Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain. And what’s more, a hypervisor is not required for IOV, so you can use IOV with native applications too. IT Financial Management. (4).

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. 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. Green IT. (43).

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), IT Financial Management. (4). Fabric Computing. (7). Green IT. (43). Infrastructure Orchestration. (31). Infrastucture 2.0. (11).

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