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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

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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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility. Comments ().

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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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2012. (15). But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. cloud only helps to a point.

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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

In 2012, FanDuel moved the architecture toward SOA, introducing message queues to decouple services. FanDuel started to use Puppet to help with configuration management, and they started evaluating the use of Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) to help with scaling.

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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? Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2012. (15). Marketing. (3). Power Management. (37). Predictions. (43). Unified Computing. (26).

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

Data Center Knowledge

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. The Mobile Cloud: What it Is & Why it Matters. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134).