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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

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The results of this approach is that physical servers can be repurposed easily, regardless of whether theyre running physical or virtual software. And fast repurposing means you can deliver instant High Availability (HA), entire environment disaster recovery (DR), and near-instant scaling (capacity-on-demand). Peter Cochrane.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

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In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), Servers from the industry’s largest vendors were also ruled out since their legacy architectures made virtualization and resource sharing impossible. Cloud Computing Journal. Ken Oestreich. 1 comment: Liza. Post a Comment.

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

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As much as 3 years ago, the company was anticipating "virtualization sprawl", the need for automating VMs, the expectation that IT environments will have both physical and virtual machines, and the fact that "you shouldnt care what machines your software runs on, so long as you meet your SLA". Cloud Computing Journal. but growing.

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IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry » Data Center Knowledge

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IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Disaster Recovery. Silicon Valley. North Carolina. Data Center Infrastructure Management.

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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. Converged Infrastructure and Software Virtualization. Because the physical CPU state (i.e.