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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job. Your preferred social network? Book on your nightstand (or e-reader)? “That’s a value proposition you can derive a semi through,” he said. Daily reads?

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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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. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.

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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.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS. cloud only helps to a point.

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

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So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

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A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

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Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Its a "unified computing" environment (to borrow a term) - but has integrated with it all of the most popular higher-level management functions too. IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13).

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