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Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind
Network World
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.
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VMware adds more security for diverse cloud workloads
Network World
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
VMware has added more security features to its forthcoming on-demand multi-cloud networking and security service called Northstar that it previewed during its August VMware Explore 2022 conference. It will include VMware services such as Network Detection and Response, NSX Intelligence, advanced load balancing and Web Application Firewall.
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SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the edge
Network World
OCTOBER 15, 2024
“What we’ve realized is that in some of our critical infrastructure use cases, either government related or healthcare related, for example, they want a level of trust that the application running at that location will perform as expected,” Keith Basil, general manager of the edge business unit at SUSE told Network World. “So
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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?
Fountainhead
MARCH 25, 2013
What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application. location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.
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Fortinet offers integrated cloud app security service
Network World
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. Managing application security across multiple environments isn’t easy because each cloud platform, tool, and service introduces new layers of complexity.
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Juniper extends security platform to streamline threat detection, incident response
Network World
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Juniper Networks is working to integrate more of its security services under one AI-centric roof. Secure AI-Native Edge is part of Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform , which is aimed at unifying the vendor’s campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine.
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Juniper adds AI cloud services to its Apstra data center software
Network World
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0 version of the Apstra software.
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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage
Network World
JUNE 5, 2024
LAS VEGAS – Cisco put AI front and center at its Live customer conclave this week, touting new networking, management and security products, along with partnerships and investments it expects will drive enterprise AI deployments. “AI Think of the AI evolution as like the cloud transition “on steroids,” Robbins said.
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F5 teams with Intel to boost AI delivery, security
Network World
AUGUST 29, 2024
NGINX Plus is F5’s application security suite that includes a software load balancer, content cache, web server, API gateway, and microservices proxy designed to protect distributed web and mobile applications.
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 16, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Marty Meehan.
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F5, Nvidia team to boost AI, cloud security
Network World
OCTOBER 24, 2024
F5 and Nvidia are expanding their partnership to help enterprises build AI infrastructure and bolster cloud-based application security. F5’s BIG-IP Next application delivery platform features load balancing, application acceleration security, DNS services and application API management capabilities.
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Extreme taps Intel analytics to boost its AI Expert assistant
Network World
AUGUST 2, 2024
Extreme Networks is incorporating Intel’s network analytics technology into its unreleased AI Expert program. In April, Extreme previewed AI Expert , an AI-based network assistant that’s being evaluated in its Extreme Labs program. Enter Intel.
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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
To meet this growing demand, data must be always available and easily accessed by massive volumes and networks of users and devices. Five petabytes of data are created every day by mobile phone subscribers around the world. The acquisition of Cloudant is expected to close in 1Q14.
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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6
AT&T taps Cisco fixed 5G wireless gateways for WAN service
Network World
MAY 30, 2024
Cellular gateways transpose a cellular signal into wired WAN Ethernet connectivity, enabling high-speed, always-on cellular network connectivity for business-critical operations, wrote Pratik S. Desai, product marketing lead for 5G fixed wireless access and WAN application assurance for SD-WANs at Cisco, in a blog about the new devices.
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174 Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.
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.
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment.
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Kyndryl bolsters its Bridge infrastructure services
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 AI networking is another area Kyndryl is targeting. “AI
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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT
CTOvision
JUNE 7, 2014
We’re seeing a glimmer of the future – the Internet of Things (IoT) – where anything and everything is or contains a sensor that can communicate over the network/Internet. You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution. By George Romas. Here are some examples….
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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Its a common skill for cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, data engineers, cybersecurity analysts, software developers, network administrators, and many more IT roles. Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open-source automation tool that helps companies deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications.
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Composite AI: The trifecta that is transforming AIOps
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
For example, if a company’s e-commerce website is taking too long to process customer transactions, a causal AI model determines the root cause (or causes) of the delay, such as a misconfigured load balancer.
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China Unicom transforms billing with massive cloud-native system for 5G
TM Forum
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
This means that an increase of 20 to 30 times the computing, storage and network resources is needed to support billing growth. This enables users to focus on business applications, improves the efficiency of application development and reduces operations and maintenance costs. call detail records (CDRs) per?day, external_url.
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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
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. . Branches and other offices.
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DockerCon 2017 Black Belt Session: Cilium for Network and Application Security
Scott Lowe
APRIL 17, 2017
This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2017 Black Belt session led by Thomas Graf on Cilium , a new startup that focuses on using eBPF and XDP for network and application security. Graf starts by talking about how BPF (specifically, extended BPF or eBPF) can be used to rethink how the Linux kernel handles network traffic.
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60 VMworld 2013 – Network Virtualization: Moving Beyond the Obvious (My Notes)
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 27, 2013
Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). NSX is basically a network hypervisor similar to how ESXi is a server hypervisor. So, NSX would sit on top of the physical network, which would give you the same capability to provision extremely complex virtual networks from Layer 2 to 7. Operations.
Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.
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. Networking. Comments (required).
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189 Vendor-Side DevOps Practices Can Still Deliver Better Value While Client-Side Government Processes Catch Up
CTOvision
DECEMBER 11, 2015
With the private sector making the cultural and technological shift to better DevOps practices, it was only a matter of time before private providers to government clients began to probe how DevOps practices can positively impact application delivery for DoD (and other) clients. This is where container technologies help out.
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Testing times: testingRTC is the smart, synchronized, real-world scenario WebRTC testing solution for the times we live in.
Spearline Testing
JULY 21, 2022
The WebRTC application development process requires a cycle of repeat testing using powerful, expensive client machines. Traditional web testing is ineffective for WebRTC applications and can cause an over-reliance on time and resource-heavy manual testing. WebRTC network sensitivity is another headache.
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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud
All Things Distributed
APRIL 11, 2018
In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate. How do you define and group services into applications? Getting Started.
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118 Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds
Fountainhead
MAY 18, 2009
It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns—including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. Auto Scaling is particularly well suited for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage.
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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem
Scott Lowe
APRIL 3, 2013
Clearly there are some real benefits to using OpenFlow in certain use cases (here’s one example ), but that doesn’t mean OpenFlow—especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, where OpenFlow is involved at every “hop” of the packet forwarding process throughout the network—is the right solution for all environments.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 19, 2011
Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. It takes just minutes to get started and deploy your first application.
Migrating to VoIP
Spearline Testing
JANUARY 14, 2021
Many individuals utilize VoIP on a daily basis unbeknownst to themselves, for example in online gaming or through video calling applications. Organizations must also closely examine their existing network and its capabilities prior to the rollout of VoIP. Resultant issues.
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Creating a Talos Linux Cluster on Azure with Pulumi
Scott Lowe
MARCH 31, 2023
The program I’ll share with you in this post is written in Go , but the process outlined in this post and the accompanying code is equally applicable in other languages supported by Pulumi. This load balancer is used only for Kubernetes API traffic.) TypeScript is a popular choice for lots of folks.)
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Dell’s bare metal switch is a big deal for SDN
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 30, 2014
While Dell isn’t exactly the biggest player in networking, it’s still relevant to note how important their announcement of a bare metal switch is to Software Defined Networking (SDN). The Dell announcement helps bring to reality some of the advantages from a physical network perspective. Network Virtualization Dell SDN'
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Lift-and-shift: Why does it undermine BSS-on-cloud transformation?
TM Forum
JULY 9, 2021
But when it comes to migrating to the cloud, many software vendors and CSPs in the past decade have taken a 'lift-and-shift' approach, which involves taking modular applications and containerizing them in the belief that they are cloud-ready. It is therefore vital to assess application performance before taking the plunge.
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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
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 How do they manage network operations? and business transformation. Thursday, February 12, 2009. Older Post.
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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.
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Networking. Ivan tackles the topic of CI/CD and testing in network automation. Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Operating Systems/Applications.
Grid modernization: A strategic guide for energy sector CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 19, 2024
Integrating these distributed energy resources (DERs) into the grid demands a robust communication network and sophisticated autonomous control systems. This involves embracing open standards and protocols that facilitate communication among various devices, applications, and systems.
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122 Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types
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.
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Zafran Uncovers Widespread WAF Vulnerability at Fortune 1000 Companies
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Researchers from Zafran have identified a critical misconfiguration in Web Application Firewalls (WAF) from major providers, including those from Akamai, Cloudflare, and Imperva. Zafran researchers pinpointed a systemic flaw in how WAFs, often used as both security tools and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), are configured.
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79 Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 13, 2010
IO Virtualization is an approach whereby physical IO components such as Network Interface Cards (NICs) Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs) and Keyboard/video/Mouse ports (KVM) are reproduced logically rather than physically. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. This blog is related to my 2009 installment on Fabric as an IT Enabler. What is IOV?
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