Beyond Servers: Is Your Data Center Truly Virtualized?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

...rspectives February 1st, 2012 + + Tweet + + + Nashua, NH-based Travis Vigil is executive director, Dell Storage. Travis Vigil-DELL TRAVIS VIGIL Dell The concept of introducing virtualization into corporate data centers has moved well past the trial......ly and closely for years with server virtualization software providers – such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft — to seamlessly link storage systems with highly virtualized server environments. Through these eff... (Read Full Article)

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A CTO’s take on cloud

Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...sses, but for many existing IBM shops — and there are a ton of them — IBM cloud is a no brainer. 2: Microsoft Azure has a tough row to hoe Coyle is of two minds on Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service (Paa....... Initiated by Rackspace and NASA, it’s achieved critical mass with nearly every IT provider — from Dell, to HP, to Cisco, to Citrix — aboard and Rackspace offloading management to a ... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Enteracloud Houses SEO Firm at San Diego Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 29 2011) Cloud Computing

...gram. Entercloud's infrastructure comprises of best of breed technologies including VMware, Cisco, Microsoft, Veeam, EMC and Dell, providing Market Target with the reliability and horsepower to continue delivering SEO solutions t... (Read Full Article)

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...st 22 legacy data centres, not to mention new ones, such as the $1bn data centre built last year by Microsoft in its third investment in Dublin in 18 months and European data centre giant Interxion, which is p......systec, Marketo, Commence, Pivot, Engine Yard, Pinger, Datapac, Fort and Citrix, to name but a few. Dell expects to recruit 150 people in the next two years with the creation of ... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...r on-site deployment.” Nearly all major IT vendors sell modular data centers. They include HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco, among others. So do major infrastructure vendors, such as Emerson and PDI. There are als......ced by multiple major Internet companies and providers of Cloud-based services. This group includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Download The Green Grid’s whitepaper on modular data centers here. (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing

...e related to services across 32 countries in support of more than 1,600 corporate clients. Prior to Microsoft in 1998, Parker was a consultant in Texas for Dell and American Medical Management, and a senior programmer analyst and consultant for IBM in Italy. “... (Read Full Article)

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Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...it in New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought lead......k, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought leaders from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many other companies with large data center operations. That turnout is not an isola... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...e still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of Red Hat. I spoke with Red Hat's VP of co... (Read Full Article)

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Global server farms around the world

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Solar , Servers

...for hte UK’s Colt Telecoms, but they decided to open it out to other customers. Quincy, Washington (Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell) The cluster of server farms in this formerly sleepy farming community, probably ranks as the world... (Read Full Article)

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Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 24 2011) Solar

...lead projects that yield green benefits. MacBook Pro range quietly upgraded (24.10.2011 kl 18:58) Dell XPS 14z Bests MacBook Pro in Thinness and Price (24.10.2011 kl 18:56) 10 questions for CDW CFO Ann ......s and Price 10 questions for CDW CFO Ann E. Ziegler TapSense Touchscreens Know How You Touched Them Microsoft's YouTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean Steve Jobs bio debuts ... (Read Full Article)

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Vantage Data Centers to build in Quincy

Explore Columbia Basin Herald (Sep 30 2011) Hydro , Cloud Computing

... companies have seen the advantages of Quincy's affordable land and power, including Intuit, Sabey, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Dell. Vantage's property is next to the Port of Quincy's Industrial Park 4, Pat Boss, of the Port of Qui... (Read Full Article)

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Vantage Expands With Project in Quincy

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 27 2011) Construction , Hydro

...ear, the Washington Department of Ecology has issued permits for an additional 95 generators at the Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell and Sabey projects. The Vantage project could add another 24 generators. (Read Full Article)

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Dell Modular Data Center Tour running Microsoft Bing Maps

Explore greenm3.com (Sep 16 2011) Construction

...video as they walk you through the MDC and how it works. Here is the YouTube video of the tour. Dell Modular Data Center Tour running Microsoft Bing Maps Date Friday, September 16, 2011 at 1:04PM Barton George has a post of Dell’s Ty Schmitt and Mark Bailey giving a tour of Dell’s modular data center in Longmont, CO running Bing Maps. A Walk-through of Dell’s ... (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...by virtual machines. As such, David Fosberg, vice president of Samsung Asia, said companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook are leading the way in terms of how they are relooking their datacenter archit......toward "micro-focusing on component savings". Citing a survey jointly conducted by IBM, Samsung and Dell, the Samsung executive then pointed out that one of the datacenter management "pinch points" revolv... (Read Full Article)

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Quincy Data Center Diesel Generator Count is up to 132 with Dell and Sabey most recent addition

Explore greenm3.com (Aug 31 2011) Data Center Outages , Hydro

...enter in case of a power outage. On Aug. 5, Ecology approved 28 backup generators for the Dell Data Center in Quincy. Last year, Microsoft won approval to expand its diesel generators to 37, and early this year, Yahoo! was granted permiss... (Read Full Article)

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Sabey, Dell Earn Approvals for Generators in Quincy

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 30 2011) Hydro , Cloud Computing

...the last year, the Department of Ecology has issued permits for an additional 95 generators at the Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell and Sabey projects. “We all generate so much data in this day and age that protecting that data has... (Read Full Article)

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As Some Data Center Managers Raise the Heat, the Need for Environmental Monitoring Increases

Explore Information Technology (Aug 29 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...in warmer climates than previously suspected, allowing pretty substantial savings in cooling costs. Dell (News - Alert) officials say they have validated a group of server, storage and networking equipmen......nto heat and must be appropriately managed with cooling systems that cost money.” As TMCnet noted,  Microsoft's (News - Alert) Dublin, Ireland, data center operates in chiller-less mode, using free outside-air... (Read Full Article)

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IT Lessons Learned from Hurricanes

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 25 2011)

...-site, remind them to not rely on backing up critical company data on mobile devices. (According to Dell, 49% of data breaches were due to lost or stolen laptops or devices such USB flash drives.) Use the......rtificate for data removal from the vendor Test your Disaster Recovery Plan in Advance According to Microsoft, nearly 75 percent of organization that test their tape backups found backup failures, so it’s ... (Read Full Article)

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Stat of the Week: 145 Terawatt Hours

Explore Greentech Media (Aug 24 2011) Servers

... extrapolation nonetheless. I ran into Elliott, a source from way back, at a CIO Forum sponsored by Dell and Samsung recently. Other interesting stats: --94.5 percent. That is the efficiency of the power ......ve. --15 percent. The number of servers in data centers that are entirely idle, says Mike Neil from Microsoft. Unfortunately, these idle servers still draw power. Less than 3 percent of the energy delivered to... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Include Software And Networking, Expert Says

Explore Network Computing (Aug 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

...co. The initiative was co-founded by Intel and Google, and includes tech industry giants such as Microsoft, VMware and Cisco Systems, as well as Dell and Samsung, which were co-sponsors of the conference. The group's goal is to reduce carbon dioxide... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Builds Efficient ‘Microsite’ Data Centre For Microsoft

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 30 2011)

...sed by the computing equipment, rather than for such purposes as cooling. The goal is a PUE of 1.0. Dell and Microsoft officials, in announcing the site 28 July, said the goal at the outset of the project was to create... (Read Full Article)

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Dell, Microsoft Tout Data Center 'Microsite' for Bing Maps

Explore eweek.com (Jul 29 2011)

...ogy to drive up the efficiency of the facility and reach a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.03. Dell, Microsoft Tout Data Center 'Microsite' for Bing Maps By: Jeffrey Burt 2011-07-29 Article Rating: star star st... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Modular Data Center Powering Bing Maps

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 28 2011) Construction

Dell and Microsoft have developed a modular data center to server as a dedicated imagery processing site for Bing Maps......fficient microsite,” said Brad Clark, Group Program Manager, Bing Maps Imagery Technologies (BITs), Microsoft Corp. “We ended-up with a no-frills high-performance microsite to deliver complicated geospatial appl... (Read Full Article)

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GSA to Issue GovCloud ATOs July

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (Jun 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...mazon Web Services * AT&T * Autonomic Resources partnered with Carpathia Hosting Inc., Enomaly, and Dell * Carahsoft partnered with Carpathia Hosting Inc. * CGI Federal Inc. * Computer Literacy World part......nformation Technology partnered with Carpathia Hosting, Inc. * Insight Public Sector partnered with Microsoft * Savvis Federal Systems * Verizon Federal Inc. Federal Cloud Services Near Launch, At Last — Infor... (Read Full Article)

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