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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. 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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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

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Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Its a "unified computing" environment (to borrow a term) - but has integrated with it all of the most popular higher-level management functions too.

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