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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job. Mobile devices: iPhone, iPad. Your preferred social network? “That’s a value proposition you can derive a semi through,” he said.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.

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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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. cloud only helps to a point. Because a complex. Marketing.

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

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The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement? Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). So theres still that nasty need to integrate multiple products and to work across multiple GUIs. Marketing.

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

Fountainhead

So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g.

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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.