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Real Data Centers of the Future

Posted by Wikibon in Cloud Computing on November 30, 2011

We are in the middle of a Data Center boom where tech companies all over the world are trying to compete for bigger, better, and more efficient info storage facilities. These Data Centers are used to accomplish a variety of online needs ranging from storing Facebook pages to Cloud technology. Take a glimpse into the innovative future of Data Storage with this list of Data Centers newly completed and still under construction worldwide.

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aol, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, data center, efficient, facebook, Google, IBM, information technology, large, storage facility

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Music in the Clouds

Posted by Wikibon in Cloud Computing on June 7, 2011

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It’s been talked about for years. Even before iTunes revolutionized the music industry when it was first released in 2001, people have said the future is in cloud computing.

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Amazon, Apple, cloud drive, Cloud Storage, Google, iCloud, iTunes, music, music beta

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Today’s Cloud Computing Landscape [Infographic]

Posted by Wikibon in Cloud Computing, FalconStor, memeconnect on December 16, 2010

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosting services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or by the hour, it is elastic – a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider.

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Cloud Computing, Eucalyptus, Google, graphics, HP, IBM, infographics, Microsoft, newScale, NRE Alliance, rPath, Verizon, VMware

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Inside The Data Center Technology Powering Six Top Social Media Sites

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on July 26, 2010

If you are even a semi-regular user of Twitter you no doubt have encountered the Fail Whale at some point. With 300,000 new accounts created every day and 600 tweets per second (or TPS in Twitter parlance), the need for robust and optimized infrastructure is critical for Twitter. Thus, it is no surprise that the company is building its own data center later this year.

That news had the Wikibon community thinking:

What other types of data center technology are powering today’s high profile social media websites?

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data center, datacenter, digg, facebook, Google, linkedin, Storage, twitter

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20 Key Research Notes from the Wikibon Community

Posted by David Vellante in CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Competition, IBM, Infrastructure 2.0, memeconnect, Storage, Virtualization, Web 2.0, Wikibon on April 28, 2010

The Wikibon community prides itself on its research. Our community’s primary goal has been in helping technology professionals solve business problems through a sharing of IT advisory knowledge. We do this through regular Peer Incites, case studies, and community research.

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3Par, core, data management, data protection, EMC, Google, IBM, infrastructure, Microsoft, oracle, Storage, VMware

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Inside Ten of the World’s Largest Data Centers

Posted by David Vellante in CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on March 25, 2010

Data centers touch all our lives. Businesses rely on data centers to house mission critical information and run operational initiatives across the organization.Today’s largest data centers feature state-of-the-art technology, operation rooms spanning thousands of square meters, and are required to hold billions of pieces of customer and business information. As demand for cloud services increase these centers comprise tens or sometimes hundreds of thousands of servers, multi-petabyte storage systems and increasingly are situated in locations where cheap energy is plentiful.

In pictures, here is an inside look at ten of the world’s largest data centers.

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data center, facebook, Google, hds, IBM, Microsoft

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Infrastructure Wars: The Battle Brewing in the Storage Industry

Posted by David Vellante in Storage, Wikibon on February 10, 2010

How Google, Microsoft and Oracle are Driving Competition in the Storage Industry

Application Stack vs Array

What you Need to Know

There is a competitive battle brewing in the on-premise storage business and it’s not between EMC/NetApp or EMC/IBM. It’s stemming from a move by independent software vendors specifically Microsoft and Oracle, to bundle more storage function into their application stacks, push storage function closer to the host and commoditize the storage hardware layer. The move to integrate storage function into the application stack is real and in some cases can add substantial value to organizations. But there is a price to pay and IT executives need to understand the strategies and implications for long term success. Underpinning these trends is Google’s decade long march toward simplification and cloud services; which is not only driving software vendors like Microsoft crazy; it’s also causing them to drive down perceived costs wherever possible and grab as much value in their stacks as they can.

Here’s the bottom line. IT execs have three choices:

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Google, IBM, Microsoft, oracle, Storage

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Why Microsoft’s Head is up its DAS

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on December 31, 2009

I’ve been doing a bunch of research on cloud-based email lately. It started when I was speaking with a number of Wikibon members about what they’re doing with Exchange and whether Exchange 2010 is changing the way they think about deploying storage. The Exchange team in Redmond has been pushing DAS harder than I’ve ever seen. Microsoft is telling customers that it has dramatically reduced the IO load from Exchange 2003, which is true.

Exchange 2003 was IO bound and very ‘bursty’ meaning performance was unpredictable. I believe the technical term for this is Exchange 2003 is a pig. So SAN has been the obvious choice for many Exchange deployments. Exchange 2007 addressed much of this IO problem but many clients skipped right over 2007, waiting for Exchange 2010. Wish I’d taken that path with Vista.

Microsoft is now pulling out all the stops. It’s telling clients that I spoke with to think about maintenance expiring on Exchange 2003 (I think you can still buy an extended service plan through 2014 if you give up your third child) and that SAN is not a recommended configuration for 2010. Microsoft is telling customers to worry about complexity and SAN can be a single point of failure. The logic put forth is that if I lose a DAS device I only lose part of my storage whereas if my SAN goes out…all my data is inaccessible. Interesting logic I thought.

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DAS, Email, Exchange, Google, Google Apps, Microsoft, SAN, Wikibon

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