Network World

AUGUST 2, 2024

Read more about AI-driven network management Juniper advances AI networking software with congestion control, load balancing AWS offers a glimpse of its AI networking infrastructure Optical networking challenges gain attention as AI networking demands rise Arista lays out AI networking plans

Intel 165

Intel Wireless Load Balancer Network 165

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

They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. “Because of the amount of mailflow, we need to manage that very closely,” said Namez. “A A lot of providers won’t let us in their plans.

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

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. Marvis Minis for wireless deployments, announced in May. The deal is still on track to close in early 2025.

Programming 158

Programming Education Data Center Licensing 158

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Oracle Oracle offers a wide range of enterprise software, hardware, and tools designed to support enterprise IT, with a focus on database management. Its a common skill for cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, data engineers, cybersecurity analysts, software developers, network administrators, and many more IT roles.

Enterprise 135

Enterprise Enterprise Oracle Database Administration 135

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. However, if you were to go by the response to the number of vendors supporting the NSX ecosystem you’d think the entire industry is going against this hardware first religion. Arista – Top of Rack.

Vmware 78

Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

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

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

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

Match your server components to your use case: For the software supporting your database to achieve the best real-time performance at scale, you need the right server hardware as well. Ideally, real-time data processing requires a database, hardware and software solution that can both scale up and scale out.

Data 116

Data Intel Artificial Intelligence Data Center 116

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer 138

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The AWS service includes a managed runtime environment to provide compute, memory, and storage to run refactored and/or replatformed mainframe applications and helps automate the details of capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, scaling, and application-health monitoring.

Fractional CTO 167

Fractional CTO Cloud Applications Load Balancer 167

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. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.) Until the 1.3

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

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

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). Networking Hardware IDF2014 Intel' IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

Load Balancer 68

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Traffic routing and load balancing. Kubernetes also comes with built-in load balancers to distribute the load across multiple pods.

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Load Balancer Tools Open Source Applications 94

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

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

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

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. Workloads, NICs, HBAs, networking addressing and storage connections (complete with fabric-based load balancing) can all be cloned… starting with the IO and networking profiles, made possible through IOV. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. 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. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you!

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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. The result is a "wire-once" physical network topology, but with an infinitely reconfigurable logical topology.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

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. Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

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. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

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! Time to get patching, folks!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. License Includedâ??

Development 94

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 94

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

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. This is where partnerships from both hardware vendor and existing software management solutions.

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Servers/Hardware. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ? The Next Platform takes a look at Amazon’s Graviton3 processor.

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. 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. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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?

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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

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. Mircea Ulinic has a nice article describing the combination of NAPALM and Salt for network automation.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

What is parallel processing: Load balancing ensures optimal performance for tasks distributed among processors Overcoming the challenges of parallel processing While parallel processing offers many advantages over sequential processing, it also presents several challenges that must be addressed to ensure optimal performance.

Load Balancer 41

Load Balancer Big Data Applications Resources 41

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. 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. There’s a lot to digest there (for me, anyway, there is a lot to digest).

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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. General Purpose GPU programming.

Architecture 127

Architecture Programming Web Services Applications 127

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. Why is this in the networking section? Because it involves IP routing and ECMP!

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60