configuration management. And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. And Then, Commercial Examples.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A lesser-known challenge is the need for the right storage infrastructure, a must-have enabler. To effectively deploy generative AI (and AI), organizations must adopt new storage capabilities that are different than the status quo. With the right storage, organizations can accelerate generative AI (discussed in more detail here ).

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Banking Financial Dell Artificial Intelligence 133

Network World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence hardware by developing a brain-inspired neuromorphic computing platform. The IISc team’s neuromorphic platform is designed to address some of the biggest challenges facing AI hardware today: energy consumption and computational inefficiency.

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Energy Hardware Training System 150

Computerworld Vertical IT

JANUARY 3, 2023

The hard drive and RAM, for example, can be difficult to upgrade later on — especially on some laptops. I rarely see Windows laptops sold now with less than 256GB of storage, but that may be enough for most users. With Windows 11 now offered on most systems, there are certain minimum specifications to keep in mind.

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Windows Hardware Intel Storage 69

The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We affectionally call it the “next gen” every time a big leap in console hardware arrives, promising new games and things we’ve never seen before. Cool and quiet hardware. There are two USB ports at the rear alongside an Ethernet port, a storage expansion slot, and HDMI 2.1 Storage and load times.

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Storage Microsoft Hardware Architecture 145

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Among many other performance metrics, memory, storage and interconnect advances, vendor changes and other things, the evolution of gigaflops to teraflops and then petaflops has led many to speculate on what it will take to achieve exaflop levels of performance. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Data Center Storage Applications Disaster Recovery 204

The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

inch 1080p OLED screen, 256GB of storage, a 4,315mAh battery, and 33W fast charging. Vivo is known for experimental hardware features that it often shows off in concept form before shipping in commercial products. In-display fingerprint sensors and pop-up selfie cameras are examples of now-commonplace features that Vivo pioneered.

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Wireless Storage Hardware Examples 109

Network World

AUGUST 21, 2024

For example, the health organization had hardware-based endpoint detection and response on its networks. For example, if ransomware shuts down local servers, healthcare professionals can still access patient records and other critical systems. We’re able to provide storage at scale more cheaply on prem,” he says.

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Network Security Examples Cloud 147

The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

A number of different tiers will be available, starting with a basic combo of Apple Music and Apple TV+, while more expensive bundles will add Apple Arcade, then Apple News+ at the next tier, then extra iCloud storage for the tier above that. Apple’s subscription bundles could do the same for its services and hardware.

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Apple Report Storage Hardware 108

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Apple’s new iPhone 13 and 13 Mini mark the official end of the 64GB iPhone era: the company has effectively doubled the storage capacities for its 2021 models while keeping prices the same, so the new smartphones now start with 128GB of storage with options for 256GB and 512GB. To which I say, goodbye and good riddance.

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Storage Apple Video Course 111

Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Defined in the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), CMDBs include data on the hardware, software, and infrastructure used by the applications and services provided by an IT organization. CMDBs are considered a best practice for IT managers who need to maintain an accurate inventory of enterprise environments.

Network 175

Network Virtualization Change Management Cloud 175

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For example, if you plan to run the application for five-plus years, but the servers you plan to run it on are approaching end of life and will need to replaced in two to three years, you’re going to need to account for that. And there could be ancillary costs, such as the need for additional server hardware or data storage capacity.

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Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 130