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Vertiv Modular Data Solutions

1/2/2019

 
"Vertiv: published 19-Dec 2018
The world is changing. Faster than ever. The increasing demand of data transfer speed at the edge of the network is no longer an issue that can take long to be resolved. This is why there’s a must for network edge critical infrastructures to be deployed faster, to be more resilient and energy efficient.  

But how could a modular data center can deliver all of the above? That was the question we asked ourselves when we developed the Power Module™.

This modular data center delivers constant performance and availability, through the future-proof power system, built with Liebert UPS Technology.

​But the outstanding 95% efficiency and hot-swappable modularity, alongside the unmatched energy efficiency levels, make the Vertiv™ Power Module™ the cutting-edge modular data center.

IS parklands Tier III Prefabricated Data Center - Vertiv Critical Infrastructure Solutions

1/2/2019

 

Monitoring the IoTs: Electronic House - 2016 Smart Home of the Year - Gold Winners

6/14/2016

 
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SOURCE: The Electronic House - June 2016

Inside the provided PDF, you’ll see a wide variety of homes—all sizes, price ranges, styles, and ages. There are beachfront vacation properties where the ability to monitor and control systems remotely was a must for their owners, as well as residences whose electronics cater to the busy lifestyles of active families. You’ll also read about an outdoor entertainment system that rises up from the ground and a barn from the 1800s that was transformed into a high-tech living space for owners eager to live off the grid.
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Based on the range of homes feature in our Gold Home of the Year issue, it’s no wonder more people than ever are choosing to smarten up their homes by adding intelligent thermostats, dimmable lighting, Internet-connected security cameras, integrated management systems, and more. No matter what the needs, the budget, or the lifestyle, anyone can benefit from having smart products and systems added to their home. 

They pay special tribute to the Gold winners of the following Smart Home categories:
- Smart Home, more than $150,000
- Smart Home, less than $150,000
- Home Theater, $150,000+
- Home Theater, $75,000-$150,000
- Home Theater, $25,000-$75,000
- Multipurpose Entertainment Room
- Outdoor Entertainment Area
- Unique Space

- Before & After

​See the provided PDF.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) - Smart Kitchen

6/8/2016

 
Just one example from Whirlpool.  Much of this technology exists or is on the immediate horizon and will interface with a variety of the connected building - smart home eco-systems.  Integration is the key.  Yes the interior designer will question the backsplash :-)

Mesosphere open sources its data center OS

4/21/2016

 
Originially posted April 20, 2016 by  techcrunch.com
Mesosphere‘s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) aims to allow developers and admins to treat a data center as a single computer that runs applications in software containers. It’s based on a number of open-source projects, including the Apache Mesos cluster manager and projects like the Chronos scheduler and the Marathon container orchestration platform.

Now, Mesosphere is pushing its open-source strategy further by launching a fully open-sourced version of DC/OS (which also previously didn’t have that forward slash in its name). It’s doing so in partnership with more than 60 companies, including the likes of Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (both of which invested in the company, too), as well as NGINX, Puppet, EMC, Autodesk, Cisco and Accenture. Microsoft already baked this open-source version into its Azure Container Service.
Mesosphere says “every DC/OS partner received early access to the code, and is committed to helping grow and shape the project in their own ways.”

But what’s the point of open sourcing a project that is essentially already open source? While the core technologies of DC/OS were already open source, the company is now also open sourcing proprietary tools like its GUI and load balancer, so developers who want to hack on DC/OS now get access to a few features that were previously only available to paying enterprise customers.
In one way, Mesosphere is mostly following the standard open-source business model of opening up most of its software and then selling specific tools and services on top of that.
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My feeling is that this move is really about these partnerships more so than about the open-source aspect of the announcement (which the company dropped in the middle of the night). With Kubernetes, Google has open sourced the core part of how it runs containers in production in its own data centers and there is a quickly growing ecosystem around it, including the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with backing from Docker, Box, Intel, Red Hat and Twitter.
Docker, which also offers its own container management system for data centers, has the name recognition and a large ecosystem around it, too.

All of these projects currently target different workloads, but in the long run, all of their visions (though not necessarily their technical implementations of them) converge and they will have to differentiate themselves through the services and developer experiences they can offer.

It’s no surprise then, that Mesosphere’s enterprise version of DC/OS still includes some features that aren’t available in the open-source version, including monitoring tools, support for enterprise security and compliance tools, and advanced networking and load balancing features. With Infinity and Velocity, Mesosphere already offers additional tools on top of DC/OS for enterprises, too.

Having Microsoft, HPE and others on board and establishing a more formal relationship with them may just allow Mesosphere to develop its core tools a bit faster. “At Mesosphere, we are big believers in open source,” the company said today. “Open source software helps its creators overcome the limitations of their own vision. Having a vibrant community of users, partners and contributors means we can continue to advance DC/OS as new requirements and use cases emerge.”

Introducing data center fabric, the next-generation Facebook data center network

11/17/2014

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Posted Friday, 14 November, 2014 by Alexey Andreyev, Engineering at Facebook.  Reposted from Facebook's Blog Post - Networking - Infra

The more than 1.35 billion people who use Facebook on an ongoing basis rely on a seamless, “always on” site performance. On the back end, we have many advanced sub-systems and infrastructures in place that make such a real-time experience possible, and our scalable, high-performance network is one of them. 
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Two-Thirds of the World's Data Centers Going to Cloud: Cisco

11/2/2012

 
Within four years, two-thirds of all data center traffic across the world -- as well as workloads -- will be cloud based. That's the prediction of Cisco's second annual Global Cloud Index (2011-2016)...

Reposted from the forbes.com
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Courtesy of QTS Metro Data Center.  This Atlanta based data center spans 970,000 square feet.

Finally, We Can See What Google's Brain Looks Like...the physical Internet

10/18/2012

 
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Inside the "physical internet."

Reposted from the Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 

Website Facelift!

10/4/2012

 
Our new face lift is essentially complete!  Content is still under development and will be posted regularly.  We have taken the approach to displace the old site with the new look and navigation because as you know, it is never perfect and is always evolving.  

Please bear with us as we tweak and play.  Your comments are appreciated and will help us improve the site in our ongoing effort to provide you with the information, help that you seek.  Please bookmark us for future reference.
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    D. Kevin Orr

    Kevin is a Certified Data Centre Management Professional, and resides in Ottawa, ON Canada.

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