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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

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Indeed, there are a number of similar technologies out there (Cisco with its UCS, and HP with its own offerings). The results of this approach is that physical servers can be repurposed easily, regardless of whether theyre running physical or virtual software. as estimated for its legacy architecture.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

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HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), Ken Oestreich.

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IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z » Data Center.

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IBM boosts its System z portfolio by acquiring CSL International, Actian leverages previous acquisitions to launch new cloud and big data platforms and EastWest Bank selects HP to build a private cloud for updating its infrastructure. HP builds private cloud for EastWest Bank. HP builds private cloud for EastWest Bank.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure, Part 3

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Because true converged infrastructure / unified computing has architectural, operational, and capital cost advantages over traditional IT approaches. simplifies traditional architectures and dramatically reduce the number of devices that must be purchased, cabled, configured, powered, cooled, and secured in the data center.

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Healthcare?

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Its the approach that HP (w/Matrix Orchestration Environment plugins), IBM (Open Fabric Environment) and Cisco (Unified Computing System or UCS) have entered into recently, and where firms like Egenera (with PAN Manager software and the Dell PAN System ) have been selling for some time.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. From an architectural perspective, this approach may also be referred to as a compute fabric or Processing Area Network. BTW, there is another nice resource -- a white paper commissioned by HP (!)