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There are lots of conflicting definitions of The Cloud out there, and the debate as to what exactly is The Cloud rages (Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle and top contender for super villain has a great rant on the subject here).  To be honest, I...

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Cavium is a company that makes network processor chips, and is probably best known in the load balancing world as the company that makes the SSL ASICs that power a lot of the products out there. Recently Cavium purchased MontaVista for $50 million.  More at...

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KEMP Technologies released the 5.0 LoadMaster firmware for LoadMaster 2000 and above models on Tuesday.  It brings VLAN trunking (802.1Q) as well as Etherchannel to the LoadMaster series. Not as prominent in the press release, but I personally think is the neatest feature, is the...

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When Radware purchased the remnants of the once great Alteon line, many thought they were simply buying the customer list and were going to abandon the platform entirely.  Radware insisted at the time this was not the case, but there was the usual (and understandable)...

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There are no more web servers left on the Internet.

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I stumbled upon this link somewhere (Digg I think?), and it goes into pretty good detail the first moments of an SSL connection: The First Few Milliseconds of an SSL Connection

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A10 Networks recently released their new AX 5200 ADC, a 2U unit capable of pushing 40 Gbps of throughput and 3 million Layer 4 connections per second.  Check the link for more details, but dayom, 40 Gbps in 2U?  If it can really push that...

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As pointed out by Shawn Nunley on the lb-l mailing list, o3 Magazine did a piece on rolling your own SSL accelerator and load balancer.   Lori MacVittie over at F5 (who shares my affinity for cat pictures with grammatically dubious captions) did a cautionary...

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This morning A10 Networks sent me this press release, announcing the release of their new AX1000, an entry-level offering to the AX load balancer/ADC line.

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Owen Garret, product manager for Zeus’s ZXTM load balancer/ADC has announced on the load balancing mailing list a Zeus program that allows a free development license for the ZXTM on non-production systems.   Definitely worth checking out.

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