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Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading!

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc., Following the list of features in NSX, Carl brings up load balancing, and Kit shows how load balancing works in NSX.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Balancing these.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed.

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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

Scott Lowe

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V–allows VMware customers to use DirectPath I/O to assign VMs directly to a VF, bypassing the hypervisor.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

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). Blog Archive. ► 2013. (21). ► July. (3). ► June.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud Computing » Storage. 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. .

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