{"id":27338,"date":"2017-01-27T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3992412"},"modified":"2017-01-27T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:45:00","slug":"application-delivery-controller-cloudexpo-sdn-vm-ai-virtualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/application-delivery-controller-cloudexpo-sdn-vm-ai-virtualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Delivery Controller | @CloudExpo #SDN #VM #AI #Virtualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Application Delivery got its start in the form of network-based load balancing hardware. It is the essential foundation on which Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) operate. The second iteration of purpose-built load balancing (following application-based proprietary systems) materialized in the form of network-based appliances. These are the true founding fathers of today\u2019s ADCs. Because these devices were application-neutral and resided outside of the application servers themselves, they could load balance using straightforward network techniques. In essence, these devices would present a \u201cvirtual server\u201d address to the outside world, and when users attempted to connect, they would forward the connection to the most appropriate real server doing bi-directional network address translation (NAT).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3992412\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application Delivery got its start in the form of network-based load balancing hardware. It is the essential foundation on which Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) operate. The second iteration of purpose-built load balancing (following application-based proprietary systems) materialized in the form of network-based appliances. These are the true founding fathers of today&rsquo;s ADCs. Because these devices were application-neutral and resided outside of the application servers themselves, they could load balance using straightforward network techniques. In essence, these devices would present a &ldquo;virtual server&rdquo; address to the outside world, and when users attempted to connect, they would forward the connection to the most appropriate real server doing bi-directional network address translation (NAT).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3992412\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27473,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27338\/revisions\/27473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}