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How to set up and manage an F5 in the ADC Portal
As an F5 engineer, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts.
Insights from the load balancer experts
Storage
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!..
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
Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications
DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...
Why are customers switching from VMware NSX to dedicated application load balancers?
The cost and complexity of NSX may mean it is no longer fit for purpose...
How does the Loadbalancer ADC Portal securely connect to your network?
With mTLS, the client is required to present its certificate to the server (and visa versa). Hence mutual certificate authentication occurs. This double layer of authentication provides an additional layer of protection against impersonation attacks...
Healthcare
How to secure high availability for smaller-scale medical imaging PACS deployments
In the world of medical imaging, where Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) solutions are vital for the storage and management of critical medical imaging data, high availability, even in smaller-scale environments, is imperative...
Performance
How to enable single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for high-performance load balancing
The single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) interface is an extension to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification. SR-IOV allows a device, such as a network adapter, to separate access to its resources among various PCIe hardware functions...
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...
Comparisons
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!..
Application Management
Tired of managing large-scale ADC infrastructure? Suffer no more!
Managing lots of disparate load balancers is a complete pain, and an increasing risk to application delivery...
Security
What does HTTPS mean? A beginner's guide
TLS/SSL encryption of your HTTPS data brings a number of significant benefits, leading to a trusted user experience...
How-tos
The pitfalls of backing up and restoring a Citrix NetScaler, and how to overcome them
Citrix NetScaler is a great product, with great features. The flip side of this, however, is that its complexity means it can require specialist skills to successfully deploy and maintain...
How-tos
How to update a Citrix NetScaler, and problems to watch out for
Maintenance, features, or a CVE are all good reasons to upgrade your NetScaler appliance. However, as with any complex task undertaken for the first time, it can get a little confusing...
HAProxy
HAProxy reverse proxy: the what, when, and how
Perplexed by proxy?! Ruffled by reverse proxy?! We’ve all been there. Honestly, sometimes I think the language we use makes things sound way more complicated than they actually are...
Security
Why you don't need to worry about the novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack (CVE-2023-44487)
We've had a few concerned customers asking about the Google disclosure of the recent huge DDoS attack, and the potential underlying vulnerability in some HTTP/2 servers...
How-tos
How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations
SSL/TLS termination is the most regularly implemented kind of SSL/TLS offload...
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...
Comparisons
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...
Healthcare
Why 1/4 of NHS trusts use our load balancers
The urgent need for digitalization, connectivity, and service transformation is putting huge strain on an already overwhelmed NHS...
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...
Security
Bolster your network with mTLS functionality from Loadbalancer.org
For Enterprise 8.9, Loadbalancer.org added a new SSL Terminator for HAProxy, allowing for mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) configurations...
How-tos
How to configure mTLS on a Loadbalancer.org appliance
If you're thinking about giving mTLS a go, why not try it for yourself by following the steps below...
Use Case
How Loadbalancer.org helped this medical imaging vendor centrally manage their load balancing estate
Enhanced visibility for more efficient and secure ADC management...
Security
Cybersecurity series: Five security attacks WAFs can help you with...
There seems to be a lot of confusion about the role of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) in application security, and what types of threat a WAF can help mitigate in your deployment...
Security
The pros and cons of offloading TLS/SSL encryption and decryption to your ADC
TLS encryption (formerly known as SSL encryption) is used to improve the safety of data exchanged over a network. But where should it sit in your network architecture?..
WAF
When and how should you use a Web Application Firewall?
Some network engineers think that Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are so complicated, they've been known to run away and hide for days when they've encountered one...