All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

After years of optimizing traditional virtualization systems to the limit, we knew we had to make a dramatic change in the architecture if we were going to continue to increase performance and security for our customers.

Virtualization 206

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 206

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

To address this need, the integration of cloud computing and virtualization has emerged as a groundbreaking solution as these technologies boast scalability and flexibility, entirely transforming the operational landscape. Alongside the transition to the cloud, Enel embraced virtualization to maximize the utilization of its IT resources.

Virtualization 130

Virtualization Scalability Energy Cloud 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 227

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 227

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) stands out as a virtualization technology in the world of Linux. Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 124

DZone

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Virtualization has emerged as a crucial tool for businesses looking to manage their IT infrastructure with greater efficiency, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness in today’s rapidly changing digital environment. Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a top virtualization platform that enables companies to maximize the use of their hardware resources.

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Hardware Innovation Infrastructure 162

DZone

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization platform, plays a crucial role in cloud computing infrastructures, providing a scalable and secure virtualization foundation. Hyper-V: Enabling Cloud Virtualization Hyper-V serves as a fundamental component in cloud computing environments, enabling efficient and flexible virtualization of resources.

Cloud 162

Cloud Energy Virtualization Hardware 162

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Virtualization 101

Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

After years of optimizing traditional virtualization systems to the limit, we knew we had to make a dramatic change in the architecture if we were going to continue to increase performance and security for our customers.

Virtualization 83

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 83

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additional benefits of Dynatrace SaaS on Azure include: No infrastructure investment : Dynatrace manages the infrastructure for you, including automatic visibility, problem detection, and smart alerting across virtual networks, virtual infrastructure, and container orchestration.

Azure 324

Azure Availability Hardware Innovation 324

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 216

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 216

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. One important choice you will still have to make is what type and size of Azure virtual machine you want to use for your existing SQL Server workload.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 246

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 246

DZone

AUGUST 13, 2020

With the constant growth and expansion of the gaming industry worldwide, top leaders in this industry like AltSpaceVR and BigScreenVR, are accelerating a virtual future probably faster than many wait for. However, it is vital for the gaming companies to not only focus on future trends but also to identify the user’s needs.

Games 316

Games Testing Hardware Mobile 316

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 195

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 195

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware. Alternatively, in a CaaS model, businesses can directly access and manage containers on hardware. Instead, CaaS solutions are often divided into different classes: Individual VM containers.

Serverless 227

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 227

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors.

Open Source 351

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 351

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

Authorization and Access Control In RabbitMQ, authorization dictates the operations a user may execute on given virtual hosts. Virtual Hosts and Resource Permissions In RabbitMQ, virtual hosts craft distinct isolated environments that upgrade security and resource segregation by restricting inter-vhost communication.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

HammerDB

JULY 6, 2024

In a recent project comparing systems for MariaDB performance, a user had originally been using a tool called sysbench-tpcc to compare hardware platforms before migrating to HammerDB. This is a brief post to highlight the metrics to use to do the comparison using a separate hardware platform for illustration purposes.

C++ 52

C++ Hardware Benchmarking Virtualization 52

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 83

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 83

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. These technologies can answer questions, provide customer support, or even complete transactions.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace can help customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance for workloads operating on AWS Outposts, in AWS Regions, and on customer-owned hardware for a truly consistent hybrid experience.”. “We are delighted to welcome Dynatrace to the AWS Outposts Ready Program. What is AWS Outposts?

AWS 211

AWS Design Cloud Storage 211

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices. FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model.

Development 262

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 262

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

VoltDB

MAY 14, 2024

As a result, IT teams picked hardware somewhat blindly but with a strong bias towards oversizing for the sake of expanding the budget, leading to systems running at 10-15% of maximum capacity. Prototypes, experiments, and tests Development and testing historically involved end-of-life or ‘spare’ hardware. When is the cloud a bad idea?

Latency 52

Latency Availability Cloud Hardware 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 213

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 113

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 113

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This is a companion paper to the " persistent problem " piece that we looked at earlier this week, going a little deeper into the object pointer representation choices and the mapping of a virtual object space into physical address spaces. Both abstractions must be implemented in a way that is efficient using existing hardware.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. primarily virtual?—?and These are personal thoughts across a wide range of topics, I’m not speaking for my current or past employers in this post. and develop the ideas in this deck further.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The purpose of infrastructure as code is to enable developers or operations teams to automatically manage, monitor, and provision resources, rather than manually configure discrete hardware devices and operating systems. Infrastructure as code is sometimes referred to as programmable or software-defined infrastructure. Register now!

Infrastructure 184

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 184

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. While modern cloud systems simplify tasks — such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers — cloud environments can be surprisingly complex.

Cloud 189

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 189

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

The immediate (working) goal and requirements of HA architecture The more immediate (and “working” goal) of an HA architecture is to bring together a combination of extensions, tools, hardware, software, etc., No single-point-of-failure (SPOF) : This is both an exclusion and an inclusion for the architecture.

Architecture 102

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 102