“Oracle’s Sun Network 10GbE Switch 72p enables multi-rack clusters, simplifies IT infrastructures, and provides advanced network capabilities to help your business deploy new services, increase productivity, and lower operational costs. Delivering high-density, low latency 10GbE switching for Oracle’s high-performance systems and x86 clusters, this switch can provide the foundation for your network infrastructure.”
—Sun Network 10GbE Switch 72p | Top of Rack Switch | Oracle
June 2010
“HP is combining the mission critical Superdome 2 architecture with the successful scalable blade architecture. According to HP’s datasheet for the Integrity Superdome, “The Integrity Superdome is an ideal system to handle online transaction processing (OLTP), data mining, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, database hosting, telecom billing, human resources, financial applications, data warehousing and high-performance computing.” In other words – it’s a mission-critical workhorse. Previous generations of the HP Integrity Superdome required a dedicated enclosure, but with this new announcement HP will enable users to combine Superdome, Itanium and x86 servers all in the same rack.”
—Blades Made Simple » Blog Archive » It’s A Bird, It’s a Plane, it’s Superdome 2 – ON A BLADE SERVER
“There’s something about the mechanics and arms-length nature of the web that just begs companies that know better to treat people in a way that they’d be humiliated to try face to face.”
—Seth’s Blog: A bias for scamminess
Packet Life →
packetlife.net
Good, technical blog.
ciscolive 2010 sessions
This is what I’d go see if I had time..
BRKOPT-2305 Service Orchestration and Architecture for Multi-Tenant IaaS Cloud Computing
BRKRST-2340 An Introduction to the Service Advertisement Framework
BRKCRS-3045 LISP - A Next Generation Networking Architecture
ITMATO-7724 Data Center Virtualization - Road to Cloud Computing
GENKEY-7846 Keynote and Welcome Address
PNLCRS-2046 Panel Discussion for LISP - A Next Generation Networking Architecture
GENSS-7827 CA Technology Presents: The Impact of Mass Virtualization on Network Management
BRKPCS-5903 Keys to Ensuring Application Performance
DISCDC-1004 Data Center Discover Program: Customer Executive Roundtable
BRKCOM-1002 DC Architectures and Virtual Private Data Centers with UCS
GENKEY-7847 Cisco Technology Keynote
GENSP-7864 Leveraging the SP Network Advantage in the Cloud
GENSS-7828 The Borderless Enterprise: Driving Innovation from the Core
BRKPCS-5991 Customer Panel: Insights on Virtualization and Cloud Computing with Vblock
BRKDCT-3060 Deployment challenges with Interconnecting Data Centers
PNLCOM-6883 Data Center Customer Panel : Insights on Data Center, Computing, and Virtualization
PNLDCT-2002 Seamless Enterprise Extension to Cloud (SEEC) – Ready for Primetime?
AND…
Any technical sessions having to do with: DCI, L2MP, TRILL, LISP, and related topics.
“Funded through the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the two year project aims to successfully integrate ‘cloud computing’ technologies into ‘grid’ infrastructures. Grids link computers and data that are scattered across the globe to work together for common goals, whilst cloud computing makes software platforms or virtual servers available as a service over the Internet, usually on a commercial basis, and provides a way for organisations to access computing capacity without investing directly in new infrastructure. Behind cloud services are data centres that typically house large numbers of processors and vast data storage systems. Linking grid and cloud technologies will result in major benefits for European academic research and is part of the European Commission strategy to develop European computing infrastructures.”
—blog.dsa-research.org » Archives » DSA-Research Participates in the EU Initiative to Integrate ‘Cloud’ with ‘Grid’
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“Thus, the user’s desktop environment is “always on”, maintaining its network presence fully even when the user’s physical desktop machine is switched off and thereby saving energy. This seamless operation allows LiteGreen to save energy during short idle periods as well (e.g., coffee breaks), which is shown to be significant according to our analysis of over 65,000 hours of data gathered from 120 desktop machines. We have prototyped LiteGreen on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Our findings from a small-scale deployment comprising over 3200 user-hours of the system as well as from laboratory experiments and simulation analysis are very promising, with energy savings of 72-74% with LiteGreen compared to 32% with existing Windows and manual power management.”
—virtualization.info | Microsoft works on power saving through virtual machines and live migration
“Rather than viewing public clouds as a competitive threat, corporate IT should embrace cloud computing and recognize their new role — serving as a trusted broker for the resources that users need, whether in a public cloud or internally depending on where the application belongs. Corporate IT becomes a much more agile organization, leveraging public clouds and internal clouds within an integrated framework, and IT professionals providing the front-facing infrastructure and support services that make it work.”
—What IT Managers Should Learn from Public Clouds
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brocade one
A little slow, but they’re finally on the bandwagon. The obvious is that it seems Brocade agrees with Juniper, Cisco, et al., re single L2 core data center fabric for transport that can scale big. I can’t believe that they’ll just settle for vanilla MPLS for interconnecting TRILL blocks at distance (or maybe not at distance). Something else is bound to come out on that front.
Given that, here’s the more interesting:
That reminded me of this:Brocade VCS also enhances server virtualization with technologies that enable enhanced VM visibility within the network and the seamless migration of policies with a VM. VCS achieves this through its distributed services architecture that makes the fabric aware of all of its connected devices and its ability to share information across those devices. Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP), a VCS feature, enables a VM’s network profiles – such as security or Quality of Service (QoS) levels – to follow that VM during migrations without manual intervention. This unprecedented level of VM visibility and automated profile management helps intelligently remove the physical barriers to VM mobility that exists in current technologies and network architectures.
Here’s the 802.1Qbg - Edge Virtual Bridging group. Note the authors list in the most recent presentation.It is to tackle these three basic issues of (a) Per-VM policy enforcement and (b) monitoring, tracking and policy migration for VM live migration, and (c) VM-to-VM traffic switching, that a small set of companies started the Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) ad-hoc group early last year. Today, that group has grown to include 200+ members from a diverse set of companies from the silicon, server, storage, networking, virtualization and data center software industries.
The diligent work that this group has produced has led to two distinct approved proposals in the IEEE this past November: 802.1Qbg and 802.1Qbh.
In broad terms, these proposals discuss:
- a mechanism to discover VMs on the network and enforce policies as VMs appear or migrate across the network
- EVB Discovery
- VSI (Virtual Station Interface) Discovery
- AMPP: Automated Migration of Port Profiles…
And that one reminded me of a presentation from DC CAVES: Automated Ethernet Virtual Bridging [pdf].
