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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? I encourage you to read Keith’s full blog post, but I think the key point he makes is right here: How is this different from Software Defined Networking or SDN? These are all software—does that make them SDN?

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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. than one version of their software. I also wanted to share a brief thought here: What would a "cloud-ready" software suite look like?

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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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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. agile software development. (56). software development. (51).

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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

Fountainhead

Tuesday, June 2, 2009. 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". Fountainhead.

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

“This is the power of software”, according to Carl. 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., VMworld 2009 Day 2 Keynote. IT management giving way to automation.

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