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Archive for June, 2007
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Death of Layer 4 Load Balancing
Posted on June 29, 2007 | No CommentsThe 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 that it’s slow on their web site, ironically on a page called “fud“) and added... -
Keeping Up
Posted on June 27, 2007 | No CommentsFairly 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 has been kept up to date. The product or software or OS may be years... -
A Market By Any Other Name…
Posted on June 21, 2007 | No CommentsThe 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 the “budget market”. OK, so I didn’t invent them. And I wasn’t the first to... -
A Load Balancer By Any Other Name…
Posted on June 18, 2007 | 1 CommentRecently, 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 seemingly innocuous subject was actually the most impassioned discussion the mailing list has seen in... -
Anatomy of a Load Balancer Customer
Posted on June 14, 2007 | No CommentsThe 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 Typically, the people that interact with the products are networking-centric people (as opposed to server/application-centric).... -
Shark Fest
Posted on June 7, 2007 | No CommentsPlease 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 in that they’ve always been hyper-competitive. There have been several dustups even on the load...