Fountainhead

JUNE 2, 2009

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? Enterprise Efficiency.

Data Center 100

Data Center Load Balancer Virtualization Analysis 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc. Enterprise Efficiency. Downstream.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

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.), From an architectural perspective, this approach may also be referred to as a compute fabric or Processing Area Network.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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. Gartner and others agree - this is the next wave in data center architecture. Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113