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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

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By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. Cloudant will extend IBM’s Big Data and Analytics , Cloud Computing and Mobile offerings by further helping clients take advantage of these key growth initiatives.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

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

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

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He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Fountainhead.