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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution. In terms of sensors, HP Labs estimates that we’ll hit 1 trillion before too long. To leverage the data and information across a number of these areas, HP Labs is working on a project called CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth ).

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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

Virtualized Greek

HP – Top of Rack. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors. Arista – Top of Rack. Juniper – Data Center Core. Dell – Closest & Top of Rack.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc. Thinking Out Loud: HP Flex-10 Design Considerations. However, it seems to me that this isn’t the real problem. Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem.

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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. We all know that large software and platform vendors (think: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix, CA, IBM, HP etc.) cloud only helps to a point.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

Fountainhead

Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Its a "unified computing" environment (to borrow a term) - but has integrated with it all of the most popular higher-level management functions too.

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

Fountainhead

HP VirtualConnect ). Workloads, NICs, HBAs, networking addressing and storage connections (complete with fabric-based load balancing) can all be cloned… starting with the IO and networking profiles, made possible through IOV. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. Qlogic , Emulex ). Putting IOV in Perspective.