Articles : Bethany Hendricks

Metsi Technologies joins a program for partners seeking to innovate by offering comprehensive solutions for today’s application delivery challenges

Rahi joins a program for partners seeking to innovate by offering comprehensive solutions for today’s application delivery challenges

Naveum joins Snapt as the first distributor, expanding the Snapt Partner Program into the DACH region of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Snapt is proud to announce that Jason Oehley has joined the Snapt team as VP of Channel and Alliances for the EMEA region. Jason is a technology strategist passionate about developing sustainable business models and leading teams to success.

Hardware is comforting. When you own a hardware application delivery controller (ADC), you know that you control it—the box, the NIC, the power supply, the whole deal. This control has been the primary attraction for spending seven figures to plunk a giant ADC in front of your entire application infrastructure. That said, the world has changed—and then it changed again.

Load balancing is a crucial practice for any organization that needs to prioritize scalability and performance. By efficiently distributing network and application traffic across multiple servers, load balancing helps ensure that you can continue providing services to customers while gracefully handling unexpected spikes inactivity.

Gartner, Forrester, and all the major analysts are tracking a huge increase in interest in multi-cloud. A growing number of CIOs, architects, and IT teams are either considering or rolling out multi-cloud architectures for key applications. This is understandable. No one wants to get locked into a single cloud. Multiple clouds may offer enterprises a better way to deliver applications closer to their customers and end users. Going multi-cloud, however, is a complex decision involving multiple trade-offs that every CIO should consider before launching down that path.

How To Stay Online, Scale-Up, And Keep Latency Down Launching a video game may be among the most challenging operational tasks today. Demand can be hard to predict. Launches are binary events that defy load testing. Setting up the right cloud infrastructure takes foresight and planning, and while over-provisioning wastes money, under-provisioning is probably even worse. Expect upset customers screaming at you on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit when a game starts glitching under the massive weight of millions of users. Here’s a quickstart guide to best practices for planning your cloud infrastructure to support a successful game launch.

Many of our customers are exploring the use of Kubernetes. Some are looking to use it as part of a multi-cloud strategy to reduce business risk. Others are looking at dividing monolithic apps into microservices and leveraging Kubernetes as a management and orchestration plane for all the separate services created from the decoupled application.