Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Will Ballmer’s statements end all the server secrecy?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. The company says that all-SSD now storage has crossed a major threshold, and now has a lower cost than disk. RELATED POSTS: SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

The latest price drops are for dedicated instances, which are different from regular EC2 instances in that they run on single-tenant hardware. They are isolated from other instances belonging to other customers at the host hardware level. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers.

Enterprise 207

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 207

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. These resources are shared with many users, and the hardware the cloud computing company provides is built on a system that makes the most efficient use of it. ALAN McMAHON.

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Data Center Cloud Data Storage 242

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

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Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

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

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

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

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution. Intelligent replication and storage control mechanisms now allow for the distribution of cloud components. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 210

Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

Enterprise 191

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Microsoft 230

Data Center Knowledge

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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Data Center Storage Data Big Data 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“One thing we’ve learned from these customers is that dedicated hardware (whether bare metal or with virtualization) isn’t going away. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Rackspace Sharpens Its Focus on Hybrid Cloud. Modular Data Centers.

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Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. The new data center offers re dundant application server hardware with instant local failover capability. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. By: Jason Verge July 22nd, 2013. Photo: PureSense). Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Big Data Data Storage 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

Data Center 184

Data Center Video Cloud Data 184

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.”

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 199

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

Data Center Knowledge

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. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

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.

Data Center 221

Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. ” This video runs about 2 minutes. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Managed Hosting.

Data Center 199

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

Data Center 183

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

Data Center 190

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Targeted at both retail applications and data center cloud storage, the new 128Gb NAND Flash memory provides the greatest number of bits per square millimeter and lowest cost of any MLC device in existence. Storage News: SGI and Scality, Micron, Nimbus Data. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Data Center 180

Data Center Data Storage Disaster Recovery 180

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Its conference demo illustrated a 12GB/s Fusion powered pipeline, with ioControl Hybrid storage, HP Z820 ioTurbine Cache, and HP Z820 Artist workstations with ioFX 1.6TB. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Networking.

Data Center 187

Data Center Meeting Data Storage 187

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 188

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 203

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Data 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 202

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 202

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 194

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 194

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

It also has an EMC Isilon clustered storage system with around 500TB of primary data storage. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

Cloud 188

Cloud Data Data Center Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

Data Center 182

Data Center Disaster Recovery Storage Advertising 182

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 183

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 183

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 262

Data Center Energy Data Report 262

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 195

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

To address these demands, we needed our platform to reside on dedicated hardware managed by a secure, compliant, best-of-breed provider. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Government.

Data Center 179

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

Data Center 201

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 201

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