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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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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. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.

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

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unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. ► 2010. (10). I've spent lots of time at early stage companies, as well as Sun Microsystems, Cassatt, Egenera, EMC. Because a complex.

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

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” The anticipated growth, as well as some initiatives that will move the company into other SaaS-based services around customer relationship management, prompted the company to seek out a provider that could accommodate its current and future needs. The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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

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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". ► 2010. (10). but not by too far.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc. " July 9, 2010 at 1:40 PM. ► 2010. (10). Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Syndications.

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

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He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.