Configuration systems play an important role in cloud management and automation. We’ve compared Func, MCollective, Salt and RunDeck, and we’ve had a great interview with Salt’s author as well, a Black Duck 2011 rookie of the year. Now we’re excited to showcase another open source configuration management system called Ansible, with an interview of its … Read more
This editorial was contributed by Industry Thought Leader and Data Center Migration Specialist, Kenneth Jamaca. Data Center migrations are not something anyone should take for granted. A poorly planned and/or executed migration can have lasting impacts, including: unexpected downtime, interruption to revenue, and customer satisfaction losses. With corporate data centers and co-location facilities housing the … Read more
CoreLink was selected by Seattle Computing to provide network infrastructure support. Seattle Computing supports companies that require intensive IT infrastructure support, and CoreLink’s Seattle data center facility will provide a facility and highly available infrastructure for Seattle Computing’s customers. “CoreLink and Seattle Computing are both dedicated to delivering unmatched service levels that our respective companies … Read more
CoreLink was selected by Planet Logic to provide customized and scalable infrastructure support to Planet Logic, LLC. In the service level agreement, CoreLink is to provide 100% uptime, and guarantee full and uninterrupted availability of their services hosted in CoreLink’s Chicago data center facility. This is a big win for CoreLink, as Planet Logic provides … Read more
On January 18th, 2012 Salt was named a Black Duck 2011 Open Source Rookie of The Year. Below is an interview with Thomas Hatch, author of Salt, on January 26th, 2012. Q. What Makes Salt so interesting? Salt is gaining traction because of a few specific things, primarily the fact that it is a very … Read more
New Executive Hirings Lots of new executive hirings in the data center industry: Willner to chair Data Center Alliance, Gray becomes a principal of ID Group, Duggan becomes CoreLink’s new VP of Sales and Howarth will chair 8 Solutions. Read More IO Data Centers Receives Award IO Data Centers is awarded Datacenter Dynamics’ 2011 “Extreme … Read more
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – January 24, 2012 – C7 Data Centers (C7) today announced it has been selected to provide data center services to Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). This multi-year service contract was awarded following an extensive national evaluation and selection process provided by DataCenterAndColocation, a colocation consulting company, involving multiple data … Read more
In the data center industry you’ll see a lot of creative data center implementations. Bahnhof has embraced the futuristic / Sci-fi design with their Pionen data center and their new venture into modular data center design, complete with pictures of Storm Troopers posed in the mock-ups of the command module’s interior. I didn’t make this … Read more
A selection of news on colocation and cloud computing from around the web. How hot is the data center segment? Read Stream Data Centers purchases 7.6 acres for a 72,500 sq. ft. data center facility and up to 9MW or power. Read Power Assure predicts top trends with data center energy management. Read Blue Waters … Read more
Here is a roundup of a few select news items from today. Read story – Active Power gets $10 million dollar flywheel order. Speculation says that Yahoo is the customer. Read story – Mergers and Acquisitions in the data center market generated $12.3 billion in deal value in 2011. Read story – Cloud computing lifts … Read more
There are a wide variety of solutions that leverage “cloud” technologies. Positioning your cloud product to catch the attention of your target audience will take some clear communication in a field so crowded with “buy me” noise and hype. As I have researched the cloud, and spoken to many companies that offer cloud products, there … Read more
With a giant tech industry in Silicon Valley, and the heart of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, millions of square feet of data center floor space have been built to service the demands for California colocation. California Colocation Hot Spots The popular places in California for colocation include metro areas such as Sacramento, San … Read more
IO, a leading modular data center technology and service provider has announced a contract with Australian-based data center and cloud services provider, Red Cloud. As part of the agreement IO will provide Red Cloud with IO Anywhere® power and data modules and the IO OS® to manage and improve Red Cloud’s modular data center infrastructure … Read more
Quincy, WA is the location of several giant data center facilities from industry titans such as Microsoft, Intuit, Vantage Data Centers, Yahoo!, Sabey, and Dell. There is around 2,308,000 sq. ft. of data center facility space (including current projects and additional phase build-outs). Not bad for an area predominantly known for it’s U.S. leading potato … Read more
Colocation is a mess of a word. It’s also the most common term used to describe outsourcing a company’s IT infrastructure to a data center facility, e.g. “I’d like to get a quote for colocation at your data center facility”. Every now and then, I get emails from people who simply guess at the spelling … Read more
Remote execution is an often underestimated component of cloud computing. Some compare it to the foundation of a building that easily gets looked over, but facilitates the construction of the edifice placed on top. The goal of a remote execution system is to have a means to execute commands on large numbers of desktops/servers without … Read more
Data centers are adapting to the requirements around them with creative solutions to security, technology and efficiency. Let’s take a quick look at a sample of ten interesting data center implementations from around the world. Sci-fi Themeing 1. Bahnhof’s Pionen made the list for having a James Bond / Silent Running data center theme. The … Read more
The cloud as a whole is very complex, with several open source projects taking on its various aspects. In general we can break down the cloud complexities to a few core components: 1. Virtualization 2. Network Services 3. Configuration Management 4. Storage 5. Monitoring 6. Communication / remote execution Each of these components are used … Read more
PHOENIX, Ariz. – November 15, 2011 – IO, announced today that it has contracted with Binary Pulse, LLC, a private cloud and IT solutions provider, to provide IO Anywhere® modular data center services. “IO’s modular data center platform allows us to only buy what we require to eliminate over provisioning and significantly reduce total cost … Read more
Challenge Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, wanted to expand its cloud solution environment to support the ever-growing demand from its customers. With an immediate need to expand their growing cloud computing services, they needed a data center solution – and fast. Logicalis needed a provider that … Read more
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