Latency: The Achilles Heel of Cloud Computing. Today, cloud computing is proliferating. For IT and corporate business units alike, there is strong interest in deploying applications in a cloud environment for its increased business flexibility and cost savings. However, common cloud computing solutions can introduce unexpected costs associated with the broader issue of latency from the cloud edge to the end user. IT and individual business units tend to focus on the aspect of performance within the cloud environment when deploying applications to the cloud, rather than the question of performance and reliability of the overall application and content delivery chain from the cloud environment to the end user.
This is a serious miscalculation for two reasons. First, the cloud computing provider's choice of network carrier shouldn't penalize the cloud user when network performance is degraded. When it comes to end-user requirements for application and website performance, every millisecond counts. High-performance cloud architecture. Cisco, sources reveal data center next steps. Network World - NEW ORLEANS -- Cisco apparently plans to soon unveil a data center switch designed for high-frequency financial trading markets, and may also be readying a switch fabric rollout similar to Juniper's recent QFabric launch. The Nexus 3000 is a low-latency, high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch specifically designed for market trading. The one-rack-unit switch supports Layer 2/3 wire-rate switching and implements "advanced unicast and multicast routing protocol features," according to a short description on the Cisco Web site.
IN PICTURES: 10 Gigabit data center switch shootout A link to the Nexus 3000 on the Cisco site, however, leads back to the main Cisco.com page and not to any further details on the switch. John McCool, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services Group, would not comment on the Nexus 3000 during an interview at this week's Cisco Partner Summit here. Cisco's McCool similarly declined to comment on Jawbreaker. Increase the reach on 10-Gbit/s optical links with EDC.
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Labs sees the future in a simpler data center: HP Labs Feature Article (April 2010) By Margaret Steen Just as today’s servers are made up of components with specialized purposes, today’s data centers require people with specialized expertise in many areas: networking, storage and applications, to name a few. HP is looking to change that with its Converged Infrastructure model. It’s an architecture that considers all elements of computing as an ensemble: power distribution and cooling management; networking, computing and storage components; automation tools; a common management platform; and the people needed to run it. “The convergence part is being able to look at all of the infrastructure components together, rather than in separate islands that are uncoordinated in their management and usage,” says Dwight Barron, chief technologist, HP BladeSystem Division and HP Fellow, HP.
When servers and the data centers where they reside are brought online for a specific function, “it leads to extra capacity in some places and under-capacity in others,” Barron says.