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. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. 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. ► 2012. (15). Blog Archive.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The need for application management tools is particularly critical when applications go beyond typical single server Web sites into the more complex category of multi-tier enterprise applications. It is implicitly driven by the enterprise shift of moving more and more application workloads to cloud style deployments. July 2012 (134).

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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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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Of course, there are issues with packet-level load balancing and flow-level load balancing, so tradeoffs must be made one way or another. IDF 2012 Day 2 Summary and Thoughts. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If any enterprise Puppet experts want to give it a go, I’d be happy to publish a guest blog post for you with full details on how it’s done. was released yesterday (Wednesday, December 4, 2012), although I haven’t been able to find any sort of official press release or announcement. Ben Armstrong shows how here.

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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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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. ► 2012. (15). Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency. Virtualization. (31). Blog Archive. ► 2013. (10). ► July. (2). ► June. (2). ► May. (2).

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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. But enterprise users are already realizing large parts of the vision -- a saving big on op ex and cap ex -- using virtual I/O.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. ► 2012. (15). Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency. Because every physical infrastructure component in the “old” way of doing things has a cost. Virtualization. (31). Blog Archive. Downstream.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

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. ► 2012. (15). Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency. Virtualization. (31). Blog Archive.

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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). Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency. executed by Michelle Bailey at IDC. Blog Archive.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

JP] In 2012, we began speaking with IT managers across our customer base, and beyond. Integration with existing IT infrastructure ­ businesses have significant investments in existing data center infrastructure: load balancers, IDS/IPS, SAN, database infrastructure, etc. Can you share your thoughts on that topic? [JP]

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