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Demystifying GSLB in Cisco ACI: How to fix failover quirks and avoid the iQuery headache
As we scale these environments across geographically dispersed locations, a major challenge emerges...
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HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
Storage
ENVOY Proxy versus Loadbalancer.org: Why storage vendors need purpose-built load balancing for S3, NFS, and SMB
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
Healthcare
Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!
Lenin Martinez
Professional Services Engineer
Smart, secure encryption with SNI
Neil Stone
Test Lead & EMEA/US Support Shift Leader
In the early days of the Internet, there was very little encrypted traffic. People simply trusted that nobody was out to get them. But later on, security and encryption became an important part of online life...
Load balancing: The driving force behind successful object storage
Himakshi Goswami
Former Content Specialist
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...
Microsoft Windows print spooler and any other Windows service health check
Imannuel Graham
Former Technical Support Engineer
If you haven’t already deployed print servers with high availability, please don't fret. It is a relatively simple and straightforward process,..
How should you compare load balancers?
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
I didn't ask anything about the load balancer's features, because we already know the market is mature and I have no unusual requirements. I also didn't ask about the load balancer's maximum performance...
Choosing the best load balancer for AWS: Cloud conundrums
Neil Hosking
Former Technical Support Engineer
You’re moving over to Amazon Web Services (AWS), where you know you’ll find a broad set of global cloud-based services. These services help organizations like yours to move faster, lower IT costs, and scale...
What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms?
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
The primary function of a load balancer is to keep your application running with no downtime. It is an invaluable tool for systems architects, and it has the benefit of being pretty simple to understand...
Anatomy of a partnership: Working and learning with Smoothwall
Aaron West
Former Head of Solutions Architecture
We were delighted last week to host Smoothwall for a day with our team. Fuelled by coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, our discussions helped us learn from one another so that we can work together even more effectively...
SACK Panic: What is it, and is it actually time to panic?
Andrew Howe
Former Technical Author/Architect
Four closely related vulnerabilities regarding TCP handling in the Linux and FreeBSD kernels were publicly disclosed on 17 June 2019...
Huawei root access is BAD! VERY, VERY BAD: Or, how we reasoned ourselves out of root access by default
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
As you probably know, the notorious Chinese tech company was blacklisted OK, so Trump didn't actually say that about Huawei. But, given his recent declaration, it wouldn't surprise me if he did...
How do I secure my load balancer with Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS?
Neil Hosking
Former Technical Support Engineer
I’ve noticed a lot more of our customers are asking to use their Active Directory login details with the load balancer appliance. And it can get a bit fiddly, so I wanted to explain the process in more detail...
HIMSS and ECR 2019: Working together for better healthcare data solutions
Jake Borman
Former Operations Director
We’ve been to a whole series of medical-focused events recently...
FTPS Implicit vs FTPS Explicit: Who will win?
Imannuel Graham
Former Technical Support Engineer
Implementation of FTP and configuration of your firewalls can be cumbersome, especially when it comes to being secure during your file transfer...