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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). Servers from the industry’s largest vendors were also ruled out since their legacy architectures made virtualization and resource sharing impossible. ► 2007. (33).

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Fountainhead: Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

Fountainhead

Usually the local network had state too – ensuring that the IP and MAC address of the motherboard were attached to switches and LANs in a particular way. So, we may not see a significant architectural change in stateful processing units - until the industry gradually acquiesces that there is an alternative to all of this madness.

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7 Software Defined Networking Considerations » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112). September 2007 (82). August 2007 (99). July 2007 (87). June 2007 (71). May 2007 (82).