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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). Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

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I called these the " big blind spots ". More from Egenera was published today in the Wall Street Journals MarketWatch website. I arrived at these observations when I speak with data center managers who admit that they dont have solutions to these issues. Provisioning is assumed only for software. Big Data. (6).

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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.), Today, using industry-standard servers and Egeneras software, Albridge can run any application on any server at any time based on demand. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloud Computing Journal.

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Fountainhead: A real-world cloud user shares his findings

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First, since we are an SEC-registered investment adviser with lots of confidential and sensitive information on our hands, issues regarding the security of our electronic files – both in terms of disaster recovery as well the integrity of the company with whom we are entrusting to house our data – are paramount.

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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". Big Data. (6). but growing.

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

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More than one person took note of how I compared its simplicity in contrast to other offerings in the same space, but failed to detail the specifics of Egeneras PAN Manager software and how it mapped to 13 common IT Service Management functions. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure, Part 3

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A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software. ability to use free pools of servers to re-purpose for scaling, failure, disaster recovery, etc.). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).