CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

To comply with government regulations and/or internal security policies, organizations may find it necessary to secure sensitive data on-premises. It also requires hard drives to provide reliable long-term storage. Spreading the load in this manner reduces latency and eliminates bottlenecks.

Data 112

Data Artificial Intelligence Intel Data Center 112

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%. Contact Info.

IPv6 114

IPv6 Load Balancer Internet Applications 114

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. The next day, the Microsoft Security Response Center confirmed the vulnerability. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Teri Radichel uses some basketball analogies to explain why defensive (proactive) security strategies are more desirable than reactive security strategies. 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). A severity score of 9.9

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption?

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2015

We must approve and deploy in an environment with significant cultural, regulatory and security guardrails. Each cloud computing provider has “opinionated” ways of handling things such as load balancing, elastic scaling, service discovery, data access, and security to name just a few.

Devops 150

Devops Government Applications Load Balancer 150

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Technology advancements have made it necessary for retail stores to institute data security measures. As such, it is critical that the merchants comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards ( PCI DSS ) to protect the cardholder information using the Amazon Web Services as well as Amazon cloud. AWS PCI Compliance.

How To 84

How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. 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. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Humair Ahmed takes a closer look at some Cross-VC NSX security enhancements that landed in the recent NSX 6.3 Here’s a post by Ron Fuller on changing the IP address of NSX Manager.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Daniel Sagi of Aqua Security explains the mechanics behind a Pod escape using file system mounts. Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Teri Radichel uses some basketball analogies to explain why defensive (proactive) security strategies are more desirable than reactive security strategies. 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). A severity score of 9.9

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes. Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Chris Binnie walks you through the process of using user namespaces to help secure your Docker hosts and containers. Virtue Security has some articles on AWS penetration testing: one on S3 buckets and one that also covers IAM and EC2. If storage is your thing, have a look and see if this is something that makes sense for you.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Why is this in the networking section?

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Andrew Martin has a write-up with security recommendations for your Kubernetes clusters. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, sorry! Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product? storage enhancements. Servers/Hardware. It starts here. Technology Short Take #25.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. 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. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The AWS cloud provider for Kubernetes enables a couple of key integration points for Kubernetes running on AWS; namely, dynamic provisioning of Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes and dynamic provisioning/configuration of Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) for exposing Kubernetes Service objects.

Cloud 61

Cloud Storage Resources Policies 61

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

News is using a wide variety of AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, Direct Connect, Route 53, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS, WorkSpaces, Storage Gateway. Kinsella now takes a moment to define governance, particuarly in terms of controlling cost, security, and compliance. Elastic Load Balancing left unused.

Government 60

Government Cloud Agile Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. I haven’t tested it.). Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. From an unknown author, we have this security rant on Flatpak. Servers/Hardware. Useful nevertheless, though.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

ZIP files are often used to reduce the size of files for easier storage or transmission. Then, when there is not enough space for data storage, happens especially in a company that does not do data archiving , the systems become unstable and slow down at first and then completely crash.

Firewall 41

Firewall Applications Examples Load Balancer 41

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. This doesn’t make me feel very secure. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. It looks like there will be a follow-up to this article as well, so you may want to check back on Ajay’s site. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). More on Clair from TechCrunch here.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Phil Windley

AUGUST 3, 2017

Picos run on an engine that provides the support they need for Internet services, persistent storage, and identity. I envision a world where IoT device shadows in the form of picos run on a global, secure mesh of pico engines. The New Pico Engine. Over the past year, we've been rebuilding the pico engine.

Engineering 40

Engineering Load Balancer Internet Programming 40

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Given that SASE is an approach that addresses the challenges of delivering seamless and secure connectivity for decentralised work environments, and remote working has remained a key trend over the last few years, this growth is unsurprising.

Security 52

Security Load Balancer Network Applications 52

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This article listing 20 Linux server hardening tips contains some basic tips but is nevertheless a very good resource for someone looking for Linux security recommendations. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kubernetes cheat sheet?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Linux Academy

AUGUST 13, 2019

Domain 2: Security . Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts. Identify resources for security support . The basic security and compliance aspects of the AWS platform and the shared security model. IAM, Trusted Advisor – security, why it’s important, differences between users /groups/roles.

Cloud 16

Cloud Study Training Web Services 16

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Poonen shows a video with a few customer testimonials, and then introduces Jim Alkove, Corporate VP in charge of enterprise management and security for Windows at Microsoft.

Vmware 60

Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Dataconomy

JULY 26, 2023

Obtaining an API key ensures secure communication between the application and ChatGPT servers. Playground limitations: Temporary Storage: The ChatGPT Playground does not save conversations or sessions permanently. Ensuring data privacy and security is essential, especially when integrating ChatGPT with real user data.

Artificial Intelligence 68

Artificial Intelligence Applications How To Tools 68

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

NFV is intended to address the problem caused by having to route/direct traffic from various sources through physical appliances designed to provide services like content filtering, security, content delivery/acceleration, and load balancing. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Dataconomy

APRIL 28, 2023

Deploying the model to a device ensures that its runtime environment remains secure from external tampering. However, one potential disadvantage is that the device must have sufficient computing power and storage space to accommodate the model’s requirements.

Tools 77

Tools Open Source Architecture Applications 77

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.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100