Industry News Archive

  • I 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...

    Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted To Control Languages

    I 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...

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  • Back in 2000, I wrote an article entitled “Parsing With Precision” for Network World Magazine. The gist of the article is that x86-based load balancers were going the way of...

    ASIC Debate Redux

    Back in 2000, I wrote an article entitled “Parsing With Precision” for Network World Magazine. The gist of the article is that x86-based load balancers were going the way of...

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  • If you’re like me, not long after you learned about the IP protocol, someone told you about the eminent IP address crisis. For me, it was the late 90′s, and...

    IPV6: The Sky Is Falling

    If you’re like me, not long after you learned about the IP protocol, someone told you about the eminent IP address crisis. For me, it was the late 90′s, and...

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  • Speaking of Windows executable application delivery (WEAD?), KEMP released a new version of their LoadMaster code geared towards users of Windows Terminal Services. Brian Madden put up a good article...

    KEMP In The News

    Speaking of Windows executable application delivery (WEAD?), KEMP released a new version of their LoadMaster code geared towards users of Windows Terminal Services. Brian Madden put up a good article...

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  • Back in October, I put out a survey to the readers of this site, as well as the subscribers to my mailing list. I got a fantastic turn out, with...

    Survey Results

    Back in October, I put out a survey to the readers of this site, as well as the subscribers to my mailing list. I got a fantastic turn out, with...

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  • As seen on Slashdot, a Microsoft tech blog outlines their hosting environment for microsoft.com. One of the interesting items that came up was that until a year or so ago,...

    Microsoft.com: Used To Use NLB, Now Uses NetScaler

    As seen on Slashdot, a Microsoft tech blog outlines their hosting environment for microsoft.com. One of the interesting items that came up was that until a year or so ago,...

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  • Just saw this article in Fortune: Confessions of a CEO. It’s an account of Dominic Orr, the CEO of Alteon networks (sold to Nortel for $8 Billion), and pulls back...

    Confessions of a Former Alteon CEO

    Just saw this article in Fortune: Confessions of a CEO. It’s an account of Dominic Orr, the CEO of Alteon networks (sold to Nortel for $8 Billion), and pulls back...

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  • It’s fascinating what a difference focus makes in terms of market penetration. Take, for instance, the companies that used to have great focus, but lost it. Cisco (ArrowPoint, now CSS,...

    Focus

    It’s fascinating what a difference focus makes in terms of market penetration. Take, for instance, the companies that used to have great focus, but lost it. Cisco (ArrowPoint, now CSS,...

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  • The IT industry’s version of Lindsay Lohan, The SCO Group, was dealt a potentially mortal blow on Friday (which is covered just about everywhere). Even Daniel Lyons, the recently outed...

    SCO Loses, and Loses Big

    The IT industry’s version of Lindsay Lohan, The SCO Group, was dealt a potentially mortal blow on Friday (which is covered just about everywhere). Even Daniel Lyons, the recently outed...

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  • My buddy Ron pointed this out to me. So, in the past two weeks, F5 stock has tanked, and lost about $1 billion in shareholder value. They’ve up and bought...

    F5: I’ve Lost A Billion Dollars, Can You Help Me Find It?

    My buddy Ron pointed this out to me. So, in the past two weeks, F5 stock has tanked, and lost about $1 billion in shareholder value. They’ve up and bought...

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