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4 Tips for Processing Real-Time Data

CIO Business Intelligence

It underlies services such as identity management, fraud prevention, financial transactions, recommendation engines, customer relationship management, and social media monitoring. Technology such as load-balancing ensures that all resources in a cluster are doing approximately the same amount of work.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. social media. (3).

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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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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. But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS. cloud only helps to a point.

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

Fountainhead

So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g.

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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

Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler.