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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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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

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Juniper – Data Center Core. HP – Top of Rack. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors. Arista – Top of Rack. Dell – Closest & Top of Rack.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

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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: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0" Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. HP VirtualConnect ). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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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.