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Moore’s Law and Bandwidth Consumption
Posted on May 27, 2009 | 1 CommentMost in IT are familiar with the concept of Moore’s Law, whereby processor capability tends to double about every two years. To a certain extent, this happens with networking equipment, with their capacity increasing at a steady rate, although probably not the same rate at... -
SMB Market: To Gigabit or not to Gigabit
Posted on March 22, 2008 | 1 CommentTo 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... -
Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted To Control Languages
Posted on February 29, 2008 | 1 CommentI could have gone a couple of different ways with the title, including “You alright! I learned it from watching you!” and “I’m not the one with a problem, you are”, but instead I went for the late great Robert Palmer. But the point of... -
Cisco CSS Replacements
Posted on February 12, 2008 | No CommentsThere was a post today on the lb-l mailing list asking about alternatives to Cisco’s CSS. This is part of a trend I’ve noticed lately, where people who have an existing Cisco CSS installation are looking to replace that gear with new gear. Cisco CSS... -
Holy Crap, There’s A Lot Of Vendors
Posted on November 29, 2007 | 9 CommentsI put together a list of all of the active load balancing vendors that I’m aware of, and dayom, there’s a lot. A10 Networks Array Networks (corrected) Barracuda Networks BalanceNG CAI Networks Web Mux Celestix Cisco, makers of LocalDirector, Distributed Director, CSS, CSM, ACE load... -
What Application Developers Need To Know About Load Balancers
Posted on November 28, 2007 | 3 CommentsYou’re an application developer. You work in a world of untyped variables, debugging, and hitting reload over, and over, and over, and over again, all in the name of churning out a good web app. You can spot a SQL syntax error from the corner... -
How To Choose A Load Balancer
Posted on November 16, 2007 | 4 CommentsI get a lot of questions on what’s the best load balancer to choose. There are currently over 20 vendors too choose from, so buyers can experience a little bit of over-choice shutdown. So, here’s a few tips to help whittle down the vendors. The... -
Ask Tony
Posted on October 23, 2007 | 6 CommentsNew section, new idea for lbdigest. It’s called (creatively) “Ask Tony”. Email me a question, and I’ll answer it on this blog. If you’ve got a question relating to load balancing, SSL acceleration, traffic management, etc., I’ll do my best to answer it, and hopefully... -
On Underwear, Hard Drives, and Networking Gear
Posted on October 17, 2007 | No CommentsSo what do underwear, hard drives, and networking gear (specifically, networking gear that operates above Layer 3) have in common? They are three things I don’t buy used. Underwear is obvious. With hard drives, they’re the component in a PC that is almost guaranteed to... -
A Market By Any Other Name…
Posted on June 21, 2007 | No CommentsThe great thing about inventing markets is that you get to name them. I’ve recently named the Enterprise (F5/Citrix) market the “Premium” market, and the SMB market (KEMP/Barracuda/Coyote Point) market the “budget market”. OK, so I didn’t invent them. And I wasn’t the first to...