Load Balancing Digest

In 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 application firewall, but rather an intrusion prevention system.
Which is an interesting [...]

Here’s a question that has come up a few times in the past few months:  Will this “cloud” thing that’s

supposedly on the horizon eat up load balancing?
The cloud is this nebulous platform on which to build your web application. The idea of course is that companies don’t have to maintain/manage their own servers, network infrastucture, [...]

Note: Just a quick disclaimer here, I worked for KEMP in 2006.  I’m still Mr. Neutral when it comes to these devices, but I wanted to make sure there was full disclosure.  As with all reviews, I receive no payment whatsoever for reviews.  Only a big suitcase full of $100s would change that.
KEMP LoadMaster 1500
KEMP [...]

It’s about that time again, time for another load balancing/applicaiton delivery controller survey. This one is geared more towards the SMB (small and medium-sized business market, but anyone can take the survey.  OK, perhaps not everyone, but if you run a load balancer/ADC you qualify.
So if you get a chance, head on over to the [...]

I missed this while I was in vacation (Bali, Indonesia for those that are curious), but Radware’s PR people sent me the link and I just now caught up with it. (This is also featured on Lori’s blogкомпютри.)
Not too long ago, Juniper announced they were bowing out of the load balancer market.  It’s been getting [...]

I’m off on vacation (yes, I know, during Interop) starting today, and I shall return in May to regale you with more musings of the load balancer realm.
In my absence, I have programmed this here Interweb machine to automatically post articles on a regular basis that I have prepared in advance. Here is what you [...]

In the recent discussion about potential replacements for a Cisco CSS deployment, the topic of bandwidth requirements came up.  How much is enough, and how much is too much?
Ask any network admin (or home Internet user) and they’ll tell you there’s no such thing as too much bandwidth.
Shawn Nunley brought up a great point on [...]

I received an email from a previously unmentioned-by-me vendor named Exceliance.  Based outside of Paris, France, they provide an HA Proxy/LVS-based appliance, and boast the HA Proxy’s author as it’s founder.  Worth a look, especially if you’re in Europe.

With more frequency, I’m being approached by vendors with news and announcements, so starting now I will be posting press releases/announcements that vendors forward to me and would like to see up
If you’re a vendor, and have a release or product announcement you’d like to see up on this site, just shoot me an email [...]

I got the chance to talk to Brian MaddenBeruhmte casino. today, who runs the Citrix uber-site brianmadden.com, which is a great resource for all things Citrix/Virtualization/Application Delivery.  We were talking about application delivery, when it hit me that we were talking about two separate concepts.  I’d known about the term in reference to a new [...]