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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). We all know that large software and platform vendors (think: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix, CA, IBM, HP etc.) Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

After all, if I can use a controller—there are numerous open source and proprietary controllers out there—to gain programmatic access to controlling individual flows within my data center, why do I need VLANs? Thinking Out Loud: HP Flex-10 Design Considerations. Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One of those new technologies in the Enterprise Data Center space is what I call Infrastructure Orchestration (others term it fabric computing or unified computing ). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Green IT. (43).

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- Tech Terror List 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Yup, we give you a standard HP model with Windows XP, Office 2007 and Anti-Virus loaded on it. Stop and Think, before Connecting (and also have a good firewall and anti-virus program!). They’re unmanageable. And every employee wants to use their own. CIOs have long practiced the mantra of standards standards standards.

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ITAM Isn’t Sexy. But We Need It!

CTOvision

seconds, 288 HP, 200 ft. The data center manager put down her report. The data center manager replied, “Well, this doesn’t include the routers, switches, or firewalls.” The data center manager replied, “I think Tom can run a report on our network management software and get that.

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IPSLA: Your IT Early Warning System

CTOvision

This could be Cisco Prime, SolarWinds, What’s up Gold, HP Openview, Zenoss or OpenNMS. I used it to get a baseline response time from the DMV office to the data center servers. FTP – In this DMV system, once the application is complete, the mainframe FTPs the data to the processing facility.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall?

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