In a small 2U chassis the new-ish Dell PowerEdge R810 packs a ton of possibilities.
From standard quad core processors and a measly 8gb of memory all the way up to a smokin’ 4x 10-Core E7 procs with 30mb cache, and 512GB DDR3 memory.
As the rest of the Dell 11th Generation line, the 810 has been re-engineered to lower the total cost of ownership, while providing high performance options and complete redundancy.
What’s the hottest topic in IT currently? Well I’m sure everyone will agree when I say, the Cloud! While a precise definition of the Cloud may still vary. One thing is for certain- the promise of the Cloud being able to scale your resources as needed without long-term commitments. INetU’s CLOUDadmin tool allows managed hosting clients to do just that. Cloud Servers can be fired up on either the Community Cloud or a client’s VMware-based private cloud in less than an hour and they are all on a month-to-month commitment level. Whether you are currently running on dedicated servers, fully in the Cloud or using a hybrid of both, it doesn’t matter. Everyone can take advantage of this resource.
With the boom of the virtualization world, Cisco is jumping into the market with some of its flagship products re-purposed for the virtualization world; Cisco now offers a virtualized switch, the Nexus 1000v.
The Nexus 1000V plugs into Vmware as a software based virtual switch by replacing the Vmware virtual switch. It works within the VMWare API to provide lots of great security benefits. Nexus 1000v utilizes the Cisco NX-OS operating system, so network administrators can use their current knowledge of OS in the new product. Cisco’s Nexus 1000V also allows network administrators to use auditing/forensic tools that they are familiar with on the hardware based systems. This will allow for less of a learning curve when moving into the network virtualization world for network administrators who are familiar and comfortable with Cisco’s CLI.
Should you Use a Private Cloud? Many companies, small or large, can take advantage of a private cloud environment. You could choose to combine your already existing infrastructure with a hosted private cloud solution to minimize the cost of expansion and/or hosting of a publicly accessible service or application.
Unless you’re reading this blog from a time machine and call 1984 “home”, you’ve probably considered deploying virtualization or utilizing some cloud resources for your business already. Maybe you’re development team has already begun reaping the benefits of a virtualized environment and you’re wondering how much of that might benefit production too.
First things first, let’s define what options are out there:
