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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...
Events
Lessons from InfoSec 2023: how to prevent a cyber crisis with a defense-in-depth strategy
The talk of the town at InfoSec 2023 was the evolving cyber security battleground, and the practical steps organizations might take in order to mitigate some of these threats...
The Loadbalancer ADC Portal backstory: vendor-agnostic centralized management
Our approach to software development has always been to listen to what our end users and technology providers are saying to us, and develop products that solve their specific issues...
WAF
Why you shouldn't lose sleep over the commercial end-of-life of ModSecurity
The ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) engine is set to go end-of-life (EOL) on 1 July 2024...
Centralized management for enhanced security with the ADC Portal
You need a clear, comprehensive view of your entire load balancing estate to maintain control and security...
How-tos
Three scenarios for implementing time-based security and content switching on your load balancer
It can sometimes be useful to make load balancing decisions based on the time and date. This allows you to conditionally refuse or redirect connections based on the time they're received...
How-tos
How to deploy a Load balancer appliance on Proxmox
Hypervisors such as Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi have the ability to import disk images within their graphical WebGUI. However, Proxmox unfortunately lacks this feature...
Security
Should an load balancer be your first line of defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks?
There are two schools of thought on this: ‘yes, it should’ and ‘no, it shouldn't’. Let's look at the arguments both for and against...
Comparisons
How do F5, Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org ADCs compare?
To save you some time, here's a quick summary of how F5, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org compare on the big three: price, features, and ease of use...
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...
Security
OWASP doesn't want you to have crAPI security
Here's what we learned from crAPI about API security, and how a Web Application Firewall (WAF) can help you take things one step further...
Comparisons
Loadbalancer.org vs F5: Which ADC for your enterprise imaging applications?
Why is Loadbalancer.org the market leader in load balancing medical imaging applications? And what DON'T you get from F5?..
Security
The role of load balancers in zero trust architectures
Getting on board with zero trust is the easy part. Actually applying these principles to your architecture is less black and white...
Events
Hack Pompey 2023: The power of innovation
Loadbalancer.org was proud sponsor and participant at the south coast’s biggest hackathon, held at the University of Portsmouth...
Healthcare
How Loadbalancer.org provided this medical imaging vendor with more technical and commercial flexibility in AWS
Working with this medical imaging vendor to provide a tailored load balancing solution for their medical imaging platform in the public cloud...
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...
Healthcare
My concerns about our current approach to cardiology imaging
I've experienced first hand some of the pain experienced by our healthcare partners on a daily basis, caused by technology and equipment that doesn't meet the needs of clinicians or patients...
How-tos
How to add loopback interfaces on Windows with PowerShell
One of the most frequent issues I encounter when customers are setting up a loopback adapter on Windows as part of their DR mode deployment is the confusion over which commands to enter...
Healthcare
Loadbalancer.org helps NHS Trust optimize the performance of its PaperCut MF print management software and meet their cost savings target
Print plays an uncelebrated but fundamental part in the timely delivery of patient care...
WAF
Report back from the OWASP Core Rule Set Community Summit and OWASP Global AppSec 2023: The WAF conundrum
I had the privilege of speaking in Dublin at this year's OWASP Core Rule Set Community Summit before then attending OWASP Global AppSec immediately afterwards...
Healthcare
Arab Health 2023: How to achieve consumer centricity in radiology
Top of mind was the increasing need for vendors to adapt to the ever growing demands of their customers and become more consumer centric...
How-tos
How to create an SSL certificate in Linux
I thought I would try and cover the basics here by explaining how to create an SSL certificate and the various files that you'll end up with...
Comparisons
A thank you from Loadbalancer.org's Co-Founders: Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions
Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions...
Healthcare
DICOM viewers: Can you recommend a free one I can trust?
After about an hour of searching I finally found two viewers that I can recommend...
Automation
Automating load balancer management with Ansible Playbooks
Ansible is an open source project sponsored by RedHat, and is the simplest way to automate IT tasks...