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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. Comments ().

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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS

Cloud Musings

Existing in the dark shadow of the most widely adopted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and foundationally powerful Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the third service model is often misunderstood and widely ignored. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always been the unappreciated sibling of the cloud computing service model trio.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Fountainhead

As much as 3 years ago, the company was anticipating "virtualization sprawl", the need for automating VMs, the expectation that IT environments will have both physical and virtual machines, and the fact that "you shouldnt care what machines your software runs on, so long as you meet your SLA". We actually take action and tell you what we did."

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

Data Center Knowledge

Fishbowl , providers of software and services to the restaurant industry, has leveraged Latisys for a hybrid solution that encompasses colocation, managed services, and cloud. The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in. Disaster Recovery. A lot of providers won’t let us in their plans.

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

Fountainhead

More than one person took note of how I compared its simplicity in contrast to other offerings in the same space, but failed to detail the specifics of Egeneras PAN Manager software and how it mapped to 13 common IT Service Management functions. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right.

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

Data Center Knowledge

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). 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. Silicon Valley.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.