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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

I’ll get to the definition of SDN in just a moment, but first let’s look at the definition of network virtualization. ” These definitions are, in my humble opinion, reasonably precise and accurate. .” ” These definitions are, in my humble opinion, reasonably precise and accurate.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. You’ll definitely want to be evaluating their leadership and their business plan.

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Five Things Your Startup Has to Do, Even After Your App Is Built

Galido

Unfortunately, that’s definitely not the case. Security is a big concern for mobile apps, and you’ll pay for firewalls, encryptions, and compliance,” according to BuildFire. Instead, you should build your app with load balancers and autoscalers. Not if you want your app to perform well! Security is a big deal.

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Great article, and definitely something to keep in mind. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear. Servers/Hardware.