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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!

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and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud. Mobility: A Perfect Use Case for the Cloud. Serving-up mobile apps – and even entire virtual desktops – out of a cloud infrastructure is a natural. Yes, its true.

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

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The structure, the architecture, the even the color scheme is all for a purpose - to communicate attention to detail. according to a Digital Realty Trust survey reported by the Data Center Journal. Picture aisles of million-dollar storage arrays pumping-out movies and live TV shows 24x7 across the country. Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead: What is Infrastructure Orchestration / Unified.

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Infrastructure Orchestration and Unified Computing are both terms referring to a technology whereby server CPU, I/O, storage connectivity, and network, are all able to be defined and configured in software. And, by abstracting the I/O, both data and storage connections can be converged, further simplifying the network infrastructure.

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

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The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. as estimated for its legacy architecture. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Cloud Computing Journal.

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Fountainhead: Private Clouds are Real and In Use

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Many moons back in July 08 I wrote whether an "Internal Cloud" was an oxymoron , as well as a piece on how to build such internal architectures. The project, dubbed the Health Associated Infection and Influenza Surveillance System, was built on six standard blade servers with converged network and storage I/O. Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

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Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network.

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Fountainhead: My IT is Ready. My People Are Not.

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This got me thinking: when the boundaries between compute, storage and network begin to blur, so must the boundaries between traditional IT organizations. New Operational models : Architecturally and operationally, more of IT will become "horizontally" oriented, along the lines of business services and along the lines of customers.