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

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unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). We all know that large software and platform vendors (think: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix, CA, IBM, HP etc.) That might mean continuous orchestration between specific apps and networking, storage, firewalls, IaaS, DBs and more. Big Data. (6).