datacenterknowledge — The SuperNAP in Las Vegas was featured recently on the CBS Evening News. (Photo: Switch) For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Facebook’s $1 Billion Data Center Network – Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the...
datacenterknowledge — Riverbed Technology (RVBD) announced that it is evolving its Steelhead product family with CX and EX products and introduced a new architectural approach called edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI). The Steelhead CX series is a dedicated WAN Optimization appliance and like its predecessors in the xx50 series, overcomes bandwidth and geographic limitations...
datacenterknowledge — Kent Christensen is virtualization practice manager for Datalink, where consults with both Fortune 500 and mid-tier customers on storage consolidation, virtualization, cloud strategies and technologies. He blogs about theses issues. KENT CHRISTENSEN Datalink Cloud computing is gaining popularity. Yet, we know that only about 25% of IT teams are actively involved in cloud...
datacenterknowledge — Cisco Systems says it has updated its Catalyst 6500 family of switches (shown above) for 40 GB Ethernet and 100 GB Ethernet. (Photo: Cisco) At Cisco Live 2012 London Cisco Systems (CSCO) announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE capabilities, the next speed limits...
datacenterknowledge — A map of the global audience for Facebook, created by Paul Butler, visualizes the geographic spread of its user base. (Source: Facebook) Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the infrastructure that powers its social network, which now serves more than 845 million users a month around the globe. The...
datacenterknowledge — Many data centers supply cooling far in excess of what is required or have problems distributing cooling where it is really needed. The most cited cause for such inefficient cooling is a phenomenon known as mixing, in which cool and warm air mix before entering server intakes. Often, when mixing is discussed,...
datacenterknowledge — An illustration of a proposed "community-based" data center in Minnetonka, Minnesota (Image: Keith Waters & Associates). While much data center news broke in January, one story on a unique data center design – camouflaging a data center as a residence – clearly led the pack of the best-read items on Data...
datacenterknowledge — Level 3 Communications (LVLT) will provide live, high definition (HD) television broadcast video services to NBC for Super Bowl XLVI Sunday, using Level 3’s Vyvx VenueNet+ technology. The Super Bowl is the most-watched television event of the year, with more than 110 million people viewers in 2011, according to The...
datacenterknowledge — A Fox News story yesterday suggested that Wikileaks is seeking to house its servers in an offshore data haven, and mentioned the Sealand facility as “one possible location.” Which raises a question: Is Sealand still operating a functional hosting facility? A colocation provider that hosted data on the offshore platform folded...
datacenterknowledge — Carpathia Hosting says it has “no immediate plans” to delete data on servers operated by the Megaupload file sharing service, and will provide advance notice before any deletions take place. “Carpathia Hosting has no immediate plans to reprovision some or all of the Megaupload servers,” said Brian Winter, Chief Marketing...
blog.gogrid — CloudLink, a dedicated, private connection between GoGrid data centers, is GoGrid’s newest product that comes with some exciting new features. After being in private beta for several months, is now available to all GoGrid customers via the GoGrid portal. Customers who purchase it will have the ability to link servers...
blog.gogrid — CloudLink is infrastructure so it can enable many use cases. However, you will be unable to use it until you configure your servers to use static routes. The rest of this post will describe how to create a static route from one server in US-West-1 to servers in US-East-1. This...
datacenterknowledge — At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from SoundCloud, which is seeking a Systems Engineer in San Francisco, California. The Systems Engineer will participate in managing the infrastructure that runs soundcloud.com to help provide very high uptime and performance, manage and lead network deployment and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity,...
zdnet — One notable nugget buried deep inside Alex Howard’s O’Reilly Radar write-up of the UK’s new online government platform is that it runs on Amazon EC2. Not hosted on some private government cloud but on the same public AWS servers that everyone else has access to. That’s a vote of confidence...
datacenterknowledge — Nashua, NH-based Travis Vigil is executive director, Dell Storage. TRAVIS VIGIL Dell The concept of introducing virtualization into corporate data centers has moved well past the trial phase over the past few years into one of wide acceptance today. The latest virtualization technologies deliver on the promise of increased efficiency, reduced expenses and...
datacenterknowledge — Here’s our review of some of today’s noteworthy links for the networking sector of the data center industry: Radware Alteon 5224 ADC platform. Radware (RDWR) said that its Alteon 5224 application delivery controller (ADC) for enterprises delivers new levels of performance, on demand throughput scalability, and port density for its class, while offering...
datacenterknowledge — Data center developer Digital Realty Trust appears confident about the industry’s prospects for 2012. The company, which is the largest owner of data center properties, expects revenue to improve at least seven percent over its 2011 performance. It also reported strong leasing for the fourth quarter of 2011. Digital Realty (DLR)...
datacenterknowledge — Managed hosting provider Datapipe said today that its net growth in 2011 exceeded that of 2009 and 2010 combined. Datapipe saw its strongest growth in Europe and Asia, where business grew at an annual rate of more than 50 percent. Adoption of Stratosphere, the company’s Enterprise Cloud Platform, more than doubled...
datacenterknowledge — Riverbed (RVBD) introduced new capabilities to its Cascade application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution, which delivers visibility into virtualized data centers and those using load-balancing application delivery controllers (ADCs). Version 9.5 of Riverbed Cascade provides deeper visibility into the data center network as a NPM solution to provide a wizard-based, streamlined configuration...
zdnet — One of the fundamental principles when implementing cloud computing is the concept of repeatable scale. There was a great illustration of that principle in operation in last week’s Wired report on Google’s data center built in an abandoned paper mill in Finland. Repeatable scale starts at the hardware layer, by...
datacenterknowledge — The motherboard for the new Sea Micro SM-10000-XE server, which uses Intel Xeon processors. SeaMicro has adapted its many-core server design to work with Intel Xeon micro servers, significantly expanding the type of workloads that can run on the company’s low-energy servers. The new SM-10000-XE servers use 64 quad-core 2.4 GHz Xeon...
datacenterknowledge — It’s Super Bowl Week, and time to think football! This short video features Nancy Galietti, Vice President of IT at the National Football League, describing how IBM helped the NFL create an IT shared service. Five projects that were swiftly deployed included a state-of-the-art data center, increased virtualization (from 5...
blog.gogrid — As you may have seen, last week we announced the opening of GoGrid’s European Headquarters in Amsterdam. This is an exciting milestone for GoGrid since it means that GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure is now available in even more locations across the globe and with a European data center, sales and account...
datacenterknowledge — Managed hosting provider Carpathia Hosting says it will work with The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to assess the scope of potential data loss from legal users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was recently shuttered by the U.S. government. Megaupload was a Carpathia Hosting customer, and housed some of its...
blogs.cisco — A few months ago, after a my previous blogs discussing cloud computing adoption, I changed subject and authored a short [...]