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

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Auto Scaling is particularly well suited for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage. e.g. in 2008, Cassatt (RIP?) skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, May 18, 2009.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

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Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites.

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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. Managed Data Becomes Latisys.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Although automation of software (such as provisioning & manipulation of VMs/applications) usually captures attention, remember that there is a whole set of physical datacenter infrastructure layers that IT Ops has to deal with as well.