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Web Application Firewall: What’s In A Name?
Posted on November 12, 2008 | 2 CommentsIn my recent review of KEMP’s new LoadMaster software, which includes Web Application Firewall capabilities, Ofer Shezaf (from breach.com) had this to say in the comments section: Systems supporting only snort rules and lacking a positive security model are not usually not considered a web... -
HTTP Analyzers and ASICs
Posted on October 29, 2008 | 2 CommentsGreetings from Italy. Â I’m here dealing with ASICS of a different kind (as in the shoes), specifically the 23rd ASICS Venice Marathon. Â I was in no danger of winning it, but I did complete it in 4 hours, 25 minutes (my 3rd Marathon). Other than... -
The Web Server Is Dead: Long Live The Application Server
Posted on June 7, 2008 | 4 CommentsI dare say there are very few web servers left on the Internet. I think you’d have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to actually find one. Now, given that you’re reading this on a web server, and there are obviously millions of... -
Where Have All The Suns Gone?
Posted on March 10, 2008 | 1 CommentI got an newsletter email from Sun the other day, basically offering to buy me dinner. No, Sun wasn’t trying to get frisky with me, rather they were trying to entice me to get certified in Solaris 10. (Although, thinking about it, that may just... -
Survey Results
Posted on January 14, 2008 | 2 CommentsBack 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 over 120 responses. It gave me a much clearer picture of the market and habits,... -
Death of Layer 4 Load Balancing
Posted on June 29, 2007 | No CommentsThe load balancing vendor Barracuda recently announced Layer 7 capabilities and SSL offloading/acceleration, and the open source vendor loadbalancer.org recently gave up their anti-Layer 7 stance (although they still state that it’s slow on their web site, ironically on a page called “fud“) and added... -
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... -
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.... -
A Tale of Two Markets
Posted on May 22, 2007 | No CommentsIn the beginning, there was but one load balancing/application delivery market, and it was good. A couple of years and one dot-com meltdown later and somehow, unknown to many, we have two very distinct load balancer markets. The first market, the enterprise or “premium†market,...