FOCUS NEWS TECHNOLOGY
Issue 20, Feb/March
CISCO – AHEAD IN NETWORKING AND VIRTUALIZATION
Cisco’s global CTO Padmasree Warrior said her company has a big lead over server makers in integrating compute network and virtualization. “With respect to integrating compute network and virtualization we’re probably two to two and half years ahead,” Warrior said.
Warrior was referring to the company’s
unifi ed fabric and unifi ed compute strategy and its best known component the Unifi ed Computing System – Cisco’s entry into the
POWER
Russelectric launched a range of
medium-voltage (5-15kV)
Circuit Breaker-Type Transfer Switches and Bypass/Isolation switches. The switches are UL tested, listed, and labelled under UL 1008A, making them suitable for use in legally
required emergency power systems.
PowerSecure launched a back-up generator for data centers that uses a combination of natural gas and diesel fuel. The technology, known as “bi-fuel”, is considered cost- effi cient and has a smaller negative impact on the environment than all- diesel generators.
COMPUTING
EMC claimed to launch the fi rst “enterprise proven” scale-out NAS architecture using Hadoop for data analytics.
The Isilon scale-out
NAS with Hardoop Distributed File System is designed to enable distributed computing, allowing large data sets to be transported across computing clusters for high density environments. EMC said it makes using Hadoop much easier to use and faster to rollout.
NETWORK
Startup Nicira launched a solution that could solve some of 2012’s biggest networking challenges – virtualization and resource
OpenFlow is an open standard that enables users to configure networking environments to their specifications.
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HP said it is extending its line of data center switches using the OpenFlow network-virtualization protocol to simplify network management. It currently has 16 OpenFlow-enabled switches but has plans to extend support for OpenFlow across all switches in its FlexNetwork architecture in 2012.
server market. “With UCS – our goal was not to build a server. Our goal was integrate virtualization and networking because this was the way we saw the shift in the data center,” Warrior said.
Cisco’s global CTO Padmasree Warrior
She said Cisco’s unifi ed data center approach is based on high performance, operational effi ciency, storage convergence and fl exible deployment and told FOCUS that UCS had quickly gained traction in the market. “We have a $1.2bn run rate in UCS. We are
management. Already used by ebay, NTT, AT&T and Rackspace, the software-based Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) can create distributed virtual network infrastructure for cloud data centers.
Service delivery acceleration can be realized in minutes using NVP instead of weeks because the
solutions is decoupled and independent from physical network hardware.
Cisco updated its switching portfolio with 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) capabilities. The 40GbE performance
options have
been added to its Catalyst 6500 switching line, and 100GbE capabilities are found in the Nexus 7000 portfolio for interconnecting data centers to service providers.
COOLING
Rittal created a cabinet that can be bolted on to an outside wall to make use of free air cooling. Extend is designed for medium-sized users and makes use of horizontal air fl ow with separate cold and hot sides with cooled air from outside directed in from of the IT system.
DCIM Schneider Electric is building
on its StruxureWare Data Center Operations Suite using Cisco tools for better server allocation, faster reaction to power failures and better cabling allocation.
Raritan released new DCIM software dcTrack 2.6 which can
the number three blade vendor world-wide – so the traction we’ve got is absolutely phenomenal – half in cloud deployments for public and private cloud providers and the half is in traditional data centers.”
PROCESSORS/SERVERS Silicon
launched 64-bit
Valley startup Tilera two
many-core
processors it said use less power and space than Intel Xeon-based machines. The the 36-core Tile- Gx36 and the 16-core Tile-Gx16 are aimed at major web 2.0 customers.
SeaMicro, Intel and Samsung said they created the world’s fi rst fabric-based
Intel Xeon micro
server. The system packs 64 quad- core 2.4GHz Xeon processors into a 10U chassis, boosting drastically compute power per both watt of data center power and square inch of raised fl oor.
model network and power circuits, enabling users to design networks and circuits faster, identify stranded capacity or find appropriate places for new pieces of equipment.
Power Assure and Raritan
teamed up to deliver an energy management solution that combines the companies’
complementary
products. Power Assure’s EM/4 Energy Management software – delivered through the Cloud – will get power-use and temperature data feeds from Raritan’s branch-circuit monitoring solution and its rack power-distribution units (PDUs).
Emerson Network Power
announced SmartDesign, which extends its Smart solutions into data centers requiring room-scale power and cooling configurations. It uses qualified personnel to apply best-of- breed solutions established under the offering.
Washington State-based startup Visualiiz announced general availability of its data center asset management software LightsOn which provides 3D visualization of data center equipment to help managers optimize the use of
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