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

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. This allows the app admin to determine as part of the apps own policies , where and when to place workloads on differing private and/or public clouds.

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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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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

“This is the power of software”, according to Carl. Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc., IT management giving way to automation.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Also less obvious is domain 4, where the encryption of data in transit is handled by upstream services, such as reverse proxies and load balancers, an enterprise web portal and a file transfer service. In terms of numbers of requirements, the load on the business unit assessments is significantly reduced.

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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. We had the same conversation about firewalls. Data Center Videos.

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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.

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VMworld 2015 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog

Scott Lowe

Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). Wasmer demonstrates how policy settings in NSX can affect Airwatch connectivity and data access for mobile applications. Poonen mentions security next, and talks about the integration of Airwatch, Horizon, and NSX.

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