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Friday, January 25th, 2013
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| 12:47p | Data Center Links: Limelight Appoints New CEO Here’s our review of some of this week’s noteworthy links for the data center industry: Limelight appoints new CEO. Limelight Networks (LLNW) announced the appointment of Robert Lento as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Mr. Lento has been serving as the Company’s Interim CEO since November 2012. With over 30 years of experience Lento spent 14 years at Convergys, serving a decade as the senior sales executive. Lento will be joining Limelight’s board of directors. Former CEO Jeff Lunsford is stepping down as board member and chairman. ”Over the past two months I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with our board and many of our employees,” said Lento. “I’m extremely impressed with the people, products, and services we offer in the market. I’m excited about our future and proud to be part of Limelight Networks.” Nirvanix announced that its cloud storage services offering will be available in the Intel AppUp SMB Service, a subscription-based service built on the Intel Hybrid Cloud Platform. MSPs (Managed Service Provider) can nowNirvanix adds cloud storage to Intel AppUp SMB Service. offer their SME and SMB customers enterprise-level cloud storage services for on-demand, secure storage, specifically designed for backup, archiving, and recovery of business data anytime, anywhere, from any device. Leveraging the integrated and easy-to-install solution comprised of Nirvanix CloudNAS gateway software and the Intel Hybrid Cloud Platform, customers can start backing up and archiving data to the Nirvanix cloud in minutes. ”SMB customers are looking for cost-effective ways to manage exploding data growth. With the Intel AppUp SMB Service, we are providing MSPs with industry-proven solutions they can offer their customers,” said Bridget Karlin, General Manager at Intel. “Adding solutions like the Nirvanix service allows us to enable MSPs to offer leading enterprise-class cloud storage as part of their SMB customers’ Intel AppUp SMB Service subscription. This gives customers on-demand, secure, usage-based storage capacity for backup and archiving applications.” Nimblestorage selected by Virtacore for cloud services. Nimble Storage announced that Virtacore Systems, a leading cloud services provider that specializes in virtual infrastructure solutions utilizing VMware, has made the Nimble Storage CS-Series a core element of their cloud infrastructure framework. Using the high-performing Nimble Storage CS-Series, Virtacore expanded their Cloud Services offering to include large databases and performance-oriented workloads including Business Intelligence, Oracle and SQL Server based transactional databases—expanding opportunities for growth. “Nimble Storage is committed to building successful partnerships with the service provider community and helping them succeed,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO, Nimble Storage. ”Virtacore is a great use case on how the SmartStack ecosystem delivers highly scalable and efficient to deliver ROI.” |
| 1:04p | Data Center Power Loss Hits NJ Government Sites Web sites for state agencies in New Jersey were knocked offline Thursday afternoon by a power loss at a data center, disrupting access to state services and causes motor vehicles offices statewide to close early, according to multiple media reports. The outage caused “disruptions across many state departments and agencies frequently used by the public,” according to the state Treasury Department, which manages information technology. “The source of the outage has been identified and is now being addressed by the staff and contractors of the State Office of Information Technology, who will work continuously until the problems are addressed,” the Treasury statement added. The outage began at about 2 p.m., and state web sites returned to service by about 8 p.m. and appear to be operating fine this morning. The web sites are hosted in facilities operated by the NJ Office of Information Technology near Trenton, N.J. |
| 1:19p | Citing Sandy, Data Center Firm Adds Disaster Recovery Space  A look inside the Xand data center in Westchester County, New York. Xand is adding 35,000 square feet of disaster recovery space. (Photo: Xand). Data center and managed services provider Xand has added new disaster recovery space, citing increased demand in the wake of Hurricane Sandy as the impetus for the move. The 35,000 square feet of new dedicated and shared workspace will be added to its facilities in Marlborough, Mass. and Hawthorne, N.Y. The new space will be available to clients as private suites, shared workspace, and combinations of both, and is scheduled to be online during the first quarter of 2013. “During Hurricane Sandy, we enabled a multitude of businesses and organizations to rapidly rebound from the devastating effects of the storm,” said Yatish Mishra, Xand’s President and CTO. “With the addition of over 35,000 square feet of brand new workspace, we’re excited to offer even more disaster recovery options for our existing customers, while continuing to welcome new clients who are reassessing their current business continuity needs.” 1,000 Customers On-Site During HurricaneXand has six facilities, which provided a home to nearly 1,000 customer staff members during Hurricane Sandy, with over half of those folks at the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania facility. The company says it was able to accommodate several new clients, as well whose previous providers couldn’t meet their Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). Xand maintained 100 percent uptime in all of their data center facilities during the storm. All six of Xand’s locations are well-positioned within 30 to 90 miles of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. “Everyone in the Northeast has heeded the lessons of Hurricane Sandy and Xand is stepping up to the table as well,” said Mishra. “We’ve seen a strong market demand for disaster recovery solutions, housed not just in secure facilities, but also on our cloud platform. The timing is perfect right now for more expansion to meet this increased customer demand.” Xand’s disaster recovery offerings include replication, online vaulting and electronic backups and cloud recovery, as well as traditional tape, physical asset recovery, shared and dedicated workspace and other custom designed applications. In 2011, Xand was acquired by private equity firm ABRY Partners to grow its footprint and market presence. Nicole Henderson at theWHIR notes a few other post-Hurricane Sandy disaster recovery moves: Nirvanix offered a “Disaster Avoidance Program” to move customers away from its data center in New Jersey before the storm hit, while Advanced Internet Technologies offered a free month of hosting to any company that experienced downtime or data loss with any other web host caused by Hurricane Sandy. |
| 5:14p | Hyve Brings Facebook’s Servers to Your Racks  Here’s a look at Hyve Solutions’ model 1500 server, which adopts the Open Compute 2.0 “Windmill” two-wide server design to a 19-inch rack (Photo: Colleen Miller) You’ve probably heard of Facebook’s custom server designs, which were unveiled when the company opened its first data center and launched the Open Compute project in 2011. You may be less familiar with Hyve Solutions, but the Fremont, Calif. company has been a significant player in building server hardware for Facebook. Hyve is a business unit of Synnex Corporation, which does contract assembly work for OEMs and large end users, and is part of a growing ecosystem of original design manufacturers and custom server specialists that have supported Facebook. Hyve has taken the lead in developing products based on Open Compute designs, so that other companies can begin to take advantage of some of the latest innovations in open hardware. At the recent Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, Steve Ichinaga and Howard Cohen from the Hyve team gave Data Center Knowledge a look at hardware optimized for existing 19-inch racks, as well as the 21-inch wide Open Rack standard. For additional video on data centers, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube. |
| 5:44p | Friday Funny: Up, Up and Away! Happy Friday! Since it’s Friday, that means it’s time for our caption contest, with cartoons drawn by Diane Alber, our favorite data center cartoonist! Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor. This time, Kip is getting airborne. Diane writes: “I love the movie ‘Up’ and the constant use of the word ‘cloud’ inspired this next comic. Kip finally wanted to see what this whole ‘cloud’ thing was about. ”  Click link for larger image! The caption contest works like this: We provide the cartoon and you, our readers, submit the captions. We then choose finalists and the readers vote for their favorite funniest suggestion. Scroll down and add your suggestion in the comments below. Hearty congratulations are extended to Carlos Cebrian for the winning caption – “Are you sure this is what Green Data Center means?” – for “Hitting the Links.” For the previous cartoons on DCK, see our Humor Channel. Share your captions in the comment section below! |
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