Multicloud Traffic Management | Avi Vantage Platform

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

Avi Networks is proud to join VMworld 2016!

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

Reduce Risk with Software Load Balancers | Avi Networks

Swarna Podila
Posted on Jul 12, 2016 5:23:06 PM

If you take a look at the load balancer discussions on various online forums, you will notice that load balancers often result in outages. Ironic, isn’t it?

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Topics: Security, Software Load Balancer, Autoscaling, risk reduction

Multicloud Load Balancing | Application Delivery in the Cloud

Swarna Podila
Posted on Jun 30, 2016 8:28:24 AM

CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Deployment) is the success mantra for development teams. The need to accelerate the delivery of revenue-generating applications has resulted in application teams formalizing CI/CD practices and incorporating it into their app delivery mechanisms.

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Topics: Software Load Balancer, multicloud

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

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

Software Defined Networking | The Change Control Blast Radius

Geoffrey Slater
Posted on Apr 27, 2016 12:00:00 PM

A minor change control has been approved, impacting only a small section of the network. However, the change is performed on shared network infrastructure such as firewalls or load balancers. Now comes implementation time, which is the ideal time for application usage but miserable for operators that value their weekends or evenings. Preparation is everything, the appropriate IT staff is on hand to conduct the change and the right business validators set to ensure success. Nothing unusual here and then…BAM! Something goes wrong. The NOC is inundated with calls and management system is lighting up like a Christmas tree.

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Topics: Software Defined Networks, SDN, Software Load Balancer, change control

Application Load Balancing vs. Appliance Load Balancing

Chandra Sekar
Posted on Apr 6, 2016 4:55:42 PM

Humans are compulsive comparers. We have a natural propensity to view things in our day-to-day lives by setting them against each other. It helps us to choose the most desirable option, prevents us from getting ripped-off, or even fuels our drive to innovate and improve. Let me touch on that last benefit conferred by our urge to compare. Last week, my colleague Rob Duncan waxed eloquent about the characteristics of IT champions at many enterprises. These champions exemplify Gartner’s Mode 2 IT behaviors by innovating with new technologies and IT practices. They compare their status quo to choices that can position their organizations to better compete in their industries by compressing time-to-market, lowering costs, and improving their responsiveness to internal customers. So, we asked a few of our customer champions about comparisons that drove their decisions for application delivery and services and their choice of the Avi Vantage Platform. Across the board, a few common themes came up when they described how they were able to shift focus from the tactical, task-oriented handling of appliances to the much more strategic approach of managing applications.

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Topics: Load Balancing, Software Load Balancer, Application Centric

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?