While you may associate web-scale networking with cloud giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, it’s not just an architecture for the large scale enterprises anymore. The industry has looked at data ...

The world has gone web-scale crazy, but what does web-scale mean when we apply the term to networking? Isn’t the network how we got the web in the first place? Unfortunately, many of today’s networks ...

With customers demanding access to goods and services where and when they want, and servers deluged with requests, concurrency and expectations of responsiveness, organizations of all types are ...

Go big or go home. That’s the rule for businesses today as they work to deliver more products and services more quickly on a variety of Web-based channels. Many cloud service providers are setting the ...

Recently, many vendors have championed hyperconverged architectures by arguing that Web-scale titans, like Google and Facebook, take similar approaches. This is incorrect. There may be commonalities ...

Some problems are good to have… but they’re still problems. A company that has web-scale problems is probably growing and innovating—but at a pace so rapid that the current infrastructure can’t keep ...

Once only seen within the headquarters of big tech corporations, web-scale IT infrastructure is now being used to maintain operations at scale, using the cloud. Data centres and infrastructures allow ...

But it isn’t all despondency in the world of application networking services. Web-scale computing principles, which have long been the forte of large cloud providers such as Google, Amazon, and ...

Gartner introduced the term web-scale IT in 2013. A year later, it predicted that by 2017 web-scale IT would be an architectural approach found operating in up to 50% of global enterprises. Large ...

A server used to host a website or Web content that uses low-power CPUs, such as Intel's Atom and VIA Technology's Nano processors. Rack-mounted Web-scale servers are designed to be power efficient ...