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GigaOM If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem t 45 Tweets |

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Stacey Higginbotham Nov 04, 2009 23:18:43 GMT Liquid Computing, a startup going head-to-head with giants, today launched its own version of unified computing gear that stands in almost direct contrast to the announcements made yesterday by Cisco, EMC and VMware about Vblocks 1 and the new Acadia services arm. Also today, HP laid out its vision 2 and new software for a converged computing infrastructure, the heir to its adaptive infrastructure products of the last four years.

These two announcements are the latest in a web of partnerships that are taking place in the data center infrastructure space as folks try to combine computer, storage and networking into some kind of monolithic compute fabric (GigaOM Pro subscription required). The end result of such efforts will be to make the data center function like a giant computer, and the fight is on to

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Liquid unveiled its Liquid Elements software that will work with Intel-based servers and NetApp storage gear. The software and Liquid’s switch can be combined to deliver the same sort of unified fabric computing 3 that Cisco has been selling. Liquid differs from the Vblocks on offer through Cisco/EMC/VMware in that the software can run on any Intelbased server, either virtualized or in a bare metal implementation, said Vikram Desai, CEO of Liquid Computing. Cisco’s servers use Intel chips, but they are all about running virtual machines.

HP’s announcements focus on its version of the data center OS that it calls the Infrastructure Operating Environment, its FlexFabric Virtual I/O, and what it calls Virtual Resource Pools, which is a not-that-fancy-way of saying virtualized clusters of server and

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Left: Server farm: image: Sam Smith.

Liquid unveiled its Liquid Elements software that will work with Intel-based servers and NetApp storage gear. The software and Liquid’s switch can be combined to deliver the same sort of unified fabric computing 4 that Cisco has been selling. Liquid differs from the Vblocks on offer through Cisco/EMC/VMware in that the software can run on any Intelbased server, either virtualized or in a bare metal implementation, said Vikram Desai, CEO of Liquid Computing. Cisco’s servers use Intel chips, but they are all about running virtual machines.

What the Cisco/EMC/VMware Trinity Means For Cloud Computing By Stacey Higginbotham. Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Cisco, EMC and VMware, the trifecta of companies putting their own proprietary stamp on cloud computing for the enterprise, today created a partnership to offer equipment called Vblocks and support a new joint venture called Acadia that will help business customers and service providers build out clouds based on the Vblock gear packages...

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HP’s announcements focus on its version of the data center OS that it calls the Infrastructure Operating Environment, its FlexFabric Virtual I/O, and what it calls Virtual Resource Pools, which is a not-that-fancy-way of saying virtualized clusters of server and storage hardware based on existing storage gear and operating systems. There’s also a piece that optimizes data center operations.

However, on the server side, HP has a big limitation right now in that its Flex Fabric virtual I/O software only works with HP’s blade servers. So to really get the benefits of a converged network fabric, you’re gonna have to have HP blade for now. Doug Oathout, VP of Green IT at HP, says the company plans to make Flex Fabric work on other hardware, but offered no time line.

What’s in Store for Storage That’s the server+networking side, so what’s happening in storage? HP’s Virtual resource pools are pretty compelling in that they can work with any hypervisor and can accommodate applications that are running on bare metal servers without virtualization and a variety of storage gear. HP today also announced its HP X9000 boxes which contain software from its IBRIX acquisition 5 . They offer enterprises the ability to create up to 16 petabytes of virtualized storage. It’s like having the ability to open a door in any room in your home and find an empty walk-in closet when needed.

On the storage side, Cisco’s servers can see it, but they can’t control or talk to the storage infrastructure. That’s why it needs EMC and VMware working with it to make a truly unified platform. Liquid Element can talk to any Ethernet-based storage gear, although it works best with storage from NetApp. When it comes to services, HP will help you figure out how to build out this converged infrastructure and Liquid will rely on selling though channels. The creation of Acadia may signal that Cisco was having a hard time selling its equipment into organizations through a channel that couldn’t figure out how to make its gear work, Liquid’s Desai pointed out.

It also may show how deals whereby large IT vendors have snapped up systems integrators (Dell buying Perot Systems or HP buying EDS) have forced Cisco to offer its own services arm in order to push its gear where those others may not.

As cloud computing and delivering IT on demand get taken over by the larger vendors, and are made palatable for enterprise customers, companies from small to large are cobbling together their vision for this highly virtualized data center infrastructure that basically acts and thinks like one big computer. Given how different the products are when it comes to openness and working with other equipment, it looks like we’re heading for a Mac vs. PC fight in the data center.

2 HP Helps Organizations Thrive in Unpredictability

3 If We Compute in the Cloud, We Need a Network Fabric By Stacey Higginbotham. Monday, July 20, 2009

HP has expanded its industry-leading portfolio with new products, solutions and services that offer organizations increased visibility into changing market conditions and enable them to drive innovation and rapidly scale up and down to meet changing business needs. HP’s new offerings help organizations thrive in unpredictability by building technology environments that deliver line of sight, innovation and elasticity.

Before virtualization, when it came to corporate computing, companies kept their data in a box. When someone needed the data, a request was sent out over the network and routed to that box. The information was then sent back over the same path. But as boxes became more powerful, the amount of processing power they had and work they did didn’t really take advantage of that improvement in performance. So some companies virtualized the hardware, making one box look like many virtual machines. But as where data is stored becomes more fluid, virtualization has pushed further into the data center infrastructure; the network fabric, or virtualized I/O, is the latest innovation to emerge. […]

Tweets referencing this article that have been reTweeted RT @tweetmeme If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem @reynolds rt @gigaom all kinds of data center news yesterday w/ vblocks and liquid computing @TheRealJamieH rt @gigaom all kinds of data center news yesterday w/ vblocks and liquid computing @josephglass RT @tweetmeme If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem @reynolds rt @gigaom all kinds of data center news yesterday w/ vblocks and liquid computing @TheRealJamieH rt @gigaom all kinds of data center news yesterday w/ vblocks and liquid computing @josephglass RT @tweetmeme If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem @reynolds rt @gigaom all kinds of data center news yesterday w/ vblocks and liquid computing @TheRealJamieH rt @gigaom all kinds of data center news yesterday w/ vblocks and liquid computing @josephglass

4 VMware Wants to Provide the OS for the Cloud By Stacey Higginbotham. Friday, September 4, 2009 If the data center is the new computer, then the job of providing the de facto operating system of that new computer is up for grabs, as was made clear this week at VMware’s industry conference, VMworld — vendor event-turned-virtualization trade show. VMware has had its eye on that prize for some time, but more recently, so has Microsoft.

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ALAN SEEKERS Birthday: 13 January 1947

DOT HOLIDAY Birthday: 13 January 1982

@mrsemilybarnes @jamesb I’ll go for you if you like.

Dot Holiday is being very Danish today and is off to see Mew Yesterday at 18:02

I’ve been and gone and written my Playful presentation on the internet: http://bit. ly/3TN9UJ Sorry.

Dot Holiday wishes she was on top of a mountain

@sheseesred The 21st.

Hurry. Or don’t, there’s always next time.

Wondering whether I know how to make bonfire toffee.

Yomping into Belper to an Adam & The Ants soundtrack. Occasionally doing that Prince Charming dance.

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

Womens’ Kronan bike, cream, with basket, for sale, £50, to be collected from Highbury, N5...

Finish writing Cloud Culture report, visit gym, much needed haircut, send invites for dinner with Mothers2Mothers, call with Cisco, rest @shirleykaiser Long time no see, amiga!

People who live in Philip Johnson’s Glass House shouldn’t throw I’ve got nothing.

Am officially exhausted. I passed out last night before 6:00 PM, missing an important business dinner, and

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Back in London. Waiting for my coach to stop at Victoria.

Nice views of London, but today is bleak.

TANNY MCONVILLE Birthday: 13 January 1979

Like Bambi on Ice

Feeling more in control today. I will be happier when I’m back in London and in the science library. Desperate library cravings. @aegirthor Ha. Ugh. Single-sex Catholic school flashbacks.

Renewing the dawdlr mailbox. Hope it’s worth it.

A’s fallen asleep in front of MOTD, nudging him awake for Goal Of The Month.

SARA MCHUGH Birthday: 13 January 1977

Mon at 22:05 Dot Holiday every Sunday should be like this one Sun at 22:42 Dot Holiday disco nap 07 November at 19:46 Dot Holiday babysitting with a great friend for a great friend, coffee with the lovely Nora, market shopping, Flinten’s birthday party and Sunday Roast cooking for the neighbours- must be a recipe for the perfect weekend.

06 November at 16:32 Dot Holiday is not ignoring you, just forgot my phone at home.

06 November at 12:02 Dot Holiday I’m looking to rent a cottage near a skiing resort, for app 6 people, in Norway from the 30.12 - 3.01.

Any recommendations?

05 November at 12:19 Dot Holiday had a beautiful evening with her girls and feels very lucky 05 November at 00:29

Have woken up in a very cold room. Hiding under the duvet. Brr. Gulping lemsip and shuddering. Urgh. Body, you will NOT be ill.

Reading Facebook status updates about coursemates working hard all day is adding to my stress. To bed early with a cold. @solobasssteve Gilmore Girls fan here. A-hem. It’s very good.

Deciding whether to go with this method. Paper sez: “There is often an initial period of floundering around, apparently getting nowhere…”

In Oxford for a couple of days. The cats (who are, woah, huge!) are sprawled cutely on the kitchen floor like fluffy carpet slugs.

Reading an academic document that has its headings set in Papyrus. @kalamishere There is no good instant coffee.

Mon at 14:20 Tanny McConville I hate movin!!!

19 October at 21:34 Tanny McConville India at its finest!! Smelly, dirty but absolutly amasing!!!

27 September at 16:00 Tanny McConville Argh, halfway through it, giving up for tonight. No one should be in the library at this time 27 August at 16:00 Tanny McConville Wearing my famous stars and straps t-shirt reminds me of Butlins - and Caragh. Thanks Caragh :-)

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TRISTAN SHAH Birthday: 13 January 1972

Back in London. Waiting for my coach to stop at Victoria.

Nice views of London, but today is bleak.

Feeling more in control today. I will be happier when I’m back in London and in the science library. Desperate library cravings.

GAVIN O’CARROLL Birthday: 13 January 1980

Gavin O’Carroll early morning swim in the crisp air. Cold feet. Sunshine. Designing all day in the studio. Off to talk about bikes, see fireworks & party.

07 November at 17:59

MARK CHAMPKINS Birthday: 13 January 1976

@mrsemilybarnes @jamesb I’ll go for you if you like.

I’ve been and gone and written my Playful presentation on the internet: http://bit. ly/3TN9UJ Sorry. @sheseesred The 21st.

Hurry. Or don’t, there’s always next time.

@aegirthor Ha. Ugh. Single-sex Catholic school flashbacks.

Renewing the dawdlr mailbox. Hope it’s worth it.

Have woken up in a very cold room. Hiding under the duvet. Brr.

A’s fallen asleep in front of MOTD, nudging him awake for Goal Of The Month.

Gulping lemsip and shuddering. Urgh. Body, you will NOT be ill.

Wondering whether I know how to make bonfire toffee.

Reading Facebook status updates about coursemates working hard all day is adding to my stress. To bed early with a cold. @solobasssteve Gilmore Girls fan here. A-hem. It’s very good.

Deciding whether to go with this method. Paper sez: “There is often an initial period of floundering around, apparently getting nowhere…”

In Oxford for a couple of days. The cats (who are, woah, huge!) are sprawled cutely on the kitchen floor like fluffy carpet slugs.

Reading an academic document that has its headings set in Papyrus. @kalamishere There is no good instant coffee.

Yomping into Belper to an Adam & The Ants soundtrack. Occasionally doing that Prince Charming dance.

Sun at 20:59 Gavin O’Carroll Funniness and intelligence abound > The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Guy Fawkes: http:// bit.ly/YY7zd 06 November at 12:22 Gavin O’Carroll Back in the land of designing printed layouts. Baseline grids. Who’d have thunk it.

06 November at 12:22 Gavin O’Carroll Great evening of food, drinks and life manifestos with @Thayer yesterday : ) 06 November at 11:37 Gavin O’Carroll Ira Glass on ‘Taste’ : http://bit.ly/HS7Hc 05 November at 11:10

JADE BRITLER Birthday: 13 January 1982

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

Womens’ Kronan bike, cream, with basket, for sale, £50, to be collected from Highbury, N5...

Finish writing Cloud Culture report, visit gym, much needed haircut, send invites for dinner with Mothers2Mothers, call with Cisco, rest @shirleykaiser Long time no see, amiga!

People who live in Philip Johnson’s Glass House shouldn’t throw I’ve got nothing.

Am officially exhausted. I passed out last night before 6:00 PM, missing an important business dinner, and

Yesterday at 19:46

Thurs at 22:27 Jade Britler http://player. uk.msn.com/sci-fi/doctorwho?GT1=66752 Doctor Who featuring Tom Baker, William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, watch free on MSN Video Player Thurs at 13:00 Jade Britler Is organising the christmas work do for the office! Anyone know somewhere good to go? There’s a new and very real threat that we will be visiting a tfi fridays 02 November at 14:10 Jade Britler Is organising the christmas work do for the office! Anyone got any hot tips for somewhere good to go east londonish?

02 November at 13:03

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GO: Google Launches Its Own Programming Language - http://bit.ly/IzYIG First tweeted by benparr 7 killed in Fort Hood shootings: http://www.cnn. com/2009/US/11/05/texas. fort.hood.shootings/index. html. 2 gunmen open fire on military base.

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Fort Hood massacre: Gunman linked to al-Qaeda as he awakes from coma Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas, awoke from a coma on Monday as it emerged he had tried to make contact with al-Qaeda before carrying out the massacre.

By Nick Allen in Fort Hood telegraph.co.uk Published: 8:44PM GMT 09 Nov 2009

hospital. Hasan had been in a coma since Thursday after he was shot by two civilian police officers.

He was taken off a ventilator over the weekend at Brooke Army Medical Centre in San Antonio. Maria Gellegos, a hospital spokesman, said: “He is talking. He is conversing with the medical staff.”

Hasan was moved to the hospital for his own safety after initially being treated at Fort Hood. There have been unconfirmed reports that he will be left paralysed by his injuries.

The FBI has meanwhile begun investigating Hasan’s links, first revealed by The Sunday Telegraph, to the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which was attended by two of the September 11 hijackers.

Hasan attended the mosque at the same time as the hijackers in 2001 when it was led by Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born Yemeni imam.

Awlaki left the US the following year, eventually going to Yemen, from where he targets Muslims in America with radical online lectures.

It emerged on Monday that Hasan had been in contact with Awlak within the last year.

Hasan, who was shot four times during his attack, has been informed by doctors that he killed 13 people and injured dozens more.

FBI agents and military investigators were last night waiting to interview him.

Intelligence officers are said to have known months ago about Hasan’s attempts to reach the terror network through the internet but decided to monitor him, hoping it would lead them to al-Qaeda operatives. It was thought Hasan might lead them to a “big fish” and there was no indication he was about to carry out an attack of his own, one source said.

Up to 42 people were injured in the attack and 16 of those remain in hospital. Hasan had been in a coma since Thursday after he was shot by two civilian police officers

Communications, believed to be emails, were intercepted by US intelligence services. They were examined at the time but it was decided that they did not require following up.

The disclosure will open US authorities to criticism that they failed to recognise warning signs and fuel fears that Hasan was in contact with extremists abroad prior to the shootings.

The CIA will preserve intelligence files it holds relating to Hasan’s attempts to contact al-Qaeda. Hasan, an army psychiatrist, is known to have posted comments about suicide bombers on the internet six months ago that were noticed by US intelligence agencies. A computer he used in the weeks before the massacre is being examined.

Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called for an investigation into whether the massacre constituted a terrorist attack.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are due to attend a memorial service at Fort Hood on Tuesday.

Military to try Fort Hood suspect US government officials have said the army psychiatrist suspected of killing 13 people and injuring 38 others in Texas is to be charged in a military court.

By Rob Reynolds in The Americas Blog aljazeera.net Published: 8:44PM GMT 09 Nov 2009

In a posting on his website on Monday, headed “Nidal Hasan Did The Right Thing”, Awlak said Hasan had carried out a “heroic and virtuous” act and the only way a Muslim could justify serving in the US Army was to “follow in the footsteps of Nidal Hasan”.

He said: “Nidal Hasan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people.”

The CIA will preserve intelligence files it holds relating to Hasan’s attempts to contact al-Qaeda. Hasan, an army

US officials have said that intelligence agencies first started investigating Hasan in December of last year, reviewing what they believe to be email communications between him and a Muslim cleric in Yemen who is known for his anti-American teachings.

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