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

Fountainhead

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: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds. Yesterday Amazon announced a new set of services for their EC2 "elastic compute cloud" and these perhaps represent the real "holy grail" for cloud computing. Monday, May 18, 2009.

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

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Big Data. (6). Cloud Computing. (55). Data Center efficiency. (1). A real-world cloud user shares his findings. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

The notion of pattern exists beyond IT in areas that a PCI security assessment touches, such as employee pre-employment practices, awareness security training, risk assessment methodology, or third-party service provider management. In terms of numbers of requirements, the load on the business unit assessments is significantly reduced.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again.

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. Big Data. (6). Cloud Computing. (55). Data Center efficiency. (1).