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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . December 2012 (151).

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). August 2012 (166).

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). August 2012 (166). July 2012 (134).

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. ► 2012. (15). But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

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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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Load Sharing - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Load Sharing. By Werner Vogels on 07 September 2012 03:00 PM. One area that is tremendously important in todays distributed systems and has a long history is load balancing and load management. In this 1986 paper on load sharing Eager, Lazowska and Zahorjan layout the basics.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. ► 2012. (17). How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question?