Load Balancing Digest

I missed this while I was in vacation (Bali, Indonesia for those that are curious), but Radware’s PR people sent me the link and I just now caught up with it. (This is also featured on Lori’s blogкомпютри.)
Not too long ago, Juniper announced they were bowing out of the load balancer market.  It’s been getting [...]

There are a couple of terms in the realm of server load balancing (application delivery controllers) that can be somewhat confusing, because either there are multiple names for the same concept, or the same name means multiple concepts. I’m going to go over a few, to see if it helps clear things up a bit:
SNAT [...]

My recent Quick Look videos were inspired in large part by the highly hilarious “You Suck At Photoshop” series, which features 10 tutorials by the long-suffering Donnie Hoyle, Photoshop extrodinarre. But as I set about figuring out the logistics, one of the issues I had to consider was the bandwidth that would be used. [...]

I think there are many people confused with the term “web switch”. I was definitely one of them, so I think it might help to explain what the term means.
Part of the confusion for the term “web switch” stems from the fact that many Layer 7/web switch devices also act as a Layer 2 [...]