Optimize Your Applications & Data Centers with Load Balancing
Tech Republic Security
JULY 18, 2023
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Google Strengthens Compute Engine With Load Balancing
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 9, 2013
On Wednesday Google announced numerous enhancements to its Cloud Platform, the addition of layer 3 load balancing to Compute Engine, which delivers Google-scale throughput and fault tolerance to manage Internet applications. Cloud Computing Google'
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Software Defined Power in Virtualized Application Environments
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 2, 2014
Software Defined Power requires creating a layer of abstraction that isolates the application from local power dependencies and maximizes application uptime, by leveraging existing failover, virtualization and load-balancing capabilities, writes Clemens Pfeiffer of Power Assure. Industry Perspectives'
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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6
IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. Cloudant will extend IBM’s Big Data and Analytics , Cloud Computing and Mobile offerings by further helping clients take advantage of these key growth initiatives. – bg.
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268 Another Layer of Defense Against Cyber Attacks
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 30, 2015
Once seen only as a tool for load balancing, application delivery controllers (ADCs) are now used as the final line of defense should a malicious attack penetrate the data center's perimeter. Read More.
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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?
Fountainhead
MARCH 25, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application.
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 16, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1
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DockerCon 2017 Black Belt Session: Cilium for Network and Application Security
Scott Lowe
APRIL 17, 2017
This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2017 Black Belt session led by Thomas Graf on Cilium , a new startup that focuses on using eBPF and XDP for network and application security. A lot of it has not evolved as application deployments have evolved from low complexity/low deployment frequency to high complexity/high deployment frequency.
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1
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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
As per a recent study, around 39% of organizations have encountered cloud-based data breaches. 6 On top of that, the average cost of a data breach is over $4.4 million per incident, making cloud data breaches one of the top attacks to defend against. 8 Complexity. Zscaler Figure 1.
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Testing times: testingRTC is the smart, synchronized, real-world scenario WebRTC testing solution for the times we live in.
Spearline Testing
JULY 21, 2022
The WebRTC application development process requires a cycle of repeat testing using powerful, expensive client machines. Traditional web testing is ineffective for WebRTC applications and can cause an over-reliance on time and resource-heavy manual testing. And all of this data can be broken down further by probe (browser).
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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 4, 2024
In the fast-evolving world of finance, data security is of paramount importance. Financial institutions must ensure the protection of sensitive personal information, most commonly payment card data, to maintain, trust and meet various regulatory requirements. This is where a Common Controls Assessment (CCA) can play a pivotal role.
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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud
All Things Distributed
APRIL 11, 2018
In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate. How do you define access to common data stores? Getting Started.
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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.
All Things Distributed
MAY 24, 2011
I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%.
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U.S. Agencies Release Guidelines for DDoS Attacks
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aim to overwhelm a target's application or website, exhausting the system's resources and making the target inaccessible to legitimate users. malware insertion or data exfiltration—victims should stay on guard to other possible compromises throughout a DDoS response. Which is why some U.S.
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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World
Galido
APRIL 27, 2020
This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). Since containers are isolated packages , this means that they have everything the application needs to work well. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Availability.
Vendor-Side DevOps Practices Can Still Deliver Better Value While Client-Side Government Processes Catch Up
CTOvision
DECEMBER 11, 2015
With the private sector making the cultural and technological shift to better DevOps practices, it was only a matter of time before private providers to government clients began to probe how DevOps practices can positively impact application delivery for DoD (and other) clients. This is where container technologies help out.
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How can such a small file do so much damage?
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
This is natural in today’s world where data is more valuable than gold because every information is now in the virtual environment and there is nothing that black hat hackers will not do to obtain it. It is a lossless compression format, which means that the data is compressed without losing any quality. What is a Zip bomb?
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Migrating to VoIP
Spearline Testing
JANUARY 14, 2021
Many individuals utilize VoIP on a daily basis unbeknownst to themselves, for example in online gaming or through video calling applications. A network assessment should be undertaken to ensure that the network is robust enough to operate at existing levels with the addition of projected data and voice traffic needs.
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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT
CTOvision
JUNE 7, 2014
Your running shoe tracks your workouts, sending the data to a mobile app. These are examples of consumer-oriented sensors and devices, but that has occurred in parallel with business, professional, infrastructure, government and military applications. The underlying technology enabling IoT is Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 19, 2011
Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. It takes just minutes to get started and deploy your first application.
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Elastic Beanstalk a la Node - All Things Distributed
All Things Distributed
MARCH 11, 2013
well suited for their web applications. These developers typically use EC2 instances combined with one of our database services to create web services used for data retrievals or to create dynamic mobile interfaces. to help developers easily deploy and manage these web applications on AWS. along with Git.
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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 11, 2015
PaaS provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. Its unique power is associated with developing and deploying applications.
Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds
Fountainhead
MAY 18, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Auto Scaling is particularly well suited for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.
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Technology Short Take 88
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 14, 2017
Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.
Transforming Development with AWS
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 1, 2016
In the hands of builders, the impact of these services has been to completely transform the way applications are developed, debugged, and delivered to customers. Amazon X-Ray : A new service to analyze, visualize, and debug distributed applications, allowing builders to identify performance bottlenecks and errors.
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Linux Academy
MAY 15, 2019
Application streams. Inserting data. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate level has two new labs: Building a Serverless Application. Implementing an Auto Scaling Group and Application Load Balancer in AWS. Viewing and Sorting Data in MySQL. Red Hat Enterprise 8. Improved security.
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60 How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS?
Galido
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Technology advancements have made it necessary for retail stores to institute data security measures. As such, it is critical that the merchants comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards ( PCI DSS ) to protect the cardholder information using the Amazon Web Services as well as Amazon cloud.
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84 Where have all the good databases gone? : spf13.com
SPF13
JULY 13, 2011
The responsibility to maintain changes falls on the application and isnâ??t He Writes: Dynamic partitioning of data across large dynamic numbers of machines. the system dynamically load balances their data across the machines. Mongo automatically distributes data among shards and balances them dynamically.
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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Operating Systems/Applications. This checklist is described as a “senior engineer’s checklist,” but it seems to be pretty applicable to most technology jobs these days.
Expanding the Cloud ? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. Often an application consists of several different tasks to be performed in particular sequence driven by a set of dynamic conditions. Application developers must coordinate multiple distributed components to get the desired results.
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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 27, 2013
The demo shows how to deploy applications to a variety of different infrastructures, including the ability to look at costs (estimated) across those infrastructures. So what does this functionality give application owners? The demo includes various database options as well as auto-scaling options. Choice and visibility.
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67 Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
I think they were SQL, NoSQL, data warehousing, and something else. All you have to worry about it is the application that runs on the database. You can use ElastiCache as a primary data store, but it is more commonly used as a cache in front of other database offerings (managed or unmanaged). Where is FanDuel’s application now?
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 17, 2018
Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. For Stephen, it was data management. Nathaniel Avery shares a tip on saving some money by using the right servers on Azure.
Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Basically, they are looking to provide programmability to the network via their Application-Centric Infrastructure. Juniper – Data Center Core. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. I’m wondering if Cisco is fighting a losing battle with their ACI approach to SDN. The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors.
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Scott Lowe
JUNE 18, 2021
The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Hari Rana has a detailed discussion of security concerns regarding Flatpak (a packaging format for Linux applications). Operating Systems/Applications.
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The Mayhem for API Difference - A ZAP - Mayhem for API Scan Comparison
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
ZAP is an open-source web application security scanner that can be used by both those new to application security as well as professional penetration testers. Create a user in the application and get a bearer token: curl --location --request POST "[link]. header 'Content-Type: application/json'. Medium / Warning.
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40 The Mayhem for API Difference - A ZAP - API Scan Comparison
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
ZAP is an open-source web application security scanner that can be used by both those new to application security as well as professional penetration testers. Create a user in the application and get a bearer token: curl --location --request POST "[link]. header 'Content-Type: application/json'. Medium / Warning.
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Technology Short Take 101
Scott Lowe
JUNE 8, 2018
I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Handy tool!
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Scott Lowe
JUNE 21, 2019
David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Systango has this high-level overview of serverless application architecture along with some pros/cons, use cases, etc. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves. Good stuff!
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60 AIOps and our Robot Kubernetes Kops
Linux Academy
MARCH 28, 2019
A big reason is the proliferation of micro-services based applications in highly redundant and highly available cloud infrastructures. Add to that a desire for most enterprises to integrate cloud based workloads with legacy on-premises applications, and we have complex hybrid cloud deployments to deal with as the result.
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60 Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem
Scott Lowe
APRIL 3, 2013
After all, if I can use a controller—there are numerous open source and proprietary controllers out there—to gain programmatic access to controlling individual flows within my data center, why do I need VLANs? Please be sure to add vendor affiliations, where applicable. Or am I missing something?
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108 VDI is dying so what now?
Virtualized Greek
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Citrix is the king of VDI and has looked to diversify into server virtualization, cloud computing and other data center technologies such as load balancers. Vendors will gradually web enable their applications or come up with completely different application models that make the local desktop OS irrelevant.
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