http://lbdigest.com Server Load Balancing Articles and News Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:28:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/11/12/web-application-firewall-whats-in-a-name/ Greetings from Italy.  I'm here dealing with ASICS of a different kind (as in the shoes), specifically the 23rd ASICS Venice Marathon.  I was in no danger of winning it, but I did complete it in 4 hours, 25 minutes (my 3rd Marathon). Other than bragging about my nerdrunning abilities, this ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/10/29/http-analyzers-and-asics/ Leading Romanian Online Service Portal, Neogen, Accelerates Delivery of Web Applications with Crescendo Networks With 12 websites and more than 760 million page views a month, Neogen relies on Crescendo’s AppBeat™ DC to optimize Web performance TEL AVIV, Israel & MENLO PARK, Calif. – October 13, 2008 – Crescendo Networks, ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/10/14/press-release-crescendo-networks-lands-romanian-online-service/ 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 ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/10/05/will-the-cloud-swallow-up-load-balancers/ Barracuda 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 York, Sept. 17, 2008 ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/09/18/press-release-barracuda-launches-link-load-balancer/ Radware was kind enough to send me a headsup regarding their virtual press conference that announces their VirtualDirector product. You can take a look at it this week at: http://www.radware.com/virtualpressconference. http://lbdigest.com/2008/09/16/virtual-press-conference-radwares-new-virtualdirector/ Apologies 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 the nasty little tendancy of routing ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/09/15/mega-proxy-not-so-mega-akshually/ 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 ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/08/20/kemp-loadmaster-1500-pre-release-review/ I 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 session ID cookie, which is ... http://lbdigest.com/2008/08/19/sslification/ I 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. http://lbdigest.com/2008/08/13/linuxcom-article-load-testing/