Achieving Multi-Datacenter High Availability with HAProxy ALOHA and GSLB

When it comes to modern infrastructure adoption, which organizations are ahead of the curve? How do they successfully support their infrastructure to build and operationalize cloud-native applications? What do their architectures and operations look like? And how do they maintain total visibility by using a large, complex open source stack? Join two long-time networking industry pros on June 18 to understand “The State of Infrastructure, Architecture & Operations to Support Cloud-Native Applications.” Co-founder and CEO of Kentik Avi Freedman, founder of Philly’s first ISP and former Chief Network Scientist at Akamai, will present alongside Kentik CTO Jonah Kowall, former Gartner Research VP and AppDynamics VP.

In the coming years, operators of digital infrastructure will be required to report (and reduce) their environmental footprint in a variety of ways, many of them burdensome, some apparently based on insufficient sectoral knowledge. In this webinar, we will outline the key steps that operators should take as they navigate a difficult and changing environment.

Last week I had a speech at a small workshop in Italy around hyper-convergence. It was a group of more than 20 end users, mid-to-large sized companies that were evaluating if hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) makes sense for their projects. In fact, only a few of them are already utilizing hyper-convergence, and some have special use cases for which solutions they have evaluated so far are too expensive or not flexible enough for their needs. Edge computing, for example, is pretty challenging for most HCI solutions. That was an interesting discussion and I’m trying to take advantage of it for the slide deck I’m preparing for a webinar I’ll host next week here on GigaOm: “Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Maximizing TCO and ROI” I’m focusing the presentation on a few aspects that I consider fundamental to choose the right HCI solution: One-size-fits-all does not exist when it comes to IT infrastructures. It is important to understand your real needs and proceed accordingly.

Industrial Automation is rapidly changing as Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) takes over the factory floor and industrial applications. The focus has consistently been on multi-protocol and real-time solutions for the operational technology layer, while the information technology layer is focused on cloud based solutions.