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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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Hussey misses grabbing a cup of coffee with a colleague or an impromptu whiteboard session for brainstorming ideas for his network security company. His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. e.g. in 2008, Cassatt (RIP?) And, products such as 3Tera also enable users to define components (such as load balancers) in software.

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

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unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. ► 2008. (79). I've spent lots of time at early stage companies, as well as Sun Microsystems, Cassatt, Egenera, EMC. Because a complex.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

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As much as 3 years ago, the company was anticipating "virtualization sprawl", the need for automating VMs, the expectation that IT environments will have both physical and virtual machines, and the fact that "you shouldnt care what machines your software runs on, so long as you meet your SLA". ► 2008. (79). but not by too far.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc. ► 2008. (79). I've spent lots of time at early stage companies, as well as Sun Microsystems, Cassatt, Egenera, EMC. Marketing. (3).

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

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So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. ► 2008. (79). IT Financial Management. (4).