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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. Thus, most cloud.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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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. automatically.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. That last bit, BTW, presaged all of our current hype about cloud computing! Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement? skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Tuesday, June 2, 2009.

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

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. More than one person took note of how I compared its simplicity in contrast to other offerings in the same space, but failed to detail the specifics of Egeneras PAN Manager software and how it mapped to 13 common IT Service Management functions. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Although automation of software (such as provisioning & manipulation of VMs/applications) usually captures attention, remember that there is a whole set of physical datacenter infrastructure layers that IT Ops has to deal with as well. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. Cloud Computing. (55). Tuesday, December 8, 2009.