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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

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. . December 2012 (151).

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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. 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.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

Once again this comes back to Intel’s rack-scale architecture work.) He starts the discussion by talking about NFV and SDN, and how these efforts enable agile networks on standard high volume (SHV) servers (such as microservers). Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB).

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

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. Gartner and others agree - this is the next wave in data center architecture. ► 2012. (15). Unified Management.