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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...
How-tos
Simplifying web application security with the Core Rule Set v3
A WAF isn't a magic bullet, but, as part of a defense in depth strategy, a properly configured WAF should catch and stop common, everyday attacks...
Events
The importance of outreach: Introducing students to load balancing
A recent visit to Southampton Solent University...
How-tos
I wonder…Can HAProxy Proxy Protocol fix my Secure Web Gateway routing problem?
All Secure Web Gateways require client IP transparency in order to implement any proper kind of security and authentication. Which can be a real pain if you have a load balancer in the middle...
Security
Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
The Apache Log4j utility is commonly used for logging requests by millions of Java applications to log error messages. However, recently the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 was discovered in the Apache Log4j library...
High Availability
RSNA 2021 - this year's innovation: tailored high availability
Fast forward to a post-Covid-world (if we can call it that) and in many ways the pandemic has helped us all go back to basics and appreciate what’s important in life...
Healthcare
Lessons from RSNA 2021: Do your medical imaging systems need critical care?
The pain experienced by your support and professional service teams is enormous. Not least because every customer experiences this issue at the same time!..
Education
Considerations for higher education institutions rolling out virtual desktops
There are a number of different types of virtual desktops; two of which rely on virtualization software...
Education
Cloud migration checklist for universities: When and why
For each application, will you 'lift and shift' or rebuild specifically for the cloud? Which applications can't or shouldn't be moved? Do you want separate applications in separate clouds..
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...
How-tos
How to extend Net-SNMP for infrastructure monitoring
Monitoring your infrastructure is a crucial task, and (regardless of the software you've chosen) requires you to make use of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)...
High Availability
Why does high availability matter?
If your applications are mission-critical, then high availability is a key risk management play worth investing in...
Finance
How our load balancers meet the unique needs of credit unions
Increasingly, credit unions are looking to load balance their applications to offer highly available and more resilient services to their members...
Performance
The importance of adding a load balancer to your test environments
Hands up here who is guilty of making that “simple” code change in a production environment, only to find it has broken some other functionality?..
Healthcare
The role of load balancing in healthcare Robotic Process Automation
Robotic Process Automation simulates user input to drive GUI applications, freeing up clinical staff from admin tasks, reducing human error, saving money, and allowing frontline staff to spend more time with patients...
Automation
Solving the Layer 4 ARP problem on Linux with Ansible
The "ARP problem" for Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) mode is something that needs to be solved for each of your Real Servers in the virtual service...
Finance
Why do you need to load balance your mission-critical financial applications?
If you need to guarantee the performance and reliability of your financial applications but aren't sure if you need a load balancer to do this, then this blog is for you...
HAProxy
A+ Qualys with HAProxy — The Secret Sauce
So you're probably here because you want to know how to achieve an A+ rating for your SSL web server on Qualys. A quick fun fact: did you know the A+ and A rating are in fact the same?..
High Availability
What can we learn from the recent Facebook outage?
On the 4th October 2021, the social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage, affecting not only Facebook, but also Instagram and WhatsApp...
How-tos
How to migrate your Loadbalancer.org appliance from hardware to virtual
If you want the configurations to differ slightly from the hardware to virtual appliance, such as changing IP's, speak to our support team so they can best advise...
How-tos
Load balancing Leostream Connection Broker and Leostream Gateway for high availability
At its core, Leostream provides a connection broker and remote access gateway which provide you with the tools to build a completely customisable VDI solution to your specific business needs...
Comparisons
Are you crazy to buy a hardware load balancer? Maybe not...
There’s no doubt that the software adoption trend for load balancers is increasing - and the likelihood is that this will continue. After all, it makes sense right?..
GSLB
Active / Active load balancing, do you need it?
In the load balancing world active/active has multiple meanings. And once you've got that hurdle out the way, you need to then work out whether you actually need it...
Automation
Automation of the initial setup of your Loadbalancer.org appliance (VMware Edition)
Although our appliances are absolutely awesome and fun to use, going through the same process many times may become slightly tedious!..
AWS / Azure / GCP
Rethinking cloud native load balancing
In this blog we put public cloud provider AWS under the lens, and highlight some important considerations for those weighing up their cloud options...