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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

CIO Business Intelligence

This includes Involta’s Northpoint data center in Pennsylvania – a 40,000 square foot certified tier III facility that uses half as much power as the company’s first data center that went into operation in 2008. Increasingly, we are also finding that these same customers are working towards sustainability goals of their own.”

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Fountainhead: The Rise of the Cloud Service Bus

Fountainhead

for billing, showback and/or chargeback) - Disaster Recovery / Redundant service sources where needed. ► 2008. (79). SLA) monitoring - Cost and budget tracking (i.e. Some would call the above integration functions "Glue Logic." ► September. (5). ► August. (2). ► July. (2). ► June. (3).

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure, Part 3

Fountainhead

ability to use free pools of servers to re-purpose for scaling, failure, disaster recovery, etc.). simplified higher-level services, such as providing fail-over, scaling-out, replication, disaster recovery, etc. ► 2008. (79). eliminate NICs and HBAs). reduce overall quantity of servers, (e.g. ► July.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.

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

Fountainhead

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. ► 2008. (79). The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Where the Server Industry Went Amiss. ► August. (2).

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

Fountainhead

And fast repurposing means you can deliver instant High Availability (HA), entire environment disaster recovery (DR), and near-instant scaling (capacity-on-demand). ► 2008. (79). In fact, even without VMs, some consolidation is possible by being able to use the same box for different uses at different times. ► May.

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Fountainhead: Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service.

Fountainhead

Another enterprise with the same email application may be operating in a Tier-III datacenter environment with a rigorously-controlled response rate, a full disaster-recovery requirement, and 2GB of storage per mailbox. ► 2008. (79). These two SLA examples are quite different and will therefore consume different power.