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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. If the solution’s goal involves processing and storing data, the architect is constrained to place the pieces that will fulfill those tasks in the proper segments.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 95

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Welcome to Technology Short Take #81! Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Making hybrid cloud ubiquitous. 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.,

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate. In deploying a cloud computing model, organizations have many options. With flexible “pay-as-you-grow” models, cloud computing can evolve with the needs of your business.

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. Big Data. (6).

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps. Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps. Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Cloud Management. Cloud Application Management. By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 2013.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Latisys. Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys. Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys. “Hybrid” has replaced “cloud” as the hot buzzword, and from a customer perspective, there’s even more confusion around exactly what it means. .

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere? Welcome to Technology Short Take #56! I hope you find something useful here.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Now, on to the content! Networking. The recent release of CentOS 7.2 Why, yes, thanks.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). What is IOV?

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Big Data. (6). Cloud Computing. (55). Data Center efficiency. (1). A real-world cloud user shares his findings. Fountainhead.

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Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Dell Data Center 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ?

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The process is very similar to other demo’s I’ve seen from other Cloud Management vendors. The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. The second major area is storage automation.

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Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Automating how IT operates is the only way out -- hence the excitement over cloud computing, utility infrastructure, and the "everything-as-a-Service" movement. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. Fountainhead.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. In the event you’d like to use CoreOS with ECS, here are the instructions (accomplished easily via cloud-init).

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

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 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The day 2 keynote kicks off with another Cloud Academy presentation… After the video wraps up, Sanjay Poonen takes the stage. It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Applications are now truly distributed systems.

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches. Big Data. (6).

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Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Unlike many hosting and cloud startups that evolved to become focused solely on selling raw infrastructure, Blue Box subscribes to the belief that many businesses demand fully rounded solutions vs. raw infrastructure that they must assemble. In Q3 of 2013, Blue Box launched OpenStack On-Demand, a hosted, single tenant private cloud offering.

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Cloud Open Source Load Balancer Engineering 61