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

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unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. than one version of their software. I also wanted to share a brief thought here: What would a "cloud-ready" software suite look like?

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns—including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. ” From a network performance perspective, Matrix includes 2x10Gb ‘fabric’ connections, 16x8Gb SAN uplinks, and 16x10Gb Ethernet uplinks.

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

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As much as 3 years ago, the company was anticipating "virtualization sprawl", the need for automating VMs, the expectation that IT environments will have both physical and virtual machines, and the fact that "you shouldnt care what machines your software runs on, so long as you meet your SLA". not just a networking play. RTI Fabrics.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. No related posts.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

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A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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

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More than one person took note of how I compared its simplicity in contrast to other offerings in the same space, but failed to detail the specifics of Egeneras PAN Manager software and how it mapped to 13 common IT Service Management functions. Cloud Computing Journal. Ken Oestreich. Peter Cochrane. Reflections of the Void.