InfoQ Articles

AUGUST 18, 2022

Compute elasticity, for instance, is reasonably allocated with virtual machines, containers, and orchestrators and managed with CI/CD pipelines. In this article, we show that cloud native network functions are an attempt to bring network applications into the cloud native world. By Wavell Watson.

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TechDirectArchive

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) offers a comprehensive desktop and application virtualization service hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. What is Azure Virtual Desktop? Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud-based service that provides virtual desktops and applications to users. Click Subscribe.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2023

eBPF, which stands for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter , is a lightweight virtual machine that can run sandboxed programs in a Linux kernel without modifying the kernel source code or installing any additional modules. When an application runs from the user space, it interacts with the kernel many, many times.

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Dataversity

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Process control practitioners frequently use virtual machines (VMs) when deploying and managing process automation applications. However, developments in operational technologies have created new and better ways to streamline management on cloud data centers.

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4sysops

JANUARY 16, 2025

of Parallels Desktop, allowing virtual machines that operate on x86_64 architecture, like Microsoft Windows, to function on Apples Arm-powered silicon. Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot Parallels has introduced an early technology preview in version 20.2

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Dataversity

AUGUST 13, 2021

Resources include storage capabilities, applications, or virtual machines. A public cloud is a computing facility that makes resources accessible by service providers for the community through the internet. Public cloud allows for scalability and sharing of resources that would be impossible for a single organization.

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Juniper

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By automating the provisioning and management of SR-IOV networks, this solution simplifies operations, reduces manual intervention, and accelerates time-to-market for new applications. SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) , enabling OpenShift applications to leverage secondary CNIs for high-performance virtual networking.

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Akins IT

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There are four unique aspects that make up Windows Virtual Desktop: Windows 10 multi-user operating system, which allows multiple concurrent users to use a single Azure virtual machine as a desktop. User profiles are handled independently of the virtual machine that serves as the users desktop.

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Apium Hub

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Azure Arc is a Microsoft deployment solution that allows organizations to expose their on-premise and multi-cloud resources to Azure, providing a centralized control plane for management Azure Arc supports Kubernetes, SQL Server, and virtual machine services on platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Snake.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Next generation SDN solution and is designed for data centers spine-leaf architecture for the policy-driven solution. Cisco ACI provides application agility and data center automation with simplified operations. Cisco ACI is an excellent SDN solution that most companies adopt.

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Juniper

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By automating the provisioning and management of SR-IOV networks, this solution simplifies operations, reduces manual intervention, and accelerates time-to-market for new applications. SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) , enabling OpenShift applications to leverage secondary CNIs for high-performance virtual networking.

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ByteByteGo

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unreliable Performance Due to Limited Infrastructure: Instagram initially operated on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using a small number of virtual machines. Tupperware : Facebook’s containerized deployment system for managing large-scale applications. The application first checks Memcached to retrieve this data.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Luckily for on-premises scenarios, a myriad of deployment options are available, such as the Confluent Platform which can be deployed on bare metal, virtual machines, containers, etc. Key characteristics of a fully managed service that you can trust for production and mission-critical applications.

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Heroku

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Containers and Kubernetes have done to the application layer what virtual machines did to servers and have spawned huge ecosystems and communities of their own focused on a new layer of app and infrastructure abstraction. The cloud is now the default. At the same time the technology landscape changed.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. This is a double-edged sword, as selecting the wrong instance type for intensive applications or workloads can lead to significant cost inefficiencies. What is cloud networking?

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Akins IT

MAY 22, 2023

Choose the right services: Azure offers a wide range of services that can be used to build your application. Leverage the Azure Marketplace: The Azure Marketplace is an online store that offers a wide range of pre-built solutions that can help you quickly build your application.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’ve written an event sourcing bank simulation in Clojure (a lisp build for Java virtual machines or JVMs) called open-bank-mark , which you are welcome to read about in my previous blog post explaining the story behind this open source example. The bank application. All messages use a String for the key and Avro for the value.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Multiple Management Apps Whistleblower One of the most frustrating and time-consuming situations in the day-to-day life of IT teams is jumping between oh so many management applications to understand what is happening, what needs attention, troubleshooting issues, policy configuration and even periodic auditing.

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Kentik

MARCH 6, 2019

As the complexity of microservice applications continues to grow, it’s becoming extremely difficult to track and manage interactions between services. Understanding the network footprint of applications and services is now essential for delivering fast and reliable services in cloud-native environments. What is a Service Mesh?

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Akins IT

MARCH 6, 2020

FortiMail is one of the more unique solutions that is available on a platform level as an Appliance, Virtual Machine, or as a SaaS Solution. FortiSandbox utilizes two machine learning models with static and dynamic analysis of suspicious objects. There is no requirements to implement and is available for all email platforms.

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DoorDash Engineering

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To standardize this, we introduced a simplified interface for application developers to use when setting up new caches, as shown in the following code snippet: interface CacheManager { /** * Wraps fallback in Cache. * Local cache : Visible to all workers within a single Java virtual machine; uses a Caffeine cache for heavy lifting.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The vCenter Server is the beating heart of a companys virtual infrastructure. Its the place where administrators go to manage virtual machines, networks, storage, and more.

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Akins IT

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

INFRASTRUCTURE Now that the licensing portion of WVD is covered, what remains, is the cost of the Azure infrastructure that will host our virtual desktops. Compute costs are made up of the Virtual machine size based on CPU and Memory specifications. Data costs are comprised of the storage for users profile containers.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 3, 2024

Introduction to Azure Load Balancer Load balancers enable scaling and high availability for applications and services. The internal load balancer is assigned a private IP address from the virtual network's subnet range for the frontend and targets the private IP addresses of backend services (often Azure virtual machines).

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NW Kings

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Google Cloud GCP is a suite of cloud services that allows businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications using Google infrastructure. The components of GCP are as follows- Compute Engine Compute Engine provides scalable virtual machines (VMs) for running applications on the cloud. What is Google Cloud GCP?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Users, sensitive data, applications and access requirements will be everywhere. The new center of secure access networking design is the identity of the user, device, IoT/OT systems and edge computing locations and their needs for secure access services to cloud-based services directly including an enterprises applications running in IaaS.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 13, 2023

A converged architecture, on the other hand, simplifies deployments with a single management application for configuration and a single policy for all customer sites. This makes the deployment less complex, allowing quick and easy implementation.

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Akins IT

JUNE 29, 2022

In late 2019, the city began virtualizing Microsoft 365 and other software as a service (SaaS) applications with Azure Virtual Desktop. Kyle Edgeworth, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the City of Corona, says the original goal had been to provide only virtual applications. No hardware available? No problem.

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DoorDash Engineering

JANUARY 30, 2024

High availability : With its replication strategy and decentralized nature, Cassandra guarantees high availability, making it a reliable choice for critical applications. Flexibility : Cassandra supports a flexible schema design, which is a boon for applications with evolving data structures.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, when asked how they react to performance issues with cloud applications, reactions of SASE and non-SASE users were similar. Slow application response received the same 50% from both SASE and non-SASE users. Be aware of vendors that take an appliance, convert it to a virtual machine, host it in the cloud and call it SASE.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

The need for 5 Gbps is happening on the most intensive, heavily used network connections within the enterprise, such as connections to data centers, between clouds in multi-cloud deployments, or to clouds housing shared applications, databases, and data stores in hybrid clouds.

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Kentik

JANUARY 3, 2017

In this context, being cloud-friendly involves two things: The ability to monitor cloud-based infrastructure and the distribution application components and services that are running in virtual machines and containers across hybrid clouds.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Instead of having their choice of hardware constrained by lack of interoperability, they are now finding constraints in the virtual world as their choice of software is being stifled through lack of accessible, certified information. Cost/Benefit Rationale Unclear Are the economies of scale an illusion? What a headache.

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Dataversity

AUGUST 23, 2021

To achieve the full potential of your application and of the blockchain technology, and to benefit from the digital transformation it can bring to enterprises, you should concentrate on and invest in the proper infrastructure to support it. Click to learn more about author Andreea Jakab. Let’s go into […].

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

There is less demand for MPLS-to-the-datacenter and more demand for accelerating and securing traffic to internet destinations, such as cloud infrastructure and public cloud applications. SD-WAN offers a good way for carriers to augment their MPLS services. Each must have its own redundancy scheme built per customer. What a headache.

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CATO Networks

JULY 27, 2020

Writes Gartner, Avoid vendorsthat propose to deliver the broad set of services bylinking a large number of products via virtual machine service chaining. Writes Gartner, True SASE services are cloud-native dynamically scalable, globally accessible, typically microservices-based and multitenant.

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How Funky

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In summary, from the documentation site: NetBox is an open source web application designed to help manage and document computer networks. If you havent heard of NetBox, you can check it out the GitHub repository at [link] and the documentation at [link] for a more in depth understanding.

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