If your website receives heavy traffic and you are hosted across multiple infrastructures across the world or you are using multiple CDNs, then you ought to use a DNS Load Balancer to reroute traffic for better performance. While there are some large companies who create their own DNS load balancing system, which is complex and tedious to implement and manage, some companies make life easier by opting for ready-made solutions such as those from Cedexis, Dyn, NSONE, Rage4, etc. Most of the above mentioned companies are backed by Anycast networks spread across global locations. While there are some differences between the feature sets offered by these companies and the number of POPs they own, it is very important to identify the one that works best for your business. How can you identify which DNS Load Balancing solution works for you? You may have already realized by... (more)

Network Device Management | @CloudExpo #BigData #SDN #IoT #M2M #API

Today, "network device management" means different things to different people, and the reality is that IT organizations do it, or at least do what they consider network device management to be, to vastly varying degrees, including some who do none at all (hopefully this isn't you). At least part of the reason network device management has become such an ambiguous thing is because what we consider to be a network device is constantly evolving. At one point, network devices were largely just routers and switches. Back then, even if one added end-user workstations into the mix, thi... (more)

Latency Beyond Throughput | @CloudExpo #DataCenter #Storage #SSD #SCM

Storage is moving to flash, and flash is getting faster, so people keep asking me why I keep talking about latency as if there is a problem.  Isn't faster flash going to just make everything faster?  Won't "the rising tide lift all boats"? Flash media as a storage media is indeed "faster" than the spinning hard-disks we've all been using for decades.  But when it is used to simulate a hard disk, as is the case with SSD products, there are software layers which prevent it from reaching its full potential.  That explanation always gets heads nodding, because it is obvious.  But wh... (more)

Data Backup and Business Continuity | @CloudExpo #DataCenter #Storage

The Distinction Between Data Backup and Business Continuity by Brandon Garcin Believe it or not, the first data backups were made on paper. Dating back as early as the 18th century, the "technology" was used in the form of paper tapes constructed from punch cards to control the functions of automated machinery such as textile looms. The concept of these cards was then further developed by IBM in the early days of data processing, where data input, storage and commands were captured using a series of hole punches. In 1956, IBM introduced the 350 disk storage unit - the first ever ha... (more)

The Future of Network Appliances | @CloudExpo #Cloud #NFV #IoT #SDN

We live in a hyper-connected, mobility-enabled world, one in which carriers must make drastic changes to how they do business if they are to survive and thrive in the future. Accordingly, great strides have been made over the last three years to prove the viability of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Many Proof of Concept (PoC) trials have proven that workloads can be migrated to virtual environments running on standard hardware, and there are even examples of carrier deployments using NFV. The next step is to determine how to make NFV work effectively so it will deliver ... (more)

Andi Mann @DevOpsSummit Chair | @AndiMann #DevOps #Microservices

Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann returns to DevOps Summit 2015 as Conference Chair The @DevOpsSummit at  Cloud Expo, will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. "DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the fantastic results DevOps delivers. So I am excited to help the great team at @DevOpsSummit and Cloud Expo tell the world how they can leverage this emerging d... (more)