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What the #@!$ Is a Cloud?
Posted on October 4, 2009 | 3 CommentsLarry 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 as well as insightful? I never really considered that possibility. And yet here is an... -
Radware Completes Purchase of Nortel’s Alteon Assets
Posted on April 1, 2009 | No CommentsI 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 line, with the purchase not just being a customer list buy. Final purchase price was... -
Load Balancers Killed Sun
Posted on March 19, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe 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 with regard to the only thing holding up a hostile takeover of Sun is the... -
Selina Lo in the News
Posted on March 9, 2009 | No CommentsAlteon 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 company. I was perusing the latest issue of Inc. magazine, and low and behold, there... -
On Radware’s Purchase of Nortel’s Alteon Assets
Posted on February 20, 2009 | No CommentsRadware’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 was pretty what had been theorized, although I think the biggest surprise was that Radware... -
Gossip: Alteon going to Radware?
Posted on January 9, 2009 | 3 CommentsAt 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. -
Press Release: Barracuda Launches Link Load Balancer
Posted on September 18, 2008 | No CommentsBarracuda 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 balancer New Product Line Routes and Manages Traffic Across Multiple Internet Connections INTEROP NY, New... -
Mega Proxy Not So Mega, Akshually
Posted on September 15, 2008 | 7 CommentsApologies 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 on HTTP headers instead of IP address) was the dreaded AOL Megaproxy issue. AOL had... -
SSLification
Posted on August 19, 2008 | No CommentsI saw this on Slashdot today, where a bunch of hackers developed a tool for stealing session IDs in Gmail. By default, gmail authentication is encrypted, but the rest of your session is not. In the requests that you send to gmail is included a... -
Linux.com Article: Load Testing
Posted on August 13, 2008 | No CommentsI was doing my obessive-compulsive reloading of Digg’s main page, and came accross this article on load testing with open source tools. Good read.