Is your F5 BIG-IP LTM Better than a Software Load Balancer?

Swarna Podila
Posted on Jun 23, 2017 7:08:00 AM

Last week, my colleague Chris wrote about his "buyer's remorse" (not!). If you are an F5 BIP-IP LTM (or a Citrix NetScaler SDX or MPX) customer, I would like to get you thinking about software load balancers.

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Topics: Software Load Balancer, TCO, Elastic Scale

F5 vs. Avi Networks: 9 Reasons Why Hardware Is Better Than Software

Chris Heggem
Posted on Jun 14, 2017 9:34:01 AM

I originally joined Avi Networks because I believed they had a robust, software-defined application delivery solution. It could do everything F5’s physical load balancers could do… or so I thought. After one week on the job, I’ve realized that Avi Networks only cuts costs by up to 70% only because you aren’t paying for hardware—hardware that can do a lot of things that Avi Networks just can’t do.

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Topics: Software Defined Networks, Load Balancing, Software Load Balancer

The Hardware Tax

Ted Ranft
Posted on Jun 13, 2017 9:03:18 AM

Unlike other countries, all U.S. citizens residing out of the country are required to pay their normal Federal taxes back to the “mother-ship.” This became painfully clear during my two tours of duty living in the United Kingdom. To make matters worse, the U.S. tax year has a different timing cycle than the U.K. tax year. Because of the offset tax years (and my domicile alternating twice between London and New York) I have spent the last six years filing taxes in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Not fun or easy to deal with.

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Topics: Software Load Balancer, Elastic Scale, Hardware

Modern Applications and Infrastructure Require A Modern Connective Fabric

Chris Heggem
Posted on Jun 12, 2017 2:36:12 PM

Enterprises must undergo a digital transformation. It is not a matter of if, but when. And most IT organizations are choosing now as the time.

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Topics: Software Load Balancer, Service Fabric, Application Services, multicloud, Distributed Services Fabric, Elastic Application Services Fabric, Application Architectures, Hybrid Cloud

Software Load Balancer Advantages & 9 Reasons to Switch

Chandra Sekar
Posted on Jun 2, 2017 10:42:31 AM

Load balancers became popular about two decades ago with the dawn of the Internet age. With the goals of optimizing the performance of newly created websites and ensuring that end users had a responsive experience when visiting a site, the load balancer was an essential front end to web servers and applications. The load balancer plays the traffic cop, using different algorithms to optimize the distribution of traffic to backend servers.

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Topics: Software Load Balancer

Choosing a Software Load Balancer

Swarna Podila
Posted on May 31, 2017 9:04:00 AM

The way modern enterprises run their computing is changing at a rapid pace. With infrastructure choices and application architectures favoring flexibility above all else, legacy application delivery controllers (ADCs) are unable to keep up with the changing requirements.

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Topics: Software Load Balancer, software-defined load balancing, software load balancing

How is Load Balancing Different for Cloud-Native Application Architectures?

Swarna Podila
Posted on Mar 29, 2017 9:00:00 AM

We are thrilled to be included in the most recent IDC Innovators report for cloud-native application delivery controller (ADC) solutions.

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Topics: Software Load Balancer, Application Architectures, cloud native load balancing, software load balancing

Going from Rigid Hardware to Elastic Software Load Balancing

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

Agile Load Balancing with Cisco CSP and Avi Networks

Swarna Podila
Posted on Jan 5, 2017 10:36:00 AM

IT executives and network infrastructure leaders are looking at ways to automate and deliver applications faster, reduce costs, and provide elastic application services. According to Gartner, “Application-centric personnel are driving a return to lightweight, disaggregated load balancers, creating challenges and opportunities for I&O leaders.”

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is now reaching mainstream enterprises with the Cisco Cloud Services Platform (Cisco CSP) 2100. Cisco has partnered with Avi Networks to provide a turn-key solution for the rapid deployment of application services such as load balancing, analytics, and autoscaling on its elastic NFV platform. The joint solution ensures that administrators can efficiently roll out elastic, high-performance, load balancing and application monitoring capabilities.

Join Cisco and Avi Networks to learn how enterprises now have an opportunity to:

Replace their expensive appliance-based load balancer with an elastic, software load balancing solution
Achieve TCO savings of over 50%
Deliver a centrally managed, distributed load balancing fabric
Gain full visibility to all virtual services and pools with complete application analytics
Cisco ACE replacement before its upcoming end of support date

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Topics: NFV, Software Load Balancer, Cisco CSP, cisco ACE

SDxCentral Interview with Dan Warmenhoven

Chandra Sekar
Posted on Dec 21, 2016 11:20:00 AM

Dan Warmenhoven is the newest board member at Avi Networks. SDxCentral's Craig Matsumoto took this announcement as an opportunity to chat with Dan about the changing IT infrastructure and what the incumbents ought to do about it.