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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

The following press release announces IBM’s intent to Acquire Cloudant: ARMONK, N.Y. – 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., Cloudant could not have found a better home than IBM.” – bg. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

Automate security deployments through programmable interfaces using infrastructure as code (IaC) templates, along with Public Cloud Service Provider integrations such as AWS gateway load balancer, AWS user-defined tags, and AWS auto-scaling Gain Consistent Threat and Data Protection Elevate cloud workload security to zero trust principles.

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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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Technology Short Take #56

Scott Lowe

Gal and Liran Schour from IBM are slated to do a talk on this at the OVS conference this week.). Lew Goettner has a pretty hefty post on CoreOS and Docker on AWS that includes information on CoreOS, user data and cloud-init, AWS and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Fleet, Registrator, Nginx, Confd, and Jenkins.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc. In comparing it to the Dell, HP, and IBM systems I've managed in the past I certainly have developed a love for how logically it's laid out.

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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 2 General Session

Scott Lowe

The current GSA applications look like stovepipes that often implement replicated services using different technologies and solutions (different RDMS solutions, different load balancers, duplicate identity/access management solutions).

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear. Servers/Hardware. I thought I had referenced this article before, but apparently I haven’t.