Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

How it automates infrastructure ] Machine learning: An important branch of AI, ML is self-learning and uses algorithms to analyze data, identify patterns and make autonomous decisions. Related: Networking terms and definitions ] Deep learning: DL uses neural networks to learn from data the way humans do.

Artificial Intelligence 199

Artificial Intelligence System Hardware Applications 199

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As per a recent study, around 39% of organizations have encountered cloud-based data breaches. 6 On top of that, the average cost of a data breach is over $4.4 million per incident, making cloud data breaches one of the top attacks to defend against. 8 Complexity. Operational costs. Zscaler Figure 1.

Cloud 338

Cloud Architecture IBM Security 338

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

The shift toward a dynamic, bidirectional, and actively managed grid marks a significant departure from traditional grid architecture. Additionally, utilities need to invest in robust data management and analytics capabilities to harness the wealth of information generated by these interconnected components.

Energy 305

Energy Dell Load Balancer Artificial Intelligence 305

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

But those close integrations also have implications for data management since new functionality often means increased cloud bills, not to mention the sheer popularity of gen AI running on Azure, leading to concerns about availability of both services and staff who know how to get the most from them. That’s an industry-wide problem.

Microsoft 340

Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise Data 340

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. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1

Software 194

Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. 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

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The new system, developed as part of a TM Forum Catalyst project using the Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and Open APIs, combines 31 separate billing systems deployed in 31 regions of the country. High-performance servers and distributed storage mean data about resource usage can be stored in distributed databases.

System 150

System Cloud Load Balancer Architecture 150

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. We launched with three autonomous Availability Zones in our US East (N.

Load Balancer 109

Load Balancer Data Center Architecture Network 109

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. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Each cloud computing provider has “opinionated” ways of handling things such as load balancing, elastic scaling, service discovery, data access, and security to name just a few. Cloud architectures hold great promise in the ability to promote applications to new heights in ubiquity and scale.

Devops 150

Devops Government Applications Load Balancer 150

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an architecture that consolidates connectivity and security into a single cloud platform. However, while at the local café, which is a fundamentally insecure environment for highly regulated data such as patient records, the doctor would be unable to access those records there.

Load Balancer 130

Load Balancer Security Network Resources 130

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The findings in the report expose weaknesses in security controls that leave web applications vulnerable to severe cyberattacks, including Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) and data breaches. Threat actors can exploit these gaps to launch DDoS attacks, steal sensitive data, and even compromise entire systems.

Company 97

Company Load Balancer Applications Architecture 97

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well. From CPU to GPU.

Architecture 125

Architecture Programming Web Services Cloud 125

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

We also made it easy for customers to leverage multiple Availability Zones to architect the various layers of their applications with a few clicks on the AWS Management Console with services such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing , Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB.

Disaster Recovery 108

Disaster Recovery Applications Cloud Load Balancer 108

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Thomas Graf recently shared how eBPF will eliminate sidecars in service mesh architectures (he also announces the Cilium Service Mesh beta in the same post). Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. Michael Heap shares how to deploy a Kong Gateway data plane with Pulumi. Networking.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Security 94

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2025

A consensus algorithm is a protocol used in distributed systems that ensures all nodes agree on a single data value, despite failures or differing data among them. Consensus algorithms ensure that every participant in the network can trust the accuracy of the data being processed.

Load Balancer 41

Load Balancer Network Energy Applications 41

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. What about virtualized load balancers? What about NX-OS, JUNOS, or EOS?

Virtualization 151

Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 151

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. the automation SW automatically manipulates addresses and ports) this architecture will necessarily modify the security hierarchy, single-point-of-failure risks, etc. Fountainhead.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

TM Forum

JULY 9, 2021

A lack of understanding of data protection laws and how they will apply to cloud-based BSS implementations in different geographies can have massive legal repercussions. It is crucial for CSPs to understand what they can and cannot do with customer data when putting BSS on the cloud. CSPs also need to consider performance challenges.

Cloud 130

Cloud Applications Load Balancer Construction 130

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Juniper – Data Center Core. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. I predict environments where customers will have hardware designed to take full advantage of Cisco’s ACI architecture but will just be managed by some other SDN solution that integrates with multiple network hardware solutions. Arista – Top of Rack.

Vmware 78

Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Once again this comes back to Intel’s rack-scale architecture work.) A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB).

Load Balancer 68

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep talks about how the predominant architecture for network virtualization involves the use of overlay networks created and managed at the edge by virtual switches in the hypervisors. Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services. So how does this work?

Intel 68

Intel Load Balancer Virtualization Architecture 68

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

Intel 115

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 115

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. A converged infrastructure approach offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 2, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

Data Center 100

Data Center Load Balancer Virtualization Analysis 100

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Kubernetes supports a wide range of workloads, programming languages, and frameworks, enabling stateless, stateful, and data-processing workloads. You cannot possibly deny that Kubernetes is built on a very mature and proven architecture. Great heritage.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Open Source Applications 94

Dataconomy

APRIL 28, 2023

Machine learning deployment is a crucial step in bringing the benefits of data science to real-world applications. With the increasing demand for machine learning deployment, various tools and platforms have emerged to help data scientists and developers deploy their models quickly and efficiently.

Tools 77

Tools Open Source Architecture Applications 77

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

After the demo completes, Burns takes a few minutes to break down the architecture behind the demonstration. Loadbots,” managed by a Kubernetes replication controller, generated the load against an Nginx service, which in turn is backed by a number of Nginx instances. HTTP load balancing. Autoscaling. Batch jobs.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Resources Applications Hotels 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The next step is to add an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and distributing the application across two availability zones—this means 2 web instances and 2 instances of RDS (one active and one standby). This sort of architecture gets you greater scale as well as greater redundancy and fault tolerance. How do we go further?

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Applications SOA Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ? Welcome to Technology Short Take #27! Networking.

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When it comes to big data analytics, Teradata delivers these Platform-as-a-Service advantages by delivering industry andbusiness process aligned components within their PaaS. Through this strategy, the company was relieved of most of the care and feeding of its data warehouse.

Disaster Recovery 70

Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Healthcare Applications 70

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Eskilden freely acknowledges that moving to a microservices-based architecture increases complexity and is not “free”. In order to help address the complexity brought on by microservices-based architectures, Eskilden wants to talk about resiliency, service discovery, and routing. This leads into a discussion of discovery.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Applications Architecture Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Eskilden freely acknowledges that moving to a microservices-based architecture increases complexity and is not “free”. In order to help address the complexity brought on by microservices-based architectures, Eskilden wants to talk about resiliency, service discovery, and routing. This leads into a discussion of discovery.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Applications Architecture Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I think they were SQL, NoSQL, data warehousing, and something else. You can use ElastiCache as a primary data store, but it is more commonly used as a cache in front of other database offerings (managed or unmanaged). For analytics in a data warehousing environment, Amazon offers Amazon RedShift. Why use managed databases?

SOA 60

SOA Load Balancer Applications Architecture 60