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

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The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). 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. Firewall rules.

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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. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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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.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. skip to main | skip to sidebar.