Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To balance speed, performance and scalability, AI servers incorporate specialized hardware, performing parallel compute across multiple GPUs or using other purpose-built AI hardware such as tensor processing units (TPUs), field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuits and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

Artificial Intelligence 199

Artificial Intelligence System Hardware Applications 199

Network World

AUGUST 2, 2024

It pulls and combines data from applications and devices across the network to establish intelligence related to performance and experience, Extreme stated. Extreme said it expects to start integrating Extreme AI Expert into Extreme solutions later this year.

Intel 413

Intel Wireless Load Balancer Network 413

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. What makes it unique is how we’ve created, or how we stitched together, organizational information, systems, applications, and more. [It Cloud Computing, Networking

Fractional CTO 417

Fractional CTO Cloud Applications Load Balancer 417

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 194

Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Cloud Application Management.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. We appreciate Latisys working with us.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Basically, they are looking to provide programmability to the network via their Application-Centric Infrastructure. This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. Arista – Top of Rack. HP – Top of Rack.

Vmware 78

Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The network industry has focused on protocols for a long time because of the need interoperate hardware devices between vendors. The Second are is the higher level layers such as load balancing. Martin’s argument is that all the added functionality is already happening at the application level. Operations.

Virtualization 68

Virtualization Network Load Balancer Vmware 68

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Availability.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Open Source Applications 94

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Why is this important?

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

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.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading! This is a handy trick.

Linux 113

Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Development 92

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Or, one could just use something like this.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain. Appliances + high-throughput IO devices (e.g.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

Intel 68

Intel Load Balancer Virtualization Architecture 68

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Architecture 125

Architecture Programming Web Services Cloud 125

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. Kit and Carl went through a pretty corny but effective scripted demo of provisioning an application from the business users perspective. NSX, NSX and more NSX.

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time (sorry!). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. 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.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ? Ru Singh provides a review of his M1-based MacBook Air.

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Servers/Hardware. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

Have you ever wondered how your computer can perform multiple tasks at lightning-fast speeds, even when you’re running multiple applications simultaneously? This can be especially useful for applications that involve complex calculations or require real-time data processing. What is parallel processing?

Load Balancer 41

Load Balancer Big Data Applications Resources 41

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. So useful.).

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. Reading these early OpenFlow meeting notes (via Brent Salisbury, aka @networkstatic on Twitter) was very fascinating. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications. Why is this in the networking section?

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a post by Ron Fuller on changing the IP address of NSX Manager.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. It says the the JET (Juniper Extension Toolkit) uses “open application programming interfaces”, but fails to provide any specifics. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Or, one could just use something like this.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. If you’re not familiar with VPCs and associated AWS constructs, you should read this article.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Most folks have probably heard about 12 Factor Applications (see here if you haven’t or if you need a refresher); this article talks about 12 basic rules and good practices for using Kubernetes optimally.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. From an unknown author, we have this security rant on Flatpak.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Intel Operating Systems Hardware 60