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F5 Networks will buy Volterra cloud computing startup for $500M in latest major acquisition

GeekWire

F5 Networks announced an agreement to acquire cloud computing startup Volterra Inc. F5 Networks announced an agreement to acquire cloud computing startup Volterra Inc. offers a platform for edge computing across multiple clouds, in which processing takes place near the locations of sensors and data for reduced latency.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Mina Abadir shares some experiences around migrating from PlanetScale to Amazon Aurora. David Both has an article on using systemd journals for troubleshooting. Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

Linux 112
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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!

Fountainhead

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. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Real-World Financial Services Cloud

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Real-World Financial Services Cloud. Cloud computing has been made very real today. Its essentially a high-performance, low-latency, special-purpose cloud IaaS, replete with customers and roadmap. Cloud is highly secure : Ditto to above.

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing Didnt). And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. The way users interacted with the cloud was appealing and nearly viral.

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

CIO Business Intelligence

When a disaster happens — such as a data center fire or server hardware dying —you get alerted right away. Secondary data storage solutions range from offsite servers or tape storage to private or public cloud backups. Cloud storage is your best bet when it comes to accelerating the time to recovery.