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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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Virtualizing I/O and converging the transport. Transport can be Ethernet, FCoE, Infiniband, or others. 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. 1 comment: Jon Toor.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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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.