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

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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. Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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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. Data Center efficiency. (1).

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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. Data Center efficiency. (1).

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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. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Data Center Design. Green IT. (43).

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog.

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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. Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

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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. Mobility. (2).

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