Delivering Applications in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

Enterprises are facing networking challenges connecting to Azure from branch sites as applications increasingly migrate to the cloud. In this session, attendees will learn how enterprises can leverage VMware SD-WAN by VeloCoud to:

• Simplify branch connectivity via secure, overlay network to Azure workloads worldwide
• Be able to prioritize applications running in Azure to and from remote locations
• Assure application performance
• Achieve significant reduction in TCO

Windows Virtual Desktop has been all the rage, and for good reason–it’s Microsoft’s endorsement of virtual desktops running in the public cloud. Many companies are interested in moving but realize that for various reasons they can’t move their desktops overnight or that workloads are better placed in other locations. Fortunately, VMware Horizon Cloud supports the features of Windows Virtual Desktop and is a key platform of the VMware Horizon Service, which lets admins deploy desktops to any supported platform (on-premises, VMC on AWS, or Microsoft Azure) and manage them from a single pane of glass.

In this session, you’ll learn about how VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure supercharges the features of Windows Virtual Desktop, and how it can be a key piece in your hybrid desktop virtualization environment to support work from home and business continuity objectives, among other use cases.

See how VMware's integrated, cloud-native load balancer simplifies the delivery of Horizon cloud on Microsoft Azure. You will see how Avi's modern, distributed load balancers with central management speeds up deployments, simplifies operations, and reduces the cost of VDI deployments.

Also see how powerful analytics from the Avi platform give you network visibility and help you troubleshoot application performance and end user experience issues quickly without the need for TCP dumps or log exports.

Microsoft Azure is the public cloud environment preferred by many enterprises to deliver virtual desktops and apps. With Horizon Cloud, Avi Networks (now part of VMware) and Microsoft Azure, enterprises can set up infrastructure in just a few short hours and get scalable, turnkey VDI deployments to their remote employees.

In this webinar, see how the Avi Platform integrates with the Microsoft Azure cloud and Horizon Cloud to enable fast and efficient VDI services that can simplify your business continuity efforts.

Businesses setting up virtual desktops and apps for remote employees need enterprise-grade, elastic load balancing to ensure great end user experience. Procuring and deploying expensive, appliance-based load balancers is not an option for many companies.

Learn how Avi Networks (acquired by VMware) offers multi-cloud load balancing for Horizon VDI including:

• Distributed load balancing including GSLB, WAF, DNS, and IPAM with simple central management.
• Analytics and visibility to end user and application performance
• Deploy in just a few hours in any data center or public cloud
• Scales elastically and on-demand to support new users dynamically

The process of endless tickets to deploy an application is unsustainable. The largest banks, with hundreds of thousands of applications, have moved to a zero touch networking model. Deploy an app, and all the adjacent services, such as load balancing, application firewall, DNS and SSL cryptography are automatically instantiated. What does it take to make this happen? What impact will this have on your environment? In this session learn how the 3rd generation of application delivery enables self-service and automation to reduce time to market and operational costs.

With the need to deliver exceptional customer experience, the concept of the zero touch network has been gaining ground. While not a new idea, in 2020 the zero touch network is defined by most as being a network that ensures high availability, reliability and efficiency - automatically. Behind this is a management system that relies on many of the principles of software-defined networking and virtualization.

As 5G begins to be deployed around the globe, the requirements for network transformation has ramped up quickly and is having a significant impact on network operations.

Join this panel of networking experts as they share insights and lessons on how to navigate the new zero touch network and its demands on operations around capacity, latency, reliability and scalability.

Speakers:
Steve Brumer, Partner, BH IoT Group (Moderator)
Brandon Heller, CTO & Co-Founder, Forward Networks
Rama Darbha, Director, Consulting Services, Culumus
Nathan McMahon, Solutions Architect, Avi Networks

GSLB has been traditionally deployed across multi-site data centers for disaster recovery and faster app response time. Increasingly, GSLB is applied across on-prem data centers and public clouds to better serve geo-distributed users. However cloud load balancing is lacking in terms of enterprise-class GSLB support. With distributed containerized applications and microservices deployed in Kubernetes clusters, visibility and health monitoring becomes ever more critical.

In this webinar, learn how VMware Advanced Load Balancer:

- Support DR scenarios for both Active / Standby and Active / Active applications
- Provision centrally with automated discovery of applications across sites
- Perform non-disruptive migration / expansion / consolidation of data centers
- Address use cases: multi-cloud deployments, cloud bursting, and site failure handling / recovery

With the acquisition of Avi Networks, VMware entered the load balancing market with an enterprise-grade, multi-cloud load balancing platform. VMware Horizon customers can now deliver virtual desktops and apps in record time across multiple sites while simplifying their operations. VMware recently launched the integrated Avi Networks and Horizon solution to help enterprises accelerate VDI deployments, simplify troubleshooting, and deliver great end-user experiences across any cloud.

In this webinar, you learn to:

- Simplify your infrastructure and operations to deliver virtual desktops and apps
- Troubleshoot end-user experience issues with point and click simplicity
- Eliminate costly over-provisioning of load balancers and save costs for VDI deployments
- Deploy load balancing consistently for virtual desktops in any cloud environment

2019 was an eventful year for load balancing. Avi Networks was acquired by VMware, who entered the application delivery controller (ADC) market with a software load balancer, web application firewall and container ingress solution. NGINX was acquired by F5 Networks, hoping to tap into the developer communities. We continue to see the rise of multi-cloud and microservices as the leading drivers behind changes in modern load balancing solutions.

In this webinar, we explore three technology areas:

1. A new perspective on “service chain” – how it helps integrate adjacent technologies with APIs to form a self-service portal
2. Implications of HTTP3 on the future – why it is interesting to the load balancing industry in particular
3. An early prediction on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) – why it can enhance the security, scale and resiliency of the internet

Avi Networks, now part of VMware, has helped many enterprises speed up their migration to the public clouds including Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Learn why customers, especially those with a multi-cloud strategy, are choosing VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks) to drive end-to-end automation, simpler operations and deeper visibility for load balancing and web application firewall.

In this webinar, we will cover:

- An insight into modern software load balancer architecture
- A step-by-step guide to migrating applications to public clouds
- Best practices for automating enterprise-grade load balancing
- On-demand, elastic autoscaling of applications based on real-time analytics

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is becoming increasingly critical to ensure multi-site availability and fast app response for geo-distributed users. In a previous webinar, we talked about the importance of multi-cloud GSLB.

In this Avi Tech Corner episode, we present a step-by-step deep dive on how Avi Networks, now part of VMware, supports GSLB including:

- DNS / GSLB 101 and the object model for GSLB
- GSLB features in VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks)
- Use cases including active/active, active/standby deployments and failure handling

Upgrading load balancers has always been time-consuming. Maintenance windows need to be carefully planned weeks in advance to minimize impact to operations. What if you could schedule non-disruptive, per-tenant patches without requiring the entire load balancing fabric to upgrade?

In this webinar, we will talk about separate control and data plane updates, and pointed partial service engine (SE) upgrades / patches enabled by software-defined architectures. This is impossible with hardware appliances that have to upgrade as a whole.

The following use cases will be covered:
- Sandbox upgrades with functional validation prior to 100% rollout
- Partial upgrades on the SE group level without impacting others
- CI/CD pipeline with self-service and canary upgrades

Containers and microservices are the building blocks for modern cloud-native applications. More enterprises move from experimenting in dev test environments to deploying Kubernetes clusters in production.

Avi Networks, now part of VMware has helped companies like Deutsche Bank with an enterprise-grade load balancing solution including web application firewall (WAF) and global server load balancing (GSLB) capabilities in one platform. Container services should be provided in an infrastructure agnostic way regardless of the underlying Kubernetes environments.

In this Avi Tech Corner episode 12, you will learn about:

- Kubernetes native constructs across GKE, PKS, AKS, EKS, and more
- Advanced ingress gateway with L4-L7 features including WAF and GSLB
- Observability and metrics that help make automated decisions

Application availability is a critical function of load balancing but a pain to get it right. The reality is you don't get to test (or wish you don't have to activate) it too often. However, an HA system should deliver: faster failover with reasonable efficiency, autoscaling, session mirroring and self-healing resiliency. In this webinar, we re-introduce HA as an intertwined concept as well as some best practices - what if you can redesign HA with a modern load balancing platform?

Here are some of the HA requirements to consider:

- Architectural considerations for various HA options
- Moving away from expensive Active / Standby load balancing pairs to an elastic Active / Active load balancing fabric
- The importance to separate control plane and data plane HA- Four HA modes: legacy A/S, elastic A/A, elastic N+M, and elastic N+0

Applications built on microservices architecture have widely adopted container technology. To deploy container applications in production, application services such as load balancing, application security and analytics need to be modernized. Avi Networks integrates natively into Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) to help autoscale your applications in multi-cloud environments to meet growing demands.

Radical changes in security have dramatic impact on load balancing. SSL/TLS is changing so rapidly that enterprises are forced to do a forklift upgrade of their hardware load balancers. However, with VMware Advanced Load Balancer by Avi Networks, it’s as simple as a version update.

In this webinar, we catch you up the latest SSL facts.

- SSL termination can be done with only software. And it has better security, scalability, and lower cost. That’s how Facebook and Google do it. Let’s see how.
- RSA and Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) have different implications for perfect forward secrecy (PFS), HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 support. Let’s compare.
- SSL health score allows you to manage expiring certificates, automated certificate renewals, and notification alerts from a centralized control plane.

With the advent of automation, iRules have become an artifact of the past. Especially when the most commonly deployed F5 iRules such as HTTP redirects, content switching, or logging, require custom scripting. It can be a huge pain for an IT team to train staff on convoluted syntax and manual conversions. Avi eliminates most iRules (#iRulesNoMore) – basic or advanced – with native point-and-click functionalities.

Watch this webinar to learn:
- How over 75% of F5 iRules can be accommodated by native point-and-click features
- Top 10 iRules that can be migrated to native policies on the Advanced Load Balancer by Avi Networks
- How advanced and custom use cases are easily configured with Avi’s DataScript

The Microsoft Azure Cloud is the cloud platform of choice for many enterprises in their digital transformation journey. Migrating applications to the public cloud require strategic considerations for application networking services, like load balancing, visibility, and performance monitoring. Register for this webinar to learn how Avi’s Intent-Based Application Services Platform helps Adobe deliver its digital experiences on Azure.

Topics include:
- Confidently migrating applications to the cloud
- Best practices for application networking in the cloud
- How to elastically scale applications
- Ways to optimize deployments across hybrid clouds