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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.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.

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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: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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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.

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.