Storage
Supercharging your object storage solutions
Storage
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...
Healthcare
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...
GSLB
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...
Storage
HPE Ezmeral and Loadbalancer forge strategic alliance to strengthen performance
We're thrilled to announce a groundbreaking alliance between HPE Ezmeral and Loadbalancer.org...
Storage
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...
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...
Storage
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
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...
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...
Storage
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...
Storage
Loadbalancer creates a tailored load balancer for Cloudian to take their object storage solutions to the next level
The tailored HyperBalance load balancer will optimize Cloudian's object storage applications, allowing them to seamlessly deliver the high availability their customers demand...
How-tos
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?..
How-tos
How to load balance 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...
Media
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.....
How-tos
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?..
Storage
How to harness object storage in banking
Object storage has usurped structured data storage as the superior storage architecture solution. And for good reason...
Storage
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...
Storage
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...
Storage
NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?
While data storage was simple once upon a time – it isn’t anymore...
Performance
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...
Storage
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 ...
Storage
Load balancing: The driving force behind successful object storage
Do you know that your Kindle is spying on you? It knows how fast you read a book, how many pages you read, at which point you stopped reading and which passages you have bookmarked...