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Tech Targets Network Innovation Award | Avi Works Smarter, Not Harder

avatar Edward Sharp
Posted on Jun 9, 2016 1:33:11 PM

In Innovators stand on the shoulders of giants I argued that innovation builds on the work of our predecessors.
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Topics: ADC, Software Load Balancer, Tech Target, Innovation Award

Avi Networks Aviator Program | Recognizing Web-Scale Experts

avatar Swarna Podila
Posted on May 11, 2016 8:00:00 AM

Avi Networks is excited to announce the launch of the Aviators Program!
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Topics: ADC, Load Balancing, community, experts, Aviators

Software Load Balancers and Cloud Environments | Avi Networks

Abhi Joglekar
Posted on Apr 5, 2016 6:30:00 AM

The Hardware Load Balancer Brick Wall Last month at Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) conference, Google lifted the covers off Maglev, their distributed network software load balancer (LB) [1]. Since 2008, Maglev has been handling traffic for core Google services like Search and Gmail. Not surprisingly, it's also the load balancer that powers Google Compute Engine and enables it to serve a million requests per sec without any cache pre-warming [2]. Impressive? Absolutely! If you have been following application delivery in the era of cloud, say over last 6 years, you would have noticed another significant announcement at Sigcomm ‘13 by the Microsoft Azure networking team. Azure runs critical services such as blob, table, and relational storage on Ananta [3], its home-grown cloud scale software load balancer on commodity x86, instead of running it on more traditional hardware load balancers. Both Google and Microsoft ran headlong into what can be best described as “the hardware LB brick wall”, albeit at different times and along different paths in their cloud evolution. For Google, it started circa 2008 when the traffic and flexibility needs for their exponentially growing services and applications went beyond the capability of hardware LBs. For Azure, it was circa 2011, when the exponential growth of their public cloud led to the realization that hardware LBs do not scale and forced them to build their own software variant. So, what is this “hardware LB brick wall” that these web-scale companies ran into?
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Topics: ADC, SDN, Closed-Loop Application Delivery, Architecture, SSL, Analytics, Application Delivery Controller, Microservices, metrics, Software Load Balancer

Application Delivery Beyond Load Balancing | Stay Away From Hardware

avatar Swarna Podila
Posted on Mar 4, 2016 11:07:46 AM

It’s been two weeks (since I joined Avi) or four Silicon Valley weeks! And if you imagine a proverbial “firehose”, I think it is safe to say Avi unleashes at least 10x more! So yes, these two weeks have been like a whirlwind for me.
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Topics: OpenStack, ADC, SDN, Avi Networks, Application Delivery Controller, Microservices

Microservices Applications | A Comprehensive Services Fabric

avatar Chandra Sekar
Posted on Feb 17, 2016 7:40:05 AM

Today Avi Networks announced a new solution to enable enterprises to deliver production-ready microservices applications. Microservices architecture it seems is the tech world’s answer to applications that are “too big to fail.” Business disruptions caused by application downtimes have driven enterprises to find ways to break large applications into bite-sized components that can be independently deployed and updated without causing major outages. Light-weight container based infrastructure (e.g. Docker) along with resource and cluster management solutions such as Mesos are a natural fit for microservices applications. Assembling production-ready microservices applications requires a combination of infrastructure services, the application components themselves, and a range of application services.
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Topics: ADC, Docker, Microservices, Mesos, Containers, Service Fabric, App Map

Myth Busters: Load Balancers Need Specialized Hardware

avatar Grant Swanson
Posted on Jan 6, 2016 12:35:12 PM

The Application Delivery Controller (ADC) market is very competitive, where every vendor claims that they have a performance advantage. Most IT Pros who need high performance ADCs and Load Balancers start by looking at specialized hardware appliances in order to meet their requirements. Then performance testing for L4-L7 throughput takes place and folks quickly realize that as more features are turned on, the performance quickly degrades. Forward-looking ADC buyers are now starting to look at software solutions that can run on commodity x86 hardware and that offer better performance at a fraction of the cost of specialized hardware.
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Topics: ADC, Architecture, Load Balancing

Anomaly Detection | Rewinding Network Events to Detect Anomalies

avatar John Huang
Posted on Dec 23, 2015 5:00:00 AM

My earlier blog entry on the idea of a Network DVR made me think of a conversation with a friend who remarked, “Why can't real life be like Tivo?” He wasn’t asking to rewind and relive his childhood again. Rather he was fantasizing about a magic machine that could look through his life and pick out the most interesting events and record them automatically. Facebook’s Timeline feature attempts to do this, but it’s still dependent on you manually adding all your life’s notable content to their website. Wouldn’t it be nice if such a machine exist?
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Topics: ADC, Network Anomalies, anomaly detection, DoS Attacks

Application Troubleshooting | 'Network DVR' from Avi Networks

avatar John Huang
Posted on Dec 7, 2015 9:25:50 AM

THAT DREADED TROUBLE TICKET: You get a call Thursday morning from the owner of a high value application in a line of business within your company. The call goes something like this: “Our department’s application was performing very sluggishly yesterday afternoon. End users were complaining about slow page loads and transactions that timed out while waiting for the shopping cart to complete. I think something is wrong with the network infrastructure – please find the problem and fix it ASAP before today's busy hour. Oh, by the way the problem isn’t happening right now.” How would you troubleshoot an intermittent problem like this that happened the previous day?
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Topics: ADC, Troubleshooting

Load Balancer Provisioning | The 30-Second Load Balancer

avatar Ashish Shah
Posted on Sep 24, 2015 5:00:00 AM

When talking to customers, we often hear the term, "Self-service provisioning." The reason is that enterprises want non-networking experts to have the ability to use an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) without having to rely on a network administrator. The goal of these enterprises is to drive application deployment as fast as possible. If you have to create tickets to get a load balancer configured, it severely impacts the efficiency of application development and deployment. We were at a large multinational bank a couple of weeks ago and were astonished to find out that it takes about 27 days on average from the time an application developer requests a load balancer instance to the time the IT team actually delivers it. Imagine an AWS-like experience where any app developer can: Create a load balancer instance in less than 30 seconds Eliminate your network tickets and deploy your applications faster Give developers access to these network resources instantly.
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Topics: ADC, Application Delivery Controller, Load Balancing

SSL Security | 5 Excuses for Weak SSL Security | Avi Networks

avatar Nathan McMahon
Posted on Feb 23, 2015 8:00:00 AM

The cold truth: You are rarely secure when you connect to an SSL encrypted web site. The browser shows a happy little lock icon, and you think nothing further on the subject. But recent revelations and exploits, such as NSA, nation states and others scooping up vast quantities of Internet data, courts ordering websites to give up their SSL keys, Heartbleed leaking session data, have proven that we need to revisit the level of security used by web sites.
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Topics: ADC, SSL, Security

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