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Richard Halcrow

Richard is an authority on load balancer strategic comparison, procurement, and platform migration. His expertise is rooted in helping customers evaluate hardware, virtual, and cloud ADCs, providing critical insight into total cost of ownership and high-availability design. He guides customers in selecting the right solution for resilience and simplifying management of large load balancer estates via the ADC Portal. He also loves camping!

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Head of Sales

How to manage all your load balancers from one simple web based platform

We're super excited to announce the expansion of our portfolio, offering a broader range of Application Delivery solutions; namely our new, vendor-agnostic Application Delivery Platform, the Loadbalancer ADC Portal...

F5 / Citrix / Kemp Unlock the ADC Portal
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Things to consider when buying a load balancer

There are a whole host of factors that will influence your choice. However, what I've tried to do here is pull together some key questions you'll need to think about, based on my personal experience, to help you articulate what you need...

High Availability Load balancer comparisons
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What transceiver do I need for my load balancer?

Transceivers are known by many names: combination transmitters/receivers, optical transceivers, optics, fiber optic transceivers, Gigabit Interface Converters (GBICS), 'that bit you plug into your fiber port'...

Performance

When should you get a hardware replacement? After 3, 5, or 17 years...?

The topic of hardware replacement, trade-in, and upgrade options is rife with opinions, bad habits, and rules of thumb. It gets even more complicated when you consider how your choices are affected by your vendor's randomly changing end-of-life policies...

Performance High Availability

IP EXPO Europe 2016

We engaged in some great conversations with people over the two days. This is why we love IP EXPO - talking through the problems customers are experiencing today...

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