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Friday, December 28th, 2012
- Planning for Success: Private Storage Clouds - Brent Rhymes of iWave Software. February 23, 2012
- De-dupe’s Fork in the Road: Grid vs. Fixed Controller - Marc Crespi of ExaGrid, January 12, 2012
- Storage: A Secret Weapon to Lower TCO in the Data Center - Mark Collins of HGST/Western Digital, June 7, 2012
- Beyond Servers: Is Your Data Center Truly Virtualized? - Travis Vigil of Dell storage, February 1, 2012
- Missing Link for Enterprise Storage and the Cloud - Marc Farley of StorSimple, October 4, 2012
- Making Hash of Database Deduplication – Jeff Tolano of SEPATON, April 24, 2012
- Going Green with NAND Flash – Gary Orenstein of Fusion-io, February 14, 2012
- Tape Backup: An Ironic 60th Anniversary For Tape – Bill Hobbib of ExagGrid, September 14, 2012
- The Sticking Power of Tape Storage in the Age of Big Data - Bill Truskowski of IBM, October 19, 2012
- A Distributed Caching Approach to Server-based Storage Acceleration - Marc Leavitt of QLogic, November 2, 2012
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| 1:43p | 2013 Predictions for Networks Atchison Frazer is the CMO of high-speed networking gear provider Gnodal.  ATCHISON FRAZERGnodal 2013 brings with it more innovations in the networking world. As demands for faster and bigger connections continue apace, the technology will be evolving to meet that demand. Here’s a few thoughts on what we expect to see in the New Year. Big Data = Fast Data Big Data analytics performance requirements challenge conventional data center network architecture (three-tier, oversubscribed, multi-hop schemas unnecessarily introduces server-server latency). A majority (better than 55% chance) of HPC-like environments will adopt Ethernet fabric architectures at both the network and infrastructure levels to meet the performance demands of enterprise Big Data. These requirements include line-rate, non-blocking and any-to-any communications between devices with massive amounts of flat/leaf-spine East-West traffic optimized for Layer 2. Virtual Switches Enable Infrastructure Fabrics Infrastructure Fabrics will be predicated on an increase of up to 10X of server and storage capacity, not just current requirements. They will need to scale beyond the standard VMx8 topology and maintain persistent interlink communications to establish a Fabric-of-Fabrics (FoFs) topology for über-management tracking of performance metrics and scalability risk factors. “All-you-can-EaT” Bandwidth Ethernet-as-Transport (EaT) will, by necessity, become a reality. Conventional, often proprietary, data center bridging techniques that are striving to scale Petabytes of capacity, suffer performance and congestion issues due to sub-optimal path-selection algorithms (static hash-based vs. adaptive real-time); slow and unreliable convergence mechanisms upon link failure (lack of cohesive fabrics); and under-utilized bandwidth (conventional switch capacity yields less than 30% utilization). TRILL is Shrill TRILL bridging will lose favor to All-you-can-EaT fabrics, given that TRILL requires too many changes to path selection and topology, relies upon static algorithms, and not least, lacks pre-emptive mechanisms for avoiding congestion. EaT Fabrics, by necessity ASIC-accelerated, will gain currency by delivering higher performance Ethernet communications with ultra-low latency and infinite scalability benefits. They are deterministic and offer dynamic multi-path bridging within the fabric that converges at an order of sub-100 nanosecond transmission speeds across the entire fabric. Proprietary Ultimately Loses in an iOS/Android World Networking standards will ultimately succumb to cultural and consumer technology habits, giving way to open standards and dictate convergence. For example, an emerging trend is to leverage the inherent extensibility of TCP to build first-class solutions that work in multi-tiered switching LAN environments without the need for legacy switches. Look for enabling protocols to gain currency, such asThe iWARP protocol, which is routable, robust against packet loss, and enables data flow over long distances, so it can be used in routed LAN/WAN environments and highly compute and data intensive applications that require bandwidth on demand. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. View previously published Industry Perspectives in our Knowledge Library. |
| 2:11p | Best of Industry Perspectives 2012: Storage
What is big data? It’s volumes of data that are so large it is difficult to process them in a reasonable amount of time and with traditional technologies. Big data creates storage and backup issues and, as a trend, continues to grow. According to IBM, every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. Gartner researchers predicted in July that consumers, driven by desire to share content and use multiple devices, will store 36 percent of their digital content in the cloud by 2016. For data center managers and teams, there was much discussion of storage, data protection and back up this year. Our Industry Perspectives guest columnists offered good counsel on many aspects of storage. Here’s our top picks of storage columns for 2012. Enjoy! Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. View previously published Industry Perspectives in our Knowledge Library. |
| 3:09p | Best of the Data Center Blogs: Year-End Edition We’ve been reading a lot of the year-end roundups and predictions on data center blogs. Here’s a few we found interesting: The best Pingdom blog posts of 2012 – The folks at web monitoring service Pingdom put together some entertaining and enlightening posts using data points on on IT technology. Of particular interest are posts on leading blog platforms and geographical distribution of web sites. Great stuff. Top 10 HPC Events That Mattered In 2012 – Industry veteran Marc Hamilton sees the debut of Intel’s Xeon Pho Coprocessor and the NVIDIA Kepler as the key developments in high-performance computing (HPC). 10 Cool Q&As from 2012 - The Web Host Industry Review conducts Q&A format interviews with many of the leading players in the hosting industry. Here’s a roundup of 10 of them from 2012. The End of x86? An Update – Sometimes it’s good toreflect on predictions past. Here’s an interesting look at the state of the x86 market and demand for mass-market PCs from analyst Michael Fern, reflecting on some of his 2010 predictions for this market. |
| 4:29p | Friday Funny: What’s the Best Caption? It’s Friday! We’ve made it to the end of the week. It’s time for our Friday caption contest. And it’s the last one of 2012. Each Friday, Data Center Knowledge features a cartoon drawn by Diane Alber, our fav data center cartoonist, and our readers suggest funny captions. Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor. This week, we are voting. Scroll down and vote for the best caption for Happy New Year in the data center? And a happy, healthy and successful New Year to all our readers.
For the previous cartoons on DCK, see our Humor Channel. |
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