Industry News Archive

  • This week I was a guest along with Lori MacVittie from F5 on the great Packet Pushers podcast, for an episode based on load balancers.  Here are a couple of...

    Packet Pushers Podcast

    This week I was a guest along with Lori MacVittie from F5 on the great Packet Pushers podcast, for an episode based on load balancers.  Here are a couple of...

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  • кухненско обзавеждане The fact is, we’re more addicted to cookies than even Cookie Monster Came upon this post on Slashdot.org, a criticism of HTTP cookies entitled “HTTP cookies, or how...

    The HTTP Cookie Monster

    кухненско обзавеждане The fact is, we’re more addicted to cookies than even Cookie Monster Came upon this post on Slashdot.org, a criticism of HTTP cookies entitled “HTTP cookies, or how...

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  • Larry Ellison, the somewhat eccentric CEO of Oracle, has long been on my short list of “if there really are super villains, they are certainly one of them”. But funny...

    What the #@!$ Is a Cloud?

    Larry Ellison, the somewhat eccentric CEO of Oracle, has long been on my short list of “if there really are super villains, they are certainly one of them”. But funny...

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  • I just got word that Radware has just completed their acquisition of Nortel’s Layer 4-7/Alteon business.   In the press release, they reiterated their commitment to continuing development of the Alteon...

    Radware Completes Purchase of Nortel’s Alteon Assets

    I just got word that Radware has just completed their acquisition of Nortel’s Layer 4-7/Alteon business.   In the press release, they reiterated their commitment to continuing development of the Alteon...

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  • The IT world is abuzz about the possibility of Sun being purchased by IBM, as reported by the WSJ.  The author in the linked commentary makes a very good point...

    Load Balancers Killed Sun

    The IT world is abuzz about the possibility of Sun being purchased by IBM, as reported by the WSJ.  The author in the linked commentary makes a very good point...

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  • Alteon has left an interesting mark on the industry, there’s no denying that.  And lately, I’m thinking a lot of that had to do with the various personalities behind he...

    Selina Lo in the News

    Alteon has left an interesting mark on the industry, there’s no denying that.  And lately, I’m thinking a lot of that had to do with the various personalities behind he...

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  • Radware’s CEO Roy Zisapel was kind enough to speak to me earlier today regarding the Radware purchase of Nortel’s L4-7 assets (i.e., the worst kept secret in IT). The deal...

    On Radware’s Purchase of Nortel’s Alteon Assets

    Radware’s CEO Roy Zisapel was kind enough to speak to me earlier today regarding the Radware purchase of Nortel’s L4-7 assets (i.e., the worst kept secret in IT). The deal...

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  • 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.

    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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  • Barracuda sent me this press release, announcing a new link load balancer product (allowing an SMB to make use of multiple connections to the Internet). Barracuda Networks Launches Barracuda Link...

    Press Release: Barracuda Launches Link Load Balancer

    Barracuda sent me this press release, announcing a new link load balancer product (allowing an SMB to make use of multiple connections to the Internet). Barracuda Networks Launches Barracuda Link...

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  • Apologies for the LOLcatspeak.  I’m incapable of helping myself. The driving force behind Layer 7 persistence (keeping an individual user tied to a specific server in a server group based...

    Mega Proxy Not So Mega, Akshually

    Apologies for the LOLcatspeak.  I’m incapable of helping myself. The driving force behind Layer 7 persistence (keeping an individual user tied to a specific server in a server group based...

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