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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. 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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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. Comments ().

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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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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

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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. How are customer specific implementations managed in their software repository? software qa. (8).

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0" Newer Post.

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

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Fishbowl , providers of software and services to the restaurant industry, has leveraged Latisys for a hybrid solution that encompasses colocation, managed services, and cloud. The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in. December 2010 (119). November 2010 (121). October 2010 (99).

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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). ► September. (2).