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Data centers embark on journey of transformation his is an era of transformation, and current data centers are the best representation of the sweeping technology changes that are transforming the IT landscape. Trends like BYOD, the rise in usage of social media coupled with an increasingly mobile workforce are reshaping data centers. This is forcing organizations to extend the benefits of technologies like virtualization to a larger IT ecosystem. For example, after transforming the server landscape, organizations are now looking to extend the same benefits of virtualization to storage and networks. Once data centers become software-defined, every component of IT infrastructure can be granularly controlled and driven by policies. Experts say that policy-driven automation capabilities will help organizations build resilience in their data centers, while lowering costs and improving agility. For example, as every infrastructure component can be monitored using software, organizations can use analytical systems to automatically recognize events and decide appropriate actions. Such is the potential of a Software-Defined Data Center (SDCC) that Forrester calls SDCC a comprehensive abstraction of a complete data center. Another powerful initiative that could create massive changes in the way data centers will be built in the future is the Open Compute project. This project was initiated by Facebook in April 2011 with the goal of openly sharing data center design and build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. Facebook’s team started by custom building its own software, servers and data centers from the ground up, and then shared these experiences and technologies as they evolved. Using this concept, the team built a new data center from scratch, and managed to build a data center that was 38 percent more efficient and 24 percent less expensive to build than other similar data centers. Similar to the open source movement in software, the Open Compute project’s goal is to develop servers and data centers the same way as open source software. Today, the Open Compute community has grown to more than 50 official members and thousands of participants. The community has started to contribute open designs for everything from racks to storage boxes to motherboards and even network switches. What is significant and noteworthy is the fact that this has been achieved in a time span of just over 2 years. If Open Compute becomes as main stream as open source software, the economics of the data center market will be completely changed. Whichever way you look at it, these are truly exciting times for the data center industry, as the industry embarks on an era of transformation.
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Cloud era calls for a dynamic software-defined network The dynamic networking requirements in the cloud era is forcing vendors to focus on software-defined networking, which promises to make networks simpler, cheaper, and more efficient Cover Design : Deepjyoti Bhowmik
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Data center decision time: Stay or Go? Is your glass house a sparkling hub of IT innovation or a financial albatross? For many, it’s the latter
Why campus networks need software-defined networking SDN originated from university research, spread through Internet2, and should eventually make life easier for small college network managers
Facebook’s data center: Where likes live Welcome to the Oregon high desert, where Facebook stores all of your likes while pursuing data center energy efficiency on a new scale. Coming soon to the neighborhood: Apple
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‘Big analytics is a bigger problem than Big Data’ Mikael Hagstrom Executive VP, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, SAS
‘Big Data is an opportunity for the CIO to grab a seat at the board’ Tony Young CIO, Informatica
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interview 26 EMC’s Data Center Robot aims to transform energy management Shailendra Ravi Senior Director, Emerging Markets, EMC India
interview 28 P Sridhar Reddy, CtrlS on emerging technologies in the data center space P Sridhar Reddy Founder & CEO, CtrlS
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