Researchers show techniques for malware persistence on F5 and Citrix load balancers
Network World
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Tests show that deploying malware in a persistent manner on load balancer firmware is within reach of less sophisticated attackers
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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
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
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
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
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….
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.
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 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.
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
VMware adds more security for diverse cloud workloads
Network World
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
It will include VMware services such as Network Detection and Response, NSX Intelligence, advanced load balancing and Web Application Firewall.
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
Fine-Tuning Control Plane Access with Cluster API
Scott Lowe
MAY 12, 2022
When Cluster API creates a workload cluster, it also creates a load balancing solution to handle traffic to the workload cluster’s control plane. For flexibility, Cluster API provides a limited ability to customize this control plane load balancer. If you specify “internal” as the scheme, then the load balancer won’t get a public IP address and won’t be reachable via the Internet.
How to set up DHCP failover on Windows Server
Network World
AUGUST 18, 2022
For those working in Windows environments, there are currently two options for setting up redundant DHCP servers: a failover scenario with a main server paired with another in hot standby; and a load-balancing scenario in which two DHCP servers actively handle client requests. [
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.
Kubernetes Port Names and Terminating HTTPS Traffic on AWS
Scott Lowe
JUNE 21, 2021
I recently came across something that wasn’t immediately intuitive with regard to terminating HTTPS traffic on an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) when using Kubernetes on AWS. aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol : http. aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert : arn:aws:acm:{region}:{user id}:certificate/{id}. aws-load-balancer-ssl-ports : "https" spec : selector : app : echo-pod. aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol : http.
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.).
Aruba switch can cut the need for separate, single-function appliances
Network World
OCTOBER 19, 2021
But its most intriguing component is an integrated Elba programmable data processing unit (DPU) from Pensando that helps eliminate the need for separate appliances for security and load balancing, for example.
Technology Short Take 149
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 10, 2021
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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #149! I’ll have one more Technology Short Take in 2021, scheduled for three weeks from now (on the last day of the year!).
China Unicom transforms billing with massive cloud-native system for 5G
TM Forum
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
China Unicom sees four primary advantages to its new billing system: A cloud-native architecture enables elastic capacity expansion of applications and load balancing through combined scheduling and process optimization.
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.
U.S. Agencies Release Guidelines for DDoS Attacks
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aim to overwhelm a target's application or website, exhausting the system's resources and making the target inaccessible to legitimate users.
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.
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.
How to Write Your Own Mayhem for API Plugin
ForAllSecure
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Sometimes an API service has an exotic authentication protocol, or nonce values need to be carefully managed in the headers of requests, or you have to go through a load balancer with minute-by-minute expiring access tokens.
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.
Lift-and-shift: Why does it undermine BSS-on-cloud transformation?
TM Forum
JULY 9, 2021
Cloud migration should exploit some of the benefits that platform providers bring (example a data lake, ingestion, a load balancer, registry, service mesh, policy and security) while creating a single glass pane of observability across the workload deployed in multi-cloud environments.
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.
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.
Technology Short Take 143
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2021
Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Welcome to Technology Short Take #143! I have what I think is an interesting list of links to share with you this time around. Since taking my new job at Kong, I’ve been spending more time with Envoy, so you’ll see some Envoy-related content showing up in this Technology Short Take. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.
Lessons Learnt from Running a Container-Native Cloud
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
The cloud offers container-based services (load balancing, scheduled jobs, functions, etc.). This is a liveblog of the session titled “Lessons Learnt from Running a Container-Native Cloud,” led by Xu Wang. Wang is the CTO and co-founder of Hyper.sh, a company that has been working on leveraging hypervisor isolation for containers. This session claims to discuss some lessons learned from running a cloud leveraging this sort of technology.
Technology Short Take 151
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 21, 2022
Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Welcome to Technology Short Take #151, the first Technology Short Take of 2022. I hope everyone had a great holiday season and that 2022 is off to a wonderful start! I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories.
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.
Technology Short Take 153
Scott Lowe
APRIL 15, 2022
Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Welcome to Technology Short Take #153! My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. I’ve still been collecting links to share with you, though, and here’s the latest collection.
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.
Consuming Pre-Existing AWS Infrastructure with Cluster API
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
In the case of AWS, this includes VPCs, subnets, route tables, Internet gateways, NAT gateways, Elastic IPs, security groups, load balancers, and (of course) EC2 instances. Cluster API will take care of security groups, load balancers, and EC2 instances; these do not need to be created in advance. All the posts I’ve published so far about Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) assume that the underlying infrastructure needs to be created.
Technology Short Take 144
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 27, 2021
Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). Welcome to Technology Short Take #144! I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. I hope you find something useful! Networking.
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.
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