The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. Post tags: data-center optimization , dynamic load-balancing , high availability , IaaS , panacea , reduce time to market , reducing costs , scalability , server virtualization , virtual machines , virtual servers , Virtualization , VMs , VMware , workloads.

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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. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). Unique hardware filter tables for each adapter hosted IP address.

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CTOvision

MAY 9, 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. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). Unique hardware filter tables for each adapter hosted IP address.

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Chuck's Blog - EMC

JANUARY 21, 2014

Present newer concepts around software-defined storage (SDS) to a traditional storage group, and you’ll mostly get polite interest and head-nodding, rarely more.  As the network world has started to debate the merits of SDN (software-defined networking) as compared to the hardware-defined alternative, the storage world has started to do the same. While it’d be certainly convenient to have an authoritative definition of software-defined storage, no such luck. 

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

takes the stage to talk about software-defined infrastructure (SDI), which is the vision that Intel has been talking about this week. A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Networking Hardware IDF2014 Intel This is a liveblog for session DATS013, on microservers.

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. The isolation containers enable users to run their software consistently across environments, ?n As a result, this considerably simplifies and speeds up the software development and release process, bringing a faster time-to-market. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Traffic routing and load balancing.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day. 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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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

The software that powers todayâ??s s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses.

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Chuck's Blog - EMC

OCTOBER 9, 2014

  4) Infrastructure — move to a software-defined data center (SDDC) infrastructure, expand to hybrid cloud.   The first Federation Solution out of the gate is foundational: software-defined data center, or SDDC.  ViPR is used to provision the desired storage service level (independently of underlying hardware) and a separate workflow is used to provision the desired data protection (e.g.   The Power Of Software-Defined Networking.

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Chuck's Blog - EMC

OCTOBER 9, 2014

  4) Infrastructure — move to a software-defined data center (SDDC) infrastructure, expand to hybrid cloud.   The first Federation Solution out of the gate is foundational: software-defined data center, or SDDC.  ViPR is used to provision the desired storage service level (independently of underlying hardware) and a separate workflow is used to provision the desired data protection (e.g.   The Power Of Software-Defined Networking.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

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. Since they can be provisioned and configured by software means that they can now be automated using vCAC and vCD. The question is if IT has the ability to implement and support a physical data center let alone a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

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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.” Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl , providers of software and services to the restaurant industry, has leveraged Latisys for a hybrid solution that encompasses colocation, managed services, and cloud. The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. About DCK.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Welcome to Technology Short Take #115!

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. All assets fall under the command of the automation software controller. e.g. networking, load balancing, etc.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Andrés Martínez, a software engineer with Bitnami, shares a write-up on a serverless service mesh with kubeless and Istio. Welcome to Technology Short Take 95!

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

In these applications, multiple Web servers are needed to address a large load of user requests, which in turn depend on the business logic in a tier of application servers – and they, in turn, must access data in a tier of database servers. The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Industry Perspectives.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? I encourage you to read Keith’s full blog post, but I think the key point he makes is right here: How is this different from Software Defined Networking or SDN? Think about it: existing protocols like OSPF and BGP (which run in software ) manipulate the forwarding rules in the data plane—does that make them SDN, too? These are all software—does that make them SDN?

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain. However, to be clear, IOV is not a software layer as-is the hypervisor). This provides a ‘universal’ style of failover that doesn’t require clustering software.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. can all be simplified and accomplished via software as well. Software being either a virtual host, or a traditional native OS).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC.

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Perficient Financial Servies

AUGUST 9, 2018

Update the external firewall routing rules or the hardware load balancer settings to send SIP traffic for external access (usually port 443) and federation (usually port 5061) to the Skype for Business Server 2019 Edge Server, instead of the legacy Edge Server. Note: If you do not have a hardware load balancer, you need to update the DNS A record for federation to resolve to the new Skype for Business Server Access Edge server. Hello again!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

other than managing your software stack). 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. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. Also remember that with few moving (physical) parts, you also have to purchase few software tools and licenses.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. Normally the hardware space is pretty boring (in fact, I’ve been considering removing it from the Technology Short Take series), but HPE decided to shake things up recently with its Synergy servers and “composable architecture”. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. Converged Infrastructure and Software Virtualization. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Chuck's Blog - EMC

JANUARY 14, 2013

closely-coupled, low-latency scale-out architectures for linear scaling and load balancing. very mature intelligent algorithms to balance requirements against resources. Of course, everything has to be designed to be non-disruptive: hardware reconfigurations, logical reconfigurations, software updates -- no exclusions.  non-disruptive everything: hardware, software, configs, etc. software defined storage. Chucks Blog.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. 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. All Things Distributed.

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