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

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. While not new concepts, they illustrate how "real" cloud computing elasticity works, and challenge a few other virtualization & automation providers to do the same. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, May 18, 2009.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job. The company recovered over the past two decades, becoming a billion-dollar business in 2011 and with stock today worth about $140 a share.

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

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. Labels: Infrastructure Orchestration , IT Ops , Unified Computing , Virtualization. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Ken Oestreich.

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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 2011 (126). Consolidation.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….