Archive for January, 2009

  • Headers Versus Content: The Highest-End Feature in Load Balancing

    Headers Versus Content: The Highest-End Feature in Load Balancing

    The benefit of these control languages and the ability to manipulate HTTP content is that you can have a good deal of control and flexibility with content. The disadvantage is that you can have a good deal of control and flexibility with content.

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  • Nortel Files for Bankruptcy

    Nortel Files for Bankruptcy

    Nortel did what pretty much everyone had been waiting for months to hear: Filing for bankruptcy.   Meanwhile, the Canadian government has vowed to help Nortel come out the other side. Lori Mac Vittie pointed out a great all-about-Nortel blog to follow the latest in Nortel...

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  • Coyote Point Equalizer 650GX First Look

    Coyote Point Equalizer 650GX First Look

    Note: Please check the lbdigest.com review policy now linked on the main page. Coyote Point has announced today a new series of application delivery controllers/load balancers, the GX series.  Coyote Point was kind enough to provide me with an evaluation box of their flagship product,...

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  • Gossip: Alteon going to Radware?

    Gossip: Alteon going to Radware?

    At a $30 to $50 million price tag, that represents a paltry .05% return (1/200th) on investement of the $8 billion dollar price tag that Nortel paid for Alteon in 2000, during the height of the dot-com-boom.

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