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

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. The last point is key, since modern Enterprise Apps are typically constructed on multiple servers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites.

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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. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The industry has evolved into a morass of technologies and resulting complexity; the way applications (and datacenters) are constructed today is not the way a greenfield thinker would do it. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. A converged infrastructure approach offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. Fountainhead.