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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

The Honest Avi Networks and NGINX Comparison

avatar Chris Heggem
Posted on Sep 3, 2019 9:17:31 AM

Avi Networks was acquired by VMware in July 2019 and the Avi Vantage Platform is now known as NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB). But that hasn’t stopped people from talking about Avi Networks — especially competitor F5 Networks and their recent open-source acquisition NGINX. They have been known to spread misinformation when it comes to Avi Networks and NGINX comparisons of features and capabilities.
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Topics: load balancer, Application Delivery Controller, software-defined load balancing, software load balancing, Multi-cloud Load Balancing

Hardware Load Balancing | Financing Your Vendor's Technical Debt

avatar Josh Grose
Posted on May 3, 2017 10:11:30 AM

A CIO’s mantra for 2017: Relentlessly automate. Digitally transform.
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Topics: load balancer, Load Balancing, sales 101, vendor technical debt, enterprise selling

Got frAgility? IT Agility Solutions with Avi Networks

avatar Rob Duncan
Posted on Apr 19, 2017 9:00:00 AM

The drive for IT agility is everywhere; to the extent that the word of 2017 is “transformation.” Whatever you call it, I find it astounding how fast we are innovating. The adoption of “cloud-like” architectures and microservices is outpacing the impact of virtualization just a few years ago.
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Topics: load balancer, Load Balancing, fragility, agility

Load Balancer Survival Tips | Survive the Holiday Surge

avatar Swarna Podila
Posted on Jan 4, 2017 4:08:14 PM

As we look back at 2016 and the following stats, it is hard not to visualize the tremendous pressure presented to the online retailers and e-commerce vendors:
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Topics: load balancer, black friday, cyber monday, load balancer survival tips, holiday survival tips

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

Multicloud Traffic Management | Avi Vantage Platform

avatar Guru Chahal
Posted on Sep 28, 2016 6:15:23 AM

I am thrilled to share some exciting product updates with you today that our engineering team has been working on in close collaboration with some of our largest customers across financial services, technology and service provider verticals.
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Topics: load balancer, Load Balancing, Software Load Balancer, multicloud, Autoscaling, intelligent traffic management, cloudbursting, multicloud traffic management

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Load Balancing

avatar Ashish Shah
Posted on Sep 7, 2016 1:03:21 PM

Imagine this scenario. It is a Wednesday morning and as the network administrator responsible for servicing business applications, you are processing a series of support tickets that arrived in the past few hours and the previous day. One of the high severity items on your plate this morning is from an application team that has been debugging poor performance of a business critical application. They have received complaints from end users and the line-of-business manager is concerned about potential revenue impacts. The application team has been frantically looking at their logs and haven’t quite pinned down the problem. They now believe it is an issue with the network and want your help finding the source of the problem. By the time the problem has been escalated to you it is already late and they want answers immediately. And just to add to the problem complexity, the issue has been happening sporadically for the last couple of weeks. What do you do?
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Topics: load balancer, Analytics, Troubleshooting, Application Performance Monitoring, APM

Data Center Efficiency | Maximize Your Cloud 'Fleet' Efficiency

avatar Nathan McMahon
Posted on Aug 19, 2016 11:14:23 AM

Your load balancer is less than 8% utilized. I recently had the pleasure of listening to Kamal Muralidharan from Paypal give a talk at the Bay Area Mesos User Group covering the efficient use of containers. The phrase 'fleet efficiency' caught my attention. Buzzwords like devops, software-defined and others are often generic and translate into different interpretations. But fleet efficiency is straightforward and speaks to a tangible benefit. Quite simply, it means maximizing the utilizaton of your infrastructure, or fleet of servers, to reduce cost. This can mean physical servers or virtual servers running in a public cloud.
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Topics: cloud, load balancer, Data Center

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

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