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  • IT weather forecast: Hurricanes with a chance of dead satellites

    Data center news from Network World Fusion
    Patrick Thibodeau
    23 May 2013 | 1:12 am
    NOAA is working to fix a broken weather satellite -- the one that watches the Atlantic Ocean -- even as it gears up for what's expected to be an above-normal year for hurricanes.

  • Juniper Delivers Big Data Analytics Solution

    Data Center Knowledge
    John Rath
    24 May 2013 | 11:50 am
    Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s headlines from the big data analytics sector: Juniper Network Analytics Suite.  Juniper Networks (JNPR) unveiled the Junos Network Analytics suite, a family of next generation big data analytics and network intelligence solutions that now includes the BizReflex and NetReflex products. Developed with help from big data analytics company Guavus, the new products give service providers a tool to optimize their routing network assets, increase revenue opportunities and attract and retain customers. BizReflex extracts and analyzes information from…

  • Google ready to start shipping Glass to #ifihadglass Explorers

    Data center news from Network World Fusion
    Sharon Gaudin
    24 May 2013 | 9:58 am
    For the 8,000 or so people who signed up this spring to be Glass Explorers, your wait for the computerized eyeglasses may soon be over.

  • Flyover: Apple's Massive Solar Array for the iDataCenter

    Green Data Center News
    Colleen Miller
    23 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Video of Apple's data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which is the location of the nation's largest end-user-owned solar photovoltaic array. The solar array produces energy for Apple's megascale data center in the Tar Heel state.

  • Peek at Panel Discussion with Revlon and NetApp CIO at GigaOm Structure

    Green (Low Carbon) Data Center Blog
    Dave Ohara
    23 May 2013 | 5:44 am
    GigaOm Structure is less than a month a way and I am moderating a panel with Revlon and NetApp CIOs. HOW INFRASTRUCTURE CAN TRANSFORM BUSINESS SUCCESS In this session we focus in on how the right IT infrastructure can create significant competitive advantage. Understanding that IT’s job is to make systems work for people, rather than people working for systems, Revlon sought to align IT to the business with the successful implementation of a private cloud. Their resulting infrastructure turned 3.6PB of data into a business driver and runs more than 500 applications in a virtualized…
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    Data Center Knowledge

  • Juniper Delivers Big Data Analytics Solution

    John Rath
    24 May 2013 | 11:50 am
    Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s headlines from the big data analytics sector: Juniper Network Analytics Suite.  Juniper Networks (JNPR) unveiled the Junos Network Analytics suite, a family of next generation big data analytics and network intelligence solutions that now includes the BizReflex and NetReflex products. Developed with help from big data analytics company Guavus, the new products give service providers a tool to optimize their routing network assets, increase revenue opportunities and attract and retain customers. BizReflex extracts and analyzes information from…

  • Data Direct Networks Powers a 100-Petabyte Cloud

    John Rath
    24 May 2013 | 11:30 am
    DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced that University College London (UCL) has selected DDN to provide up to 3,000 researchers with a safe and resilient storage solution, that is expected to scale up to 100 Petabytes. The first phase of the UCL project for enabling researchers to share, reuse and preserve project-based research data will use DDN object storage technology to store up to 600TB of research data. UCL sought to remove the burden of storing and preserving research data from individual researchers and in doing so, lower the barriers of sharing and exploiting vital findings in order…

  • Microsoft Will Back Xbox One With 300,000 Servers

    Rich Miller
    24 May 2013 | 9:02 am
    Serious Server Density: Packed racks of servers in an IT-PAC at the Microsoft data center in Quincy, Washington (Photo: Microsoft Corp.) With this week’s unveiling of the new Xbox One gaming system, Microsoft is more talkative than usual about the infrastructure supporting its Xbox platform. The reason? Microsoft says the new console will be able to tap cloud resources to enhance the game experience. What will that mean for the infrastructure supporting the Xbox platform? Servers. Lots of servers. “When we launched Xbox Live in 2002, it was powered by 500 servers,”…

  • Fortress Buys arvato to Boost Modular Capabilities

    Jason Verge
    24 May 2013 | 7:45 am
    Fortress International Group consults on data center design, which is rapidly evolving, particularly in regards to modular architecture. This is part of the impetus behind the data center consulting and engineering specialist’s acquisition of the data center integration services business from arvato digital services for $1.5 million. This acquisition expands Fortress’ capabilities so it can perform a full range of services both to the rack, and inside the rack. The acquisition is expected to generate over $10 million of annualized revenue and be accretive to Fortress…

  • Friday Funny: What’s the Best Caption?

    Colleen Miller
    24 May 2013 | 7:07 am
    Happy Friday! We’re more exuberant today here at Data Center Knowledge because we are heading into a three-day holiday weekend in the United States! The beginning of summer with picnics, parades and vacations planned. Yay! That means before we go — it’s  time for a little data center humor. We run our caption contest on Fridays, with cartoons drawn by Diane Alber, our fav data center cartoonist! Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor. The caption contest works like this: We provide the cartoon and you, our readers, submit the captions.
 
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    Green Data Center News

  • Flyover: Apple's Massive Solar Array for the iDataCenter

    Colleen Miller
    23 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Video of Apple's data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which is the location of the nation's largest end-user-owned solar photovoltaic array. The solar array produces energy for Apple's megascale data center in the Tar Heel state.

  • Sentinel, Russo Partner on Bloomberg Data Center

    Rich Miller
    23 May 2013 | 9:18 am
    Sentinel Data Centers and Russo Development will team up on a new data center for Bloomberg L.P. in Orangetown, New York, the companies confirmed today. The Orangetown data center is being developed by a joint venture between Russo and Sentinel, which will retain ownership of the property.

  • Ibm, Hp Power Big Data Analytics With Sap Hana

    John Rath
    23 May 2013 | 8:00 am
    SAP HANA (High Performance Analytics Appliance) is the powerful in-memory database technology from German enterprise software powerhouse SAP. Now HP and IBM are rolling out new solutions to help customers leverage HANA in big data analysis.

  • ViaWest to Build In (Figuratively) Hot Minneapolis Market

    Jason Verge
    23 May 2013 | 7:20 am
    There's been lots of action in Minneapolis this year. Now ViaWest announces its intentions to build a 150,000 square foot facility there with an expected opening of Q1 2014.

  • With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers

    Rich Miller
    23 May 2013 | 5:00 am
    Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. With the creation of Ubiquity Critical Environments, Sears hopes to convert the retail icons of the 20th century into the Internet...
 
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    Green (Low Carbon) Data Center Blog

  • Peek at Panel Discussion with Revlon and NetApp CIO at GigaOm Structure

    Dave Ohara
    23 May 2013 | 5:44 am
    GigaOm Structure is less than a month a way and I am moderating a panel with Revlon and NetApp CIOs. HOW INFRASTRUCTURE CAN TRANSFORM BUSINESS SUCCESS In this session we focus in on how the right IT infrastructure can create significant competitive advantage. Understanding that IT’s job is to make systems work for people, rather than people working for systems, Revlon sought to align IT to the business with the successful implementation of a private cloud. Their resulting infrastructure turned 3.6PB of data into a business driver and runs more than 500 applications in a virtualized…

  • VMware makes the smart move, Wholesale Lease vs. Build and Own

    Dave Ohara
    22 May 2013 | 12:41 pm
    One of my good friends introduced me to a SW company that was going to build its first data center.  I told them why build, it is your first one.  Just lease three 2MW wholesale data center spaces.  You'll get a great price given your brand name recognition and you'll have three places to start your consolidation for the dozens of co-lo facilities around the world.  No, we've spent a lot of time with Gartner and we know what we are doing we are going to build our own. One year later I run into the consulting firm that brags they are building a 7.5 MW data center.  yeh, yeh.  you're…

  • Hiding your intent in the public, cloaking technique used by teens documented

    Dave Ohara
    22 May 2013 | 9:09 am
    Danah Boyd post on Pew's report on report on Social, Media, and Privacy and she closes with this paragraph. Over the last few years, I’ve watched as teens have given up on controlling access to content. It’s too hard, too frustrating, and technology simply can’t fix the power issues. Instead, what they’ve been doing is focusing on controlling access to meaning. A comment might look like it means one thing, when in fact it means something quite different. By cloaking their accessible content, teens reclaim power over those who they know who are surveilling them. This practice is still…

  • Where is the VMware Cloud? Santa Clara, LV, Dallas, Sterling

    Dave Ohara
    22 May 2013 | 6:33 am
    Yevgeniy Sverdik tweets on the location of VMware's cloud.  Following Yevgeniy Sverdlik‏yevgeniy_s VMware public cloud initial data center locations and two service offerings in a slide pic.twitter.com/iSSzAB7lQV    Reply   Retweet   Favorite   More    

  • Detroit vs. Iowa Data Centers, GM vs. Detroit competing for the IT talent

    Dave Ohara
    22 May 2013 | 5:44 am
    Chris Crosby has a post on Detroit as a data center location and brings up the folks in Iowa with Facebook. Detroit. The Data Center Capital of America Life is good in Altoona, Iowa. With the coming of Facebook, servers will quickly outnumber the community’s 15,000 residents and the city is poised to become one of the country’s leading data center destinations. The citizenry of Altoona are, of course, ecstatic at their good fortune. The economic benefits alone are too numerous to consider. The police department is contemplating adding a second car, the country club might add nine more…
 
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    Microsoft Global Foundation Services Blog

  • Cloud Compliance

    8 May 2013 | 5:00 pm
    Compliance is a popular and often debated cloud services topic. I see this firsthand in my role as a senior director in Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services (GFS) Online Services Security and Compliance organization. GFS manages Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. The Online Services Security and Compliance team provides infrastructure security, compliance and reliability capabilities to Microsoft’s 200+ cloud and online services.

  • Microsoft’s Christian Belady Speaking at Uptime Symposium on the Cloud’s Impact on Data Centers

    1 May 2013 | 4:05 pm
    Microsoft’s General Manager of Data Center Services Christian Belady will present on Wednesday, May 15 at the Uptime Symposium in Santa Clara, Calif., discussing the company’s cloud infrastructure strategy and how the latest technology trends are influencing to changes in our data centers.

  • Microsoft’s ITPAC – A Perfect Fit for Off-the-Grid Computing Capacity

    22 Apr 2013 | 4:00 pm
    Last November we announced our zero carbon Data Plant R&D project in Cheyenne, Wyoming. For a quick refresher, we’re placing a small container data center we call an IT Pre-Assembled Component, or ITPAC, at a wastewater treatment facility in Cheyenne. A natural bi-product of a wastewater plant is methane gas, which is typically flared off because it’s uneconomical to recover and convert to grid energy. At our Data Plant, we view this methane gas as an opportunity to provide a reliable power source to power a data center, and we decided to launch this project to test the concept and the…

  • 10 Earth-Friendly Facts about Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure

    16 Apr 2013 | 5:30 pm
    Earth Day is Monday, April 22, providing a moment to reflect on the daily work we are doing to drive greater environmental sustainability at Microsoft and for our customers, partners, and the industry. While Earth Day is only a single day, sustainability is a year-round effort for my Data Center Advanced Development team, as well as our extended teams from Global Foundation Services, Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft Research, and all our cloud services groups.

  • How Microsoft Operates One of the World’s Largest Cloud Infrastructures

    3 Apr 2013 | 4:35 pm
    Microsoft has delivered online services since 1994 with the launch of MSN. Today, our engineering and operations teams build, manage and secure a$15 billion cloud-scale infrastructure that powers over 200 services for consumers and businesses 24x7x365 via globally distributed data centers, networks, and security mechanisms, software applications and tools. Our cloud supports more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in 76 markets. With an annual investment of $9.5 billion in research and development, we are enabled to continue to accelerate the innovations in our operational…
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    Fountainhead

  • What Clouds Will Form Around Data's Gravity?

    20 May 2013 | 8:12 am
    The concept of Data Gravity posits that as data accumulates (whether it be stored, analyzed, used) it tends to attract even more similar data. And as the data amasses there is less likelihood that it will be moved/migrated elsewhere.  If you're not already familiar with the concept definitely check out Dave McCrory's excellent blogs, analyses and presentations on datagravity.orgI believe this data aggregation concept can also apply to attracting computing too. As I've mentioned in It will be a data-centric (cloudy) world, there are examples today where special-purpose compute clouds are…

  • A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

    13 May 2013 | 7:26 am
    I have to admit that I was prepared to be underwhelmed when I toured the Switch SuperNap in Las Vegas. After all, how impressive can a co-location facility be?  Just slab, cooling, ping, pipe and power.  Right?With thanks to Mark Thiele (EVP Data Center Technologies) and Jason Mendenhal (EVP Cloud), I was able to spend some quality time in-and-around the facility (even inside one of the AC units) and got an education that mega data centers are much more than a structure to house servers.First - let me give you some amazing first-impressions: Switch's SuperNAP is all about…

  • What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

    25 Mar 2013 | 11:31 am
    Is calling an app "cloud-ready" just a form of cloud-washing?  C'mon - aren't all apps "ready for the cloud" (and for that matter, ANY cloud)? Doesn't IaaS and its elastic capacity + automation solve for all app scaling and configuration issues? You'd think so if you listened to all of the accolades paid to the public cloud these days. But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS cloud only helps to a point.Why? Because a complex landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by unique network…

  • A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies

    18 Mar 2013 | 7:42 am
    These are the best of times. These are the the worst of times. These are the times of the "cloud era" where two technology leaders are struggling to dominate the IT infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud markets.Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets:VMware's recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud (assessment courtesy of James Staten)Amazon Web Service's recent (re) announcement of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functionality as it ventures into…

  • Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field

    6 Feb 2013 | 1:59 pm
    Driving around silicon valley on routes 101 and 280 ("The 101" and "The 280" if you're from California) you can't help but notice this isn't like the rest of America.  You'll see dozens of Priuses. Frequently you'll even see Teslas and Fiskers. And there's that white all-electric 325i I see buzzing around. But what really drives-home the fact that this is northern CA are the Vanity plates.Herein I will only post plates that I personally see. To wit:Webmaster1 - yes, I believe you were #1... because this car may have been around since Tim Berners-Lee invented the web.Ethernet - This guy…
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    Data Center

  • May Microsoft Security Updates

    20 May 2013 | 8:03 am
    Last week Microsoft had ten different vulnerabilities patched, including another cumulative Internet Explorer update. Two of the patches are considered critical, with the other eight labelled ‘Important’.

  • Carrots, sticks, and managing mainframe staff

    18 May 2013 | 10:02 pm
    So, how do you ensure that your staff work to the best of their ability? Because, no matter how fast your mainframe is, if your expert staff aren’t motivated and engaged, then things will move forward slowly. Upgrades, fixes, ZAPs, etc will be reluctantly and perhaps inappropriately applied. And performance generally will be poor.

  • Upcoming Webinar: The Affordable Way to Maintain Security and Compliance with Two-Factor Authentication

    15 May 2013 | 2:37 am
    Stolen credentials? Hacked social network accounts? Not with two-factor authentication! Learn more about how to protect your company and data with a simple security service. Join Dug Song, CEO of Duo Security and Jason Yaeger, Director of Operations/Risk Management & Security Officer of Online Tech as they discuss a cost-effective way to achieve security and compliance with two-factor authentication.

  • Upcoming Webinar: Encryption - Perspective on Privacy, Security & Compliance

    13 May 2013 | 8:08 am
    Join Chris Heuman, Practice Leader for RISC Management and Consulting, and Online Tech for an informative webinar on the value of encryption for HIPAA, PCI and many other regulatory frameworks and the successful components of a data security program that integrates encryption.

  • Seek and Destroy: U.S. Energy Firms Warned of Recent IT Threats

    13 May 2013 | 8:05 am
    Last Thursday, the U.S. government released a warning about the increasing risk of cyber attacks targeting critical energy corporations; seeking to destroy or manipulate industrial machinery in attempts to seize control of networks that deliver energy or run industrial processes, according to NYTimes.com and Washington Post.
 
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  • A Case for EHR: 5 Status Quo Myths that Hold You Back and Reduce Your Bottom Line

    22 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    The implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has been a hot topic in the medical community for some time. However, many physicians continue to subscribe to myths regarding EHR implementation. Often, private practices maintain the status quo because it seems easier and less expensive than adopting change—but this way of thinking is shortsighted and could drain thousands in profits. Paper charts are cumbersome and an outdated method to manage patient information. Each day hours of staff time is wasted pulling and filing patient charts. It is estimated that 30% of the time medical…

  • The 5 Phases of Capture

    16 May 2013 | 2:20 pm
    Capture solutions from IBM are designed to address the needs of organizations of any size with a host of robust features, which include the following:Distributed capture: Leverage sophisticated capture capabilities from any location using an integrated solution for remote scanning or verification, reducing shipping costs, and accelerated document inputFlexible, built-in rules: Rely on hundreds of prebuilt actions and rules that encompass almost every function of document capture, from document identification to data formattingRecognition: Use recognition engines that can process bar codes,…

  • Evaluating Blade Servers for your IT Infrastructure

    15 May 2013 | 4:50 pm
    Choosing the right blade server may be more costly upfront, but savings will be realized in the investment protection that comes throughout the blade server's lifecycle, delivering greater value, particularly through its scalability and upgradeability.The HP BladeSystem offers this investment protection. Designed with the entire lifecycle of the blade in mind, it delivers both innovation and standardization. At least one flavor of the solution is sure to meet any enterprise’s computing needs.Request Free!

  • 11 Ways to Migrate Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint and Office 365

    14 May 2013 | 9:20 am
    When migrating Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365, it's critical to:Approach it as a two-step process--moving the application content, and then migrating over the application designLook at many different ways you can execute migration and choose the best one for your scenarioUse the right tool to help you preserve the legacy content with adequate fidelity and completenessThis white paper outlines 11 ways to migrate application content from Lotus Notes to SharePoint and Office 365 to ensure legacy content is preserved with high fidelity and completeness.Request Free!

  • SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

    13 May 2013 | 7:50 am
    Now he’s sharing his collection of antipatterns—the most common errors he’s identified in those thousands of requests for help. Most developers aren’t SQL experts, and most of the SQL that gets used is inefficient, hard to maintain, and sometimes just plain wrong. This book shows you all the common mistakes, and then leads you through the best fixes. What’s more, it shows you what’s behind these fixes, so you’ll learn a lot about relational databases along the way. Along with the issue you will also periodically receive offers, tips, and other…
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  • Managed Vs. Unmanaged Hosting; What's Best?

    24 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    Whether you decide to purchase or lease a dedicated server, someone will have to look after it to make sure everything runs smoothly.  Many hosting providers offer a managed hosting solution aimed at business owners who lack an IT department to oversee things like end-to-end security, data center redundancy and data backup. The main advantage of a managed hosting solution is that a dedicated team of professionals will consistently monitor all vital signs of your network identifying potential threats before they have a chance to materialize. Still confused? With a managed hosting solution…

  • Social Media Actions Win Reactions

    23 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    Social Media creates a highly interactive platform and is a good way of assessing and taking the business to the people, who otherwise could never be reached. Some immediate actions, on behalf of the business owner, can take existing business to unexpected heights: Supply and Demand It is important to identify if there is anything specific that the readers of the website want.  Try to figure this out with the available data at hand. If needed, conduct surveys, polls or post queries at public forums.  This will help site owners understand what can be made better as to make the…

  • Why Go Open Source?

    23 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    The tech revolution is truly starting to permeate all aspects of our lives. The revolution is not just about a hyper connected world utilising tablets, smartphones, laptops, desktops, it is also about the number of apps that have exploded in the various market places such as iStore, Google Play, Windows Store and the multiple open source download sites such as sourceforge.net. The exponential growth in apps can in part be contributed to the success of the open source movement which has spurred on creativity and development by developers. Small businesses and self-employed workers can seize…

  • The Ethernet Celebrates 40 Years

    22 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    Back in 72, Robert Metcalfe and Dave Boggs, both employees at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, worked around the clock to build a network that would eventually become the Ethernet. The Ether Network as it was called, was capable of carrying 1 terabit per second. At the time, Metcalfe and his peers had text terminals that could communicate at 300 bits per second; this wasn't enough.  If the Ether Network was to evolve connectivity would have to get faster to communicate across long distances; and it did. 10 Mbps Internet Research continued throughout the 1970s and in 1976, Metcalfe and…

  • Uptime Institute Awards Tier III Certification to Turkish Government

    22 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    The Turkish ministry of Customs and Trade received a Tier III certification from the Uptime Institute, an agency known for rigorous audits.  Receiving a Tier III certification for data centers is a standardized process, but Tier III status from the Uptime Institute is quite an honor in our industry. So how did the Turkish government accomplish this? Through great design and computer modeling. Data Center Design Data center design has significantly improved over the years thanks to 3D modeling software Turkish contractors used to design the government facility.  Sudlows worked…
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    Computerworld Blogs - Data Center

  • Pick a number, any number

    Sharky
    16 May 2013 | 3:00 am
    Data center pilot fish is a programmer who works on his company's internal software, so he's the one who's called in when this user gets an unexpected error.

  • Hey, Hobson's choice is still a choice, right?

    Sharky
    6 May 2013 | 3:00 am
    IT manager for this mid-size city really wants a computer used by the business office to be relocated to that area and out of the data center -- but after a year of trying, the business office still refuses to let it happen.

  • So many data centers, so little time

    Sharky
    30 Apr 2013 | 3:00 am
    IT service tech gets a late evening service call for a customer's office, but when he arrives he finds everything has been shut down for the night -- so he has the night watchman open the data center and power up the machines.

  • Tape versus disk: The backup war exposed

    Chris Poelker
    29 Apr 2013 | 3:03 am
    The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question

  • Here, there, everywhere: Data residency and the public cloud

    Steve Pate
    23 Apr 2013 | 3:40 am
    It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your data is? Is it nestled securely within the firewalls of your data center, or is it more adventurous, spanning the boundaries of various public clouds? Cloud adoption continues to grow at unprecedented rates, raising concerns about data privacy and also about data residency, especially for organizations considering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a public cloud.
 
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