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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013. One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . July 2013 (144).

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

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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? ► 2013. (10).

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

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By: Jason Verge July 23rd, 2013. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164). May 2013 (165). April 2013 (179).

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

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By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 2013. 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. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164). May 2013 (165). April 2013 (179). March 2013 (167).

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

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They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. ► 2013. (10). The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Mobility. (2). Power Management. (37). Predictions. (43).

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. 2) Disaster Recovery: we can re-constitute an environment of server profiles, including all of their networking, ports, addresses, etc.,

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

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And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. And, if you can now logically re-define server and infrastructure profiles, you can also create simplified Disaster recovery tools too. ► 2013. (10). Now: What’s the impact on costs? Mobility. (2).