Tag: modular data center
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Time Lapse: Building Dell’s Big Data/OpenStack MDC — allowing customers to test at hyper scale
Back in September I posted an entry about the Modular Data Center that we set up in the Dell parking lot. Here is a time lapse video showing the MDC and the location being built out. The MDC allows customers to test solutions at scale. It is running OpenStack and various Big Data goodies such…
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Addressing eBay’s Project Mercury needs with Dell’s Modular Data Center
Back on December12, eBay held their grand opening for their Project Mercury data center in Scottsdale, Arizona. In attendance were all the partners that contributed along with members of the Data Center Pulse group. Although the event itself wasn’t secret, the details were held in check until a couple of weeks ago when Derrick Harris…
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A Walk-through of Dell’s Modular Data Center
In my last entry I featured a video with the Bing Maps imagery team. In it they talked about why they went with Dell’s Modular Data Center (MDC) to help power and process all the image data they crunch. For a deeper dive and a look at one of these babies from the inside join…
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Dell’s Modular Data Center powers Bing Maps
Late last week we announced that Dell’s Data Center Solutions group had outfitted Bing Maps’ uber-efficient, uber-compact data center (or as Microsoft calls it “microsite”), located in Longmont, Colorado. The facility is a dedicated imagery processing site to support Streetside, Bird’s Eye, aerial and satellite image types provided by Bing Maps. The site’s key components…
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Construction complete on Microsoft’s “Cloud Farm”
In Data Center Knowledge last week there was a short article, accompanied by a set of photos, that gave view into Microsoft’s very cool new “Cloud Farm” data center. The design of the data center, which is located in Quincy Washington, was driven by Microsoft’s use of some ultra-cool modular data centers 🙂 . It…
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Gartner on Extreme Data Centers
One of the best sessions I went to at the Gartner Data Center conference last week, was entitled Extreme Data Centers – Attaining Massive scalability – in the minimum space at the lowest cost. The talk was given by David Cappuccio who is a managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams…
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Welcome to the Wild and Wacky World of Data Centers
I got back last night from the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas which runs through the end of this week. Although one of the biggest topics of conversation was cloud computing, I was most interested in learning about what’s happening more generally in the world of data centers. I’m pretty up to speed…
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Tier5 first to fire up Dell’s 3rd-gen Modular Data Center
Last week, Tier5 who has taken over an old Mitsubishi facility in Adelaide was the first company globally to deploy Dell’s third generation Modular Data Center. Tier5 is an eight-person start up that is turning the former auto plant into a state-of-the-art data center park to be leased by wholesale tenants including managed service providers,…
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Dell’s Modular Data Center — Hello World
Last week at VMworld, Dell held a Super session where we debuted a video walking through our Modular Data Center (MDC). The group that I belong to, Data Center Solutions (DCS), created the MDC as a custom solution addressing the specific needs of a few of our big strategic customers. (As background, the DCS group…