• An Underground Data Center Beneath Chicago?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:03:28
    Home Chicago An Underground Data Center Beneath Chicago An Underground Data Center Beneath Chicago August 31st , 2011 Rich Miller The operators of an underground parking garage in Chicago are investigating whether to convert part of the facility into a data center . Chicago Loop Parking , which owns a 9,000 space parking facility under Grant Park , has approached local officials about the idea , according to the Sun-Times Chicago Loop Parking is said to be working with Morgan Stanley and CB Richard Ellis on development options for the garage , which is lightly used when there are no major events along the waterfront . The proposal is in its early stages , and the investors are exploring other possibilities for the space , such as a movie theater or even a car . dealership A Modular

  • VMworld 2011 News: EMC, VCE, CiRBA, Riverbed

    Updated: 2011-08-31 15:16:39
    : , , , Home Virtualization VMware VMworld 2011 News : EMC , VCE , CiRBA , Riverbed VMworld 2011 News : EMC , VCE , CiRBA , Riverbed August 31st , 2011 John Rath Company announcements continue , during the 2011 VMworld conference in Las . Vegas EMC boots 500 desktops in 5 minutes EMC announced its support of EMC VNX unified storage for VMware View 5. The EMC VNX Family will allow customers to boost performance during log-in storms” the period at the start of the workday when large numbers of employees arrive at work and seek to load their virtual desktops . Early test results have shown the ability to boot 500 VMware View 5.0 desktops on VMware vSphere 5 over NFS to steady state , in 5 minutes . Additionally with EMC FAST Cache customers can significantly reduce the number of drives used

  • All About the Open Virtualization Alliance

    Updated: 2011-08-31 14:32:00
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  • CoreLink Targets SMBs in Growing Markets

    Updated: 2011-08-31 14:20:47
    Home Featured CoreLink Targets SMBs in Growing Markets CoreLink Targets SMBs in Growing Markets August 31st , 2011 Rich Miller Inside one of CoreLink's five data centers . The company has facilities in Seattle , Phoenix , Las Vegas and . Chicago The biggest opportunities in the data center business have traditionally been in the largest Internet markets places like Silicon Valley , northern Virginia and Manhattan and its suburbs . But some players in the data center industry are finding opportunities in other emerging . markets One example is CoreLink Data Centers a four-year old company that has focused on acquiring and upgrading existing facilities . With backing from Boston-based private equity firm M C Venture Partners , CoreLink has built a footprint of five data centers in Las Vegas

  • Building Cost-Effective Data Centers

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:30:28
    Home Industry Perspectives Building Cost-Effective Data Centers Highlighting thought leadership in the data center Building Cost-Effective Data Centers August 31st , 2011 Industry Perspectives Jim Trout is CEO of Vantage Data Centers with two decades of wholesale data center design and operational expertise . JIM TROUT Vantage Data Centers For organizations wrestling with increasing demands for power , greater performance and efficiency and cost savings , building and operating a data center represents a culmination of almost innumerable initiatives . The prevailing IT trends of virtualization , private clouds and increasing storage requirements all represent enormous pressure to do more with less . As a result , the data center has become significantly more than a building that merely

  • Brocade Offers Subscription Plans for Network Gear

    Updated: 2011-08-30 21:18:02
    Home Networking Brocade Offers Subscription Plans for Network Gear Brocade Offers Subscription Plans for Network Gear August 30th , 2011 Rich Miller Seeking to capitalize on interest in the usage-based pricing models seen in cloud computing , Brocade today introduced a subscription-based option for acquiring network infrastructure equipment . The Brocade Network Subscription offers a new way for its customers to procure network capacity , allowing them to shift hardware costs from up-front capital expenditures to the operating . budget Brocade says the new approach is ideal for cloud computing , in which capacity demands may fluctuate on a regular basis . An early adopter is Rackspace Hosting , one of the leading providers in the cloud services arena with more than 140,000 . customers

  • VMworld 2011 Roundup: Dell, NetApp, EMC

    Updated: 2011-08-30 20:43:41
    : , , Home Dell Virtualization VMware VMworld 2011 Roundup : Dell , NetApp , EMC VMworld 2011 Roundup : Dell , NetApp , EMC August 30th , 2011 John Rath Building on announcements from VMware and the energy of opening day at the VMworld 2011 conference in Las Vegas many vendors had product announcements about vCloud , solutions and thin . clients Dell’s vCloud Datacenter . Dell and VMware VMW jointly announced the availability of the Dell Cloud based on VMware vCloud Datacenter Services designed to provide a seamless multi-tenant environment for running virtual systems . Aimed at hosting and outsourcing firms , system integrators and service providers Dell and VMware will provide the Infrastructure as a Service choice and leverage automation , workload scalability and multi-level security .

  • VMworld Roundup: F5, Fusion-io, Radware, Virtensys

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:58:45
    : , , Home Virtualization VMware VMworld Roundup : F5, Fusion-io , Radware , Virtensys VMworld Roundup : F5, Fusion-io , Radware , Virtensys August 30th , 2011 John Rath There’s been a flurry of announcements from VMware vendors , during the 2011 VMworld conference in Las . Vegas F5 and VMware combine to help migration and . desktops F5 Networks FFIV announced enhanced capabilities for data center-to-data center live migration and desktop virtualization deployments . Combining F5 BIG-IP products , vSphere and EMC’s VPLEX Metro customers have a globally coherent active-active storage virtualization platform . F5 also introduced capabilities to help customers further accelerate virtual desktop environments . Our technology partnership with F5 continues to produce value for joint customers

  • Sabey, Dell Earn Approvals for Generators in Quincy

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:43:19
    , Home Quincy , . Wash Sabey Sabey , Dell Earn Approvals for Generators in Quincy Sabey , Dell Earn Approvals for Generators in Quincy August 30th , 2011 Rich Miller Recent construction on the Sabey Intergate.Quincy campus in Quincy , Washington Photo : Sabey Corp . Sabey Corp has received approval from state regulators to install up to 44 diesel generators to supply critical back-up power for its new data center campus in Quincy , Washington . The Washington Department of Ecology issued an air quality permit to Sabey on Aug . 26 for its Intergate.Quincy . project The approval comes three weeks after the state issued a similar permit to Dell that clears the way for the computer company to install 28 generators in its planned cloud computing data center in . Quincy Quincy , a small town in

  • Power Capping With Intel Power Node Manager

    Updated: 2011-08-30 14:30:56
    Home Data Center Videos Power Capping With Intel Power Node Manager Power Capping With Intel Power Node Manager August 30th , 2011 Rich Miller Energy efficiency doesn’t get more granular than managing power usage at the processor . The latest versions of Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager provides information on power consumption at the system-level as well as processor and memory subsystem . More importantly , it allows users to establish policies to limit power at the system , processor and memory level . In this video , Intel provides an overview of this power capping capability , along with the requirements to use it . This video runs 2 minutes and 30 . seconds For more on energy efficiency , see our Green Data Centers Channel For additional video , check out our DCK video archive

  • VMware’s Vision: Connected Global Clouds

    Updated: 2011-08-30 14:00:22
    : Home Virtualization VMware VMware’s Vision : Connected Global Clouds VMware’s Vision : Connected Global Clouds August 30th , 2011 John Rath A screen shot of the VMware vCloud Service Provider Locator on the vCloud web . site To open VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas VMware launched several new vCloud offerings and a new extension of its Cloud Application Platform strategy , vFabric Data . Director Global Connect for vCloud VMware VMW announced several new vCloud offerings to help enterprises connect and manage cloud services from the large network of service providers . VMware announced Global Connect , an optional feature of the vCloud Data center service announced in 2010, that will let customers use cloud services from multiple providers across geographies as if they are a single , virtual

  • The Battles won with a Team, Hollywood changing to tell the story of teams - Navy Seal Movie

    Updated: 2011-08-30 05:17:25
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  • Netflix tells story moving from Data Center with Oracle to Apache Cassandra on AWS

    Updated: 2011-08-29 16:01:05
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  • Businesses Choosing Private Clouds Over Public

    Updated: 2011-08-29 01:27:00
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  • US Navy's boating tips - words vs reality

    Updated: 2011-08-26 22:47:06
    It is funny when you think of what people say vs. what really goes on in a data center. Many of you have military backgrounds and will enjoy this video.

  • Steve Jobs Resignation triggers more traffic

    Updated: 2011-08-26 05:56:04
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  • vSphere 5 New Networking Features - Enhanced NIOC

    Updated: 2011-08-25 21:48:46
    Network I/O Control Enhancements Consolidated I/O or I/O virtualization delivers similar benefits as provided by x86 virtualization in terms of better utilization and consolidation of resources. However, as multiple traffic types flow through a single physical network interface, it becomes...

  • Steve Jobs CEO Resignation Letter

    Updated: 2011-08-25 01:23:35
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  • Hands-on Training Courses for OpenStack Now Available

    Updated: 2011-08-24 22:10:35
    OpenStack has gained tremendous momentum in the last year, nearing 1,400 registered developers and more than 100 participating companies. As companies are eager to deploy and operate OpenStack clouds, they are looking to experts in the community for training and support. Rackspace Cloud Builders is now providing hands-on training courses for OpenStack developers and administrators [...]

  • Five Reasons Why the Cloud is Ready for the Enterprise

    Updated: 2011-08-24 15:22:33
    Originally posted in our Knowledge Center. Are you still saying that the cloud is fine for tiny startups, but not for large enterprises? Here are five good reasons why the cloud is ready for your enterprise. #1: The cloud gives a competitive edge A recent white paper from CIO magazine listed these benefits of cloud [...]

  • Google vs. Microsoft Data Center Videos

    Updated: 2011-08-24 14:13:52
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  • Currently 70% of Dell’ Enterprise Hardware is ready for running @ 113 F

    Updated: 2011-08-24 04:29:31
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  • Less Code, Less Energy, Less Money, a path to managing IT for a Greener Data Center: ManageEngine

    Updated: 2011-08-24 01:15:39
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  • Cloud Computing, Cost, and Workload

    Updated: 2011-08-22 14:33:00
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  • Cloud Foundry picks up Crowbar to speed installation

    Updated: 2011-08-17 14:00:55
    In case you’re not familiar with Cloud Foundry, it’s an open source Platform as a Service project initiated at VMware.  More specifically it provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails. The project began two years [...]

  • vSphere 5 New Networking Features - NetFlow

    Updated: 2011-08-15 17:50:33
    As part of the Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting features, vSphere 5 provides NetFlow and Port Mirroring capabilities. In this blog entry I will discuss the NetFlow feature that is available in vSphere 5. NetFlow NetFlow is a networking protocol that...

  • Dangerous IT Admin Archetypes

    Updated: 2011-08-15 17:35:00
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  • Does Hadoop compete with or complement the data warehouse?

    Updated: 2011-08-12 17:01:07
    Dell’s chief architect for big data, Aurelian Dumitru (aka. A.D.) presented a talk at OSCON the week before last with the heady title, “Hadoop – Enterprise Data Warehouse Data Flow Analysis and Optimization.”  The session, which was well attended, explored the integration between Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse.  AD posted a fairly detailed overview [...]

  • Racker Makes List of Leading Global Managed Services Executives

    Updated: 2011-08-10 20:38:13
    Robert Fuller, Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales at Rackspace, was selected for Nine Lives Media Inc.’s 2011 MSPmentor 250, a global report that identifies the world’s leading managed service executives, entrepreneurs, experts, coaches and community leaders. “I’m honored to be recognized by MSPmentor readers and editorial staff,” said Fuller.  “Inclusion on this prestigious list underscores the [...]

  • Managed Hosting and the Shift in IT

    Updated: 2011-08-10 15:54:53
    The rise of managed hosting and the cloud have sparked much speculation among IT professionals. Do these help or hurt IT job prospects? Are IT departments in danger of being shut down? How can IT cope with these new trends? Everyone can agree that IT is going through a shakeup due to the recession, the [...]

  • Study: Data Center Power Usage

    Updated: 2011-08-10 14:56:00
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  • Confused over new Vsphere Licensing costs?

    Updated: 2011-08-08 14:02:00
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  • vSphere 5 New Networking Features - Introduction

    Updated: 2011-08-05 00:21:18
    Before I introduce you to the new networking features in vSphere 5, I want to take a moment and introduce myself first. My name is Venky and I work in the Technical Marketing group at VMware. I am responsible for...

  • Introducing the Dell | Cloudera solution for Apache Hadoop — Harnessing the power of big data

    Updated: 2011-08-04 14:00:23
    Data continues to grow at an exponential rate and no place is this more obvious than in the Web space.  Not only is the amount exploding but so is the form data’s taking whether that’s transactional, documents, IT/OT, images, audio, text, video etc.   Additionally much of this new data is unstructured/ semi-structured which traditional relational [...]

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