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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.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

Following the close, Cloudant will join IBM’s newly formed Information and Analytics Group led by Senior Vice President Bob Picciano, a business unit within the IBM Software & Systems Group. The acquisition of Cloudant is expected to close in 1Q14. About Cloudant.

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Technology Short Take 119

Scott Lowe

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content! Fortunately, the diagrams illustrate that there is something substantive behind the headline. Servers/Hardware.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Also less obvious is domain 4, where the encryption of data in transit is handled by upstream services, such as reverse proxies and load balancers, an enterprise web portal and a file transfer service. In terms of numbers of requirements, the load on the business unit assessments is significantly reduced.

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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. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Burton Group blog. Data Center Design. Green IT.

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