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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. Supposedly there are more than 22,000 people in attendance at VMworld 2013, making it—according to Carl—the largest IT infrastructure event. “This is the power of software”, according to Carl. VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote.

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

Fountainhead

Monday, March 25, 2013. 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. offer tons of what they call end-to-end software. Fountainhead.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? I encourage you to read Keith’s full blog post, but I think the key point he makes is right here: How is this different from Software Defined Networking or SDN? These are all software—does that make them SDN? Are they now SDN?

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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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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

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

Fountainhead

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" Mobility. (2).

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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). First, though, Recep takes a few minutes to review some SDN concepts.

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