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

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). than one version of their software. offer tons of what they call end-to-end software. Balancing these.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

Based on what I’ve seen and read so far, it seems like a lot of folks see software-defined networking (SDN), especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, as the solution to manual VLAN provisioning. The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), Ken Oestreich.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I must disagree with some of his statements regarding what software-defined networking is and is not and where it fits , written back in April. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x.

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- Tech Terror List 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Yup, we give you a standard HP model with Windows XP, Office 2007 and Anti-Virus loaded on it. Oh, and someone loses their Android smart phone with all the home and cell numbers of half the police command staff but gee we can’t remotely wipe its contents because installing the remote wipe software is the bureaucratic Sign of the CIO Grinch.

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Continuous Monitoring – Part 2

CTOvision

The process of Managing Assets includes tracking all hardware and software products (PCs, servers, network devices, storage, applications, mobile devices, etc.) This post first appeared at George Romas’ HP blog. in your enterprise, and checking for secure configuration and for known/existing vulnerabilities.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I must disagree with some of his statements regarding what software-defined networking is and is not and where it fits , written back in April. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x.

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