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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. While not new concepts, they illustrate how "real" cloud computing elasticity works, and challenge a few other virtualization & automation providers to do the same. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, May 18, 2009.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. Fountainhead.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

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

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. What is IOV?

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Its the perfect complement to O/S virtualization, and massively simplifies traditional IT Operations Management. Big Data. (6). Virtualization. (31).