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 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. This combination also leaves CPU resources available for the AI model servers.”

Intel 468

Intel Security Load Balancer CTO 468

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Central to the platform are the firm’s cloud-based, natural language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology. The additions enable congestion control, load-balancing and management capabilities for systems controlled by the vendor’s core Junos and Juniper Apstra data center intent-based networking software.

Education 397

Education Programming Data Center Licensing 397

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. Kyndryl also partners with several cloud vendors for its mainframe modernization services. Current partners include Cisco, Fortinet, Microsoft, and Nokia.

Fractional CTO 417

Fractional CTO Cloud Applications Load Balancer 417

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

One approach to consider is to migrate data to the public cloud. The cloud is appealing because it reduces capital spend in exchange for operating spend that is flexible based on a company’s dynamic requirements. The cloud also supports fast scaling. Spreading the load in this manner reduces latency and eliminates bottlenecks.

Data 290

Data Intel Artificial Intelligence Data Center 290

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

These include leading edge cloud service providers, Web 2.0 making it an ideal workhorse for 10GbE data center and cloud workloads, providing high bandwidth, high-packet rate and CPU efficient processing of network traffic. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 194

Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

These include leading edge cloud service providers, Web 2.0 making it an ideal workhorse for 10GbE data center and cloud workloads, providing high bandwidth, high-packet rate and CPU efficient processing of network traffic. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. Elastic Beanstalk gives developers an easy way to quickly build and manage their Java, PHP and as of today, their.NET applications in the AWS cloud. Comments ().

Development 93

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 93

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Automating how IT operates is the only way out -- hence the excitement over cloud computing, utility infrastructure, and the "everything-as-a-Service" movement. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. Fountainhead.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

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. If it’s happening at the application level now then why continue to add functionality at the hardware layer?

Virtualization 68

Virtualization Network Load Balancer Vmware 68

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. Cloud Computing. (55). Hosting/Cloud Index outperforms NASDAQ Nearly 4x. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010. Syndications.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Cloud Computing. (55). Big Data. (6).

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. First of all, public cloud container adoption is slowly shifting to Kubernetes. Few months after that, Kubernetes was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). How does Kubernetes work? Great heritage.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Open Source Applications 94

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

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!

Linux 113

Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. Cloud Computing. (55). Cloud Computing.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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). COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

Load Balancer 68

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans revisits the discussion regarding Arm processor architectures in the public cloud. Kat Traxler considers the impact of the Log4J vulnerability in cloud-based environments. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Since taking my new job at Kong, I’ve been spending more time with Envoy, so you’ll see some Envoy-related content showing up in this Technology Short Take. Networking.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). VMDq can provide a hardware assist when the hypervisor softswitch is involved, or you can use hypervisor bypass and SR-IOV to attach VMs directly to VFs (virtual functions). Note that there are trade-offs as a result.)

Intel 115

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 115

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units.

Architecture 125

Architecture Programming Web Services Cloud 125

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The process is very similar to other demo’s I’ve seen from other Cloud Management vendors. The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. NSX, NSX and more NSX. Single Pane of Glass.

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Nothing this time (sorry!). Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

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! as well).

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

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 Architecture Virtualization 68

Dataconomy

MAY 6, 2024

Advanced cloud GPU servers are designed to meet the high-performance demands of AI projects. Unlike traditional cloud servers that rely on CPUs, these servers leverage Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate computational tasks. Image credit ) Enhanced memory capacity is another critical aspect.

Cloud 45

Cloud B2B Resources Load Balancer 45

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. 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.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), Cloud Computing. (55). Cloud Computing.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. I saw this headline , and immediately thought it was just “cloud native”-washing (i.e., tagging everything as “cloud native”). Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

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? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Why is this in the networking section? Good stuff here.

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60