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. It also requires hard drives to provide reliable long-term storage. Spreading the load in this manner reduces latency and eliminates bottlenecks.

Data 108

Data Artificial Intelligence Intel Data Center 108

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Todays announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egeneras relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box. Ken Oestreich. Good article, thanks.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

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