DataCenter

openQRM 4.5 Cloud Platform released with VCD (Visual Cloud Designer) and lots of features!

As you all know, openQRM is my favorite open source data center management product. Look at those new cool features…
Some more highlights of openQRM 4.5 :

A new plugin now integrates with Dell Equallogic Storage to support direct deployment of physical systems or virtual machines from the Equallogic Iscsi Target and to take advantage [...]

NY stock exchange choose networking giant Juniper’s gear with 10GbE switches!

This roadmap includes a set of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers available today and evolving to future products, developed under the code-name of Project Stratus at Juniper with Sun Microsystems’ former chip guru David Yen steering development. The devices are expected to include 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches that will allow [...]

HP’s storage blades for the future!

Very interesting indeed. We must not forget HP, IBM are powerhouses that will not take notice of the noises and will work harder on making their vision of being a one-stop-shop a reality. Many others are still trying to find common ground by bunging storage/virtualization/networks together. HP, with it’s ever increasingly popular PODs, will have [...]

Data Center buildout continues - Amazon is building another one in Oregon

Amazon buys a large volume of servers to support its cloud computing operations. It was the top customer for Rackable Systems/SGI in 2008, buying more than $86 million of the company’s cloud-optimized servers and storage.
Amazon is known to already operate a major East Coast data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The company has disclosed that it [...]

Introducing Jit - a VMware phreak, programmer and a Linux lover as co-blogger!

Prasenjit is a rather experienced and smart dude who works for HP in India and does some excellent work there. I’ve known him for quite a while and am glad to have him play the expert here who will tell you some really cool stuff about VMware that you may have never heard of, so [...]

RNA Networks launches RNAcache, its Memory Virtualization Platform

RNAcache: Analytics, Simultaneous Users, Clusters and Clouds
RNAcache works in all network environments including GbE, 10GbE, and InfiniBand. RNAcache removes data center bottlenecks caused by contention for application memory, the most scarce and limited resource in the data center. During customer testing, RNAcache significantly enhanced performance in the following use cases:
– Predictive Analytics and Modeling: [...]

How Google and Amazon’s Clouds will kill Data Centers worldwide

The Elephant in the Room: Google
Google has been using the cloud as one of its strategies to poach in areas that Microsoft has traditionally owned. Gmail and Google Apps are quietly pecking away at Microsoft Office, and no one seems to mind – or even notice – that these are cloud-based applications.
Of course, these are [...]

First International IEEE workshop on Cloud Computing

This is a great place to not only exchange ideas but also get the bright minds together to build Cloud infrastructures for the NGCC. There are many topics which I personally see of great interest myself. Some of the authors are known to me [including the Chair] and I am keen to meet the rest.
Go [...]

Citrix XenServer 5.5 free for the enterprise released!

BOSTON – June 16, 2009 – Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) today announced the immediate availability of Citrix XenServer™ 5.5, a significant new upgrade that raises the bar once again for free, enterprise-class virtualization. Today’s announcement comes just 75 days after Citrix changed the game in server virtualization by making the full enterprise-class XenServer platform [...]

Extreme Scale Cloud Servers from HP: Meet DL1000 high density boxes!

The new ProLiant SL series of cookie sheet machines follows fast on the heels of the uber-dense ProLiant DL rack-based servers that were announced last week. The DL1000 rack server allows one, two, or four two-socket servers using quad-core “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 processors to be put into a 2U form factor - the kind [...]