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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
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| 11:00a | Scenes from Data Center World 2013  “Can I recycle your data center equipment?” asks Rita the Robot, who drew the attention of passers-by at the Iron Mountain booth at the Data Center World Spring 2013 Conference in Las Vegas. (Photo: Rich Miller) More than 1,000 data center professionals from 26 countries around the world gathered this week in Las Vegas for Data Center World Spring 2013 at the Mandalay Bay conference center. The event featured more than 60 educational sessions, panels, and interactive presentations addressing IT to facilities topics. For highlights of this eek’s conference, check out our photo galleries of the keynote presentations and expo hall. |
| 1:41p | Salesforce.com Selects NTT for UK Data Center Here’s a roundup of recent headlines from the data center industry around the world: Salesforce.com announces UK Data Center. Salesforce.com (CRM) announced that it has signed an agreement with NTT Europe to establish a European data centre in the U.K. The facility is scheduled for completion in 2014. As demand for cloud computing rises in Europe, Salesforce.com will support the company’s cloud computing services across its growing customer base in Europe, Middle East and Africa. ”Europe was salesforce.com’s fastest growing region in our fiscal year 2013, delivering constant currency revenue growth of 38 percent,” said Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “We are doubling down on Europe with the announcement of our new data centre in the U.K., which will support continued customer success in EMEA.” Robin Balen, Managing Director of NTT Europe’s Wholesale Data Centre Business, said ths SAlesforce.com facility will be ”powered 100% by renewable energy sources.” Telecom New Zealand acquires data centers. Telecom New Zealand announced that it has signed a conditional agreement to acquire privately-owned New Zealand IT infrastructure and data centre company Revera Limited for NZ$96.5 million. The Revera brand will be retained and Revera will continue to run as a standalone business. ”We’re pleased to have a computing infrastructure company with the track-record and reputation of Revera joining our team and strengthening our group,” said Simon Moutter, Telecom Chief Executive. “Telecom is refining its business strategy to become a future-oriented, competitive provider of communication, entertainment and IT services delivered over its networks and the Cloud. This acquisition adds a respected brand that deepens our IT services portfolio for business customers, particularly with regards to Cloud services. Both Gen-i and Revera will be better positioned to respond to evolving customer needs in the areas of big data and cloud computing.” Allstream Offers Cisco UCS Service. Cisco (CSCO) announced that Canadian communications provider Allstream has launched a Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) as a hosted and fully managed unified communications and collaboration solution. Allstream HCS brings the Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration suite of applications to Canadian businesses through a new, cost-effective, cloud-based delivery model. The new offering allows Allstream customers to operate Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) including integrated voice, video, presence and mobility applications for compatible desktop and mobile devices. ”Businesses are looking for ways to improve and simplify their communications and allow their people to collaborate easily and with a high degree of mobility,” said Dean Prevost, President, Allstream. “Allstream Hosted Collaboration Solution is backed by the security and reliability of our national 30,000 kilometre IP fibre network and, being a cloud-based service, offers the benefit of being an operating vs. capital expense, allowing customers simpler budgeting and greater flexibility in their IT services.” |
| 2:00p | Micron Unveils PCIe I/O Accelerator  The Micron P420m is a new PCIe all-flash I/O accelerator to improve overall performance in enterprise servers. (Photo: Micron) Micron Technology (MU) announced a new PCIe all-flash I/O accelerator to improve overall performance in enterprise servers, appliances and storage platforms. The new Micron P420m combines consistent performance with the inherent power efficiency of an all-flash system to deliver improved economics for enterprise data centers. The P420M is a fast and consistent performer, delivering more than 3,200 web server requests per second. It features ultra-low latency performance that enables fast and predictable response times to information frequently used in data center environments. The low-profile accelerator card comes in a half-height, half-length form factor and will be available in 350GB, 700GB and 1.4TB capacities. The P420m will be showcased at EMC World, May 6-9 in Las Vegas. “The P420m is a true workhorse – it delivers where performance matters most,” said Ed Doller, VP and general manager of Micron’s Enterprise SSD division. “Introduction of the P420m is a testament to our commitment to storage innovation for all levels of integration. We’ve expanded our portfolio to address the changing storage needs of today’s data centers, regardless the workload.” The P420m uses Micron’s Extended Performance and Enhanced Reliability Technology (XPERT) architecture, which closely incorporates the storage and controller through highly optimized firmware algorithms and hardware enhancements. It’s ASIC controller was custom-designed, and has advanced 25-nanometer (nm) multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash technology, DRAM, firmware and drivers to create a truly vertically integrated solution. The vertical integration begins with intimate knowledge of the NAND media and extends all the way to the end-system design, manufacture and drivers. This end-to-end involvement ensures delivering the ultimate level of storage quality and efficiency. |
| 2:04p | Intel Appoints Brian Krzanich As CEO Intel (INTC) announced that the board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer, succeeding Paul Otellini. Intel announced last November that Otellini would retire. Krzanich will become the sixth CEO in Intel’s history beginning May 16. Krzanich has been Intel’s chief operating officer since January 2012, and has progressed through a series of technical and leadership roles since joining Intel in 1982. “Brian is a strong leader with a passion for technology and deep understanding of the business,” said Andy Bryant, chairman of Intel. “His track record of execution and strategic leadership, combined with his open-minded approach to problem solving has earned him the respect of employees, customers and partners worldwide. He has the right combination of knowledge, depth and experience to lead the company during this period of rapid technology and industry change.” As chief operating officer, Krzanich led an organization of more than 50,000 employees spanning Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Custom Foundry, NAND Solutions group, Human Resources, Information Technology and Intel’s China strategy. The board of directors also elected Renée James, 48, to be president of Intel. ”I look forward to partnering with Renée as we begin a new chapter in Intel’s history,” said Krzanich. “Her deep understanding and vision for the future of computing architecture, combined with her broad experience running product R&D and one of the world’s largest software organizations, are extraordinary assets for Intel.” Intel Invests in FeedHenry This week Irish cloud-based mobile enterprise application provider FeedHenry announced that it has secured $9 million in funding in a round led by Intel Capital. Existing investors include VMware, Enterprise Ireland, and other private investors. The new funding will provide FeedHenry with the capital to accelerate the international roll out of its mobile application platform that draws on critical cloud-based technology. FeedHenry provides a next generation mobile application platform that helps businesses build mobile app solutions that integrate securely to their business through the cloud. “ Increasingly, enterprises are viewing mobile apps as transformative to their business operations” commented Cathal McGloin, CEO, FeedHenry “As organizations evolve towards more complex apps with connections to multiple backend systems, the need for a cloud-based mobile application platform is compelling. This new investment will give us the means to continue to innovate and expand the capabilities of our platform to better serve our growing customer base.” |
| 5:07p | Friday Funny: May Flowers It’s Friday and time for a few laughs. Towards that end, we run our caption contest on Fridays, 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. First, we must announce the winner of the “Into Every Life, A Little Rain Must Fall” cartoon: Congrats to reader “Dday,”who submitted, “I ‘m pinging in the rain, just pinging in the rain.” This week we present “May Flowers.” Diane writes, “Since last week was April showers, I thought it was only natural to have May Flowers.” Enter your caption suggestion below. 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. The winner will receive his or her caption in a signed print by Diane.
For the previous cartoons on DCK, see our Humor Channel. |
| 6:00p | New QTS Lab Will Advance High-Security Federal Clouds  A look at some of the data center space inside the QTS Richmond campus (Photo: QTS) QTS (Quality Technology Services) wants to help federal agencies get comfortable with cloud computing, and is dedicating some of its data center space toward this goal. The company, in conjunction with i2 Sentinel Associates, has set up a testbed inside its massive data center campus in Richmond, Virginia that will focus on creating highly secure cloud computing capabilities based on the needs of the U.S. Department of Defense, federal agencies and the U.S. intelligence community. QTS sees the continuous transformational environment (CTE) lab at its Richmond data center as an exciting development in the federal sector’s adoption of cloud computing. “The Richmond CTE lab contains some of the most advanced technologies in cloud computing today,” said Scott Shinberg, executive vice president, federal systems group – QTS. ”Its technology paired with the unbiased and secure environment will provide a gateway to enhancing the performance and interoperability of critical government applications. Today’s ribbon cutting marks the start to speeding the development and deployment of tomorrow’s cloud computing services.” CTE is housed within QTS’ 1 million square foot Richmond Data Center campus, where a grand opening was held today. The lab provides a stable environment for critical testing and analysis of off-the- shelf software and hardware for commercial and government users. The lab will be used to evaluate and improve the development of secure cloud computing technologies. The goal is to develop production-ready software and hardware for high performance computing, cloud computing, cross-community partnerships and shared knowledge transfer, which is an important priority for the intelligence communities within the U.S. government. “With industry and more federal players looking to cloud computing, physical and logical security in this area will continue to be a critical element,” said i2Sentinel CEO Thomas Preston. “QTS has long played a role in this space with the presence of its Richmond facility, and the addition of this lab solidifies the company as a major player in the federal market for cloud computing.”” Attendees at the CTE lab’s grand opening include John A. Marshall, Deputy Director of the NGA National System for Geospatial Intelligence Program Management Office, Brigadier General Brian D. Beaudreault, USMC, Deputy Director, Future Joint Force Development, Joint Staff J7, and , among others. Attendees were given technology demonstrations anda tour of the CTE lab. |
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