Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Companies can use Apstra’s automation capabilities to deliver consistent network and security policies for workloads across physical and virtual infrastructures. Earlier this year, Juniper added AI-based management technology to Apstra via its flagship natural-language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology. “App/Service

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Data Center Software Software Cloud 448

Data Center Knowledge

MAY 12, 2015

Barracuda's new 40G load balancer appliance designed to offload network and security traffic from virtual machines. Read More.

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Load Balancer Network Virtualization Security 100

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Dubbed the Berlin-Brandenburg region, the new data center will be operational alongside the Frankfurt region and will offer services such as the Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, CloudSQL, Virtual Private Cloud, Key Management System, Cloud Identity and Secret Manager.

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Google Cloud Oracle Load Balancer 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

VMware revolutionized the very premise of the cloud with virtualization and today more than 500,000 enterprises rely on VMware by Broadcom technologies as the crucially important underpinnings their mission-critical operations run on,” says Bartram. Many organizations moved to the cloud but still must manage innumerable tasks,” he says.

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Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Vmware 246

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

The SFN8722 OCP offers 10GbE performance, which is critical for today’s data centers where ultra scale dominates the market, supports 1000s virtual NICs and dual 10 GbE ports, and provides up to 30 million of packets per second and ultra-low latency under one microsecond. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

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Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. Solarflare’s OCP NIC is the most comprehensive 10GbE solution for ultra-scale environments requiring low latency and jitter, enhanced small packet performance, Telemetry and Security. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). Marty Meehan.

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Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Creating and configuring Secure AWS RDS Instances with a Reader and Backup Solution. By completing this lab, you will feel comfortable creating and securing relational databases with backup solutions. It provides a huge range of virtual machines suitable for general purpose and specialized on-demand compute tasks.

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Load Balancer Backup Applications Linux 19

Scott Lowe

MARCH 31, 2023

The Pulumi program follows this overall flow: First, the program creates the base infrastructure objects that are required—a resource group, a virtual network, some subnets, and a network security group. This load balancer is used only for Kubernetes API traffic.)

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Linux Load Balancer Programming Network 74

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. When a new server (physical or virtual) is created, much of this infrastructure also has to be provisioned to support it. That is, I/O is virtualized, networking is frequently converged (i.e. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

From the Not Surprised Department, some folks are starting to take a harder look at the timelines for security patches for older versions of macOS compared to newer versions. Rory McCune of Aqua shares some new security-related features in the Kubernetes 1.23 Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers.

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Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2015

We must approve and deploy in an environment with significant cultural, regulatory and security guardrails. 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.

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Devops Government Applications Load Balancer 150

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2020

Hussey misses grabbing a cup of coffee with a colleague or an impromptu whiteboard session for brainstorming ideas for his network security company. His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job.

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Network Load Balancer Exercises Meeting 132

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Virtualization. I’m not sure if this should be considered “storage” or “virtualization,” as the lines continue to blur every day.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors. Arista – Top of Rack. Juniper – Data Center Core. Dell – Closest & Top of Rack. HP – Top of Rack.

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Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Technology advancements have made it necessary for retail stores to institute data security measures. As such, it is critical that the merchants comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards ( PCI DSS ) to protect the cardholder information using the Amazon Web Services as well as Amazon cloud. AWS PCI Compliance.

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How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization. He believes that network virtualization is primarily about decoupling network services from the underlying network infrastructure. The specific terminology involved is that the virtual switches become a VTEP, a virtual tunnel end-point.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 68

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Virtualization. Via William’s post on configstorecli , I also saw this post by Duncan Epping on renaming a virtual switch on vSphere 7.0U2 and higher. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

If you’re new to this process, let me break this down for you: When you first log in to your cloud services provider console, you have to configure a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which requires networking knowledge. You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system. Install software packages.

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Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking. A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Deploying and managing virtual machines. Securing Storage with Access Keys and Shared Access Signatures in Microsoft Azure. Identity and security. Azure Storage Accounts: Configuration and Security. Create a Load Balanced VM Scale Set in Azure. Creating and configuring storage accounts. Hybrid cloud.

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Course Training Storage Load Balancer 80

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. The next day, the Microsoft Security Response Center confirmed the vulnerability. Virtualization. Networking. I’m so far behind.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Humair Ahmed takes a closer look at some Cross-VC NSX security enhancements that landed in the recent NSX 6.3 Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Poonen shows a video with a few customer testimonials, and then introduces Jim Alkove, Corporate VP in charge of enterprise management and security for Windows at Microsoft.

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking. A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Key technologies like Kubernetes for container orchestration and GitHub Actions for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) have been instrumental in our automation strategy, facilitating fast, secure rollouts in both our SaaS and client-managed setups.

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Devops Strategy Applications Load Balancer 59

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. Daniel Sagi of Aqua Security explains the mechanics behind a Pod escape using file system mounts. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Virtualization. Ed Haletky documents the approach he uses to produce segregated virtual-in-virtual test environments that live within his production environment.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. This doesn’t make me feel very secure. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. Chris Binnie walks you through the process of using user namespaces to help secure your Docker hosts and containers. Virtualization. The company is VirTool Networks (catchy, eh?), Servers/Hardware.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. John Gruber’s post on “Secure Intent” on Apple devices was, for me at least, an informative read. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Andrew Martin has a write-up with security recommendations for your Kubernetes clusters. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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. From an unknown author, we have this security rant on Flatpak. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Intel Operating Systems Hardware 60