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.

Data Center 204

Data Center Storage Applications System 204

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

The admin had some ability to define and configure physical compute, storage and network resources for provisioning via the command line and scripts. This is foreign to the target administrator and is a completely different approach to consuming physical resources vs. the VMware model. This is vCloud and vSphere.

Vmware 69

Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization 69

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

VMware has looked to both storage and networking as areas of growth. VMware wants to stop nothing short of disrupting the network industry in the same fashion in which they have the 86x server industry. The approach does give organizations the option to outsource the physical network in a similar fashion to how MPLS is done today.

Vmware 91

Vmware Virtualization Hardware Network 91

Galido

MAY 30, 2016

The Ice Cube Lab data center has over 1,200 computing cores and three petabytes of storage and tethered to the IceCube Observatory, a neutrino detector with strings of optical sensors buried a kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice. Systems are monitored over a multiplexed Iridium satellite connection.

Data Center 60

Data Center Data Airlines System 60