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How to load balance a MariaDB Galera Cluster for performance and HA using LVS & Ldirectord

While a single MariaDB server might suffice for your application's backend, a MariaDB Galera Cluster offers significant advantages, making it a far superior solution.

How to load balance a MariaDB Galera Cluster for performance and HA using LVS & Ldirectord

While a single MariaDB server might suffice for your application's backend, a MariaDB Galera Cluster offers significant advantages, making it a far superior solution...

Nick Hawkins-Booth

Young Professional Developer In Modern Tech Office Disgruntled With Ongoing It Problem

Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'

Small workloads can sometimes create a unique set of problems that are hard to solve...

Load balancing Weka is no longer optional — the new normal is 100X faster

Load balancing Weka is no longer optional — the new normal is 100X faster

Within the space of a few years our customers are demanding increases in performance and capacity — not just 10X, but 100X!..

Joshua Turnbull

The MSP guide to rate limiting Hitachi Vantara object storage with HAProxy

The MSP guide to rate limiting Hitachi Vantara object storage with HAProxy

When you're providing object storage as a shared service, rate limits help ensure that no single user or application can overwhelm the system...

Malcolm Turnbull

Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!

Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!

Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...

The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations

The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world...

HPE Ezmeral and Loadbalancer forge strategic alliance to strengthen performance

HPE Ezmeral and Loadbalancer forge strategic alliance to strengthen performance

We're thrilled to announce a groundbreaking alliance between HPE Ezmeral and Loadbalancer.org...

Joshua Turnbull

Announcing Loadbalancer.org's new partnership with HPE GreenLake

Announcing Loadbalancer.org's new partnership with HPE GreenLake

Loadbalancer is frequently recommended by HPE, mainly because they are less complex and easier to work with than some other providers. They add value right from the discovery stage, all the way through to implementation and maintenance...

Joshua Turnbull

A Loadbalancer, object storage, and Veeam partner alliance for superior data protection

A Loadbalancer, object storage, and Veeam partner alliance for superior data protection

Data protection is focused on making sure that data remains available and immutable — even after a cybersecurity attack, or system failure. This prevents data loss and facilitates data recovery...

Joshua Turnbull

How can I super-charge my object storage solutions with load balancing?

How can I super-charge my object storage solutions with load balancing?

Loadbalancer.org worked with this commercial bank to deliver a highly available, resilient, and scalable HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric object storage solution...

GSLB direct-to-node: how it works, and when to use it for your object storage deployment

GSLB direct-to-node: how it works, and when to use it for your object storage deployment

We do a lot of work with object storage solution providers, and one of the main concerns that they have is throughput...

What's wrong with round-robin DNS?

Application Management

What's wrong with round-robin DNS?

Round-robin DNS is a technique that distributes traffic across multiple servers by rotating through a list of IP addresses associated with a single hostname...

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How Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) can help object storage vendors increase their margins in an economic downturn

With IT spend under the microscope, data storage vendors are unlikely to escape scrutiny, making it harder for them to win new business and hit targets...

Cloudian takes object storage performance to the next level —with a tailored load balancer

Cloudian takes object storage performance to the next level —with a tailored load balancer

Cloudian recently announced its new HyperBalance product, a highly customized OEM version of the Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC...

Malcolm Turnbull

How to load balance and optimize Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)

How to load balance and optimize Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)

If you want safe, easy-to-use object storage software then the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is it. But why, and how, can you optimize this solution with load balancing?..

Mastering Load Balancing for MinIO Object Storage

Mastering Load Balancing for MinIO Object Storage

We're going to have a look at setting up a Layer 7 VIP, which will connect back to our MinIO servers...

Tyrone Talbot-Kennedy

Why load balancing will be a key (albeit hidden) component of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Why load balancing will be a key (albeit hidden) component of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

The focus will very much be on re-living all that's happened to the royal family in those 70 years. But that means digging deep into the media archives.....

When is it right to SSL offload?

When is it right to SSL offload?

It's a fair question, right? Let's take away the strain of SSL terminations from our application servers and let the load balancers deal with it. After all, why would we want to bog down our nifty application with network-level considerations?..

How to harness object storage in banking

How to harness object storage in banking

Object storage has usurped structured data storage as the superior storage architecture solution. And for good reason...

Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze, and visualize the data gathered from the components of your IT infrastructure or business...

Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system

Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system

Need your object storage system to be highly available, reliable and scalable? We've got you covered. Check out the most important things you need to know when load balancing your storage architecture...

Himakshi Goswami

NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?

NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?

While data storage was simple once upon a time – it isn’t anymore...

Himakshi Goswami

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…

Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it...

How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data

How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data

There's a reason we call ourself the experts in the storage industry. Read our blog to know how Loadbalancer.org's expertise with Cloudian HyperStore helped the University of Leicester store and protect massive amount of sensitive research data ...

Himakshi Goswami

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