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

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. than one version of their software. I also wanted to share a brief thought here: What would a "cloud-ready" software suite look like?

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How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS? Information Technology Blog. They should institute measures including encrypting data, establishing secure network firewalls, monitoring the networks with testing, ensuring access controls, and establishing vulnerability management programs.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. How are customer specific implementations managed in their software repository?

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

The collision occurred after I read these two blog posts ( here and here ) by Ivan Pepelnjak on manual VLAN provisioning. Based on what I’ve seen and read so far, it seems like a lot of folks see software-defined networking (SDN), especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, as the solution to manual VLAN provisioning.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? One of the topics we discussed on the podcast was the relationship between SDN and network virtualization, which sparked this blog post by Keith Townsend, one of the attendees. These are all software—does that make them SDN?

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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

Scott Lowe

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). Johnson next transitions into a discussion of VF failover using NIC teaming software.

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Five Things Your Startup Has to Do, Even After Your App Is Built

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Five Things Your Startup Has to Do, Even After Your App Is Built - Information Technology Blog. Security is a big concern for mobile apps, and you’ll pay for firewalls, encryptions, and compliance,” according to BuildFire. Instead, you should build your app with load balancers and autoscalers.