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A Load Balancer By Any Other Name…
Posted on June 18, 2007 | 1 CommentRecently, I posed a question on the mailing list: What do you call these devices that balance load and possibly do all this other stuff? The reaction to such a seemingly innocuous subject was actually the most impassioned discussion the mailing list has seen in... -
Magic Quadrants
Posted on May 23, 2007 | No CommentsSomeone mentioned the Gartner magic quadrant on the mailing list, so I looked for the most recent load balancing/application delivery doohicky quadrant diagram, and here it is. While this is a pretty good diagram of the premium market, I have a few disagreements with it.... -
Network World’s Load Balancer Buyer’s Guide
Posted on April 24, 2007 | No CommentsThe buyer’s guide I had mentioned before has gone live on Network World’s site: Server Load Balancing: A Practical Guide. -
SSL Transactions Per Second: What do you need?
Posted on April 23, 2007 | No CommentsWhen shopping for an SSL acceleration device, whether it’s integrated into a load balancer or a stand-alone device, I’ve noticed people tend to vastly overestimate their needs when it comes to TPS (Transactions per Second). Users might balk at 1,000 TPS. After all, 1,000 SSL... -
Doin’s ‘A Transpirin’
Posted on April 13, 2007 | 1 CommentHappy Friday the 13th, everyone. I have a couple of quick items, that I think those following the SLB market might find interesting. * Another SLB vendor has hit my radar, a company called A10 Networks. They have a Layer 4-7 load balancer from the... -
Cookie Persistence
Posted on March 27, 2007 | No CommentsI’m a big fan of cookie persistence. It solves so many problems, and it makes persistence nearly 100% effective in just about any situation. It’s also a lot easier to flip a switch to enable cookie persistence than it is to bypass an application platform’s... -
List of Sub-$5K Load Balancing Vendors
Posted on March 14, 2007 | No CommentsI’m compiling a list of server load balancing vendors in the sub $5K category, where you can get at least one unit (and in some cases, redundant units) for less than $5,000 USD. Three of the vendors had their features compared on the load-balancer.org site,... -
Server Load Balancer Review: load-balancer.org
Posted on March 6, 2007 | 11 CommentsLooking for a product comparison of server load balancers? Then check out this site, which was brought to my attention last week. It’s a feature comparison of three of the popular load balancers in this low-cost SLB space: Coyote Point, KEMP, and Barracuda. I’m not...