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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #78!

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

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. A little comparison chart (at right) shows what an IT shop might have to do to accomplish a list of typical functions.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

Fountainhead

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. Big Data. (6).

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ? has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document. in the comparison, even though RHEV 3.1 Welcome to Technology Short Take #27! Networking.

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Liveblog: Resilient Routing and Discovery

Scott Lowe

Shopify also needed a way to route shops to the right data center, although this is something they haven’t rolled out yet (coming later this year, according to Eskilden). He shares a complex comparison matrix showing various solutions (Nginx, HAProxy, Vulcand, Finagle, etc.), but it ends up that Shopify settled on DNS.

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Liveblog: Resilient Routing and Discovery

Scott Lowe

Shopify also needed a way to route shops to the right data center, although this is something they haven’t rolled out yet (coming later this year, according to Eskilden). He shares a complex comparison matrix showing various solutions (Nginx, HAProxy, Vulcand, Finagle, etc.), but it ends up that Shopify settled on DNS.