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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.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Balancing these.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. 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.

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

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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: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

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Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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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: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software.

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

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In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Infrastructure Orchestration. (31). Infrastucture 2.0. (11).