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

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What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application. OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA). Fountainhead.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

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Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. ► 2007. (25). How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question?

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

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Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. But so little attention is being paid to identifying & profiling which applications are best-suited to actually run in an external "cloud." of what ideal application properties pre-dispose apps for being well-suited to run in a cloud. Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

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

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There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. We had the same conversation about firewalls.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: The Poor Mans Groove?

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2006 | Main | Office 2007 -- In Production Use » January 09, 2007 The Poor Mans Groove? My colleague Sadie and I have had the opportunity this week to test a new application for ad hoc file sharing and collaboration. Posted by: Ben Vollmer | January 10, 2007 at 07:55 PM Thanks, Ben. Enterprise 2.0

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

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In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), Ive been pointing out applications for this technology in Healthcare as well as in the Financial sector , and I thought it would also be useful to illustrate value in the Service Provider / Hosting market. ► 2007. (33).

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Good Read: Web 2.0 Security Dangers - Social, Agile, and.

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Application layer technology can be expensive and hard to implement, however: …finds it appalling that 97 percent of organizations are still using packet filters as their firewalls when the threat vector switched five years ago to the application layer. "So ► 2007. (25). world using Web 1.0 ► October. (2).

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