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

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. That might mean continuous orchestration between specific apps and networking, storage, firewalls, IaaS, DBs and more. ► 2009. (50).

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Thursday, February 12, 2009. 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. . ▼ 2009. (36). and business transformation.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

There are two definitions we can use for SDN: We can use the original definition when SDN was first coined in 2009. According to the research that Bruce did, the term “SDN” was first coined in 2009 to refer specifically to the work being done on OpenFlow. What about virtualized load balancers?

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc., Following the list of features in NSX, Carl brings up load balancing, and Kit shows how load balancing works in NSX.

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

Data Center Knowledge

They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. When we need highly detailed control over the firewalls, Latisys provided us with dedicated.”. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. December 2009 (95).

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

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The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules. December 2009 (95). November 2009 (125). October 2009 (131). September 2009 (143). August 2009 (119).