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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. If you’re not embracing automation in some form or fashion in your daily tasks, you’re not being as effective as you could be. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. What about virtualized load balancers? Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? If so, what is the relationship between them? Are these SDN too?

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

Fountainhead

It highlights, albeit in a stylized fashion, just how many point-products an average-sized IT department is using. Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units. General Purpose GPU programming.