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

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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. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement? but growing.

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

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They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. I'm an EE by training, enlightened a bit with an MBA. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Ken Oestreich.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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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. 2) Disaster Recovery: we can re-constitute an environment of server profiles, including all of their networking, ports, addresses, etc.,

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

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And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. And, if you can now logically re-define server and infrastructure profiles, you can also create simplified Disaster recovery tools too. I'm an EE by training, enlightened a bit with an MBA. Ken Oestreich.

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

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Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc. I'm an EE by training, enlightened a bit with an MBA. This provides a ‘universal’ style of failover that doesn’t require clustering software.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), I'm an EE by training, enlightened a bit with an MBA. Ken Oestreich.