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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. What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? Is calling an app "cloud-ready" just a form of cloud-washing? Cmon - arent all apps "ready for the cloud" (and for that matter, ANY cloud)? cloud these days.

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Fountainhead: A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies. These are the times of the "cloud era" where two technology leaders are struggling to dominate the IT infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud markets. Monday, March 18, 2013.

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Fountainhead: Steve Jobs in 1980. and Cloud + Big Data Today

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and Cloud + Big Data Today. In todays enterprise context, my interpretation of this is "What could be possible if all of that data center technology could be relegated to the background and made invisible?" Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My! I thought you were a Cloud guy?" and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud.

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Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? Software virutalization. Abstracting software from the underlying CPU yields mobility, consolidation, and degrees of scalability. Think of this as provisioning hardware using software.

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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. More from Egenera was published today in the Wall Street Journals MarketWatch website. Provisioning is assumed only for software. Everyone seems fixated on Provisioning = Software.

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Fountainhead: Hosting/Cloud Index: Update

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Hosting/Cloud Index: Update. Back in December, 2009, I proposed an index of hosting and cloud providers , and posited that these sample portfolios would be an excellent gauge of the markets perception of the state of the business.

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