Protect and optimize application delivery across any business, in any location. Together, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software and Enterprise VA MAX from Loadbalancer.org provide high availability, scalability, and resilience.
By Kai Wai Leung, HPE Software Partner Enablement and Joshua Turnbull, Loadbalancer.org Head of Strategic Operations
A load balancer is commonly used to protect critical applications. It prevents downtime, data loss, or compromised data recovery that could impact the availability and performance of core services.
The load balancer sits between the user (otherwise known as a client server) and the backend servers, rerouting requests to make the most of the resources available. This ensures the enterprise application remains always-on, providing business continuity in the event of server overload or essential maintenance.
It achieves these outcomes by providing:
Redundancy. Load balancers are typically deployed as a clustered pair to ensure uptime.
Failover. Provide immediate failover by rerouting traffic away from failed or compromised servers to functional ones, ensuring a seamless experience for the end user.
Speed/latency. Intelligently distribute incoming network traffic amongst the available servers in a cluster, improving server response times, and minimizing latency by ensuring the more efficient utilization of resources.
These functionalities result in several benefits, including high availability, scalability, and resilience.
Delivering high availability, scalability, and resilience to HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is a data management software that provides customers with a simplified, consistent data plane that federates data across multiple sources, multiple formats (files, objects, tables, and streams), and across hybrid deployments. It is a single solution that spans edge-to-cloud deployments and combines most popular analytic data formats into a single data plane. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software simplifies data management with built-in security, data management and lineage and governance across hybrid data deployments.
See how HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software and load balancing can benefit a customer through this case study.
Customer challenges
The IT department at a commercial bank wanted to consolidate its multiple storage applications, and provide high availability, scalability, and resilience for its critical HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric based applications. An additional requirement for them was a load balancing partner with a wealth of specific storage experience.
Solution
Using two pairs of enterprise load balancers, and support from Loadbalancer.org, the bank was able to optimize its deployment of the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software S3 feature.
"Loadbalancer.org's flexible subscription and unrestricted licensing model gives us the ability to scale our Ezmeral S3 on-demand without any fear of cost creep." — Service Delivery Manager, Commercial Bank
Furthermore, due to the multisite nature of the business, two separate pairs of 100G load balancers were required for installation across its data centers, using the product’s in-built Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) functionality to provide multi-site failover for their disaster recovery data center.
Benefits
The bank was able to prevent downtime, optimize its deployment, and boost its HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software based applications with:
- High availability. Supporting uptime and an uninterrupted experience for the end users of HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software, avoiding application downtime.
- Scalability. Providing unrestricted bandwidth and throughput for the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software, allowing this bank to increase storage capacity to 5 PB.
- Resilience. More even traffic distribution to HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software nodes, and intelligent health checks, resulting in improved application performance.
A joint partnership for guaranteed business continuity
With the combined capabilities of HPE Ezmeral Software and Loadbalancer.org, enterprises are able to run highly reliable applications, increase customer success and scale as they grow. This can be accomplished either via standalone data center deployment or via deployment on HPE’s GreenLake as-a-service platform. The GreenLake platform allows end users to select exactly what is needed for their business demands and pay only for the service they are using. This model allows customers to accelerate with their core business functions without having to carry overheads for support solutions.
Read the case study for more details, and visit HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software.
Ka Wai Leung is part of the HPE Software Business Unit Partner Enablement team. He has extensive background in developing container solutions throughout his career at HPE.
Joshua Turnbull leads the Partnership Team at Loadbalancer.org with a focus on developing strategic alliances with key technology vendors globally.
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