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

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. than one version of their software. I also wanted to share a brief thought here: What would a "cloud-ready" software suite look like?

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

Based on what I’ve seen and read so far, it seems like a lot of folks see software-defined networking (SDN), especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, as the solution to manual VLAN provisioning. The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc.