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HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison
They might share a similar feature checklist, but they're engineered for entirely different audiences...
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Application Management
Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Storage
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
GSLB
The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
Dave Saunders
Head of Client Engineering
The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...
Ensuring highly available remote desktop services for Fortune 500 companies
Rosalind Bootle
Former Marketing Specialist
Our expertise enabled an IT services provider to ensure reliability and high availability service for existing and new customers...
Why zero downtime for print management is critical
Himakshi Goswami
Former Content Specialist
A properly load balanced print management solution can ensure zero downtime, resilience, a simplified infrastructure, easy maintenance and optimal performance...
How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Aaron West
Former Head of Solutions Architecture
Let's look at the best way to use the WAF with as little pain as possible!..
Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system
Himakshi Goswami
Former Content Specialist
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...
How Scomis improves the scalability and performance of its Hosted Application Service
Tom Hopkins
Former Content Manager
A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas...
NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?
Himakshi Goswami
Former Content Specialist
While data storage was simple once upon a time – it isn’t anymore...
Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms
Richard Halcrow
Head of Sales
In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success...
What's the best 10G switch upgrade path — 40G or 25G?
Ged Ward
Former Technical Engineer
The explosion of information in our everyday lives has driven the technology market to create newer, faster technologies to cater for the storage and access to the data created...
Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy
Peter Statham
Legacy Developer
We’re always keen to give back to the community that writes such great software – our new SNMP agents and MIBs for HAProxy make monitoring your Virtual Services and Real Servers a breeze...
Making a leading charity’s email system secure, accessible and reliable
Rosalind Bootle
Former Marketing Specialist
Our expertise enabled a leading charity utilise their Microsoft Exchange email system making it easily accessible, secure, scalable and reliable...
DC (direct current) powered application delivery: an energy-saving game changer for the data center industry?
Himakshi Goswami
Former Content Specialist
The AC versus DC debate is ongoing. Find out which power supply works best when it comes to the modern day data center – and why...