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Use Application Delivery Technologies to Accelerate and Automate the Boring Tasks

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Playing a stringed musical instrument like a guitar means that the different strings need to be regularly adjusted to play the correct note. Guitar players tightened and loosened the strings to tune the guitar. The strings were tuned by ear, which meant that the person tuning the guitar had to know what sound each string […]

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Application Virtualization – Seeing the Forest Instead of Trees

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Virtualization of the application environment is on every business’ mind. Terms like hypervisors, virtual machines, and software defined [insert your own popular term here: networks|data centers|storage] are being thrown around the technology industry like hot potatoes. While IT organizations focus on virtualizing specific applications, they often forget to see how this component fits into the […]

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What is an Application Delivery Controller – Part II

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Application Delivery Basics One of the unfortunate effects of the continued evolution of the load balancer into today’s application delivery controller (ADC) is that it is often too easy to forget the basic problem for which load balancers were originally created—producing highly available, scalable, and predictable application services. We get too lost in the realm […] Continue reading What is an Application Delivery Controller – Part II→

What is an Application Delivery Controller – Part 1

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A Little History Application Delivery got its start in the form of network-based load balancing hardware. It is the essential foundation on which Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) operate. The second iteration of purpose-built load balancing (following application-based proprietary systems) materialized in the form of network-based appliances. These are the true founding fathers of today’s ADCs. […] Continue reading What is an Application Delivery Controller – Part 1→

Automation – Virtualizing the Human Factor

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Everyone is forgetting to virtualize the most important element within the IT environment – the humans. Virtualization through cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and software defined data centers (SDDC) is the latest craze with internet architectures. IT organizations are moving away from proprietary hardware towards common off the shelf (COTS) platforms that can perform a […]

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Henry Ford was Right – Automation is the Key

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Automobile manufacturers initially sold cars to wealthy families.  The automobiles were expensive and uncommon because the production of the vehicles was labor-intensive and took a long time to produce.  Henry Ford changed the way cars were built by moving from individual teams that required the time and expertise to build a car from start to […]

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Henry Ford was Right – Automation is the Key

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Automobile manufacturers initially sold cars to wealthy families.  The automobiles were expensive and uncommon because the production of the vehicles was labor-intensive and took a long time to produce.  Henry Ford changed the way cars were built by moving from individual teams that required the time and expertise to build a car from start to […]

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Sometimes Cloud Solutions Fall Short

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In retail marketing, companies often try to add value to a product with the addition of extra items that are discounted or free. In the words of one of the infomercial kings, Ron Popeil, ‘But wait, there’s more!’. While I may have been originally interested in a set of Ginsu knives, the bonus vegetable dicer […]

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My Load Balancer is a Swiss Army Knife

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I am a self-professed nerd or geek. I like technology and what it can do for me. I like to go to the electronics store looking for items that I need want. When comparing the different models and brands, I will tend to drift towards the higher-priced gadgets that have all of these great features […]

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