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DevOps decoded: Guru explains what it is and why you should care

DevOps decoded: Guru explains what it is and why you should care

By Michael Krigsman on August 31, 2015

Anyone working in IT has heard of DevOps. It’s a phrase associated with giant cloud companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Salesforce. But DevOps also seems obscure, like a secret handshake that’s hiding in plain sight. To demystify DevOps, I invited one of the world’s most prominent DevOps figures to join me on CXOTalk. Gene Kim […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged #cxotalk, change management, CXO, data center, devops, facebook

Big business still builds data centres

Big business still builds data centres

By Paul Miller on June 30, 2015

451 Research has a new report out this morning, as part of its ongoing Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters series. I’ll probably dig into the report’s results in more detail elsewhere, but this graphic seemed noteworthy for today’s Thought for the Day: (Source: 451 Research) 25% of the 560 respondents would consider building a new […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 451 group, 451 research, data center, data centre, survey, tftd, voice of the enterprise

DigitalOcean does Germany

DigitalOcean does Germany

By Paul Miller on April 20, 2015

DigitalOcean does Germany: DigitalOcean is very much an outlier. It calls itself a cloud infrastructure provider but essentially it is a traditional hosting provider (although, I’ll have to admit, there is very little to differentiate between a hosting provider and a raw cloud infrastructure vendor). Whatever it does, it is doing it well. DigitalOcean […] […]

Posted in Business, Infrastructure | Tagged ben kepes, cloud computing, data center, data centre, deutschland, digitalocean, Forbes, Germany, interxion, tftd

Optimizing Data Centers Through Machine Learning

Optimizing Data Centers Through Machine Learning

By Chirag Mehta on June 10, 2014

Google has published a paper outlining their approach on using machine learning, a neural network to be specific, to reduce energy consumption in their data centers. Joe Kava, VP, Data Centers at Google also has a blog post explaining the backfround and their approach. Google has one of the best data center designs in the industry […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged big data, data center, google, Machine learning, Neural network

Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance

Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance

By Paul Miller on May 16, 2013

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is holding its Forecast event in San Francisco in June, and I’ve been invited to moderate the panel discussing Virtual Machine Interoperability. As moderator, I’ll be far more interested in facilitating insights from panel and audience than in wittering on about what I think, so I wanted to use this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, data center, data centre, Enterprise Computing, forecast13, forecast2013, Hypervisor, iaas, interoperability, odca, open data center alliance, Virtual machine, virtual machine interoperability, VM, vm interoperability

Survey lifts covers on Cloud Promiscuity: good thing, bad thing, or who cares?

Survey lifts covers on Cloud Promiscuity: good thing, bad thing, or who cares?

By Paul Miller on April 30, 2013

Figures from RightScale‘s latest State of the Cloud Report (free registration required) suggest “a strong interest in multi-cloud strategies” amongst respondents. The rationale for hybrid cloud (mixing a public cloud service like Amazon’s with something running in your own data centre, colocation site or hosting facility) is reasonably well understood, but why might companies choose to use more […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, data center, data centre, enstratius, Enterprise Computing, hybrid cloud, multi cloud, private cloud, public cloud, rightscale

A High Temperature Mystery

A High Temperature Mystery

By Guest Authors on February 6, 2013

I just visited a data center of a branch in Thailand. I was headed down to Thailand anyway, and as they were having some problems and I like troubleshooting I said I would stop by. For some reason, the data center has been extremely hot and they have not been able to contain it. This […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged Air conditioning, data center, Heat pump, HVAC

We’re Still Waiting for a Cloud That Just Works

We’re Still Waiting for a Cloud That Just Works

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 30, 2012

SaaS entrepreneurs shouldn’t need a TechOps team until they hit $20m in revenue. I’m willing to write a piece of the Series A check to whoever can really fully solve this problem so that TechOps becomes a side issue.

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, data center, saas, salesforce.com, TechOps | 2 Responses

On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

By Ben Kepes on August 8, 2012

Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages. I will say that with Cloud Computing outages are more obvious than with traditional on-premise infrastructure. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enstratus, george reese, NetworkWorld

VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis

VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes on July 24, 2012

Yet another day of massive news with yesterday’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous cloud management tools and really speaks to VMware’s view on a future that is far from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged CloudComputing, data center, DynamicOps, Nicira, openstack, springsource, Virtual machine, vmware

Crunching the numbers in search of a greener cloud

Crunching the numbers in search of a greener cloud

By Paul Miller on July 17, 2012

Although sometimes portrayed as a big computer in the sky, the reality of cloud computing is far more mundane. Clouds run on physical hardware, located in data centres, connected to one another and to their customers via high speed networks. All of that hardware must be powered and cooled, and all of those offices must […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, big data, bruce durling, carbon footprint, cloud computing, cloudcamp, data center, Energy Information Administration, follow the moon, follow the sun, francine bennett, green computing, green energy, Greenpeace, greenqloud, hadoop, iaas, International Energy Agency, mastodon c, mastodonc | 1 Response

Visiting the Switch SuperNAP Facility

Visiting the Switch SuperNAP Facility

By Ben Kepes on July 2, 2012

While in Las Vegas recently I was invited by Mark Thiele to tour the Switch SuperNAP data center – an invitation I jumped at. Like all guys, I grew up reading stories about soldiers and spies and dreamed of running around in a SWAT team. Entering a facility that has ex-marines patrolling the perimeter in […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged data center, Enron, HVAC, las vegas, Nevada, SuperNAP, SWAT, Switch Communications

Nimsoft Monitors vCloud

Nimsoft Monitors vCloud

By Ben Kepes on March 21, 2012

Nimsoft (more on them here) is today announcing its monitoring toolset, Nimsoft Monitor, covers the performance monitoring of vCloud environments. I’ve long said that dynamic monitoring and control will become increasingly important in the future as organizations look to really leverage the elasticity that cloud brings – one can only drive elasticity if one has […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged data center, nimsoft, vcloud, vmware, VMware vSphere

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Solar power in the data centre – solution or window dressing?

By Paul Miller on March 19, 2012

Most of us recognise that the Earth is warming and that — despite our planet’s temperatures having dramatically risen and fallen before — we humans must accept some measure of responsibility for the current changes. Already consuming at least 1.1-1.5% of global power, and only forecast to grow ever-more rapacious, the data centres that power our information […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Apple, cloud computing, data center, data centre, energy consumption, Enterprise Computing, environment, global warming, green energy, james hamilton, Oregon, solar energy, solar power

VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

By Ben Kepes on December 1, 2011

I’m sitting here at the CloudBeat event, a conference that I’ve had a deep involvement in with as co-content adviser along with my friend and colleague Paul Miller. Our focus for this event was to avoid the obvious vendor pitches and CloudWashing sessions and instead gather togteher some great customer success stories to tell the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, CloudBeat, data center, disaster recovery, hardware, Multitenancy, Replication (computer science), storage

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