Archive for June, 2007

  • The load balancing vendor Barracuda recently announced Layer 7 capabilities and SSL offloading/acceleration, and the open source vendor loadbalancer.org recently gave up their anti-Layer 7 stance (although they still state...

    Death of Layer 4 Load Balancing

    The load balancing vendor Barracuda recently announced Layer 7 capabilities and SSL offloading/acceleration, and the open source vendor loadbalancer.org recently gave up their anti-Layer 7 stance (although they still state...

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  • Fairly often in my work, I come across and environment that can only be called “crusty”.  Whether it’s a load balancer, server, or operating system, it’s not an environment that...

    Keeping Up

    Fairly often in my work, I come across and environment that can only be called “crusty”.  Whether it’s a load balancer, server, or operating system, it’s not an environment that...

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  • The great thing about inventing markets is that you get to name them. I’ve recently named the Enterprise (F5/Citrix) market the “Premium” market, and the SMB market (KEMP/Barracuda/Coyote Point) market...

    A Market By Any Other Name…

    The great thing about inventing markets is that you get to name them. I’ve recently named the Enterprise (F5/Citrix) market the “Premium” market, and the SMB market (KEMP/Barracuda/Coyote Point) market...

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  • Recently, I posed a question on the mailing list: What do you call these devices that balance load and possibly do all this other stuff? The reaction to such a...

    A Load Balancer By Any Other Name…

    Recently, I posed a question on the mailing list: What do you call these devices that balance load and possibly do all this other stuff? The reaction to such a...

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  • The profile of a customer in the budget value market and the profile of a customer in a premium market are substantially different in a number of ways. Premium Customer...

    Anatomy of a Load Balancer Customer

    The profile of a customer in the budget value market and the profile of a customer in a premium market are substantially different in a number of ways. Premium Customer...

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  • Please indulge a little bravado machismo here, but this picture is very applicable to today’s topic. (BTW, I’m the second diver from the left). The load balancing/application markets are interesting...

    Shark Fest

    Please indulge a little bravado machismo here, but this picture is very applicable to today’s topic. (BTW, I’m the second diver from the left). The load balancing/application markets are interesting...

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