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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

Challenges faced here led FanDuel to re-architect to the next-generation architecture. In 2010, FanDuel migrated to a cloud provider (not AWS); issues experienced there forced FanDuel to migrate to AWS in 2011. In 2011, FanDuel migrated entirely to AWS, but scaling issues due to application architecture persisted.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. " July 9, 2010 at 1:40 PM. ► 2010. (10).

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

Fountainhead

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? ► 2010. (10).

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . December 2010 (119).

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

Fountainhead

Thursday, May 6, 2010. Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), ▼ 2010. (10). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Converged Infrastructure.