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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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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. Favorite apps, cloud services and software tools: Photoshop, ProTools, Salesforce and Firefox. Current location: Seattle.

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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: 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. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0" Mobility. (2).

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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". Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Infrastructure Orchestration. (31). Marketing. (3).

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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.