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Goldilocks and the 3 Load Balancers

avatar Chris Heggem
Posted on Sep 4, 2019 1:25:43 PM

Once upon a time there was an enterprise application named Goldilocks. She decided to explore the local tech show.
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Topics: load balancer, ADC, Software Load Balancer, software-defined load balancing, software load balancing, Hardware, hardware load balancer vs software load balancer

WAKE UP CALL! It’s Time to Rethink Load Balancing

avatar Chris Heggem
Posted on Aug 2, 2017 9:50:04 AM

This message is as much for people who buy load balancers as it is for those who sell them.
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Topics: ADC, Load Balancing, Software Load Balancer, Elastic Load Balancing, Hardware

Elastic Load Balancing | The Transition from Hardware to Software

avatar Swarna Podila
Posted on Feb 23, 2017 7:57:00 AM

Your application owners expect network and performance issues to be quickly resolved so they can deliver their apps faster. Your networking team expects this perfectly elastic load balancer that can scale itself automatically to meet application traffic patterns. Your CIO wants to accomplish all of this, while lowering costs.
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Topics: ADC, Load Balancing, Software Load Balancer, Elastic Application Services Fabric

Optimizing App Server Performance | Scalability with Avi

avatar Swarna Podila
Posted on Feb 22, 2017 7:58:00 AM

Ranga Rajagopalan, CTO of Avi Networks, met with Executive Director, Richard Harris of the App Developer Magazine to discuss the importance of having healthy app server performance and elasticity for businesses online today.
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Topics: ADC, SSL, Load Balancing, Scalability

Steady Decline of Box Huggers | The Case for Virtual ADC

avatar Grant Swanson
Posted on Feb 16, 2017 1:54:23 PM

INTRODUCTION: We recently had our sales kickoff meeting here in the heart of Silicon Valley and we were very fortunate to have some incredible guest speakers. One of them was a former high-ranking executive of a large Silicon Valley software company. He was brilliant in his story-telling, talking about the early days at the firm and drawing parallels to our journey here at Avi Networks.
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Topics: VMware, ADC, multicloud, automation, networking

Application Routing Engine | The Speed and Flexibility of Avi

Abhi Joglekar
Posted on Dec 7, 2016 8:01:00 AM

In an earlier blog, “Avi Vantage: A Cloud-Scale Distributed Software Load Balancer For Everyone”, we had described the high-level architecture of the Avi Vantage platform. The platform consists of a clustered centralized Controller, a scale-out distributed Layer-7 Reverse Proxy data path called as Service Engine (SE), a Visibility/Analytics engine, a RESTful interface to the Controller that enables integration with external orchestration engines, and a fast and responsive HTML5 UI. It is designed ground up to be a modern cloud-scale Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that enables application deployment across any cloud - private, public, or hybrid.
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Topics: cloud, load balancer, ADC, application delivery, Application Delivery Controller, Load Balancing, Application Services, networking, HTTP, Routing, Lua, Scripts, Application Routing, Content-Based Routing, Content Routing

Network Operations | Simplify with Cisco ACI and Avi Networks

avatar Chandra Sekar
Posted on Nov 10, 2016 9:04:04 AM

This blog post originally appeared in Cisco's Data Center Blog site Software load balancers are making a big splash in recent times driven by developer-centric and application-led initiatives. Adding to this growing space of excitement is the up and coming Avi Networks (a Gartner Cool Vendor in Enterprise Networking 2016) which makes load balancers cool again!
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Topics: cisco, ADC, Software Defined Networks, Network Virtualization, SDN, SDDC, Software Load Balancer, Case Study

Avi Networks is proud to join VMworld 2016!

avatar Swarna Podila
Posted on Aug 24, 2016 7:56:03 AM

As a marketer, I always look forward to the event themes for tech conferences. The theme and the associated captions illustrate the host company’s vision.
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Topics: VMware, ADC, VMworld, Software Load Balancer, Autoscaling

Load Balancer Buyer's Guide | Evolve Your Application Strategies

avatar Chandra Sekar
Posted on Aug 18, 2016 10:00:00 AM

Enterprises are facing significant changes in the way that they need to think about application deployment. They are taking a critical look at choices for their computing infrastructure, application services, and tooling. Many enterprises are making changes up and down the networking stack to drive automation with API-driven capabilities that empower application developers. Specifically, new thinking is driving decisions about load balancers or application delivery controllers (ADCs). In a recent blog post, Andrew Lerner of Gartner says, “Application-centric personnel drive a return to lightweight, disaggregated load balancers, creating challenges and opportunities for I&O leaders.” You can read more about this in the Gartner’s research note (subscription required) on the topic.
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Topics: load balancer, ADC, buyers guide

Beyond Application Delivery as a Service | Go BADaaS™ with Avi

avatar Grant Swanson
Posted on Aug 12, 2016 10:30:00 AM

Webscale organizations such as Facebook, Google, and other large cloud vendors have modernized their infrastructure with open source software and commodity hardware. Bringing such a Webscale IT approach to mainstream enterprises was hard because they lacked the tools for such a transformation.
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Topics: ADC, Load Balancing, Application Services, Application Delivery Networking

  
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