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 ...

Growth in cloud computing, network virtualization and openness have created a new web-scale dynamic that is significantly changing the evolution of today’s network architectures. To address this ...

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 ...

People often associate the term ‘web-­scale IT’ with the titans of the internet age like Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook. These companies were forced to engineer bespoke technologies from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In just the last few years several trends have impacted the way that applications are developed and deployed. Agile infrastructure options such as public clouds have empowered application teams to ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The web-scale effect that is transforming data centers and IT is now being applied to WAN networks so they can support applications that require expansive bandwidth, efficiency and ...

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 ...

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 ...