Load Balancing Digest

As I’ve stated before, I think it’s important to keep in mind that the load balancer/application delivery market is actually two separate markets: The enterprise market and the value market.
The first market, the Enterprise market, is the one most are familiar with. Dominated by F5, Cisco, and a handful of others, this market caters [...]

To Gigabit or not, that is the question. In terms of the Enterprise market, it’s really whether to go Gigabit or 10 Gigabit. But in the SMB market, the question is Gigabit or Fast Ethernet.
Prices have come down in Gigabit to the point where Gigabit is almost the default. However, in the [...]

Sounds kind of like a 007 reference, but really it was a Beastie Boys reference. At first I thought it might be too young for my target audience, but then I realized it actually goes in the other direction and substantially dates me. Crud.
Anyhoo, this topic came up recently, and it’s something [...]

Back when load balancers were the toast of the town, there were two competing methods for GSLB (Geographic Server Load Balancing). The first method was through use of DNS (and perhaps some IP or HTTP redirection), and the second was to use some type of routing protocol, such as BGP.
Today, pretty much everyone involved [...]

I got an newsletter email from Sun the other day, basically offering to buy me dinner. No, Sun wasn’t trying to get frisky with me, rather they were trying to entice me to get certified in Solaris 10. (Although, thinking about it, that may just be a clever ploy.)
But it made me think [...]

In the recent discussion about potential replacements for a Cisco CSS deployment, the topic of bandwidth requirements came up.  How much is enough, and how much is too much?
Ask any network admin (or home Internet user) and they’ll tell you there’s no such thing as too much bandwidth.
Shawn Nunley brought up a great point on [...]