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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My! I thought you were a Cloud guy?" and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud. Yes, its true.

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

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? Is calling an app "cloud-ready" just a form of cloud-washing? Cmon - arent all apps "ready for the cloud" (and for that matter, ANY cloud)? cloud these days. Thus, most cloud.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

GeekWire

Starbucks has accelerated the rollout of its mobile-focused Starbucks Pickup stores , designed for customers who order ahead using the Starbucks app. Founded in 2007, Panopto offers video management software for business and universities. billion, for the fiscal year ended in September.

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Fountainhead: Steve Jobs in 1980. and Cloud + Big Data Today

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and Cloud + Big Data Today. In essence I thought, w hat if we could mask the granular time-consuming operational efforts of managing servers, I/O, applications, networking, storage, security etc. That is why Cloud is such a critical enabler.

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Fountainhead: Real-World Financial Services Cloud

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Real-World Financial Services Cloud. Cloud computing has been made very real today. Its essentially a high-performance, low-latency, special-purpose cloud IaaS, replete with customers and roadmap. Cloud is highly secure : Ditto to above.

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Why Companies Are Turning to AWS Managed Services

Galido

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud services platform that offers you computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help your business scale and grow; besides being much more secure than a physical server. Amazon Web Services, also known as AWS, are a set of Amazon cloud computing tools and services.

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing Didnt). Somewhere around 2007, OS virtualization began to go mainstream. Finally IT had to look in the mirror at the fact that this thing called cloud computing might be here to stay?

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