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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013. One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job.

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

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By: Jason Verge July 23rd, 2013. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164). May 2013 (165). April 2013 (179).

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

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By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 2013. The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164). May 2013 (165). April 2013 (179). March 2013 (167).

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

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Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. ► 2013. (10).

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

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Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc. ► 2013. (10). Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. Qlogic , Emulex ).

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. 2) Disaster Recovery: we can re-constitute an environment of server profiles, including all of their networking, ports, addresses, etc.,

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), ► 2013. (10). and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software.