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Finding the right solution for your use case
Microsoft
Microsoft NLB is finally going End of Life — so what next?!
Microsoft NLB is rumoured to be going End of Life. If you’re still using it, now is the perfect time to consider a smarter alternative...
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Load balancer migration: The F5 alternative turning heads
If you're an F5 customer thinking of moving to an alternative, then you're not alone...
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Load balancer migration: The Citrix NetScaler alternative making waves
Citrix customers have been jumping ship in their hundreds, if not thousands, to this lesser-known competitor...
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Load balancer migration: F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) i2600 alternatives
There are so many benefits to moving away from the F5 LTM i2600, you'd be crazy not to at least explore your options...
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What load balancer? Compare F5, Citrix, A10, Radware, NGINX, HAProxy Enterprise, AVI Networks, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org
At the very least, this blog should save you hours of Googling!..
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Seamless migration: From Citrix NetScaler to Loadbalancer Enterprise in 3 easy steps
I built a parallel Loadbalancer Enterprise configuration alongside the existing Citrix NetScaler load balancer...
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How do F5, Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org ADCs compare?
To save you some time, here's a quick summary of how F5, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org compare on the big three: price, features, and ease of use...
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Loadbalancer.org vs F5: Which ADC for your enterprise imaging applications?
Why is Loadbalancer.org the market leader in load balancing medical imaging applications? And what DON'T you get from F5?..
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A thank you from Loadbalancer.org's Co-Founders: Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions
Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions...
High Availability
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...
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Will Richard Gabriel's UNIX "worse is better" theory ring true for load balancing software development in 2023?
Which model will meet your needs, and are the established "worse is better" and "right is better" philosophies still relevant?..
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Compare Layer 4, 7, and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques
The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"..
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What is the difference between a hardware and virtual load balancer?
This is not a blog telling you what appliance you should buy. It's simply a blog explaining the core differences, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each...
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How Loadbalancer.org helped this customer migrate seamlessly from Snapt Nova
Working with this Snapt customer to support them with the urgent migration of all their critical applications...
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Tailoring — The modern way to make your product indestructible
Growing customer demands are forcing technology providers to reconsider their approach to high availability and scalability...
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How many network ports do you need on a hardware load balancer?
The only real reason for separate network ports is physical redundancy. Because the other primary reason (security segregation) can be easily implemented using VLANs...
Security
Does Niagara Networks have the answer to scaling Secure Web Gateways all the way up to 100G?
Network Security devices such as firewalls, WAF, SWG, IPS etc. are often deployed inline with bridge mode., which has two major problems...
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Are you crazy to buy a hardware load balancer? Maybe not...
There’s no doubt that the software adoption trend for load balancers is increasing - and the likelihood is that this will continue. After all, it makes sense right?..
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Scared of moving away from an F5 load balancer?
We've had a lot of frustrated F5 customers talk to us recently about the pain they are suffering,..
High Availability
Can you mismatch hardware and virtual appliances for high availability?
This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done...
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How to get the most out of your FREE TRIAL: successfully evaluating a load balancer
How do you successfully evaluate a load balancer? We’ve compiled some of the key considerations when trialling any new software product…..
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Load balancer migration: Does your F5 migration need a Jenga consultant?
Look, let’s make this very clear, we love F5, we think they are awesome, the best ADC in the market. But sometimes they make you want to cry!..
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10G is dead. Long live 25G!
The need for speed has always been one of mankind's greatest loves...
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Multi-application verus dedicated load balancing – which approach is best?
With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?..