Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. ► 2012. (17). How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question?

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Load Balancer Agile Software Development Big Data 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. December 2012 (151).

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

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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Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Cloud Application Management.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. Comments ().

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Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 157

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services. IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. was released yesterday (Wednesday, December 4, 2012), although I haven’t been able to find any sort of official press release or announcement.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. 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. Blog Archive.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain. And what’s more, a hypervisor is not required for IOV, so you can use IOV with native applications too. ► 2012. (15).

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In 2003, I founded Blue Box from my college dorm room to be a managed hosting company focused on overcoming the complexities of highly customized open source infrastructure running high traffic web applications. These organizations are deploying applications into hosted private clouds, seeing the value proposition that can bring.

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Cloud Open Source Load Balancer Engineering 61

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

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.), ► 2012. (15). and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software.

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