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).
It’s fascinating what a difference focus makes in terms of market penetration.
Take, for instance, the companies that used to have great focus, but lost it.
Cisco (ArrowPoint, now CSS, LocalDirector)
Foundry Networks
Radware
Nortel (Alteon)
Sun (yup, they’ve got a load balancer)
I would even say NetScaler may be on the cusp of losing their focus. In the financials market [...]
Lori Mac Vittie over at The Application Delivery Network forwarded me this tidbit about Barracuda buying NetContinuum. Barracuda has a very lucrative SPAM business, and they’ve recently embarked upon the value market for load balancing. This certainly would move them up the chain. But will they try to price up everything, or [...]
Occasionally, I’ll find myself in a defensive position with regards to cookie persistence implementation. Some question it’s usefulness. Others have a concern about performance. I’ll try to address both here.
First, we’re talking about persistence. Most applications are stateful, so they require users be directed to the same server for each HTTP [...]
