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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Monday, May 18, 2009. It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns—including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. And, products such as 3Tera also enable users to define components (such as load balancers) in software.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Thursday, February 12, 2009. How do they manage network operations? ▼ 2009. (36).

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Depending on network connectivity, I may or may not be able to update this post in real-time. Next they move into a discussion of the networking side of the house. (My Kit quickly reviews how NSX works and enables the creation of logical network services that are tied to the lifecycle of the application.

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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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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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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

Monday, June 29, 2009. ” From a network performance perspective, Matrix includes 2x10Gb ‘fabric’ connections, 16x8Gb SAN uplinks, and 16x10Gb Ethernet uplinks. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task. Fountainhead.

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