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18/11/2009

» Blades Made Simple · Making blade servers simple

A blog about blades, heavy on networking info, fairly technical, across most major vendors (incl. cisco ucs).

“ It depends. I love the concept of the Cisco UCS platform. Servers are seen as processors and memory – building blocks that are centrally managed. Easy to scale, easy to size. However, is it for the average datacenter who only needs 5 servers with high I/O? Probably not. I see the Cisco UCS as a great platform for datacenters with more than 14 servers needing high I/O bandwidth (like a virtualization server or database server.) If your datacenter doesn’t need that type of scalability, then perhaps going with IBM’s BladeCenter solution is the choice for you. Going the IBM route gives you flexibility to choose from multiple processor types and gives you the ability to scale into a unified solution in the future. While ideal for scalability, the IBM solution is currently more complex and potentially more expensive than the Cisco UCS solution. „

Blades Made Simple · Cisco UCS vs IBM BladeCenter H

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Dilbert comic strip for 11/18/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

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17/11/2009

“In this episode, Dean Nelson and Phil Hughes show the prototype of the fanless server solution from clustered systems using cold plate technology to remove the heat. This is the first proof of concept with the equipment that will be used in the overall SVLG chill off over the next 6 months.” (via datacenterpulse)

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16/11/2009

» Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map - Appirio

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» JavaScript-based Amazon Web Services Simple Monthly Calculator

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Cloud computing can help you reduce costs, increase flexibility, and reduce risk. You can leverage the cloud to host applications ranging from the business critical to the experimental. But not all applications are suited for cloud computing environments. When deciding whether and how to move an application to the cloud, you must first assess the expected risks and rewards. Once you’ve determined that an application can run in the cloud, you next should determine whether it can be further optimized to harness the energy of the cloud. This white paper presents a methodology for determining when and how to refactor applications for cloud computing environments. (via Optimizing Applications for Cloud Computing Environments )

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“ The ‘aha!’ for big data management is to realize that traditional data pipeline suffers from an architecture problem – of moving data to applications – that must change to allow applications to move to the data. „

Winning with Data » Blog Archive » The Era of “Big Data” Applications

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“ China is a very big [networking] market that we can go after. It’s actually a bigger market than the server market and a bigger market than the storage market. „

HP’s 3Com acquisition: An inside look
- Network World

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12/11/2009

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I wanted to let everyone know that IBM has recently released two papers on cloud security and would welcome your thoughts and suggestions about them.

The first is a new white paper called, “IBM Point of View: Security and Cloud Computing.” This paper takes a balanced look at the key issues in securing cloud platforms without getting into a lot of hype. Unlike any other cloud security guidance I’ve read, it describes the relationship between the cloud platform’s security and SOA security so you can see how the cloud specific parts of security relate to existing security infrastructure and techniques.

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The second paper, “Cloud Security Guidance: IBM Recommendations for the Implementation of Cloud Security” is a more checklist-oriented discussion of issues that should be considered in evaluating cloud environments. It combines many of the IT security issues you’d expect to discuss in any IT environment with cloud-specific issues that are particular to cloud-computing. combining many aspects of IT security.

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