20 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. Technology
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Google Strengthens Compute Engine With Load Balancing
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 9, 2013
On Wednesday Google announced numerous enhancements to its Cloud Platform, the addition of layer 3 load balancing to Compute Engine, which delivers Google-scale throughput and fault tolerance to manage Internet applications. Cloud Computing Google
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Outlook outage: Microsoft blames European Hotmail downtime on load-balancing fault
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Microsoft claims connectivity issues that blighted Outlook and Hotmail users for much of Monday 18 September have now been largely resolved
Step-by-Step: Load balancing workloads in Azure
CanITPro
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Step-By-Step Azure load-Balancing Pierre Roman Hello folks, The last few weeks I have been meeting with customers in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary. There was one common theme. When we discussed moving workloads to IaaS (Web front ends with SQL back ends) the conversation always came back to scaling.( read more ).
Google Open Sources Data Center Load Balancing Software
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Company developed Seesaw internally because no adequate solution was available Read More. Shared
Using Nginx as a Load Balancer
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
The following configuration demonstrates how to properly use nginx as a load balancer in front of two web servers. Nginx is a relatively new web server that has a light footprint and relatively easy configuration.
Edgenexus Provides Easy-To-Use Load Balancing for Nutanix
Nutanix
JUNE 11, 2020
Load balancers and Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) have always been dogged by unnecessary complexity. This hidden barrier typically means only a fraction of possible features make it into an organization’s production environment
Step-by-Step: Managing Traffic for Workloads in Azure
CanITPro
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
Hello Folks, Last week I wrote about load balancing workloads in Azure. Step-By-Step Azure Traffic Manager load-Balancing That generated some other questions, such as “How do I ensure that my stakeholders connect to the closest instance in my web farm?”, ”, “How do I ensure the best.( read more ).
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
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. Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But….
Facebook???s New Cluster Management Software Cuts Power Consumption
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 8, 2014
Data center team finds way to do load balancing with energy efficiency in mind. Read More. Blades Facebook Featured Power
How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
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. Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Ten Ways to Make Your Cloud More Efficient
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 24, 2014
From WANOP and load balancing to automation and orchestration, there are many ways to make your cloud environment more efficient Read More. Cloud Computing Featured cloud
How to install and setup HAProxy on Ubuntu 16.04
Tech Republic Data Center
APRIL 25, 2017
Looking to load balance your web servers? Here's how to do it with the help of HAProxy on Ubuntu Server 16.04.
Which Data Center Skills are in Demand Today
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Latest State of the Data Center Industry survey results show hunger for automation and cloud, DCIM, load balancing, and more Read More. Data Center World Staffing cloud data center
Another Layer of Defense Against Cyber Attacks
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 30, 2015
Once seen only as a tool for load balancing, application delivery controllers (ADCs) are now used as the final line of defense should a malicious attack penetrate the data center's perimeter. Read More. Industry Perspectives
Akanda Releases Orchestration Software for OpenStack Networks
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 14, 2015
The company’s orchestration software is designed to function as the centralized management layer for all OpenStack-related networking decisions, including managing routing, load balancing, firewall and more Read More. Networking
Software Defined Power in Virtualized Application Environments
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 2, 2014
Software Defined Power requires creating a layer of abstraction that isolates the application from local power dependencies and maximizes application uptime, by leveraging existing failover, virtualization and load-balancing capabilities, writes Clemens Pfeiffer of Power Assure.
Edgenexus Partners With Nutanix
Nutanix
JUNE 19, 2020
We are delighted to announce our partnership with Nutanix and the certification of our Edgenexus Load balancer/ADC on the Nutanix AHV platform
Converting Kubernetes to an HA Control Plane
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 12, 2019
With those assumptions and that caveat in mind, the high-level overview of the process looks like this: Create a load balancer for the control plane. Create a Load Balancer for the Control Plane. The first step is to create a load balancer for the control plane (a load balancer is required when using multiple control plane nodes). As I mentioned earlier, the use of a DNS CNAME for the control plane load balancer is recommended.).
The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Call for Participation
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Caching, load balancing, optimization. By Bob Gourley. Friends at O’Reilly Media have just alerted me to a call for participation in the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, which will be held 17-19 March in Boston MA (see: [link] ). More info is below: The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Call for Participation.
Step-By-Step: Enabling A Secondary AD FS 3.0 Server in Azure for Office365 Single Sign-On
CanITPro
OCTOBER 15, 2014
The process itself can be repeated on one or many more servers depending on user base load balanced against the number of.( Now that the first AD FS server is setup and federated with Office365, additional servers can be introduced into the AD FS farm. read more ). Step-By-Step Azure Office 365 Active Directory MVP how-to
18 Steps for End-to-End IaaS Provisioning in the Cloud with Azure Resource Manager (ARM), PowerShell and Desired State Configuration (DSC)
IT Pros Rock!
JULY 7, 2015
as of this article’s publication date, to perform end-to-end provisioning of a common IaaS VM scenario: load-balanced web applications. Support for provisioning and managing Azure IaaS virtual machine environments via Azure Resource Manager (ARM) was recently launched as a Generally Available (GA) feature!
Understand 3 Key Types of Machine Learning
CEB IT
MARCH 17, 2020
Example use cases for reinforcement learning include: Load balancing, for example, by teaching the algorithm to minimize the number of jobs waiting based on available compute resources. From fraud detection to image recognition to self-driving cars, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize entire industries. Together, ML and AI change the way we interact with data and use it to enable digital growth.
Step-by-Step: Automated Provisioning for Linux in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure, XPlat CLI, JSON and Node.js ( Part 2 )
IT Pros Rock!
DECEMBER 1, 2014
In this article, we'll leverage these tools for automatically provisioning an end-to-end highly available Linux server farm environment, including storage, networking, load-balancing, virtual machines and application workloads.
FireMon, Breaking into Australian and New Zealand Markets
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2016
We don’t make the firewall, we don’t make the F5 load balancer, we don’t make the Cisco router, but we make them better,” DeBell said. Katie Kennedy. FireMon has made their way into Australian and New Zealand markets by extending its global partnership with Westcon Group.
Build Your Private Cloud Foundation - Networking with Windows.
IT Pros Rock!
APRIL 4, 2013
Load balancing modes: Address hash or Hyper-V port hash? When implementing a NIC team for datacenter networks, you will generally see the best load balancing and overall performance by configuring your team with: Teaming mode: Use Static or Dynamic ( LACP ) network teaming modes with intelligent core switches that provide support for teaming. Load balancing mode: Use Address hashing for network load balancing mode to gain the best level of bidirectional load balancing.
Why R2? Your Next SAN with SMB 3.02 Scale-out File Servers
IT Pros Rock!
OCTOBER 31, 2013
With the tuning and load-balancing improvements made in Windows Server 2012 R2, we’re seeing performance results that are not only comparable to traditional SANs, but can now also achieve increased performance over traditional SANs, particularly when leveraging higher-speed 40Gbs Ethernet and 56Gbps Infiniband network interfaces. S TORAGE!
Solutions for Cybersecurity Defense – What’s effective?
Doctor Chaos
JUNE 15, 2020
In an architecture where products share telemetry among themselves, you get a view of the end-to-end topology including network switches, access points, web application firewalls, load balancers, endpoints and other devices across the network for a further drill down for status and statistics.
Accelerating DevOps with the Cloud using Microsoft Azure and Friends: The Series
IT Pros Rock!
JUNE 26, 2014
After watching this episode, be sure to step through these related Step-by-Step guides to explore further in your own cloud: STEP-BY-STEP: Configure a Load-Balanced Set. STEP-BY-STEP: Implementing Internal Load Balancing in Microsoft Azure. UPDATE! Today's article in this series is. WATCH: Scaling and Auto-scaling Cloud Applications – Up or Out?
Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS
All Things Distributed
MARCH 26, 2018
By using zones, and failover mechanisms such as Elastic IP addresses and Elastic Load Balancing, you can provision your infrastructure with redundancy in mind. The calls used to launch and manage EC2 instances, fail over an RDS instance, or handle the health of instances behind a load balancer, all work within one zone. At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries.
New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.
All Things Distributed
MAY 24, 2011
I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing integration. Elastic Load Balancing support for IPV6.
VMware or Microsoft? Automated Server Workload Balancing for Heterogeneous Private Clouds
IT Pros Rock!
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
includes automated server workload balancing in the vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise+ premium suites via two feature sets: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM). DRS and DPM together are intended to provide an automated method for balancing compute capacity and reducing energy consumption in a highly virtualized datacenter. Automated VM Load Balancing. VMware vSphere 5.x
End-to-End IaaS Workload Provisioning in the Cloud with Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC ( Part 2 )
IT Pros Rock!
OCTOBER 30, 2014
The end goal of this effort is to provide accelerated "push-button" delivery of highly available, load-balanced cloud applications. In Part 1 of this series, I provided an example of leveraging Azure Automation runbooks and PowerShell Workflows in a concerted approach to fully automate all aspects of deploying new load-balanced VM's on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World
Galido
APRIL 27, 2020
This helps them react to unexpected website traffic load with no problem. Traffic routing and load balancing. Kubernetes also comes with built-in load balancers to distribute the load across multiple pods. Information Technology Blog - - Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World - Information Technology Blog. Kubernetes — an orchestration tool like no other in the world!
Step-by-Step: Enable Network Monitoring in Azure.
CanITPro
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Hello folks, When building network infrastructures in the cloud live VNets, ExpressRoute, Application Gateways, Load balancers, and more… You need tools and processes to monitor and troubleshoot any issues that may arise. Go ahead, load it up! Hello folks, When building network infrastructures in the cloud live VNets, ExpressRoute, Application Gateways, Load balancers, and more… You need tools and processes to monitor and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.
Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 16, 2017
Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks. Marty Meehan.
Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud
All Things Distributed
APRIL 11, 2018
With Fargate, you don't need to stand up a control plane, choose the right instance type, or configure all the other components of your application stack like networking, scaling, service discovery, load balancing, security groups, permissions, or secrets management. Fargate has native integrations to Amazon VPC, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, IAM roles, and Secrets Management.
Azure Training Courses | New January Releases
Linux Academy
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Create a Load Balanced VM Scale Set in Azure. When Microsoft announced all-new Azure certification exams last September, we added four new Training Architects focused on preparing our students. When Microsoft incorporated live environments into those exams, we gave our students instant, hands-on labs to help them get ready.
VMworld 2013 – Network Virtualization: Moving Beyond the Obvious (My Notes)
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 27, 2013
The Second are is the higher level layers such as load balancing. F5 for example has announced a load balancing solution that support VXLAN for load balancing hosts connected to a physical port with a virtual host connected to the virtual network. Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). Martin started out pretty well, talking about the value proposition of NSX. I asked the question earlier how does NSX bring value to the enterprise.
Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2017
Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks. Marty Meehan. Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency.
Top 10 Most Popular Hands-On Labs
Linux Academy
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Setting Up an Application Load Balancer with an Auto Scaling Group and Route 53 in AWS. In this hands-on lab, you will set up an Application Load Balancer with an Auto Scaling group and Route 53 to make our website highly available to all of our users. First, you will create and configure an Application Load Balancer. Creating a Secure Web Application from Scratch with a Bastion Host, NAT Gateway and Application Load Balancer in AWS.
Technology Short Take 123
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 17, 2020
Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Welcome to Technology Short Take #123, the first of 2020! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! Networking.
Creating an AWS ELB using Pulumi and Go
Scott Lowe
JULY 29, 2020
You can probably infer from the code above that this example creates an ELB that listens on TCP port 6443 and forwards to instances on TCP 6443 (and is therefore most likely a load balancer for the control plane of a Kubernetes cluster). In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a kick with Pulumi and Go recently. There are two reasons for this.
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