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Facebook???s New Cluster Management Software Cuts Power Consumption

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Data center team finds way to do load balancing with energy efficiency in mind. Blades Facebook Featured Power'

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

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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. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Networking.

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

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They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. Managed Data Becomes Latisys. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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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. White Papers.

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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. At a high-level, automation has major top-level advantages: Lower steady-state OpEx, greater capital efficiency, and greater energy efficiency. and orchestrate things to optimize a variable such as an SLA, energy consumption, etc. Fountainhead.