Barracuda Networks Launches 40G Load Balancer Appliance
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 12, 2015
Barracuda's new 40G load balancer appliance designed to offload network and security traffic from virtual machines. Read More.
Data Load Balancer Network Virtualization 
On Network Virtualization and SDN
Scott Lowe
APRIL 30, 2013
Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.
Virtualization 
134
134 Join 149,000+
Insiders
Sign Up for our Newsletter
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Trending Sources
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.
Software 194
194 
Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2017
Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. It allows organizations the flexibility to develop and implement applications without having to modify their applications or networks. specification, with the addition of NC-SI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) manageability.
Software 151
151 
Migrating to VoIP
Spearline Testing
JANUARY 14, 2021
This prominent evolution has been spurred largely by three factors - firstly, the increased use of cloud services and personnel who are more experienced and comfortable operating in a virtual arena. Organizations must also closely examine their existing network and its capabilities prior to the rollout of VoIP. Resultant issues.
VOIP 147
147 
Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?
Fountainhead
MARCH 25, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.
Applications 214
214 
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.
How To 84
84 
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). On top of that, the tool also allows users to automatically handle networking, storage, logs, alerting, and many other things related to containers. Traffic routing and load balancing.
Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem
Scott Lowe
APRIL 3, 2013
Clearly there are some real benefits to using OpenFlow in certain use cases (here’s one example ), but that doesn’t mean OpenFlow—especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, where OpenFlow is involved at every “hop” of the packet forwarding process throughout the network—is the right solution for all environments.
Load Balancer 108
108 
VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 27, 2013
Depending on network connectivity, I may or may not be able to update this post in real-time. Carl also revisits the three “imperatives” that Pat shared yesterday: Extending virtualization to all of it. Next they move into a discussion of the networking side of the house. (My IT management giving way to automation.
Vmware 67
67 
Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds
Fountainhead
MAY 18, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. While not new concepts, they illustrate how "real" cloud computing elasticity works, and challenge a few other virtualization & automation providers to do the same. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, May 18, 2009.
Load Balancer 100
100 
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. This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. Juniper – Data Center Core. F5 – Security/Load Balancing.
Vmware 78
78 
CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The session starts with Rodriguez giving a (thankfully) brief overview of Expedient and then getting into the evolution of networking with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).
Intel 109
109 
Technology Short Take #78
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. Networking. 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. Virtualization.
Vmware 60
60 Technology Short Take 141
Scott Lowe
JUNE 18, 2021
Networking. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Second, the content reflects—in my opinion—the changing nature of what it means to be a “networking professional.”
Vmware 60
60 
Vendor-Side DevOps Practices Can Still Deliver Better Value While Client-Side Government Processes Catch Up
CTOvision
DECEMBER 11, 2015
Each cloud computing provider has “opinionated” ways of handling things such as load balancing, elastic scaling, service discovery, data access, and security to name just a few. Additionally, how one would deploy their application into these environments can vary greatly. This is where container technologies help out.
Devops 150
150 
Technology Short Take #81
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. Networking. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.
Vmware 60
60 Technology Short Take 88
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 14, 2017
Networking. 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. Virtualization. Sorry about that! Christopher Davis has an article discussing a recommended VPC subnet configuration.
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. Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Virtualization.
Technology Short Take 103
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 17, 2018
Networking. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Virtualization. For Stephen, it was data management. Bet you haven’t seen that term used in a while!) on various technology areas.
Technology Short Take 115
Scott Lowe
JUNE 21, 2019
Networking. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. Michael Kashin has published a couple of posts on a project of his called NaaS (Network-as-a-Service). David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS.
Network 60
60 
Technology Short Take 119
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. Networking. Virtualization. Now, on to the content! Chip Zoller has a write-up on doing HTTPS ingress with Enterprise PKS. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific. Servers/Hardware.
VDI is dying so what now?
Virtualized Greek
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
” One of my more nerve striking posts and point of views is on the death of virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. 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. Virtualization VDI'
Vmware 84
84 What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019
Linux Academy
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Hadoop Quick Start — Hadoop has become a staple technology in the big data industry by enabling the storage and analysis of datasets so big that it would be otherwise impossible with traditional data systems. Big Data Essentials — Big Data Essentials is a comprehensive introduction to the world of big data.
Linux 80
80 AIOps and our Robot Kubernetes Kops
Linux Academy
MARCH 28, 2019
High speed low latency networks now allow us to add these nodes anywhere in a cloud infrastructure and configure them under existing load balancers. The Time series data gathered by these servers may be organized with a data taxonomy facilitated by relabeling rules on each of the targeted systems. Machine Learning.
Open Source 60
60 Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments
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. Fountainhead.
Analysis 147
147 Technology Short Take 106
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Networking. Envoy is a useful project with which to be familiar; it serves as the data plane for the Istio service mesh , and it is the data plane for Heptio’s Contour ingress controller (and, by extension, Heptio’s Gimbal multi-cluster routing solution ). Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.
Technology Short Take #56
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Networking. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Matt Oswalt also tackled the topic of network namespaces recently as well.
Vmware 60
60 
Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight
Fountainhead
JUNE 2, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.
Data Center 100
100 
Technology Short Take #58
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. Networking. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.
Vmware 60
60 Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
The Global Unicast Address (GUA), is a globally-unique address that allows IPv6-equipped workloads to communicate end-to-end without any network address translation (NAT). So how do IPv6 nodes communicate across the network? Halachmi now moves on to discussing how to access resources on an IPv6 network.
IPv6 60
60 
CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 3, 2011
Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….
Virtualization 100
100 
Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. Managed Data Becomes Latisys.
Cloud 189
189 
Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS
All Things Distributed
MARCH 26, 2018
Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. Each data center is highly reliable, and has redundant power, including UPS and generators. No two zones are allowed to share low-level core dependencies, such as power supply or a core network.
Load Balancer 132
132 
Technology Short Take 149
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Networking. Ivan tackles the topic of CI/CD and testing in network automation. Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Virtualization.
When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites.
Cloud 250
250 Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g.
Virtualization 157
157 Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 17, 2013
He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Networking.
Data Center 203
203 
IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. So how does this work?
Intel 61
61 
Evolving Strategies in Platform Operations: Harnessing Automation and DevOps for Enhanced Efficiency and Reliability
KineticData
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
At the core of Kinetic Data’s operations is a dynamic, versatile platform that underpins both our SaaS offerings and customer-managed deployments. For example, for an application that runs in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), we package the JVM into the container as well as the application.
Devops 59
59 
IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Microservers share some common characteristics, such as high integrated platforms (like integrated network) and being designed for high efficiency. He starts the discussion by talking about NFV and SDN, and how these efforts enable agile networks on standard high volume (SHV) servers (such as microservers).
See this before logging into ChatGPT; you will need it
Dataconomy
JULY 26, 2023
ChatGPT login options empower businesses to deploy AI-powered virtual assistants with ease ( Image credit ) What should you do now? Custom Applications: API access enables the development of custom applications, chatbots, virtual assistants, and more, delivering personalized experiences to users.
VMworld 2015 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). At this point, Poonen starts wrapping up.
Vmware 60
60 
Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 6, 2009
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. When a new server (physical or virtual) is created, much of this infrastructure also has to be provisioned to support it. That is, I/O is virtualized, networking is frequently converged (i.e. are virtualized as well. Fountainhead.
Load Balancer 100
100 
Let's personalize your content