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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

GeekWire

His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job. In 2014 , he became CEO and co-founder of Tempered. “I “That’s a value proposition you can derive a semi through,” he said. million in funding.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.) Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Good write-up.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

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 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective.