Archive for September, 2007

  • Focus

    Focus

    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...

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  • Barracuda Eats NetContinuum

    Barracuda Eats NetContinuum

    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...

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  • The Argument For Cookies

    The Argument For Cookies

    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...

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