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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Monday, May 18, 2009. 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. And, products such as 3Tera also enable users to define components (such as load balancers) in software.

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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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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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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. ► 2009. (50). But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS.

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

Fountainhead

Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement?

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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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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season.