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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. . Building a “business-in-a-box.”

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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. The last point is key, since modern Enterprise Apps are typically constructed on multiple servers. Cloud Application Management. Security policies. Firewall rules.

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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

With Fargate, you don't need to stand up a control plane, choose the right instance type, or configure all the other components of your application stack like networking, scaling, service discovery, load balancing, security groups, permissions, or secrets management. AWS Fargate finally makes containers cloud native.

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Lift-and-shift: Why does it undermine BSS-on-cloud transformation?

TM Forum

A comprehensive and systematic approach is required to identify the right platform and ensure a smooth BSS migration, based on a well thought out design-construct. It is evident that BSS-on-cloud transformation cannot be undertaken lightly, or without a proper design construct. Technical Evaluation - Application Maturity.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

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: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

If we think of "fabric computing" as abstraction and orchestration of IT components, then there is a logical progression of what gets abstracted, and then, what services can be constructed via logically manipulating the pieces: 1. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. If you have any feedback for me—constructive criticism, praise, suggestions for where I can find more articles (especially if the site supports RSS!), Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost.