tony at lbdigest dot com.
I may even use your question as a post so that it may help others (anonymous, if you so choose).
Someone mentioned the Gartner magic quadrant on the mailing list, so I looked for the most recent load balancing/application delivery doohicky quadrant diagram, and here it is.
While this is a pretty good diagram of the premium market, I have a few disagreements with it. I think F5’s position is warranted, but Citrix deserves to [...]
In the beginning, there was but one load balancing/application delivery market, and it was good. A couple of years and one dot-com meltdown later and somehow, unknown to many, we have two very distinct load balancer markets.
The first market, the enterprise or “premium” market, is the one that most are familiar with. Dominated by the [...]
The terms “Server Load Balancing” and “Clustering” are both somewhat generic terms that have come to mean very specific things. Server Load Balancing refers to appliance-style network devices, and clustering is traditionally a software solution sitting on a server, both of which accomplish about the same thing. One term could be used to describe what [...]
One of the most common problems that afflict load balancing situations is the “same subnet” problem. This is when a client tries to browse a Virtual Service/VIP from the same subnet as the real servers. Lately, I’ve seen this come up on the mailing list. See here (and my response) [...]
